AlterNet: Colbert: Last One to Know How Great He Is?: "Almost two weeks later, the Internet is still buzzing about Stephen Colbert's already legendary scorched earth performance at the White House Correspondent's dinner.

It was a quintessential 'All About Eve' -- I mean, 'All About Steve' -- moment: He walked up to that podium a basic cable cult figure, and came back a political comedy legend.

Start carving that satiric Mt. Rushmore: Swift, Twain, Bruce… Colbert.

AlterNet's Don Hazen just anointed him a 'New American Hero' who gave 'one of the bravest, most subversive performances in memory' that will become 'a huge marker when people look back on the Bush era.'

Millions have watched the video of his performance online and/or read the transcript, and tens of thousands of people have posted letters of gratitude and appreciation to ThankYouStephenColbert.org.

But, shockingly, one of the few people still unaware of just how big an impact the twin evisceration of the president and the puppy dog press has had is Stephen Colbert himself.

When I ran into him the other night at the Time 100 celebration, he told me that he had strenuously avoided reading anything about his appearance -- the good, the bad, or the ugly -- preferring to focus on the present and putting together his nightly TV show.

If anything, he seemed to be nursin"