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| Nerd Prom: Michelle Wolf got it just right |
| 2018-05-01 |
| by Molly Roberts [WASHINGTONPOST] That Wolf’s performance was not “normal” for the correspondents’ dinner is a testament to its timeliness and necessity — nothing is “normal” right now, and pretending otherwise out of a false sense of the fourth estate’s friendship with the executive would have been the real disgrace. Wolf called the Trump administration out for tearing down democracy. Then, the people who are supposed to care most about holding autocrats to account called her out in turn for, essentially, not being chummy enough. The performance was a tasteless display of sex jokes, bad words, Trump Derangement Syndrome and spiteful ad hominems. I've been watching, and except for unwinding a lot of dictatorial executive orders and the continuing pie fight with the press, I haven't seen any democracy torn down, though we did see the spectacle of an unhinged Democrat trying to assassinate a Congressional baseball practice. That persistent chumminess is why Wolf’s performance, in the end, wasn’t really for the press. It was about us. "Us" is writing an op-ed in the Washington Post. “You guys love breaking news, and you did it,” Wolf said to CNN. “You broke it.” To everyone else, she said: “You helped create this monster, and now you’re profiting off of him.” Instead of listening — to that or to Wolf’s final line, “Flint still doesn’t have clean water” — we got grumpy on Twitter. From Wikipedia: After a pair of scientific studies proved lead contamination was present in the water supply, a federal state of emergency was declared in January 2016 and Flint residents were instructed to use only bottled or filtered water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing. As of early 2017, the water quality had returned to acceptable levels; however, residents were instructed to continue to use bottled or filtered water until all the lead pipes have been replaced, which is expected to be completed no sooner than 2020.Therefore, the water as returned to acceptable levels, but somehow it's running through lead pipes, which have to be replaced. The state of emergency dates to the last year of the Obama regime, and the pipes are to be replaced in two years, instead of overnight. It's all Trump's fault, though I'm not quite sure how. Which means Wolf did a better job of defending the First Amendment than those who say that’s our business. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 “You guys love breaking news, and you did it,” Wolf said to CNN. “You broke it.” That seems true enough. If the networks hadn't aided and abetted the political criminals of the last two decades we would not have Trump now, we wouldn't need Trump now. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-05-01 17:49 |
| #3 WaPo columnist: "2+2=27! A rocket surgeon!!" |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-05-01 10:59 |
| #2 The White House Correspondents did Americans a great service that we can never repay except by not buying their product. How the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Gave Us the Trump Campaign |
| Posted by: Tholurong Jones1532 2018-05-01 10:42 |
| #1 Trump must have sensed that Wolf or someone else was going to use this as an opportunity to vent with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Or maybe he just thought the whole thing was just a terrible waste of time. Could be both. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-05-01 10:26 |