Nerdprom, a.k.a. White House Correspondents Dinner
Always an interesting event, where a bunch of left wing reporters get together and say how they are great. Apparently, Ann Curry of NBC today exclaimed to a crowd: “You are the most powerful people in the world!” God, that is a scary thought.
We shall see if Obama is funny, or if he is truly ‘Spock-like’. Last year he and John McCain came, and McCain was great, while Obama was just so-so. Obama has an arrogance about him where he just can’t pull of self-depricating humor, which for him would be ideal. We shall see if his humor has improved. I hope so; his bit last year was almost painful. You can watch the whole thing on C-SPAN, if you have nothing better to do on a beautiful May Spring Saturday afternoon.
People never gave credit for Bush, who had the best anti-Bush jokes out there. Even when Stephen Colbert made a fool of himself one year, Bush could laugh. That is class. Bill Clinton was also stellar, because he too could laugh at his, lets politely call them, faux pas.
The guest list is fascinating, and can be seen here. Some of the interesting characters? Alabama Maersk Capt. Richard Phillips, Kara DioGuardi of American Idol, George Lucas, Glenn Close, former Atty General Alberto Gonzales, a bunch from Fox (Todd Palin, Matthew Modine (?!??), Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck), Newt Gingrich, Warren Buffett, Ben Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner, group from CNN (Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick). ABC has the whole White House staff, it appears, and Jon Bon Jovi. Damn, if you could just include Paris Hilton, Perez Hilton, and Miss California, it would ideal for Celebrity knockdown!
You can follow Politico’s updates here. What may be more interesting, the new bane of conservatism Meghan McCain will be tweeting! Woohoo! That should be entertaining as well.
UPDATE: Obama was certainly funnier than last year, poking more fun at himself. He made fun of the media (saying they all voted for him, except the Fox table…). He stated that Hillary got Specter to join the Democrats, because ‘if you can’t beat them, join them.’ Wanda Sykes had some funny lines (who thought of giving an ipod to the queen?), but may be best remembered for hoping Rush Limbaugh gets kidney failure…with Obama laughing along. And you wonder how the left would be screaming if someone on the right has stated that Keith Olbermann, or Alec Baldwin, or god forbid Barack Obama was actually the 20th hijacker on 9/11…like Sykes said of Limbaugh. And Limbaugh had enough class to avoid the issue on his radio show. Even Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, tried to distance himself and the President from that joke. Actually, I fine the whole episode hilarious.
You can see the President’s bit below:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/09/obama.correspondents.dinner/index.html
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You are very dumb sir. I guess, as a blogger, you failed to notice how incredibly popular colbert’s bit was at that dinner. Guess you people ARE blind. Way to be passive aggressive douche.
Big surprise…Colbert’s bit was popular in a group of largely liberal idealogues. If you don’t realize that a lot of people in this country were also turned off by his comments, it shows how clueless and isolated from the rest of the world you are. I personally think Colbert is funny as hell…but his bit at the dinner that year was not one of his funnier moments.