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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The freedom of the press, the frustrations of men and the search for utopia.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:03.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:05.0	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:06.7	For most of this week, last Saturday's White House Correspondence Dinner was still causing indigestion.
0:13.4	And I'm never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
0:17.2	You know, is it Sarah Sanders?
0:19.2	Is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Is it Cousin Huckabee? Is Is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders?
0:21.1	Is it Cousin Huckabee?
0:22.9	Is it anti-Huckabee Sanders?
0:25.2	Like, what's Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women?
0:30.8	Oh, I know.
0:32.0	Ant Coulter.
0:33.2	That was comedian Michelle Wolfe, and it was one of her gentler jokes,
0:37.0	which sent the political
0:38.4	right exactly where you'd expect it would send.
0:41.9	Here's Fox quoting a Donald Trump tweet on the subject.
0:45.4	The White House correspondent's dinner is dead as we know it.
0:49.0	Total disaster and embarrassment to our great country, and all that it stands for fake news is alive
0:53.9	and well and beautifully
0:55.2	represented on Saturday night. Now, as we've long complained, the correspondence dinner is
1:00.7	appalling on many levels, and Wolf's set was for sure an anti-Trump tirade. But it wasn't news,
1:09.8	fake or otherwise. It was comedy, which is, uh, different.
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