Sure, the White House Correspondents Dinner is “the single most revolting annual gathering of pseudojournalistic cocksuckery in the land,” but it’s also an opportunity for some fun slams on the news media, which could use the criticism, really.
Have you heard the latest absolutely scandalous DC media gossip? It seems that some less than upstanding publicity hounds attempted to sully the august White House Correspondents Dinner event with corporate whoredom. Can you imagine?
How dumb is the WHCD? This dumb. You're looking at The Politico's White House Correspondents Dinner memo, left behind at a party last night and obtained by Gawker.
Tomorrow evening, the cream of our nation’s mainstream media celebrities, political celebrities, and celebrity celebrities will put on tuxedos and evening gowns and gather in a ballroom in Washington, DC to mutually give one another handjobs, in a mostly metaphorical sense. This is because the most powerful elements…
Both Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan will attend this Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner as guests of Fox News.
Yesterday, several Huffington Post whistleblowers came forward to describe boss Arianna Huffington talking on the phone while going to the bathroom. Today, two new whistleblowers describe overheard power-shitting sessions, this time involving the White House Correspondents Dinner and daughter Isabella's matriculation…
The White House Correspondents' Dinner is a loathsome affair, a sweaty, boozy monument to venality and the contemptible power-worship of Washington journalists. But it's got LOLs! Oh, the LOLs. And—like last year—Obama provided plenty. Here are some highlights.
Washington D.C. will be in full "why the country hates us" mode this weekend, as reporters and pundits gather to mingle inappropriately with the politicians and operatives they cover at tomorrow's annual White House Correspondents Dinner. The black-tie affair seems to attract more Hollywood celebrities with each…
Kim Kardashian sat at Fox News' table at last weekend's White House Correspondent's dinner. Why? She tells über-conservative CNS News it's because Fox is "very reputable" and the network of choice for the Kardashian klan. CNN loses again! Video inside.
According to the Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove, "the razor-sharp jokesters from The Daily Show" helped write Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech. It's not hard to out-funny Leno nowadays, but that's like bringing a predator drone to a knife fight.
The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was tonight, your only chance to catch Justin Bieber and Tim Geithner in the same room. You weren't invited; neither were we. What did we miss? Jokes!
Hundreds of celebrities, journalists, and politicos will descend on D.C. tomorrow night to attend the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Who will be on hand? A long list of the people planning to walk the C-SPAN red carpet below.
World Net Daily—Michele Bachmann's favorite source of conspiracy theories—is suing the White House Correspondents' Association, because they've been barred from their annual dinner. No, wait, sorry—they were just given one table.
Next time you're in charge of booking the keynote speaker for the White House Correspondents Dinner, don't pick someone who might become universally reviled. Jay Leno was booked weeks ago, and now he will stand awkwardly at the podium. [WaPo]
It's easy to use "Code Pink" as a shorthand for "crazies who make liberals look bad," because they are shouty ladies in pink who scream at people. But it's nice to see someone bug Rummy.
Greta Van Susteren, an adult with a lucrative career as a famous journalist, writes the best blog in the world. She is terribly upset that someone called her a "handler."
It is an annual tradition dating back to a couple years ago: go to the White House Correspondents Dinner and then shit all over it the following Monday. But this year, everyone had fun!
"Sopresso." "Brie." "Porcini Dusted Petite Filet." "Mascarpone Polenta." Do those sound like the sorts of things men of the people eat?
Did you know that the White House Correspondents Association Dinner is only 8 shopping days away? The teenage girls of the DC press corps are so psyched!
It is a sad day, in DC: Chris Hitchens' canceled his White House Correspondents' Dinner party. Sort of. Vanity Fair just merged it with the overcrowed Bloomberg gala.
