The White House Correspondence Dinner features America's political elites, mocking you.

The Biden administration proposes their ministry of truth,

and the New York Times puts out a hit on Tucker Carlson.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN.

Do you like your web history being seen and sold to advertisers? No? me neither. Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. We'll get to all the news in just one moment first. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile. They're making it clear they care more about selling wokeness and wireless. I mean, if you look at their actual messaging, they're very clear about their politics and you're funding their agenda by paying too much money for yourself cell phone coverage. So why would you do any of that stuff? So you should instead switch over to Peartock because you don't have to trade in your value system for good phone service. See, Peartock uses the same giant network as one of the big wireless providers and you're going to be not paying a company that hates you and also you're going to be

getting service for less. So really you are saving on all fronts. Peartock is a veteran-owned company with the service team located right here in America. Their service covers 99% of Americans operates on the same 5-sheet network as one of the big guys for about half the cost. You can get unlimited talk, text six gigs of data, just 30 bucks a month. Switching to Peer Talk is incredibly simple. You can keep your number and your phone or get huge discounts on the latest iPhones and

Androids. They 30 bucks a month. Switching to Peer Talk is incredibly simple. You can keep your number and your phone or get huge discounts on the latest iPhones and Android. They even have a 30-day risk-free guarantee. You have nothing to lose. Go to Peartotoc.com, shop for the plan that's right for you. Go to Peartot.com. Enter promo code Shapiro. Say 50% off your very first month of coverage. Again, Pure Talk is simply smarter wireless. Don't give your money to corporations. They hate your guts.

Instead, go to PureTalk.com and shop for the plan.

That is right. very first month of coverage. Again, Pure Talk is simply smarter wireless. Don't give your money to

corporations. They hate your guts. Instead, go to PureTalk.com and shop for the plan. That is right for you. Alrighty. So, one of my most hated events of the year is always the White House Correspondence Dinner. I hate this event. I think that it's just terrible. There are many events during the year that I think are awful, including the State of the Union address. I think it's a monarchic institution. I don't care who gives it.

But the White House court... Just terrible. There are many events during the year that I think are awful, including the State of the Union address.

I think it's a monarchic institution. I don't care who gives it. But the White House correspondence dinner is particularly gross.

And there are a bunch of reasons why it is gross. Now, listen, I happen to be a wealthy human who owns a tuxedo and has nice watches.

And I don't mind going to fancy dinners. However, when the entire purpose of the dinner

is too loud the people who are supposed to police the people in power and the entire dinner

is the people in power and the people who are supposed to be covering them with a gimlet eye,

and instead they are hobnobbing with one another and with Hollywood elites and they're hanging

out eating very fancy foods together, and telling

nice jokes about one another and massaging each other's shoulders, you're giving the game away,

and it's just yucky. That's why I don't like this dinner. Not because it's a bunch of rich and

famous people who are getting together, but because these are people who are not supposed to be

...