Posted on 04/26/2013 6:18:35 PM PDT by NoLibZone
For those of you who might not know or care, the White House Correspondents Dinner is an annual orgy of narcissistic self-indulgence where the biggest stars in media, Hollywood, and politics gather to become even more corrupt and insulated than they already are. It is also a decidedly left-wing affair where the media hoot, holler, and applaud as Barack Obama attacks his political opponents, and do the same when Stephen Colbert rips George W. Bush.
In a word, the dinner is a grotesque display of "journalists" yukking it up and slapping the backs of those in power whom they are supposed to hold accountable. Just as grotesque is watching the same gilded media, who protect Obama from his failed economy, celebrate their own corrupt one-percent selves as the poverty they willfully ignore explodes all around them.
Things have gotten so bad that the E! entertainment channel is going to broadcast live from the event tomorrow night, and Tom Brokaw has felt the need to again speak out against it. Last year Brokaw surprised many when he made this statement about the event on "Meet the Press":
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I remember Tom mocking Jesus by saying “that is as likely to happen as the second coming Christ”. No kidding.
Exactly. The hypocrisy is dripping from the corners of his mouth. Brokaw has no problem with his journ-O-list colleagues promoting the African communist and his party - - he's just bashful about the brazen public display of it. Of course, now that Brokaw himself is "out of power", so to speak, maybe he resents being treated like a 'B Lister'.
“What kind of image do we present to the rest of the country?” Brokaw asked. “Are we doing their business, or are we just a group of narcissists who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles?
I assume that this question will be posted on Wikipedia as the quintessential example of a rhetorical question.
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