Posted on 04/29/2018 1:35:59 PM PDT by ethom
In President Trump’s absence, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took punishing comedic ridicule Saturday night.
Comedian Michelle Wolf delivered a brutal roasting of the president, his administration, and particularly Sanders at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, as the press secretary sat awkwardly near the podium.
For the second consecutive year, Trump, who’s at war with the media (except conservative Fox News), did not attend the prestigious annual dinner for White House correspondents. Previous presidents regularly attended the event, where a comedian traditionally throws sharp jabs at the commander-in-chief.
Wolf began her set up by saying she really likes Huckabee, things got more uncomfortable after that.
“I’m never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Is it Sarah Sanders, is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is it Cousin Huckabee, is it Aunt Huckabee Sanders? What’s Uncle Tom but for White women who disappoint other White women?”
It’s strange to hear a White person call another White person an Uncle Tom. The term comes from a fictional slave in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. Over the years, the character became synonymous with subservient African Americans who sells out their people to curry favor with Whites.
U.S Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been given that title by lots of Black folks, including Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
As Sanders took the punishment, her absentee boss was at a political rally in Michigan, in front of adoring supporters.
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Comedienne Michelle Wolf . . . And even then I hate to call her that since she wasn't the slightest bit funny
More video material to get Trump supporters off their butts and to the polls in November. Can you say “Red Wave?” The Left is committing suicide, God having turned them over to their own destruction.
OK, who the hell is News One? Some unknown blog? Who runs it DU? (Not Ducks Unlimited)
“Comedienne “
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Uh uh,they don’t want to be called that anymore——and actresses want to be called actors.
The feminists are embarrassed to be identified as women-——pretty funny.
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Yeah. Obama still wears the scars from all those jabs.
ballot neutral d/r surveys are 44-43, the left has lost about 20 points in the last few months...
This was done on purpose .
Stop any live briefings .
Move the WH press outside the WH immediately .
No more games .
Staff is banned from attending any more if these events .
Shut down what the WH do for a living .
This was intentional
Its was beyond mean it was a evil
attack .
Trump WH needs to stop paying there game .
Uncle Tom
It works because the Left only thinks in unisex terms.
The only times they think of a penis is when they want to cut it off, blame a person for some ghastly thought crime, or shame a person for having terminal masculinity (read that having no vagina and actually ok with outdoor plumbing).
Make future dinners "By Invitation Only". Limit it to credentialed journalists.
Correspondents should eat at a trough elsewhere and buy their their own meals. Contract it out. Stop making taxpayers pay for this national insult Get it off US Property.
Exactly right.
It’s a black folks website-——ignore it,unless you are black.
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Until they want special treatment because they are women.
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski – whose engagement to her Morning Joe co-host, Joe Scarborough, Wolf described in her speech as “like when a #MeToo works out” .
I actually am an Uncle Tom.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is no Uncle Tom.
Putting down other people is not humor. Obviously it makes some people “laugh.” It’s inflicting harm on someone, and the noise made by their mouths is the noise of enjoying the suffering of others, often confused with laughter.
When a baby laughs at mommy playing peek-a-boo, that’s laughter. Enjoying others’ suffering is not laughter.
F*CK the left.
Over the years, the character became synonymous with subservient African Americans who sells out their people to curry favor with Whites.
Uncle Tom was whipped to death by the overseer for refusing to whip other slaves. Sound like someone who sold out his people. sounds like a man of principle to me.
I have always had a pet peeve about the slander of his name. He should be revered as a hero.
The “Uncle Tom” reference was just stupid. One can “roast” another but it has to be intelligent, witty, and not PERSONALLY offensive. Great comedians know when not to cross the line. One who perfected the roast was the master Don Rickles.
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