![]() ![]() Apologizing for Wolf’s routine dug up the ugly truth that some who cover the White House still can’t bring themselves to call Trump’s team liars. Michelle Wolf: Who is the comedian who skewered Sarah Sanders at the White House Correspondents Dinner The Independent The Independent She burns facts and then she uses that ash. She was rough and raunchy and her targets, rough and raunchy themselves, richly deserved it. Ergo, Wolf, who matched her subjects in extremity and intensity. Comedy is supposed to make comfortable people uncomfortable. it would be laughable if it wasn’t so emblematic of our reality.īut in all seriousness, does the WHCA have Stockholm Syndrome? Are they learning to love their torturers? Or is their apology just insiders protecting other insiders in a wink-wink quid-pro-quo?Īccording to the outrage factory-and now the WHCA-comedy should have light touch, flatter and tickle. Yet the trade association representing reporters just kneecapped itself in a series of fumbles. This communications team has no dedication to truth and informing the public. His surrogates, including Chief Outrage Officer Kellyanne Conway, boast “ alternative facts” and have made it clear that they will go hard, strong and unremitting against an independent, skeptical media. Aided by Sanders, he deems the rest fake news, a habit that has eroded any semblance of healthy political discourse. The chief executive likes only slavish, slobbering coverage of his administration. But there’s scant evidence of a sense of humor in any quarters, as yesterday the host of the routine, the White House Correspondents Association-the press’ supposed institutional watchdog-went so far as to apologize to the very person working overtime to debase truth in journalism.įor the past year and a half, Trump’s White House has berated, mocked, skewered, incited violence against, and openly lied to and about reporters. Maybe I would even crack a joke about comedy being as hard to nail as the right smoky eye. If I were White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders after comedian Michelle Wolf’s smoldering roast of her at the White House Correspondents Dinner, I would try to have a sense of humor. ![]() White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the head table of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at The Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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