Exactly. I don’t think she deserves the scorn being directed at her. I didn’t think her 20 minute gig was roll-on-the-floor-laughably funny. But I found it to be humorous, sharp witted and very insightful.
I have said this on other threads. She took it right to the “journalists” in the audience and I think they did not like it. Without POTUS there to roast the assembly itself was the best target. And she roasted them indeed.
She basically said that judging from the way they report on so many obscure facts as explosive details that it appears the MSM has a sexual fetish for Trump, and that she didn’t want to see them in the throes of ecstasy by talking about it. And the very last sentence she said was something to the effect of “And by the way, Flint still has poison water”. Why did she say this? It seemed so out of place.
In this comment I think she intentionally landed a jab right on their noses. She was calling them out on their errant ways, and mocking them as impotent. These self-important blowhards treat the most inane information on Trump admin as crucial evidence of a national crises, while real crises go unreported and unresolved. If the media ever thought that they have a duty to speak truth to power and to protect the interests of the people against governmental deception, abuse and corruption, then they are failures.
I want to go back and watch it again. So much ire directed at her I think she needs some defending... or at least some interpretive color commentary. My thoughts may not accurately reflect her intent. But I think the audience took it this way, and they don’t like to be called out. They can dish it but cannot take it. The only person in that room who spoke truth to power was Michelle Wolf. The lying, sycophantic, lazy media that thinks reporting manipulative leaks and anonymous tips by government officials somehow informs and protecting the public from government have been shown as thin-skinned weak and impotent dupes.
I don’t see any humor in this crap she said:
Michelle Wolf said this about Vice President Mike Pence’s pro-life stance on abortion:
“He thinks abortion is murder, which, first of all, don’t knock it ‘til you try it–and when you do try it, really knock it. You know, you’ve got to get that baby out of there. And yeah, sure, you can groan all you want. I know a lot of you are very anti-abortion. You know, unless it’s the one you got for your secret mistress.”
Michelle Wolf also mocked Sarah Sanders as Aunt Lydia in the Handmaiden’s Tale, a bull-dyke gym teacher and attacked Sanders over her ‘smoky eye’ look. Wolf concluded with the racist, sexist attack in which she called Sanders a traitor to ‘white women.’
Michelle Wolf Calls Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Who Attended WHCD, The ‘Uncle Tom’ of White Women At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, comedian Michelle Wolf went after the women of the Trump administration.