The Hill won't attend the WHCD without major reforms

[tenderfoot]

Profiles in Cowardice...

The Hill to end attendance at WHCA dinner without 'major reforms'

The Hill said Tuesday it is pulling out of future White House Correspondents' dinners without “major reforms” to the event following the controversy that erupted over comedian Michelle Wolf’s performance at this year’s dinner on Saturday.

“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,” James Finkelstein, The Hill’s chairman, wrote in a letter dated Tuesday to Steven Thomma, executive director of the White House Correspondents’ Association.

“In short, there's simply no reason for us to participate in something that casts our profession in a poor light. Major changes are needed to the annual event,” the letter states.

Finkelstein’s letter criticized Wolf’s performance as “out of line” and said that The Hill hoped the dinner could get “back to talking about the importance of the Fourth Estate without the kind of ugly sideshow that completely overshadowed the event this year.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/385636-the-hill-to-end-attendance-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-without-major

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Good riddance then

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I get it, they need two speakers...

One to tell jokes that are funny and based in truth, one that tells jokes that are not funny and based in lies.

The former will almost always be a liberal, the latter will always be a conservative.


You see the best humor is based in truth, thus you rarely see a good con comedian.

[Croney]

3. Bye, Felicia!

[dem4decades]

4. They're not going to participate in something that casts their

Profession in a bad light?

So no more daily briefings I guess.

[Va Lefty]

8. You beat me to it!

[BeyondGeography]

5. Every comic takes the piss out of the media at these events

What was so special about this year?

[bettyellen]

6. Better solution is to stop w the coverage of Trump's every gesture -

seriously he’s like a monkey in a cage they watch 24/7.
The media need to rethink their work and stop blaming the people for this crap.

[Va Lefty]

10. THIS is what really got their collective noses bent out of shape

"Every hour it's Trump, Russia, Hillary, and a panel of four people who remind you why you don't go home for Thanksgiving,"

You guys are obsessed with Trump,""Did you use to date him? You pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him."

"What no one in this room wants to admit is Trump helped all of you," "He couldn't sell steaks, vodka, water, college, ties or Eric. [But] he has helped you sell your papers, books, and TV. You created this monster, and now you're profiting off of him."

And then the killer...she reminded them that Flint Mich. still doesn't have safe drinking water. A reminder that maybe this was the sort of story they should be covering instead of all-trump all-the-time.

[Freethinker65]

7. Your "profession" is becoming more like the oldest profession in the world each day

The WHCA is a fucking joke (puns intended)

[Thekaspervote]

9. Best news I've had all day

[Autumn]

11. Does the Hill attend SHS's daily "fuck all you journalists" lie fest?

There is no Fourth Estate and people like this are the reason why.

[Paladin]

12. Small loss.

So be it with that portion of the DC press that is too chickenshit to defend the First Amendment.

[procon]

13. Roast 'em anyway!

Eviscerate every last one of the lying bastards. Call them out. Give us a free press that actually does the same things as comedians do without the funny punch lines.

[dogknob]

14. President Baby was only half-wrong when...

... when he pronounced "the media" to be the enemy of the American people. Michelle Wolf was not "inappropriate." Certain sectors of the media are very unhappy with her remarks about... the media ("You created this monster and you're profiting off of him&quot , so they pretend to be offended by setups to jokes she told about public figures -- while leaving out the punchlines.

"Wolf attacked Sarah's appearance." No, she attacked Sarah's non-stop, brazen lying.

"Wolf told a horrible joke about abortion." No, she told a dead-on joke about Elliot Broidy, who paid his pregnant Playboy-model mistress to have an abortion, then had to resign, er, um... I mean "spend more time with his family."

Some members of the media really are the enemy of the American people. And because of Michelle Wolf, they are now very easy to spot; they're the ones who are demanding we hold a comedian to a higher moral standard and a higher level of accountability than we hold the amoral President and those who enable him.

[global1]

15. They Can't Handle The Truth.....

Let them sit it out. They won't be missed. But I bet they'll watch the coverage on CSPAN.

Somebody should take Wolf's routine and repurpose it to be a fake routine. Instead of talking truth - they should modify it so it is all lies. That's what the WHC's are used to. They get that every daily briefing by SHS.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

16. Good. They can have their own & invite fake kkkristians to pray, spew their hate..perhaps pence,

..sessions, ryan, or even lovely huckabee-sanders (now inviting her to host would be most appropriate.)

[heaven05]

17. no sweat G.I.

[workinclasszero]

18. The Hill bows down to the Orange Shitgibbon

and kisses his ring.

FO republican enablers.