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Correspondents’ dinner organizers ask host not to make fun of Trump
pagesix.com ^ | 4/28/17 | Mara Siegler

Posted on 04/29/2017 8:52:13 AM PDT by ColdOne

“The Daily Show’s” Hasan Minhaj, who is hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in DC, was asked by organizers not to make fun of President Donald Trump, who will not be in attendance, says a source who saw the comic at the Village Underground on Thursday.

“It was a polite request because Trump is so thin-skinned,” the source said.

Reuters’ Jeff Mason, who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, insists he never said Trump was “thin-skinned,” but added that he wanted a balanced event.

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KEYWORDS: comedy; first100days; trump45; whca; whcadinner
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To: yoe

No march at the dinner,think your on the wrong post


21 posted on 04/29/2017 9:07:21 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Basically making fun of the President without the President in attendance doesn’t present good optics.

What? The MSM do it continually, day and night.

22 posted on 04/29/2017 9:09:04 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: ColdOne
So why hold the dinner?

There is basically one item on the agenda - Make Fun Of The President.

Without President Trump and Maria Bartiromo they got nothing.


23 posted on 04/29/2017 9:09:17 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: yoe

I seem to remember reading months ago that zero would make a cameo.


24 posted on 04/29/2017 9:09:24 AM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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To: ColdOne

Is Obama going?


25 posted on 04/29/2017 9:10:21 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: ColdOne

Why should he make himself available for these bitter fools to throw their insults at? Most any other time, I’d say, he should go, but these people have proven to be quite vicious, and openly bias against anything conservative.

Most of them probably support the Antifa, and many of them may even be active members of the Antifa. This level of hostility is very different than anything faced by most modern day presidents.
Besides that, Pres. Trump doesn’t need to go just to prove to these folks ho great a guy he is. If he went, they would use that to slam him, saying he was a Troll or an ‘Attention whore’.


26 posted on 04/29/2017 9:11:36 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

“Why should he make himself available for these bitter fools to throw their insults at? “

I fully agree——there has been no support at all from the press,not one bit.

To hell with them.

.


27 posted on 04/29/2017 9:14:06 AM PDT by Mears (t)
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To: ColdOne

Trump is thin-skinned? Comics, correspondents, and celebrities should write him royalty checks because he’s the meal-ticket for a lot folks who only know how to flap their yappers.


28 posted on 04/29/2017 9:14:37 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: McGavin999

Ding Ding We have a winner.First time I will not be watching.


29 posted on 04/29/2017 9:15:55 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: ColdOne

Read my lips...it does not matter what these lie tellers and buffoons dream up!!! This WHCD is a 100% failure before one minute of this farce is aired. Viewers with half an operating, thinking, functioning brain will not be tuning in this evening!!! This “media/celebrity” charade goes nowhere, but into the “Obscurity” cesspool!!!

Shucks, I heard the WHCD leadership so hard up for viewers, it was going to pay Barack & Michelle Obama, $800,000.00 to appear as guests tonight, accompanied by Jon “Pajama Boy” Ossoff who will receive an $8,000,000.00 fee to appear along with the Obamas!!! Be interesting to see how many fools tune in to this farce!!! LMAO!!!


30 posted on 04/29/2017 9:16:07 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: yoe

He may have been the first half black President, but it’s barely 25% more than Eisenhower who got no credit for it. All that fuss for a quarter of your genes?


31 posted on 04/29/2017 9:20:41 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BradyLS

Trump is thin-skinned? Comics, correspondents, and celebrities should write him royalty checks because he’s the meal-ticket for a lot folks who only know how to flap their yappers.


They are all just worthless bullies behind the big boss bully who puts them up to it. Dumb liberal yappers meant to corral even more clueless Americans into the gang of leftists seeking power over our country.


32 posted on 04/29/2017 9:23:14 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: McGavin999
What difference does it make, nobody will be watching

You'll be forced to watch (or read) if you consume any MSM content over the next few days.

33 posted on 04/29/2017 9:24:38 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Ransomed

It’d be funny if, at his rally, he told folks, “Oh, I was prepared for the correspondents’ dinner. I have some zingers. You wanna hear ‘em?”

And then he goes on to destroy everyone at their back-slapping dinner.

Then he wraps up, “...And folks, you know that is exactly how they talk about us, on the news and everywhere else, every night, when we’re simply having _our own_ dinners.”


34 posted on 04/29/2017 9:25:37 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ColdOne

...”Asked by organizers not to make fun of President Donald Trump”.....

Oh my gosh!..who cares what they say about Trump or not!....they’ve all lost the publics ear for obvious reasons.
They shot themselves in the heart and there’s no coming back to how things once were.

This is really a dinner for the old journalist guard.....they’re done....and those who networks still standing are flipping their pundits and changing their approach....good or bad everythings on the fly right now.

It’s the “Trump Affect”.....stir the pot, shake things up, bring things down!


35 posted on 04/29/2017 9:28:57 AM PDT by caww
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To: Ransomed

‘He should give an important surprise press conference right in the middle of this dumb dinner.’

Trump is holding a rally at the exact same time as the
Correspondents Dinner—a big rally in PA:

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/785816?section=Politics&keywords=Trump-Rally-Correspondents-Dinner&year=2017&month=04&date=22&id=785816&aliaspath=%2FManage%2FArticles%2FTemplate-Main


36 posted on 04/29/2017 9:29:39 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: ColdOne; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; Seattle Conservative; Bob Ireland
"Minhaj was asked by organizers not make fun of President Trump...."

Ah, is this soft-core censorship of the comedian by the so-called "journalistic defenders of the First Amendment?".

And I'm sure Minhaj is one of THEIR OWN fellow ideologists whom they want to "gently" pre-censor!

Alas and alack, I'm getting SO mixed up with all these confusing liberal moves.

"Who's on first?"...as Abbott and Costello would ask!

Leni

37 posted on 04/29/2017 9:31:32 AM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
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To: ColdOne

There’s funny and then there’s cruel.
They can’t tell the difference.


38 posted on 04/29/2017 9:43:11 AM PDT by griswold3 (2%)
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To: ColdOne

Do whatever makes you happy. You are worthless and no one cares what you say.


39 posted on 04/29/2017 9:46:02 AM PDT by mulligan
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To: ColdOne

Who’s laughing now? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzl8xjkgXCo


40 posted on 04/29/2017 9:57:36 AM PDT by Daaave ("The flesh eating jinn of Komari")
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