The White House Correspondents Dinner 2018 [Hosted by Michelle Wolf]
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The media reaction is telling about how they see their role. They make a big show how the press’s job is to afflict the powerful and be constantly critical, but actually the DC press and political professionals see themselves as all members of the cool kids club whose real function is to educate and rule over the plebes.
The correspondents dinner, the weird protestations after Wolf’s roast that it’s about “unity” and shitheads like Chris Cilizza are the embodiment of how they view themselves. They might criticize each other but fundamentally they’re all in the same group of Heathers and politics have no real stakes, it’s just who’s in and who’s out.
The correspondents dinner, the weird protestations after Wolf’s roast that it’s about “unity” and shitheads like Chris Cilizza are the embodiment of how they view themselves. They might criticize each other but fundamentally they’re all in the same group of Heathers and politics have no real stakes, it’s just who’s in and who’s out.
This was so beautiful and savage I fucking loved it. Really enjoyed reading all the salty tweets from butthurt journalists and conservatives this morning.
Man, for something she said wasn't worth her time, she sure is dwelling on it.
Isn't Cillizza the dude that actually praises Trump for making up insulting names for people?
While largely true, Colbert also got these kinds of comments when he did the thing in 2006. The correspondents just appear to really dislike not being the target audience, and especially hate being the target of the jokes.
Lmao first it's an "intense criticism" and now she's openly grasping at straws so blatantly she can't even reach it without a question-mark.
Never forget Colbert. But Colbert did take it to another level.
It's not because she's a woman it's because the right is desperate to show lefties are just as disgusting towards women as Trump.
The funny thing she actually made more fun of men’s appearance than women. I mean shit I didn’t hear anything close to what she said about Christie, McConnell or Trump.
Colbert was partially venerated. Especially afterward. That wont happen to Wolf.
There's a reason Maggie Haberman gets interviews with Trump even when he calls it fake news. The reaction of some of these journos is laughable, they are not interested in actually pushing anything forward, they just feign outrage at the right or left but then jerk each other off when it comes to making money. All these channels talk about the same 2-3 topics for the whole day. Glad Michelle called them out towards the end, and enjoyed the overall awkwardness that she was feeding into.
Yep, Cillizza is this genius:
Also, that WHCA comment. They're rightfully getting dragged in the comments.
The left media’s reaction to both this and their incessant drive to appear unbiased when it came to Trump; reminds me of that early Last Week Tonight episode where John Oliver’s rips into the same media for the way they treat climate change information. They would bring one scientist to debate one climate change denier, and they would make the whole thing appear as if 99% of climate scientists weren’t in agreement that climate change was real. This misguided an untrue effort of theirs actually ends up confusing and misdirection reacting viewers.
I'm fine with burning down the WHCA then. Let's just get Sam B to do her version from now on like she did last year.
I wonder how many people watched the WHCD for the first time ever this year just because nobody will shut up about how savage the burns were.
I just hope this puts to bed any and all notion that the media is "liberal" in any way shape or form. They're a bunch of craven morons grasping at access to institutional approval and ratings no matter the cost. The right in this country has found a way to both villainize and weaponize them at the same fucking time.
The year after Colbert they hired Rich Little. I guess I'll have to explain Rich Little to the younger crowd. He was an impressionist comic who was so pablum that even 10-year-old me thought he was a hack who played it too safe.
Expect someone really bland next year, probably someone Trump likes.
Expect someone really bland next year, probably someone Trump likes.
Dammit! They should end it but now that Trump says it fuck that.
Holy Shit, Rich Little.
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The ratio on that tweet says it all. Good to see people actually pushing back against this bullshit "outrage".
That's what I thought. He's a great example of that fake outrage. It seems that her pointing out the relationship between Trump and the press really touched a nerve.
It's quite the strategy by Haberman. Go down the list of jokes until she finds one that her critics will agree justifies her initial faux outrage. "What about this one?" "What about that one??" Maybe Wolf's last statement about the water in Flint was in fact a joke about SHS's looks.
Yep. This hits the point on the head. The correspondents and the other people there didn't get catered to like they wanted, and now they're upset.
This is so fucking stupid. The right has to be held to 0 accountability while the left has to bite their tongue. And the right knows it too and will gleefully call out the left at every opportunity but its whistles as Trump literally lobs putrid insults every day. I can't take this anymore
Yep. And there is no reason for it. The media is a joke to backdown on this. Conservatives would have ranted for a few days in their hypocrisy, just like they always do, and then they would have moved on back to Clinton or some other minority in congress because this Wolf "controversy" isn't going to keep people's attention for very long.