Big laughs when the President is joined onstage by a doppelganger, Bush impersonator Steve Bridges. Many confused stares when Colbert, the Comedy Central host, ladles on the irony. "I believe in this President," he intones in his put-on baritone. "I know there are some polls out there that say this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality." In the post-dinner controversy over his remarks, so many people viewed the C-SPAN clip on YouTube (2.7 million views in 48 hours) that it had to be taken down.
— Richard Zoglin