Posted on 12/22/2016 12:05:50 PM PST by drewh
Poynter’s James Warren (a former Chicago Tribune managing editor) has turned to the next press horror under President Trump: “What will the White House correspondents’ dinner look like under President Trump?” Warren admitted “It seems way off — April 29, 2017 — but the election of Donald Trump is already raising questions and some fears among [White House Correspondents] association members.”
"This is unchartered [sic] territory," said a former WHCA board member who's discussed the matter with board members. "We've never had a businessman-reality TV star as president, somebody who understands the importance of this particular event."
That sounds a little odd, considering Obama and Bill Clinton understood this was an event where they could easily own the room. See the media adoration of Obama’s mic-drop routine earlier this year.
Liberal journalists now associate the dinner with journalists being too cozy with the power elite, and conservatives associate it with leftist comedians offering either a cauldron of acid for Republicans (Stephen Colbert trolling Bush) or a cauldron of acid for Republicans (Wanda Sykes sparing Obama).
Both these groups of critics would just call the whole thing off. Warren turned to the media to wonder about the future:
"Will this guy who sat here and took it in not altogether gracious fashion from President Obama sit there and take it as president of the United States while a comedian who is hired does what comedians normally do? Can he take it?" asks Bill Plante, just-retired CBS News White House correspondent and a former association president.
"And can he do (at the dinner) what presidents do, make fun of himself?"
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Plante asked exactly the wrong question. Trump came to the dinner and took his lumps from Obama and NBC's Seth Meyers in 2011. The better question is can the media take the ridicule? Can the media make fun of itself? The last year suggests they think any criticism is tantamount to Soviet authoritarianism. Warren’s story continued:
“It certainly has the potential to be a train wreck, and it’s possible that the Trump team would see that as a good thing," says Tom Goodman, president and chief executive of Goodman Media who was once head of communications at CBS News and CBS Inc.
"Regardless, I believe Donald Trump would absolutely show up and use the event to lambast the media, which would play into his ongoing narrative. I think the biggest difference between the current and next president (at this event) is that Barack Obama would be joking about the media, and Donald Trump would not — and he would name names, too."
That makes it sound like Republicans might really enjoy this dinner for a change.
Why would Trump even show up? They all hate him. They all sabotage him. Why even pretend to be cordial. Let them have their circle jerk all alone sans president Trump. Obama can show up and they can pretend it’s just like the good ol’ days of Obama jokes. “I’m so good. I’m just really good. You can laugh now.”
Can he take it? Did these clunkheads see the roast in NYC shortly before election day, when Trump and Clinton roasted each other? Trump proved two things that night; That while he can certainly dish it out, he can take it as well as anybody.
I think Trump should call it off. The media is the enemy. He should ignore them and marginalize them to the greatest extent possible.
There. I fixed it.
Rush Limbaugh as the emcee with Dennis Miller as the comedian...
“This a.m. Lionel of LionelNation ...just google the U-Tubes...had a rant about the reporters being Repeaters not being Reporters and how they just don’t get it.”
Here’s a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG4W-bN8GqI
I absolutely think Trump should still have a WHCD. But people who are invited should be Hannity, Ingraham, Rush, and all the staff from OANN. And for placemats, they should have laminated pictures of the “FAKE NEWS” media.
Great opportunity for a Friendly FReep!
Or invite twitter followers and have Chik-fil-A cater.
A celebration of the demise of MSM fake news.
Thanks. That was my first thought. Why is it important?
Why should he go at all?
He well remembers the 2011 WHCD where he was the brunt of jokes of Obama and the whole room laughed at him.
In the grand scheme of things, the WHCD is a pimple on the ass of an elephant.
Not even commentators! Propaganda Readers!
The attendees certainly have no desire to eat crow. Feed them fresh red meat. They do enjoy ripping into that.
White House Correspondent’s Dinner is CANCELLED until their attitudes improve.
Trump WH Press Secretary Spicer suggests using Reddit AMA’s to address the people rather than the failing MSM. Winning!!
Trump should tell them to screw themselves.
What White House Correspondents?
I hope he cancels it.
And i hope that going forward, none of the press fly on AF1...let them buy tickets themselves and fly commercial coach.
Trump made fun of himself on a Comedy Central roast and several times on SNL. If these dumpkof “journalists” had ever done one shred of research on the man instead of repeating Facebook memes and snarks, they might know something. But no.
Presstitutes. Hope he declines the invitation and has a competing event at the Trump Hotel.
It would be funny if he ran a composite video of all the naysayers sneering at the very idea he could get elected, and all the doom and gloom as the election results rolled in. All of them will be sitting right there. HAH-ha!
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