Balls To The Wall

Whatever else you might be able to say about his on-screen persona, nobody can deny that Stephen Colbert, as he himself will tell you, has balls.
If you haven't watched The Colbert Report, you should, though you could just watch the conservative commentators he's lampooning, as the truth is virtually indistinguishable from satire in this case.
I'm not sure if that's a testament to Colbert's skill or an indictment of the lack of bias and journalistic ethics of the people whom we're supposed to trust to give us a "fair and balanced" look at wold events.
In any case, a while back Colbert took his act to the White House Correspondents' dinner, engaging in a performance that was, as Jon Stewart put it, "balls-alicious," standing up in front of the President and, in the guise of praise, pointing out his criminal levels of incompetence, and drawing attention to the complicity of the press.
Though it was funny, nobody laughed.
Worse, almost no one even mentioned it in the press the following day.
Dough Elfman of The Chicago Sun-Times has an interesting take on the whole thing, which is worth checking out if only for the complete transcript of Colbert's remarks (more than any of the digs on the Prez, it's the last dig on the Press that really stands out for me).
Whether you agree with Colbert or not, there's one thing you'll have to admit: he has balls of steel.