Comedian Targets Huckabee Sanders At White House Correspondents' Dinner

Timothy Meads at Townhall  "The annual White House Association Correspondents’ Dinner was held in Washington, DC last night. President Trump opted to skip the event for the second year in a row. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and several other White House officials represented him in his place. While humor was expected from the speakers at the dinner, some viewers felt that comedian Michelle Wolf’s jokes targeting Huckabee Sanders went too far. Conservatives and liberals alike lambasted Wolf for her attempts at be being funny. Perhaps the strongest condemnation of all came from MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.
"Brzezinski, who is no fan of the administration, thought Wolf’s jokes making fun of Huckabee Sanders appearance were mean spirited and “deplorable.” She called on the White House Correspondents' Association to issue an apology. " . . .

11 ‘Jokes’ From Liberal, Mean Girl Comedian at DC Journalists Dinner

. . . "And Sanders just sat there through all of this. "New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted: “That @PressSecsat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.”

"Comedian Michelle Wolf delivered a blistering critique of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, mocking Sanders' truthfulness, appearance and Southern roots, at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner Saturday. (April 29)"

Jimmy Kimmel, Kathy Griffin Defend Michelle Wolf  . . . “A comic’s job is to go over the line and then push the line and go over it again,” Griffin tweeted. “Great comics aren’t supposed to be safe or careful. That would mean we’re not doing our job. By pushing the line we force people to think differently, to ask questions, and disrupt the status quo.” . . . As they did with Barack Obama?