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The decline and fall of the White House Correspondents' dinner
Washington Examiner ^ | April 17, 2019

Posted on 04/17/2019 6:31:17 AM PDT by deplorableindc

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To: deplorableindc

who cares? They can play with themselves.


21 posted on 04/17/2019 6:54:23 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Beowulf9

Leftist politicians go there to hobnob and share inside jokes and fawning adulation from their media friends and allies.

There has never been a reason since Reagan for any non-Democrat to go to those things.

I never understood why someone would go to be subjected to mean spirited abuse disguised as humor, directed only at non-Democrats.


22 posted on 04/17/2019 6:54:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: deplorableindc

It deserves to die and I’m glad President Trump has significantly contributed to its (hopeful) demise. Vile comedians verbally assaulting Republicans, the media types inviting their favorite Hollywood libs to pile on, as well as flavor-of-the-month whack jobs..... A self-celebratory bash to rival the Oscars.


23 posted on 04/17/2019 6:54:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Good post.


24 posted on 04/17/2019 6:55:05 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: rlmorel

Why wouldn’t CBS telecast? Doesn’t everyone know the journalist are the reason people tune in to see them?/s


25 posted on 04/17/2019 6:56:40 AM PDT by GAGOP
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To: Chickensoup
a historian? Who?

Ron Chernow. Most recently author of a biography of U.S. Grant...

26 posted on 04/17/2019 6:58:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: deplorableindc
Many journalists are happy about the changes, believing the dinner descended into an embarrassing spectacle that sent the wrong message about journalism: that boozing and schmoozing with leaders was more important than holding them accountable.

But other reporters believe that a cheery night at the Washington Hilton was a fitting reward for a year of hard work.

He wrote this with a straight face?

27 posted on 04/17/2019 7:02:50 AM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Rummyfan

After all the mean spirited vile treatment Sarah Sanders has received from these people, I am glad she isn’t going.


28 posted on 04/17/2019 7:04:27 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman ( p)
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To: PapaBear3625

“He is unlikely to go to a dinner where food is PREPARED by people who hate him.”

Would guess that if PDJT were to attend, Secret Service would have invaded that kitchen like white on rice, demanding ID and making lists, generally breathing down every cook’s neck, and warning, “do not make any suspicious moves!”.


30 posted on 04/17/2019 7:08:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: deplorableindc

Don’t s#it in your nest, then...


31 posted on 04/17/2019 7:22:47 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: deplorableindc
"C-SPAN hasn't even scheduled coverage of the April 27 event."

When we've lost even C-SPAN, we've lost America.....
32 posted on 04/17/2019 7:23:48 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: hoosiermama
ho hum...another Pravada party except the target of "good natured" comedic smears declines to attend.

Make no mistake, just as with Ronaldus Magnus, the real targets are the citizens that elected him. The vitriol is meant for us "uncultured hicks" and sets the tone for "news coverage for the year.

Always wondered who really paid for these high falutin tux and gown galas. Media corporations?

33 posted on 04/17/2019 7:25:34 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: deplorableindc

I suspect that that faction nixed the comedian because of the understanding that all comedy is ostensibly offensive to someone. Comedians on TV have become totally offensive even as the comedy has disappeared from the genre.


34 posted on 04/17/2019 7:30:42 AM PDT by arthurus (dffjj)
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To: Chickensoup

They should have Mark Steyn as MC. He is a funny, though erudite, man. But these miseducated poseurs wouldn’t get his jokes.


35 posted on 04/17/2019 7:41:03 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: deplorableindc

Like everything else they touch, Leftists ruin everything.


36 posted on 04/17/2019 7:43:43 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Beowulf9

We’ve played along for far too long. W’s “amusing”
Video of him looking high and low around the White House for the missing WMDs was disgusting, and a slap in the face to the families of those who died in a war started because of the existence of the WMDs


37 posted on 04/17/2019 7:46:02 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: 1Old Pro
Tell that to Gayle King, on the cover of TIME for being one of 100 "most influential". And here I thought she just read a teleprompter.

From Friend of Oprah to the cover of time.

38 posted on 04/17/2019 7:55:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: deplorableindc
Glad to see this tradition going by the wayside.

It seems that with some of our previous presidents, they were more concerned with ingratiating themselves to the media in exchange for fawning press coverage than doing their job for the American people.

Obama, Clinton, even the Bushes to some extent were willing to grovel to the media, thus further inflating their already overinflated egos and self-importance.

Trump put them right back in their place.

39 posted on 04/17/2019 8:03:06 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: deplorableindc

Hopefully, this is the end of this self-preening, tasteless abomination staged by the usual nitwits and liars.


40 posted on 04/17/2019 8:13:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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