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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
Apr 26
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Isn't the correspondence dinner supposed to be kind of a roast of the CURRENT president?
sakabatou
Apr 26
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sakabatou
(44,789 posts)1. Isn't the correspondence dinner supposed to be kind of a roast of the CURRENT president?
creon
(1,585 posts)2. The MSM is an idoiot
No one should take those people seriously.
Shipwack
(2,693 posts)3. And to think the comedian who they unhired....
was let go because she refused to make jokes about "both sides equally".
DFW
(58,137 posts)4. It's the Correspondents Dinner
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.
58Sunliner
(5,784 posts)10. Trump didn't attend.
crazylikafox
(2,867 posts)5. Agree
They actually gave an award for reporting on President Biden’s “declining cognitive abilities “.
I turned it off.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,161 posts)7. Why I never turn it on.
58Sunliner
(5,784 posts)11. Malevolent and abusive.
hunter
(39,520 posts)6. Television created Trump.
Television needs to die.
I take it they did?
nolabear
(43,723 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.