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The correspondents' dinner seems to be a bash Joe Biden fest, giving out awards for (Original Post) diehardblue Apr 26 OP
Isn't the correspondence dinner supposed to be kind of a roast of the CURRENT president? sakabatou Apr 26 #1
The MSM is an idoiot creon Apr 26 #2
And to think the comedian who they unhired.... Shipwack Apr 26 #3
It's the Correspondents Dinner DFW Apr 26 #4
Thanks for the correction, and I will do that. However, I WILL NOT dignify it as a proper noun with capitalization. diehardblue Apr 26 #8
Trump didn't attend. 58Sunliner Apr 27 #10
Agree crazylikafox Apr 26 #5
Why I never turn it on. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 26 #7
Malevolent and abusive. 58Sunliner Apr 27 #11
Television created Trump. hunter Apr 26 #6
Actually the ending speech was great. nolabear Apr 26 #9

Shipwack

(2,674 posts)
3. And to think the comedian who they unhired....
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:20 PM
Apr 26

was let go because she refused to make jokes about "both sides equally".

DFW

(58,039 posts)
4. It's the Correspondents Dinner
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:24 PM
Apr 26

And the President usually pokes fun at everyone, including himself—something of which Trump is incapable.

diehardblue

(11,105 posts)
8. Thanks for the correction, and I will do that. However, I WILL NOT dignify it as a proper noun with capitalization.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:40 PM
Apr 26

crazylikafox

(2,863 posts)
5. Agree
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:29 PM
Apr 26

They actually gave an award for reporting on President Biden’s “declining cognitive abilities “.
I turned it off.

nolabear

(43,709 posts)
9. Actually the ending speech was great.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 11:14 PM
Apr 26

The current president of the WHCA spoke eloquently against much of what tfg has been doing, limiting access, minimizing the First Amendment, letting journalists be imprisoned and harassed, etc. He got an ovation in what otherwise was a dishwater dull awards ceremony.

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