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White House press on defensive after Michelle Wolf torches Trump, Sanders
The Hill ^ | 04/29/18 | Julia Manchester

Posted on 04/29/2018 3:20:06 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is taking heat the day after comedian Michelle Wolf took shots from the stage at presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

A number of observers in attendance felt the former "Daily Show" comedian went over the line with her jokes, which drew heavy conservative fire on Sunday.

White House national security adviser John Bolton slammed the event in an interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," saying he was happy not to attend.

"Just reprehensible behavior by someone addressing the gathering, and sadly it's par for the course in Washington today," Bolton said.

Fox News reporter Ed Henry called on WHCA to apologize to Sanders.

Other high-profile journalists also criticized the event, and the president of the group that organizes the dinner distanced herself from the material, though she did not offer an apology.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; haikugay; michellewolf; trump; whca; whcd
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To: BenLurkin
White House Press on the defensive.
21 posted on 04/29/2018 3:49:23 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

White House Correspondents Dinner = a safe place for liberals to be nasty to conservatives.


22 posted on 04/29/2018 3:49:27 PM PDT by uptowngirl
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To: BenLurkin

The headline is correct. Read it again.


23 posted on 04/29/2018 3:50:18 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Its great thing that President Trump skipped this third-rate loser-fest. There is no need whatsoever for the President to subject himself to this trash.

Dear Sarah Sanders, there are 50 - 60 million Americans at least, who will not think less of you, if you skipped these losers' party.

They could not find a comedian with some a bit of class, to do this event. On the other hand, it speaks to the lack of class of the people who booked her.

24 posted on 04/29/2018 3:51:45 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: BenLurkin
It's White House PRESS that's defensive....however, I thought I read the same thing.

I understand going after a sitting President. However, they NEVER went after Barack Obama and barely after Clinton.

25 posted on 04/29/2018 3:57:43 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Moorings
This event is a good example of differences between conservatives and liberals behavior.
26 posted on 04/29/2018 3:58:05 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: BenLurkin

Actually it’s the media today attempting to say this was about Sarah is to cover for the obvious, and beyond disgusting, foul mouthed character they selected and screened for their show and tell. making it about Sarah softens the impact of the elephant in the room, and the fact any and all the Journalists were entertained or they would have left or at least shown some disapproval at the time. They didn’t.

Now it’s a day later and they’re all back stepping and excusing..... dodging the publics outcry for fear of what it has and will cost them.


27 posted on 04/29/2018 3:58:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

The media always finds a way to prove Trump right about them. I don’t think they even realize what they are doing.


28 posted on 04/29/2018 4:12:42 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

New meaning has been given to the term “boorish”. This was not merely bad manners, it was deep-seated hostility expressed as some kind of “wit”.

Well, Michelle Wolf was half-right.

Aggressive, crude and insensitive. And those are her GOOD qualities.


29 posted on 04/29/2018 4:14:29 PM PDT by alloysteel (Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.)
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To: JudyinCanada

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They hate @PressSec Sarah Huckabee Sanders because she represents every aspect of American womanhood that we admire: intelligence, grace, empowerment, patriotism, and beauty. The troll who trashed her at the #WHCD was too dim to memorize her own “jokes.” She had to read them.

Mike Huckabee had a few twitter comments as well.


30 posted on 04/29/2018 4:15:06 PM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMPIt)
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To: yesthatjallen

Predictable, biased, mean spirited, stupid and ugly.

They never learn. They hand Trump the bludgeon so he can beat on their heads!

Plus, it’s tired, and not even funny. If you can make me laugh about it, then do so, and there is a lot to goof on, but they can’t. They just want to rave, like coked up maniacs, all saying the same thing, and it is to get Trump.


31 posted on 04/29/2018 4:18:44 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: yesthatjallen

Do away with press conferences. They are no longer needed. Sarah can make a video of what Trump wants to communicate, post it to the White House web site, and call it a day.


32 posted on 04/29/2018 4:25:00 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Eddie01

Someone should have tossed urine and feces in her nasty face.


33 posted on 04/29/2018 4:26:30 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: ScottinVA

Why scrap it?

The Leftists should be encouraged to expose themselves more and more, and the White House Correspondence Dinner is a very good, high-profile, way to do it.


34 posted on 04/29/2018 4:30:54 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I watched her set. It was very mild.

I don’t know what all the fuss is about.


35 posted on 04/29/2018 4:36:06 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: yesthatjallen
"...the former "Daily Show" comedian..."

Just "former comedian" will suffice. None of that was funny. At all.

36 posted on 04/29/2018 4:39:15 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ah. One of these days I need to learn how to read.


37 posted on 04/29/2018 4:39:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

On the defensive? Yeah, right.


38 posted on 04/29/2018 4:39:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Remember how they used to make fun of Obama and his administration at those dinners?

Oh yeah, that didn't happen.

39 posted on 04/29/2018 4:43:54 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: yesthatjallen
Is this Wolf a black woman? She looks like she is trying to pull a Racial Dolezal.
 
40 posted on 04/29/2018 4:48:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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