2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner [LIVE THREAD]

Business Insider ^ | 5-9-09

[STARWISE]

# Houston Chronicle: Alberto Gonzales

# Fox News: Chace Crawford, Todd Palin, Matthew Modine, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, 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 Lady’s 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 O’Donnell, 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

[vrwc54]

Thanks for the ping.

[mojitojoe]

I really wonder why any of you bothered watching these lowlife s-—birds all evening.
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I NEVER do and I didn't watch it tonight either. I saw this thread and watched the idiot Kenyan on the You Tube videos. I stopped watching when he spent the last half of his time *campaining*.

[anniegetyourgun]

Everything about it was horrid - delivery, timing, writing....and especially his laughing at his own jokes.

[SuziQ]

OK, so she’s making a goofy expression, but that dress is a good style and wonderful color for Michelle.

[SuziQ]

What is it with That One and sticking his nose up in the air all the time?

[True Republican Patriot]

Zero makes Keith Oberdouche sound intelligent and appear pleasant by comparison! He actually makes Osama Bin Ladin appear to be a great American Patriot by Comparison!!

[anniegetyourgun]

He is a prideful thing, isn’t he?

[Neverforget01]

that dress is a good style and wonderful color for Michelle.

Nice color but fugly dress imo.

[True Republican Patriot]

Zero’s chief writer is a 27 year old high school dropout caught on Youtube feeling up a cardboard Hillary Clintoon’s cardboard Boobs for excitment! and Zero has as his male confidant, a Boob named Reggie Love who bcame famous via Internet photos of him passed out drunk(amd.or stoned) at a Frat Party being teabagged! Gross Choice of Associates for EVEN a Two Bit Community Organizer! Let alone a Faux Teleprompter in Chief..:-(

[Neverforget01]

Thanks for the ping

These are ugly and mean spirited people.

[True Republican Patriot]

You know Zero did tell her she did a great job since it was a senseless, tasteless, obnoxious, Anti-American, Racial Rant! Just What Zero had been praying to Allah for and Wanda, the tasteless Lesbian delivered it perfectly... and a truly sad day for America it became....

[restornu]

Deer in head lights oh dang the National Anthem...

What is this deal hauling in the flag like it was at a game??

And than putting the flag away!

What were those other flags?

[Cincinna]

When I heard Obama making his own small children open to ridicule I thought he couldn’t go any lower.

Throwing your grandmother under the bus is one thing, but your own little girls ? Revolting.

[nutmeg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS0GVOQPs0

Wow. Did our tax dollars pay for that Ad Council "gay" ad? Geesh...

[Cincinna]

I turned it off after the first 15 minutes.

If I want to watch that much d*** sucking, I would rent a gay porn movie.

The Press is totally revolting.

[nutmeg]

Some on MSNBC say she went over the top on several jokes....too nasty & too partisan!

Huh? I wouldn't be surprised if some of the staff over at MSNBC wrote the hate-filled material for Sykes!

[nutmeg]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1921276117304287501

How fabulous! Thank you for that link, dawn53.

I remember that side by side Bush impersonator back in 2006 (seems like yesterday). Now THAT was a White House Correspondents Dinner! That's the kind of humor that is supposed to go on, not the hate-filled leftist crap Wanda Sykes "treated" everyone to last night.

[Swede Girl]

Thank you for this link. Yes, I also remember this and the slide show with Jeb as a little boy. Great stuff.

Contrast this classy President and First Lady with what went on last night with Obama and Wanda Sykes. Totally classless.

The only good thing that came from this is that now this show will be on YouTube forever for all to see and hear how crude and tasteless many of the comments were.

I am sure Todd Palin must be livid. He and Sarah did not deserve that. It was shameful. The whole event was low class.

[Typical_Whitey]

Nothing funny in the incompetence of this Administration and the media fawning over him is just disgusting. We need real investigative reporting before he destroys America and we look back and say how did that happen in this country with all of the Freedoms that we have.

How can the media and public buy anything these clowns try and sell?
Its like Shaggy’s song “Say it wasn’t You”

1. I never knew that Jeramiah Wright was so divisive
2. I never knew that Bill Ayers was radical and besides that stuff happened when I was a kid.
3. Tony Redzko was just an associate, nothing to see there.
4. Close Gitmo because I said so.
5. We will do everything in our power to protect the American people from a repeat of 911 except, We won’t do that…
6. I will appologize to Europe for American Arrogance even though Europe would not exist today if it were not for American sacrifice.
7. What Bow to the Saudi King? That was a handshake don’t believe your lying eyes.
8. I will appologize to Latin America for American dominance, even though it is false to suggest that America has dominated Latin America at any point in its history.
9. I bowl like a Special Olympics champ but I will beat them suckers at b-ball everytime.
10. AIG paying bonuses with the bail out funds, I am outraged, outraged even though I signed a bill that authorized it.
11. You can’t listen to Rush Limbaugh, he doesn’t agree with the Radical Liberal Progressive and socialist policy that I am going to implement because I won.
12 Did I mention I won and its gonna be my way, but hey about that bi-partisanship, I am trying my best to be bi-partisan you just need to agree with me because like I told you I won and you lost so get over it.
13. Has anyone seen the keys to AF1? Maybe my cabinet members should communicate amongst each other before something real serious happens, oh it don’t matter the public will forgive me because they LOVE OBAMA….

[Betty Jane]

Zero’s chief writer is a 27 year old high school dropout caught on Youtube feeling up a cardboard Hillary Clintoon’s cardboard Boobs for excitment! and Zero has as his male confidant, a Boob named Reggie Love who bcame famous via Internet photos of him passed out drunk(amd.or stoned) at a Frat Party being teabagged! Gross Choice of Associates for EVEN a Two Bit Community Organizer! Let alone a Faux Teleprompter in Chief.

Is that true or just some frustrated ranting? If true can you enlighten me?