Posted on 04/29/2019 6:46:10 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Can you believe it's only been a year since alleged comedian Michelle Wolf killed the White House Correspondents' Dinner? And I don't mean "killed" as in "performed really well, in a stand-up comedy sense." I mean "killed" as in "destroyed a decades-old tradition." Wolf stunk up the place so bad in 2018 that the White House Correspondents' Association decided not to have comedians host the event anymore. This year it was hosted by a guy named Ron Chernow, who is some sort of historian, apparently. Not even Jay Leno botched the job that badly. Take a bow, Michelle!*
And yet this year's event contained the only WHCD moment that has ever made me laugh. Nothing Wolf said last year can compare to this, from WHCA president Oliver Knox:
LOL! No, Oliver, Trump isn't going to put journalists in jail. We couldn't be so lucky.
For all my problems with the Trump administration, I'm grateful that he has crippled this institution. First he refused to have anything to do with it, and now he's driven them so crazy that they can't even enjoy their own "nerd prom." The WHCD has been utterly insufferable for as long as I can remember, and if Trump can't make it go away, at least he's relegated it to an afterthought.
Only Nixon could go to China, and only Trump could stay away from the WHCD.
*I'm not sure what Michelle Wolf is doing now, but she had a really crappy 2018. A few months after her disastrous WHCD appearance, her Netflix show got canceled after just 10 episodes. When it comes to streaming video services making decisions about their own bandwidth, I'm strictly pro-choice.
[LOL! No, Oliver, Trump isn’t going to put journalists in jail. We couldn’t be so lucky.]
Gee, and I wished upon a star, too ... :(
The Donald is in their kitchen and banging the pots...:)
The truly pathetic part is what a liberal call a comedian, wouldn’t pass for an opening MC compared to Trump. The guy love him or hate him is funny as hell!
About time somebody put that thing out of its misery...
Honest Abe imprisoned 2,000 press men because they objected to his war...
Thank God for President Trump establishing a new standard by holding rallies with his fellow deplorables instead of suffering in the presence of this bunch of elitist egomaniacs!!
Oh still, my beating heart. If Ollie was going for the sympathy ploy he's going to come up mighty dry out here in Deplorable Dregs country. The only reward these simpering, overpaid cretins deserve is a nice flogging. It would improve the product.
Poor Jeb!
Strong, the Trump Curse is.....
Was that link intended to show anything other than a pic of Oliver Knox? That’s all I got when I clicked on it.
Yup. Ironically, if we had a truly fair and unbiased press, instead of just a bunch of undereducated Obama-obsessed malcontents with zero sense of humor, they’d ask Trump to host next year’s dinner, and take their lumps for the sheer hilarity of what would surely be an epic evening.
still ACTIVE =)
I have read a few books by Ron Chernow .... he writes about president’s lives ... mostly.
journalists will bring it back when they have someone to chow about. but Republicans should shun the event. it’s demeaning!
He should be worried about those “journalists” (enemy propaganda agents) being put in jail. Quite a number of them have earned the honor.
Trump actually canceled when he heard what the journalists were being served at the dinner:
crow.
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