Posted on 04/25/2026 5:11:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
April 30, 2011 turned out to be one of Washington’s weirder nights.
The president of the United States had just secretly ordered the raid that would take out Sept. 11 attack mastermind Osama bin Laden and he was about to deliver jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
But it was the barbs that President Barack Obama and headliner Seth Meyers hurled at real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star Donald Trump that created a political narrative that lives on: jokes = presidential revenge campaign. (For the record, Trump has said he had a good time. He told The Post’s Karen Tumulty he didn’t decide to run for president until the night after Mitt Romney lost in 2012.)
And now, tonight, he’ll attend for his first time as president — he’s boycotted it since 2017—and is expected to deliver lengthy remarks.
But let’s rewind 15 years: He was sitting in the ballroom, the roasting was intense, and everyone in the packed ballroom saw it. This was when we still had a monoculture, when people all sort of watched the same things, so much of America also saw it. We also all knew the same celebrities, and a swarm had descended upon Washington for the weekend, invited by news organizations to sit at their tables. We’re talking Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, Mila Kunis, half the cast of “Glee,” if you remember what that was.
Trump was at a Washington Post table, at the invitation of Lally Weymouth, whose family owned The Post.
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The old new sheriff is in town. Bend over folks. Here comes the judge. It’s your BOHICA moment Hollywierd.
April 27, 2011 — Obama releases his doctored birth certificate.
April 29, 2011 — Obama gives approval for killing Bin Laden.
April 30, 2011 — White House correspondents’ dinner.
May 1, 2011 — Obama announces Bin Laden was killed.
As I recall, the US knew Bin Laden’s hideout location months earlier but Obama refused to act. I think it was a distraction from the birth certificate. At a minimum, the timing was coordinated.
Ugh! Paywall
Can be watched live here - https://www.youtube.com/live/Cy3KHt5M04c
What has this disturbance been all about?
There were gunshots in or from a stairwell.
Didn’t Joe Biden argue against the raid to kill Bin Laden?
“But let’s rewind 15 years: He was sitting in the ballroom, the roasting was intense, and everyone in the packed ballroom saw it. This was when we still had a monoculture, when people all sort of watched the same things, so much of America also saw it.”
What delusion are (or were) these “reporters” living in if they think there was a monoculture in 2011 and everyone watched the same thing?
More evidence of the group-think in the urinalist world.
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