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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe WH Correspondents got what they wanted!!!! Woo-Hoooo!!!!!!!
They must be SOOO proud. After kissing trump's patoot at last year's dinner and bashing Joe Biden all evening, his Highness has agreed to attend in person! High fives all around!
It's gonna be SOOO great!!!!
Let me remind you in case you have forgotten. Joe Biden was not President at the time of last year's dinner. Yet the entire theme of the evening was his supposed mental decline and age-related cognitive issues. The "journalists" who broke this story, including Jake Tapper, were featured prominently. This was treated as a major story of the year, breaking news that was being hidden by the Biden administration.
Well, fast forward a year. Trump, who watched last year's dinner and must have loved it, has agreed to attend. And journalists are so happy, although what journalistic purpose it serves when he has openly attacked and tried to censor many of them, is unclear.
Also unclear is whether ANY criticism of His Highness will be allowed at the dinner.
Maybe they'll do a redux of "Biden is Old" exposes to please the King. I wish I was kidding.
MustLoveBeagles
(16,953 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,283 posts)Unfortunately, I heard some from MSNOW say they would be there.
GoCubsGo
(34,967 posts)Reports say he ran off to Merde a Lardo overnight for "executive time." Or, as we'd call it, "cavorting with the billionaires," who are having some kind of shindig in Palm Beach tonight. I'm betting he doesn't make it back in time for the dinner. He'll probably be to exhausted from all of the looting and pilfering.
a kennedy
(36,183 posts)hear him because of the car and helicopter noise.
senseandsensibility
(25,283 posts)it was announced that he was going to FLA and doing his crypto thing (cuz he's he a wartime President). I tried to google whether he was attending in person and stories were still claiming he was. But I agree with you. He might just phone it in, and the "reporters" will be so sad.
senseandsensibility
(25,283 posts)on bluesky, "In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it's a "work dinner" for 'source building'." He cites a trump post from today calling Obama Hussein Obama. Why is the press corps okay with this? Yes, trump may not be the most racist person in the country, as Matt called him, but his record of slurs against Obama alone is horrible.
a kennedy
(36,183 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬
UpInArms
(55,151 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,283 posts)And consequently, they will get no respect from me. If he runs away after calling them names for an hour tonight, as some are predicting, they will deserve it.
FalloutShelter
(14,549 posts)Be there tonight.
After all
this is a story now, with all the leaking about the bully diatribe TSF plans to deliver.
Its going to be a I was there when story theyll dine out on for years to come
If the planet still exists, let alone our Democracy.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,352 posts)Not to mention kissing that same ass to try and get even more.
The modern journalist (with exceptions, of course) is just a whore for clicks and will do anything to get them. They would cheer for the orange gibbon if he was standing there wanting to talk to them and they would cheer if he was laying in front of them dead. They don't care about him, except for his ability to get them clicks.
Which is the same with all of us. If you need some basis for what journalist are capable of, feel free to go read about William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. Thanks to them, we now have the term 'yellow journalism'. The manipulation was extreme. But, it was all for 'clicks'.
Just like today. They will write whatever gets them eyes, and reality be damned.
(Again, I will repeat that there are exceptions to this. But, those exceptions seem few and far between and too often get drowned out by those seeking more and more as opposed to seeking the truth.)
mountain grammy
(29,110 posts)There's been some great ones, but she's the gold standard in my very humble opinion.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,836 posts)right to George W (W is for War Criminal) Bush's smug face. The video continues with Helen Thomas stalking him out to the parking lot.
BattleRow
(2,620 posts)Maj. Dude
(53 posts)"Also unclear is whether ANY criticism of His Highness will be allowed"
wut
aggiesal
(10,872 posts)Then he's leaving after the speech so that nobody can roast him.
BattleRow
(2,620 posts)Unless the toast gets burnt,first.
aggiesal
(10,872 posts)Donald Trump will launch a revenge attack on the White House media when he confronts them in person at a Washington dinner on Saturday nightthen flee before there can be revenge.
Trump will leave the White House Correspondents Association event after making his speech, so he will miss the presentation of press awardsone of which would be certain to embarrass him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-plans-for-mic-drop-media-confrontation-at-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-are-leaked/
Takket
(23,754 posts)they are betraying their profession. they are more concerned with reporting lies than they are with uncovering truth.
aggiesal
(10,872 posts)Imagine a whole room of reporters with standing with their back to the speaker.
That would make news.
twodogsbarking
(19,086 posts)RainCaster
(13,805 posts)They all need to treat him exactly like he has been treating them.
Insults.
Derogatory nicknames.
Face to face oral defecation.
Make it memorable.
DinahMoeHum
(23,648 posts)will be at the pre-dinner and post-dinner parties, not the main event.
ShazamIam
(3,154 posts)gerryatwork
(105 posts)have enough Obama masks to hand out to everyone attending?
senseandsensibility
(25,283 posts)Since his fear/envy of Obama is a main reason we are in this nightmare.
-misanthroptimist
(1,685 posts)FTFY
senseandsensibility
(25,283 posts)the real journalists are boycotting.