Stalinism in the White House.

I don't think McCarthy Spice is a true believer. Going out and spouting complete bull****, then getting yelled at by the cheeto anyway, is a recipe for mental illness.

LOL

lol that is hilarious. stupid ****ing incompetent *******s

Guys I am a little bit concerned about how nobody is talking about the fact that Trump is obviously going to bomb the White House Correspondents Dinner.

I mean, I enjoy the jokes and all, but the correspondents' dinner has been a national embarrassment for years. Burning it down might be the one good thing that comes from the Trump presidency.

He didn't save the govt. 12B; don't give him credit for that

Yea I'm not. But in terms of proportion even if he did it should never be a talking point.

12 billion out of 3.8 trillion is like a nickel out of $1,000. Nothing to boast about.

Obama crushed the deficit his entire time in office, it was leaking like the Titanic thanks to W and the housing crisis when he came in, and he just did the steady work of overseeing the recovery and it slowly got better over time. Conservatives got more and more quiet in their abuse towards Obama over the debt/deficit, but of course they never actually gave him credit for reducing it and for some stupid reason Hillary never took the time to sell the public on this point. Big tactical error there, I gotta say.

I'm never giving my personal phone to my boss under any circumstances.

It's like poker. There is the possibility of losses, even huge losses, so a small win is much better than it may seem at first. The only thing is Obama is definitely the person who should get credit for these numbers, not Trump.

why is it an embarrassment?

Yeah I don't get it. Bob Dylan had a lyric, "even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked." Maybe it's a stretch but the correspondents dinner or another roast is that metaphorical venue.

[ ] crushed deficit

The most charitable interpretation of deficit spending under the Obummer Presidency is it was business as usual excepting the bailout.

Are you reading the same graph as I am? He absolutely lowered the deficit, your graph proves it.

I can't source as I'm driving but CNN reporting that Bill Owen's, father of the dead marine in Yemen, will not. Meet trump and is criticizing him. Fake news obv

Percentages can be misleading in this case since GDP shrank significantly in 2008-10, for the first time since the 50s. Then of course Obama's stimulus pulled it back into growth.

The man on the tee-vee said so; it must be true then!

It's not my graph, it's the CBO's, and under his administration we started with 'deficit spending the likes of which the country hasn't seen since The War', to 'just normal amounts of lighting cash on fire'.

I don't think it's particularly bad given the situation he inherited/contraction in the economy, but let's not go championing him as some sort of deficit crusader.

The roast is fine in the abstract, especially Colbert's, but the pageantry around it is gross. Supposedly tough journalists in red carpet dresses and tuxs smoozing with the very people they're supposed to be critically covering at an event whose sole purpose is to celebrate that smoozing.

You can be a tough journalist and still have a good professional relationship with the people you are reporting on/investigating. Not sure why you think the combination is problematic.

Fwiw as someone not from the US, footage from the correspondent's dinner under Obama was consumed by a ton of people, is reported on by every news outlet, and everybody liked it. Sad to see it go though obv they wouldn't be as good as they were with Obama.


I agree that in the scheme of things Trump not attending is not a big deal, but it pisses me off because given all the crap Trump is spouting about the media. Guy has to be a big insecure pussy. I guess he thinks he would get destroyed if he attended (which probably is true).

Bob Garfield has a good take on this, worth a listen:

When The Watchdogs Wear Tuxedos, Politicians Rest Easy

I don't think the WH Press Corps could have successfully schmoozed with Trump and company. Trump crossed the line by saying the media is the enemy of the American people. High profile journalists, especially females, already have to deal with a number of run-of-the-mill wackos. Stalkers are not uncommon. Trump could be putting lives in danger by labeling them the "enemy". What is it that people try to do to their enemies but hurt them?

That said, the entire event is a bit over the top IMO. It paints a picture of the journalists really being full of themselves, and seeing themselves as elite. Indeed, the line between journalism and entertainment, especially on tv has gotten very fuzzy over the last couple of decades. I find it kind of ridiculous that anchors appear on the Today Show baking brownies in the morning and then delivering the day's news in the evening. Sadly, many of the on-air folks place equal or greater importance on their own celebrity than they do on their journalism....their jobs. Which is about the same as we could say for Donald Trump.

He is right to an extent though. Ellison had no shot and that Perez was Clinton backed.