They had the White House Correspondents Dinner--read all about it from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/05/03/GA2010050301514.html?sid=ST2010050203242. I don't see a problem with the dinner, nor with the president yucking it up, throwing down jokes written for him by the Daily Show. Good for him/them. What I do find remarkable, is that when the same dinners are held when a knuckle dragger is in office, the press will grab some joke meant for that audience and use it to cast said knuckle dragger as "insensitive" to the plight of the unfortunate or "out of touch" with the suffering going on here and abroad. Happens. Every. Time. Not so when someone from the ranks of the enlightened is in the oval office. Funnier still, if you call the Post or whatever other paper reports on the thing, they'll stare at you with that quizzical look on their face like you've just shown them a new knot that they can't figure out how to tie. It's called being tone deaf and I see it every day. It's the same thing you get from folks who wish we could return to the days of all the news coming from the old three reliables, decrying the partisanship in today's multi-channel arrangement of news sources. These same gentle souls will give you that same blank look when you remind them that Uncle Walter and John Chancellor and Garrick Utley et al were not exactly middle of the road types and it was due to their consistent tack or spin on the news that brought us those lying LYING philistines at Fox or whatever. Then again, we now have to live with MSNBC so maybe Uncle Walter wasn't so bad after all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/05/03/GA2010050301514.html?sid=ST2010050203242. I don't see a problem with the dinner, nor with the president yucking it up, throwing down jokes written for him by the Daily Show. Good for him/them. What I do find remarkable, is that when the same dinners are held when a knuckle dragger is in office, the press will grab some joke meant for that audience and use it to cast said knuckle dragger as "insensitive" to the plight of the unfortunate or "out of touch" with the suffering going on here and abroad. Happens. Every. Time. Not so when someone from the ranks of the enlightened is in the oval office. Funnier still, if you call the Post or whatever other paper reports on the thing, they'll stare at you with that quizzical look on their face like you've just shown them a new knot that they can't figure out how to tie. It's called being tone deaf and I see it every day. It's the same thing you get from folks who wish we could return to the days of all the news coming from the old three reliables, decrying the partisanship in today's multi-channel arrangement of news sources. These same gentle souls will give you that same blank look when you remind them that Uncle Walter and John Chancellor and Garrick Utley et al were not exactly middle of the road types and it was due to their consistent tack or spin on the news that brought us those lying LYING philistines at Fox or whatever. Then again, we now have to live with MSNBC so maybe Uncle Walter wasn't so bad after all.
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