Trump Will Once Again Skip the White House Correspondents Dinner

NY Times ^ | April 6, 2018 | Eileen Sullivan

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The annual “dinner” should be discontinued. It’s enough we have to read, and watch, the drivel these clowns pump out, with using taxpayer money to feed and entertain them.

The White House Press “Corpse” [sic] needs to be thinned out, drastically. Those who come to attack the president, and Sara Huckabee, should wait at the gate. Let only those in who have legitimate questions about government and world affairs, not which shoes Melania is wearing.

The government is elevating the MSM to a “fourth estate” level, and giving them too much power over government decisions, and personnel. Sure, the have freedom of the press/speech, but that doesn’t imply that we have to spoon feed every nuance of every decision made by POTUS, or any other government entity.

Their mood now is like Trump “owes” them an explanation for anything he does...he doesn’t. Let them dig up news on their own...that’s what they get paid for.

Most “newscasts” nowadays consist of journalists, interviewing other journalists...who answer the “hard questions” with leftist opinions. Almost all of them are wrong, but will never, ever, run a contraction, or an apology.

Refusing to answer the questions asked in the press conferences does not constitute violation of the MSM’s “freedom of the press/speech”. Freedom of the press/speech is not “freedom of access” to every secret or event.

Take away their “standing”, and let them grovel for news the hard way...faking it.

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A selection of Saturday Night Live's Cecily Strong’s harshest burns in her 2015 White House correspondents’ dinner speech


– To President Obama: “Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.”

– “It is great to be here at the Washington Hilton…is something a prostitute might say to a congressman.”

– “The Washington Hilton, you guys. Man, if these walls could talk. They’d probably say ‘clean me.’”

– “Seriously, the Washington Hilton is great. And I bet when the president walked in and saw all those bellhops, he thought, finally, some decent security.”

– “Let’s give it up for the Secret Service. I don’t want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they’re the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.”

– “NBC is here. You know, even us at ‘SNL’ got criticized for making fun of ISIS. Now I think that’s unfair. I mean, if anyone is guilty of taking ISIS too lightly, it’s him. You know.” (Nods in the direction of Obama.)

– “Our relationship [with Israel] will be better in the next administration, just as soon as Israel makes a generous donation to the Clinton Foundation.”

– “What can I say about Brian Williams? Nothing, because I work for NBC.”

– “Some of the cast of the epic fantasy series ‘Game of Thrones’ is here, and they told me that even they have never seen this many nerds before.”

– “Naomi Campbell’s here. Now Naomi, you’re lucky Hillary Clinton is not here. Because if you threw your BlackBerry at her, she would just delete everything right off of it.”

– “Hillary Clinton said that she used her private email because she didn’t want to use more than two devices. Now if that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s also one of the rules of the sex contract of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.'”

– “It’s just comforting to know that whenever a big story breaks, I can turn to CNN and watch Anthony Bourdain eat a cricket.”

– “MSNBC shows so many prison documentaries they’re making Ed Schultz get a teardrop tattoo.”

– “Just because I’m a woman doesn’t mean I’m gonna go easy on you people. I’m gonna go easy on you people because my brain is smaller.”

– “Last year’s host Joe McHale proves that speaking at this dinner is an amazing opportunity that can take you from starring in a show on NBC all the way to starring in the same show on Yahoo.”

– “I took Amtrak here, it was way more luxurious than I thought. Did you know that they have massage seats available on those trains? All you need to do is sit in front of Joe Biden. Those hands don’t get tired, somehow.”

– “Tonight’s event is being broadcast on C-SPAN, so to some viewers watching at home on C-SPAN, hello! But to most viewers watching at home on C-SPAN, meow.”

– On Jeb Bush taking things too far with a nickname because “John Ellis Bush” sounds too elitist: “That would be like if Benedict Cumberbatch decided to go by ‘Skeeter.'”