The White House Correspondence Dinner goes off the rails.

Droy Reid apologizes, sort of, and Kanye meets with Candace Owen, Charlie Kirk, and issues a new rap about Trump.

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Every year, I complain about it. It has been for probably 10 years running. I say that it's just ridiculous to have all of these journalists sitting there in tuxes, feeding each other and talking about how wonderful they are, and then patting each other on the back, and they have this roast. There's one event every year that is made to order to make Americans feel as though they are out of the loop and scorned by the media elite. It is the White House Correspondence Dinner. We were actually invited to the White House Correspondence Dinner. I did not go. I really am not particularly interested in going. It doesn't look like a very fun event to be at, honestly. It's just a place for people to hobnob with each other. When they talk about Washington, D.C. cocktail parties, this is exactly the sort of thing they are talking about. Well, everything was going sort of as planned, as per the usual arrangement at the White House Correspondence Dinner, a bunch of rich people, famous people, patting each other on the back and talking about how wonderful they are and making some sort of light jokes about one another. And then Michelle Wolf got up. Now, I don't, I'd never heard of this person, Michelle Wolf. Have you guys heard of Michelle Wolf before this? I'd never heard of Michelle Wolf before this. I just figured that she was some sort of Debbie Wasserman Schultz impersonator. I had no clue who she was. And she gets up, apparently it turns out that she's

a writer for Comedy Central, which demonstrates presumably why Trevor Noah is deeply unfunny.

I guess this explains a lot of things. It explains Trevor Noah. It explains Samantha B's prior history.

I don't know if she wrote for either of those shows, but if not, then she has a lot of compatriots

or just as unfunny as she is. So Michelle Wolf gets up, and she has a 19-minute monologue. And we're not going to play for you this 19-minute monologue because I watched it, and it probably took four years off my life just in terms of sheer boredom. And I was just watching it, and I could feel my hair turning gray. It was like the end of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail. It's like I drunk from the wrong cup. By the end of the monologue, I'd added several gray hairs and several wrinkles to my forehead. But Michelle Wolf did this monologue, and it's been much Ballyhooed. People on the left, many of them defending it. Some people on the left not defending it. People on the right, of course, very, very upset about it. I want to talk about this because I want to talk about the value of humor in Trump era America. I'm going to talk

about the media's response to all of this. As a precursor, let it be noted. No one made a joke about Obama for eight years at the White House correspondent's dinner. And it was forbidden. You were allowed to make jokes about Paul Ryan, about Mitch McConnell, about Mitt Romney, about John McCain. You're allowed to make

jokes about a bunch of foreign leaders. You were not allowed to make jokes about Paul Ryan, about Mitch McConnell, about Mitt Romney, about John McCain. You're allowed to make jokes about a bunch of foreign leaders. You were not allowed to make jokes that were serious about Barack Obama. This is why Seth Myers and crew were making these. It was great. I mean, if you're a Republican president, you could be attacked when you were the president, like Bush, or you could be attacked when you were not the president, like Bush, when Obama was president. So the White House Correspondent Center has always become a roast of the right, which of course has justified the right wing's hatred of the media. One of the great lies the media have put out over the past several years is that President Trump is the one who jinned up all of this dislike of the media. That's utter nonsense. As I said at CPAC, we hated you guys before. We thought you guys sucked. We thought that you were bad at your job. We thought that you were not objective and you were pretending to be objective. We thought that you were wildly left wing. So it's not a shock, really, that Michelle Wolf was up there ripping into President Trump. But it was the level of vitriol that she used. It was the crazy level of vitrelle that she used that got people really upset, particularly

her rip on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. So Trump declined to go, but a bunch of members of the White House were there. So Kellyanne Conway went. I don't know why if you're Kelly Ann Conway, you would go. Sarah Huckabee Sanders went. I don't know why if you're Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you would go. you know you're going to go there, you know you're going to get roasted, and Michelle Wolf certainly

roasted Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Again, in quite unfunny fashion. And, you know, there are a lot of folks out there who say that I have an annoying voice. Folks, you have not heard annoying until you've heard this voice. So here's Michelle Wolf going off on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I have to say I'm a little starstruck.

I love you as Aunt Lydia on the Handmaid's Tale.

Mike Pence, if you haven't seen it, you would love it.

I actually really like Sarah.

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