Posted on 05/09/2009 5:27:46 PM PDT by STARWISE
# Houston Chronicle: Alberto Gonzales
# Fox News: Chace Crawford, Todd Palin, Matthew Modine, Greta Van Susteren, Bill OReilly, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.
# National Music Publishers Assn.: Kara DioGuardi
# Wall Street Journal: Jason Wu
# BBC: Sir Howard Stringer, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ellen Burstyn, Phil Gordon
# CNN: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick, Brad Cooper, Tyra Banks, Janet Napolitano
# ABC News: David and Susan Axelrod; Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff; Peter Orszag, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Valerie Jarrett, senior presidential advisor; Jackie Norris, First Ladys Chief of Staff; Leon Panetta, CIA Director; Susan Rice, UN Ambassador; Justice Antonin Scalia; Meghan McCain; Jon and Dorothea Bon Jovi; Kate Walsh; Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel
# NY Daily News: Chesley Sully Sullenberger
# Fortune: George Lucas and Glenn Close
# People: Sting and Trudie Styler, Miranda Cosgrove, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Jon Hamm, Eva Longoria Parker, Chris Ludacris Bridges, Brooke Shields
# Glamour: Narciso Rodriguez, Alicia Keys, Kenneth Cole, Kerry Washington and White House social secretary Desiree Rogers
# USA TODAY: Tim Daly, Justin Long, Richard Belzer, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen, Dept. of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Michelle Obama staffer Jocelyn Frye
# Atlantic Magazine:Ed Westick (Gossip Girl), Newt Gingrich *
# Newsweek: Lally Weymouth, Donald Graham and newly Pulitzered Jon Meacham, scored Obama heavyweights again: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder. R. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett Packard; David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca; Representative Eric and Diana Cantor (R-VA).; Fmr. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig; Amb. Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner; Amb. Richard Holbrooke, Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Ms. Kati Marton; Attorney General Eric Holder; Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post; Jeffrey Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc., and Ms. Sharon Sullivan; Michael Kives, Creative Artists Agency; Martin Nesbitt, President and CEO, PRG Parking Management; Natalie Portman; Sir Nigel and Lady Julia Sheinwald, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the US; Puneet Talwar, National Security Council, Iraq and Afghanistan Affairs; Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago Medical Center; Owen Wilson; James Berkus, United Talent Agency
# NBC: Colin Firth, Jimmy Fallon and Mariska Hargitay to Mike Myers and William H. Macy. Jason Bateman, Natasha Bedingfeld, Connie Britton, Warren Buffett, Kyle Chandler, John Cusack, Ari Emanuel, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Colin Firth, Whoopi Goldberg, Mariska Hargitay, Rep. Jane Harmon, Felicity Huffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Jones, Sen. Amy Klobucher, Denis Leary, John Lewis, William H. Macy, Cheryl Mills, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak, Gov. Ed Rendell, Wilbur Ross. Jeff Zucker, Steve Capus and Phil Griffin will attend, along with high-profile talent: Brian Williams, David Gregory, Al Roker, Ann Curry, Natalie Morales, Hoda Kotb, Amy Robach, Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Savannah Guthrie, Luke Russert, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz,Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinkski , Norah ODonnell, David Shuster, Contessa Brewer, Carlos Watson, Tamron Hall, Jim Cramer, Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett.
# CBS: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall;Mayor Adrian Fenty; Sen. Lindsey Graham; Gov. Jon Corzine, Amb. Hector Timerman; Colin Powell; Stephanie Cutter; Tom Donilon; Arne Duncan; Michele Flournoy; Lisa Jackson; David Jacobson; Katie Johnson;Bob Schieffer; recording artistBrad Paisley
And slammed President Bush.
It seems that the O’s know they are so low they can only elevate themselves by trashing their betters.
When the comedian goes over the top it’s supposed to be against the President, LOL, this is too rich
Surely you jest!
This is a despicable performance by comedian Wanda Sykes... Let me state this for the record: Wanda Sykes just said: "I hope Rush Limbaugh's kidneys fail".
Sykes and Obama himself have gone on and on about President Bush, VP Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, that disgusting "pulled out too soon" 'joke' referencing Sarah Palin's daughter... (Todd Palin is in the audience with Greta Van Sustern and her husband, by the way).
This is in disgustingly poor taste, even worse than I expected. Wanda Sykes might have well just gone ahead and jumped up and down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Isn't the idea of this dinner that the current president poke fun at himself and his administration, and that the comedian poke "lighthearted fun" at the current administration??
CSpan, you should think twice about carrying this next year.
Thanks for the ping. I am watching NASCAR. I had no idea this was going on.
I couldn’t agree more. The contrast of what was and what is, leaves me terribly depressed and I STILL cannot come to grips with the fact that he is our President.
I couldn't watch. A low-class president lowers the whole evening like night follows day.
I flipped over to a True Crime program. Not much difference from the tacky banquet and the various thugs, con artists and presstitutes in tuxes and gowns sitting at the tables.
Leni
The only reason MSNBC slammed the jokes was because the journalists were caught laughing.
So much for their insistence that there is NO bias in the msm.
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MSNBC now talking about Zero's ‘nibbles’....Can you imagine?
Yes, the Press Corps Dinner was traditionally about self-deprecation humor but this is the ‘change’ we didn't need!
No class....and no respect for the decorum of the office!
Welcome to Cbamanation!
Didn’t even think about watching it,with that juvenile delinquent president and his slobbering media flunkies.
I watched a great movie instead—”House of the Flying Daggers.”
The handsomest man on the planet.
If you disagree, you are blind.
I’ll drink to that ... I’m still baffled, confounded
and completely flummoxed and in disbelief that it
actually happened !!!!!
Our poor America.
Greta's fantasy comes true! Todd Palin takes her to the prom! She looks positively giddy.
Yeah, I want to know what was said about Sarah..how dare that bitch say anything like that about a child while her FATHER was sitting right there. Disgusting, vile piece of trash that Wanda Sykes is..I bet she didn’t say a damn thing about her dear leader
I almost forgot myself... hubby and I have been watching baseball.
Lots of disgusting, typical arrogant condescending liberal-type "humor" tonight, especially from Wanda Sykes who stated: "I hope Rush Limbaugh's kidneys fail!"
I sure miss Dubya and lovely First Lady Laura Bush... poking fun at themselves, which is how the humor at this annual dinner is supposed to work. Of course the rules have changed now that Dear Leader Obama is in office... all venom and despicable "jokes" have been directed at the former administration, Sarah Palin, Republicans in general and conservative talk show hosts.
Notice that NBC was allowed 10 times as many invitees as ABC or CBS, and 20 tiems those from FoxNews.
I will look at it tomorrow or tonight If I stay up. Thanks.
Yep, I agree, FRiend. Every time I see that small, vaguely-foreign man (particularly with his nose up in the air), I say out loud: "I can't believe this guy is President of the United States".
He'll NEVER be MY President... >:-(
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