Sunday, May 10, 2009

Press Bacchanal

The White House Correspondent's Dinner was last night. Here's the President's Speech, the MC of the Dinner Wanda Sykes also had her turn at the mike, and Frank Rich wrote a pretty good column on the state of American journalism.

I'm not sure I like the WHCD. It seems like a big, self-congratulatory waste of time, when the press and the politicians get together to revel in the shared realization of just how awesome they consider themselves to be. It comes across a little more than ego-stroking to me and it's irritating.

But it can be funny. I'll grudgingly admit that.

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