The Nerd Prom: what more needs be said?

...But we'll say it anyway. 

Fallout: The Hill Drops Out of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
“The Hill, which has participated in the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner for many years, does not plan at this time to participate in the event moving forward,” he wrote. “In short, there’s simply no reason for us to participate in something that casts our profession in a poor light.” . . .
That's one for The Hill  . . . "A hand of applause for James Finkelstein and The Hill, class acts, whatever else they may be.  As for the rest of the national media...  "Anybody...?"

NBC Excuses Offensive Correspondents’ Dinner  . . . "Even as people across the political spectrum, including many in the media, are denouncing Wolf for her vile attacks on the White House staff, NBC still found it necessary to use the controversy as a chance to bash Trump." . . .

What's ahead for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Greg Gutfeld?  . . . "Margaret Talev, the president of the WHCA, said her "only regret is that, to some extent, those 15 minutes are now defining four hours of what was a really wonderful, unifying night."  Speaking to CNN's Brian Stelter (who defended Wolf's performance) on Reliable Sources Sunday morning, Talev said:

"Comedy is meant to be provocative" but "my interest overwhelmingly was in unifying the country, and I understand that we may have fallen a little bit short on that goal."

The Selective Outrage over Michelle Wolf & Kanye West  . . . "Many liberals reacted with unbridled moral horror and a seething sense of betrayal. Meanwhile, many avowed conservatives — particularly those who are most ostentatiously in the Trump coalition, and who had spent years ridiculing West — suddenly embraced him as a free-thinking hero.

"On one level, this is just another example of the hypocrisy and opportunism that saturates so much of our politics today. But hypocrisy can be an underappreciated sin, because it illuminates a principle: Without a standard to violate, there’s no hypocrisy." . . .

Michelle Wolf’s liberal defenders, who’d never accept the comedian’s vitriol if it were aimed at one of their own, ludicrously celebrate her courage for speaking [nonsense] to power.

In other words, Kanye may be a mentally unbalanced flake, but at this moment he's our mentally unbalanced flake

Michelle Wolf Has 'Em Howling (With Rage)  . . . "During the Bush administration, the "Nerd Prom" was an excuse for Stephen Colbert to bomb in the Washington Hilton ballroom harder than George W. Bush ever bombed in Iraq. During the Obama administration, the WHCD became just another platform for Dems to lash out at their critics, with the eager help of Obama's enablers in entertainment and the media.* The only time the WHCD has ever really mattered was in 2011, when Obama and host Seth Meyers took turns bashing private citizen Donald Trump for the "birth certificate" stuff. As Trump sat there absorbing their abuse, that was the moment he decided to make a serious run for president and get revenge." . . . 

I don't remember a WHCD host calling out anybody in the Obama administration for lying to us. Or at least not in such deeply personal terms. It would've meant the end of their careers as comedians. After all, who wants to hire a racist?

 Michelle Wolf wasn’t the first to shock a media dinner. Stephen Colbert and Wanda Sykes, anyone?  . . . "Folks, we’ve clutched these very same pearls before. Several other comedians in the not-so-distant past have scandalized the well-dressed folks gathered in Washington to hear them. Serious Washington meets Comedy, and things don’t go so well? Hey, we’ve seen that show before! Here’s a brief look at some of the other meant-to-be-funny monologues that didn’t leave all of the Beltway crowd laughing." . . .