Every year our elites humiliate themselves by holding the White House Correspondents Association dinner. Every year the whole charade gets just a little more ridiculous. The only year it was worth watching was 2006, as Dan Froomkin recalls:
Its defining moment came in 2006, when attendees responded with stunned, sullen incomprehension as comedian Stephen Colbert delivered a magnificently brutal critique of a delusional president and his stenographic courtiers.
That was better entertainment than the year Bush pretended to be looking for missing WMD’s under the lectern and the press thought it was hysterical. This year the comedian will be the excellent Wanda Sykes, and I am sure she will make these people appropriately uncomfortable.
The primary importance of the WHCA Dinner is to document yearly just how out of touch our elite politicians and journalists are with the rest of the country and to confirm the rest of us in our hatred and resentment of this class of people who have led us like thieves and incompetents for decades without let up. While the Clinton presidency showed flashes of good government, it’s been over fifty years since we’ve had any realistic reason to trust these people to run the country, let alone the world. When they get together, they inevitably do nothing more than pour salt in our national wounds. Enjoy the party.
