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

[Dinah Lord]

Michelle looks like she has a mustache, doesn’t she?

Right to bear arms. Okay, now I know I’m going to puke.

[CaptRon]

Not appropriate

[pbear8]

yeah blame the kids

[SoCalPol]

This POS even jokes about AF1 over NYC

[STARWISE]

I really can’t stand to see him or hear him.
I’m playing music ... will watch the posts
while the emperor’s on.

[CaptRon]

I tear up when i realized he got elected.

[pbear8]

gross gay marriage joke

[Dinah Lord]

Yeah, scaring the shi% out of a bunch of American citizens with your plane is a real joke, isn’t it?

[SoCalPol]

I just turned over to the BBC British comedies

[Dinah Lord]

Steele should have given Obama the finger.

[pbear8]

His delivery is so bad

[hugorand]

I’ll bet Sarah Palin is happy she had an excuse not to attend.

[CaptRon]

Where’s the “That’s racist” kid?

[Armedanddangerous]

I dont know who she is, but a lot of these women are very superficially pretty, but their very nasty commie lib attitutudes have a detrimental effect on their looks.

Specifically, they always look terribly constipated.

[cmj328]

Did he just do that finger thing to Michael Steele?

[Dinah Lord]

I don’t remember George Bush gigging the Dems like Obama is taking swipes at the Repubs.

[anniegetyourgun]

His delivery sucks.

[Christian4Bush]

C-SPAN.org says speeches (and jokes) will start around 9:40pm ET.

Actually, the joke started around noon eastern time, on January 20, 2009...

Just sayin...

[al baby]

I thought james brown was dead

[CaptRon]

That was low