I'm OK with ending the WHCD AFTER Trump has left office, NOT BEFORE.

[Miles Archer]

There's an opinion piece on Raw Story (lifted from Salon):

No, the event is inappropriate because it’s an obnoxious suck-up to power, no matter who the president is or how edgy the comedian. The press and the politicians lining up on red carpets with Hollywood celebrities and yukking it up together, as if politics and government were just one big performance and this was their awards show, has always been an excellent illustration of everything that’s wrong with our civic life. But in the age of Trump it’s become downright decadent and disturbing.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/lets-kill-white-house-correspondents-dinner-just-shameful-pompous-dc-bonding-ritual/

The reason why we are dealing with this year's "controversy" is that a comedienne DARED to make harsh jokes about a woman who lies for and enables a man who is thoroughly corrupt and unrepentant. Boo hoo hoo.

Many of you have probably seen the screen grab of Lewandowski flashing the "White Power" symbol at Trump's Michigan "rally":



IMHO, we should be more concerned with the never-ending barrage of dog whistles from the Trump camp. The WHCD is an evening of rubber chicken, hit-and-miss jokes, and yes...obnoxiously sucking up to power, which coincidentally also describes every working day at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, or Mar-a-Lago, or wherever Trump has parked his fat orange ass.

If the dinner dies while Trump is in office, he will declare a moral victory in silencing his critics. If it becomes history five minutes after he's out of office, I won't shed any tears.

[Sneederbunk]

1. I am OK with ending the WHCD discussion now.