From “Lone Wolf” to Taliban: The Disconnect In The Developing Times Square...
Yesterday I wrote a piece for AOL News about the Times Square Bomb story (or, almost-bomb story), and the trip it had taken from “Lone Wolf” to dude with the wherewithal to hop an Emirates flight to...
View ArticleObama’s Trump Joke Comes to Life: bin Laden News Preempts Celebrity Apprentice
One of the highlights of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner was President Obama‘s thorough decimation of a stone-faced Donald Trump, particularly a bit where the President contrasted...
View ArticleInside The White House Correspondents Dinner Pre and Post-Parties
With the momentous news that Osama bin Laden has been killed, Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner feels almost like an event from a bygone era. Still, for those of you who still remember the...
View ArticleJoan Rivers To President Obama: ‘Take Care Of The F**king Country!’
As the news that Osama bin Laden is dead begins to sink in, other, less weighty stories can begin to waft over, or wriggle under, that steel media curtain. The bin Laden story blotted out the usual...
View ArticleBreitbart.com Dubs Jimmy Kimmel ‘Comedy Coward’ For Not Knowing How To Mock...
White House Correspondents Dinner headliner and Jimmy Kimmel Live host Jimmy Kimmel has incurred the wrath of the humorless right for telling Reuters that “It’s hard to make fun of Obama in general...
View ArticleObama Jabs At Romney, Congress, Huffington Post And Dogs At W.H....
President Obama took the stage at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner on Saturday night, where he made a number of jokes at his and others’ expense. He took aim at Congress, Mitt Romney, the...
View ArticleYes, Rachel Maddow Did Tend Bar At The MSNBC NerdProm Party
One of the main attractions of the annual White House Correspondents Dinner is the extracurricular WHCD party time, whose appeal can be summed up in two words: open bar. On that count, it’s tough to...
View ArticleNerdprom 2012: Inside The White House Correspondents Dinner Parties
Washington, DC is often referred to as “Hollywood for ugly people,” but for at least one night of the year, we are Cinderella, and Hollywood’s collective Prince Charming stalks us with a glass slipper...
View ArticleJournalists Flog Their Own Blogs As ‘Most Influential’ At MSNBC’s NerdProm Party
Following Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, MSNBC threw one hell of an afterparty, and all they asked in return was for a few of the attendees to name the blog they thought would be...
View ArticleTom Brokaw Doubles Down: If You Go To White House Correspondents Dinner,...
Over the weekend, Tom Brokaw made some less-than-supportive comments about the White House Correspondents Dinner — and on Tuesday, he stood by that sentiment. Brokaw went further and added, “If you go,...
View ArticleJake Tapper Put Kibosh On Jimmy Kimmel’s Sick Nerdprom Santorum Joke
Although it was almost three weeks ago, it’s never too late to keep talking about Nerdprom, aka the White House Correspondents Dinner. WHCD headliner Jimmy Kimmel recently told Howard Stern that ABC...
View ArticleLeave The White House Whorespondents’ Dinner And Integrity Yard Sale Alone!
It’s that time of year again, when critics of the White House press corps write one of the two articles they write every year (the other being “Do we even need a White house Press Corps?“). In the...
View ArticleLet Stephen Colbert’s Nerd Prom Speech Remind You What Kind Of President...
It is somehow fitting that our week of all George W. Bush, all the time is ending with the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner. Because, while he spent the whole week basking in the glow of polite...
View ArticleFox’s Ed Henry Pushes Back At Tom Brokaw Over Criticisms Of WH Correspondents...
Fox News Channel White House Correspondents and president of the White House Correspondents Association, Ed Henry, pushed back at former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw who for two years has been openly...
View ArticleConan O’Brien Blasts Drudge, Bush, Romney, CNN, The NRA And Chris Matthews At...
Late night show host Conan O’Brien delivered his White House Correspondents Dinner speech on Saturday night in which he roasted a number of prominent members of the media, journalistic institutions,...
View ArticleSarah Palin Bashes ‘D.C. Assclowns’ For Their ‘Pathetic’ White House...
It’s not very difficult to guess how former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin reacted to last night’s so-called “Nerd Prom” White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Three words: She hated it. Just...
View ArticleSarah Palin Apparently Thinks Todd Palin And Bristol Palin Are ‘Assclowns’
Man, people just hate a party that they weren’t invited to! You can chalk Alaska Gubernatorial Resignee and Presidential Ticket Neck Anchor Sarah Palin up in the “I hate #nerdprom!” column, if her...
View ArticleNerdprom 2013 Photos: Inside The White House Correspondents’ Dinner...
Washington, DC is often referred to as “Hollywood for ugly people,” but for at least one night of the year, we are Cinderella, and Hollywood’s collective Prince Charming stalks us with a glass slipper...
View ArticleDonald Trump Says ‘The WHCD Was So Boring This Year’— And You’ll Never Guess Why
In one of his terse micro-reviews of a nationally-covered event, reality TV personality and very wealthy mogul Donald Trump said that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was “so boring.” Any guesses...
View ArticleMartin Bashir Slams ‘Nonentity’ Sarah Palin’s ‘Assclown’ Remarks, Recommends...
Former Alaska Governor and Nuclear Football Near-Miss Sarah Palin joined the predictable chorus of bitter White House Correspondents’ Dinner non-invitees Saturday night by tweeting her ass-heavy...
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