On Saturday night, Samantha B. hosted the much Ballyhood, not the White House Correspondence dinner. The dinner was retitled, of course, because President Trump wasn't enough of a rube to subject himself to three hours of barbs and put-downs by leftists who didn't vote for him and see him as a joke and disdain his voters. At the dinner, B trotted out in a white pantsuit looking like Kristen Chenoweth playing Hillary Clinton in an alternative reality version of the 2016 election. Your job has never been harder, she gushed to the assembled members of the self-pleasuring press. You expose injustice against the week. You continue to fact-check the president as if he might someday get embarrassed. Tonight is for you. Shortly after this, owed to the bravery of journalists who maintained total silence for eight years of President Barack Obama's lies on Iran and health care, his Department of Justice, targeting the Associated Press and Fox News, be appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper. There, she explained of her nearly unwatchable mess of a show full frontal, quote, I do the show for me and for people like me, and I don't care how the rest of the world sees it, frankly. we birth it and then the world receives it, however they want to receive it. During the entirety of this statement, a smug grin was plastered across her face. Here is a basic rule of thumb. In order to be smug, you generally have to be unaware of your smugness. B-fits the bill, so do the members of the White House press corps. There's plenty of questions, there are plenty of questions about President Trump's administration from his shifting promises to his knee-jerk reversals, from his policy vagaries to his staff and chaos. But instead of approaching the American people as potential friends to be convinced, smug leftists treat them as ignoramuses. There's no sincerity involved. Every critique of Trump supporters lumps them all together and then treats them as gum stuck to the bottom of the shoe of the Republic. Samantha B. and Company have the unmistakable air of the bullies from every high school and college comedy, preening self-obsessed rich kids who sneer at the losers who inhabit the hallways and plan pool parties and taunt the poor kids who can't afford anything better than a beat-up pinto. The journalist Hollywood click is like Greg Marmalard from Animal House, Rod from breaking away, Regina George from mean girls.

They're smug. They're liberal. And that's what drives Trump support.

Trump knows this. That's why he skipped the correspondence dinner and instead went to Pennsylvania, where he held a rally hilariously declaring, quote,

a large group of Hollywood actors in Washington media are consoling each other in a hotel ballroom in our nation's capital right now. It was the best moment for Trump since his speech to a joint session of Congress. Trump may not be popular among the cool kids, but he's cool enough among them to win supporters in the swing states. If the cool kids don't cut it out, they'll get eight years to mock him and be smug in their self-assurance that they know what the American people want better than the American people do. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

All righty, so James Comey is on the Hill again. This guy just won't go away. The FBI

director. He's back on the Hill now answering questions about the election cycle. Hillary

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And in this media, in this media appearance, she said that she takes full responsibility and then proceeds to blame everybody up to it, including James Comey, the head of the FBI.

Did we make mistakes?

Of course we did.

Did I make mistakes?

Oh, my gosh, yes.

You know, you'll read my confession and my request for absolution.

But the reason why I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days.

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