Posted on 05/01/2023 10:17:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The idea was never wrong, and the impression wasn’t false. The dinner — encased in back-to-back parties — is exactly what it looks like.
There’s something truly awe-inspiring about the Washington media’s resumption of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in all its tacky, wince-worthy depravity. It’s as if they hadn’t spent the last several years pretending to have gone through a profound reckoning, acknowledging it as a decadent and unnecessary affair that bred suspicion of journalists being too in bed, literally, with the people they’re supposed to be holding accountable on behalf of the public.
All it took was one election to go the media’s way, and boy, did that farce end fast.
CNN ran a promo for its coverage of the event, referring to the dinner as “the unforgettable, star-studded event.” The flashy spot featured clips of the channel’s anchors in pricey formal wear, posing for photos with celebrities on a red carpet, beaming in their most pathetic environment.
It was just six years ago that the very same CNN made a big statement about its “commitment to the health and longevity of a free press” by foregoing the usual celebrity guests at its reserved table and instead inviting journalism students. It was “Make A Wish,” but with a heaping of self-reverence.
During that same time, NPR ran a segment titled “Journalists Reconsider Purpose Of The White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” though the reconsidering of the event was something that happened every single year — the media would take a week in the beauty of springtime to party it up with celebrities (mostly B- and C-List) and highlight their close, personal relationships with government officials...
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Do they still have idiot comedians telling abortions jokes, or have they cleaned up their act in that regard?
They should merge the Oscars and the WHCA dinner. They are in the same ideological boat.
Did anyone actually watch this droll?
... and self-righteousness.
Regards,
I'm sure that it was far from "droll" (= "clever, witty, or charming").
Regards,
Glenn beck did a special on the intermarriage and blood ties between media and the #RulingClass. It’s almost as shocking as the one he did on big banking and the ruling class.
Jackie Gleason used the word “droll” ironically.
A bubble spectacle made for a tiny few inside the bubble.
Just the late-night ones
And... at the same IQ level
As have we all, at one time or another. That's fine!
But it is grammatically incorrect to use it as a noun, as bray did in post #4:
Regards,
Read later.
What dinner? Did I miss dinner?
The word fits.
Indeed!
Some very satisfying digs in this writing.
PS
The OP link didn’t work for me:
Did you mean the wonderfully expressive Yiddish word drek?
No, its just a great sounding word.
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