Sunday, April 29, 2018

Dispatches from the Nerd Prom

I turned on "Face the Nation" this morning and everybody on the panel voiced regret and a little disgust at the previous night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.  Whoa - what happened?  Well, it sounds like the comic relief did just about everything in her power to solidify people's mistrust and perceptions of bias in the national media.

Politico put it this way: "Journalists distance themselves from Correspondents’ Dinner after Wolf routine" and Mediaite noted that it's pretty much OK to make fun of a woman's appearance if she's the wrong kind of woman.
"That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive," New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman wrote on Twitter, a feeling many of her colleagues echoed. 
It was a big laugh for the Coastal Elite, not so much for journalists working in Flyover Country:

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

One can certainly see how -- after Mika Brzezinski's badly bleeding facelift, after that fat ugly pig animal Rosie O'Donnell, after Carly Fiorina's vote-repelling face, after Hillary's inability to satisfy Bill Clinton, after Ted Cruz's wife not being Melania hot, after his Miss Piggy beauty pageant winner, after the multiple accusers who weren't good-looking enough to sexually assault, and so on -- the decent conservatives of heartland America have sincerely reached their tipping point over a standup comedian making fun of Baghdad Blob.

Roger Bournival said...

Well, Trump's 200% right about Rosie O'Donnell...

Anonymous said...

Non-Cabinet member Dr. Ronny Jackson says that Rosie O'Donnell is 1 pound below the obesity standard, and that her phenomenal DNA might keep her alive until her 200th birthday.

Roger Bournival said...

Yeah, and I'm really Iron Man...

Eric said...

My favorite part was when they congratulated themselves for professionalism, objectivity, and civility.

Anonymous said...

My favorite part was when the same President who believes he would charge into a school shooting and disarm the killer's AR-15 is too cowardly to show up at the event because it's where that mean Seth Meyers once hurt his pwecious widdle feewings.

Eric said...

Seth Meyers? Wasn't that the WHCD where Trump said: "I'm going to run for President."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1YNW8MRLw

Anonymous said...

Indeed, jokes are now reality and reality is a joke. And tens of millions of stooges think that's swell.

Imagine if Barack Obama had sent men to storm his (first) goofball doctor's office and seize his own medical records. But because of the hilarious comeuppance to Seth Meyers, or delicious libtard tears, or whatever, the Great Propecia Raid won't even be a footnote to a footnote to a footnote of this, the most laughable period in American history.