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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...As he makes fun of him by calling him thin skinned.
“Really? Haven’t watched “The Daily Show”, Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Seth Meyers, or any of the other late night hosts lately, have you?”
Only heard of Fallon. Don’t know the rest.
Awards? For participation?
Yeah, that'll happen. /mega-sarc
He will. Bunch of losers in an echo chamber.
Oh, my yes. For being the generally cool and superior human beings that they are. From the WHCA website:
Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post, Edward Isaac-Dovere of Politico, and David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post are the winners of our 2017 journalism awards.
To be presented by the two relics from the Pleistocene, Woodward and Bernstein, after their own little self-aggrandizing speech about how journalists are the guardians of America. The entire thing was set up as one not-so-subtle insult to Trump and he very rightfully told them to pound sand.
No one will care because everybody will be watching the Trump rally. :-)
I thought that Obama was more Arab than black.
I take great pleasure in the fact DJT is not going to be there. Its perverse. Let Hillary go in his place.
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