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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe correspondents' dinner seems to be a bash Joe Biden fest, giving out awards for
minimizing the former president. That is just my perception.
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The correspondents' dinner seems to be a bash Joe Biden fest, giving out awards for (Original Post)
diehardblue
Saturday
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Isn't the correspondence dinner supposed to be kind of a roast of the CURRENT president?
sakabatou
Saturday
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sakabatou
(44,638 posts)1. Isn't the correspondence dinner supposed to be kind of a roast of the CURRENT president?
creon
(1,507 posts)2. The MSM is an idoiot
No one should take those people seriously.
Shipwack
(2,621 posts)3. And to think the comedian who they unhired....
was let go because she refused to make jokes about "both sides equally".
DFW
(57,825 posts)4. It's the Correspondents Dinner
And the President usually pokes fun at everyone, including himselfsomething of which Trump is incapable.
diehardblue
(11,101 posts)8. Thanks for the correction, and I will do that. However, I WILL NOT dignify it as a proper noun with capitalization.
58Sunliner
(5,673 posts)10. Trump didn't attend.
crazylikafox
(2,858 posts)5. Agree
They actually gave an award for reporting on President Bidens declining cognitive abilities .
I turned it off.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,107 posts)7. Why I never turn it on.
58Sunliner
(5,673 posts)11. Malevolent and abusive.
hunter
(39,464 posts)6. Television created Trump.
Television needs to die.
I take it they did?
nolabear
(43,675 posts)9. Actually the ending speech was great.
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.