I saw it last night, meant to post this morning, then forgot until Ace reminded me. It seems flat and tedious but I dislike both of them intensely enough that I honestly can’t be fair about the humor value. Having someone obliquely wish death on your boss will do that to you.

I’ll bet Harold Ford and KP found it high-larious, though.

Ace notes that the “Screw Them” comment is long gone down the memory hole now, although in fairness to Colby it’s been gone for at least a year, purged before last year’s midterms. Howard Kurtz asked him about it last summer and the chairman spun thusly:

To me in a way it’s funny that they have not updated their talking points in two years. And so they want to keep resurrecting an old quote, there’s nothing I can do about it. What I can do is I can say the fact is the reason, the context for that quote was solidarity with my brothers and sisters in arms, Marines and soldiers. I wore combat boots. I served during the first Gulf war and people are making a choice between private armies and mercenaries. I make my choice. I stand behind our men and women in uniform and I’m not going to apologize for that. But they’re going to keep resurrecting that and that’s fine. That’s what they do. They smear, they attack, they don’t like the fact that people are getting engaged in politics, that people are getting involved. There are too many turf to protect so they’ll keep doing that and that’s fine. I can fight back.

Caveat to the chickenhawk meme: if you served, it’s okay to sneer at the death of private contractors.

Anyway, here you go. Nothing funnier than irony. Joke after joke, segment after segment, night after night.

Update: Good question. Charles sends this link, too, to the original “screw them” comment for anyone who’s never seen it.