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

[tinamina]

BARE ARMS?????? You mean the Queen has the right to bare her arms everyday, every where, according to the second ammendment of the US Constitution?

[Irish Eyes]

Barack Obama is a low-class street hustler.

Thank you.. That is the best description I have heard yet!

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Thanks for the ping, forgot to check live if there was a thread though watched zero on FNC.

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One wonders if they did last year would be interesting to find out.

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I find the pauses awful where he is obviously waiting either for a telepropter or if not using it struggling to remember what to say.

Why not have it on a piece of paper this would IMHO be more than acceptable at correspondent dinner.

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I thought was a very tasteless seeing that so many people were terrified.

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People critized GWB public speaking but his routines as these events were always funny and well delivered not stop and start like 0.

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George Bush had more class in his small finger than Zero has in his whole body plus this is White House correspondence dinner. The people to make jokes and take swipes at (but in good humour and fun) is the actual journalists and members of the White House staff including yourself. O and his speech writers either do not get it or do not care and just like an opportunity to rubbish the opposition.

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Probably did not even realise it was a joke the script obviously did not indicate it was meant to be funny.

[EBH]

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/PersonOfWeek/story?id=6717051&page=1

Person of the Week
Reggie Love

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Dreadful and what a contrast to elegant and always dressed suitable for the occasion Laura Bush.

[WestCoastGal]

Why does he always make that stupid face?

[MinuteGal]

Did anyone pick up what was posted in # 217:

"In March of 2009 it was announced that Wanda Sykes would be the host of a new late night talk show on Saturdays on FOX. It's expected to premier in the fall of 2009".

WHAT THE.........!!!!!!!

Leni

[freekitty]

I watched a bit of the pre-dinner. I thought it was a nice touch to make sure there was enough Congress and other staff to fake cheer each and every celebtard that came through the door.

Honestly, it was so fake you wanted to throw up. That’s when I just turned it off. They are just a big PR set up today. It just cheapens anyone that has accomplished something and I didn’t notice much accomplishment with the Obama crowd.

How very sad. What Obama and crowd don’t realize is real accomplisment speaks for itself and you don’t have to embellish. So I suppose since there is no real accomplishment with these people the only thing they can do is embellish.

[WVNan]

You know what? I smell a rat in our midst.

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Hello

[EmilyGeiger]

Look at the smug, satisfied expression on his face. Gag!

[EmilyGeiger]

I love Glenn Beck! He is so talented. I finally got a copy of his book The Christmas Sweater, and I listened to it on C.D. as well. The emotion he has in his voice, wow. the story is so good. Well worth reading and listening to.

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the ping. Can’t wait to read the thread. Had to miss it last night.