BroD:
Reports have it that Rich Little stunk (note that, in deference to John McCain, I’m avoiding the b-word) at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. In fairness, it wasn’t the talent that stunk–it was the event.
The WHCA dinner celebrates the capitulation of the press under the terms that the press can have access to key decision makers on the condition that it not report the information that access provides.
It was all great fun as an under-the-radar meeting of the “club” but then it started to become a media event in itself. Bush’s “Where are the WMD’s?” bit exposed the fundamentally corrupt premise of the event and Colbert drove the point home last year.
You’d like to think that it was the somber mood in the aftermath of the VT massacre and the larger, slow-motion massacre in Iraq that put a damper on the festivities but the truth is, if they thought they could get away with it, they’d have had Don Imus as the headliner.
