"White House" Correspondents' Dinner

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"White House" Correspondents' Dinner

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1JGL53
May 1, 2017, 10:55 pm

Hasan Minhaj called out ALL the hypocritical scumbags, both politicians and infotainment jerks, a.k.a. the fourth estate. This has never been done before. I guess it took the age of Agent Orange to induce someone to lay it all out for the world to see. If truth is beauty and beauty is truth then this video is a joy forever. -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7oG74nHSTQ

2JGL53
Edited: May 5, 2017, 3:47 pm

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3RickHarsch
May 5, 2017, 3:32 pm

Those are painful to watch--no matter how good they are, it seems most journalists and politicos are too stuffy to guffaw.

Minhaj was good, but it seemed many did not keep up with him.
I still think Colbert's Bush era roast was the best at one of these functions.

4JGL53
Edited: May 5, 2017, 3:46 pm

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Colbert's roast of Bush is my personal favorite, though Minhaj is now a close second.

Colbert ripped Bush a new asshole. He also pounded on the incompetent press a good deal. But not like Minhaj did, who pounded the living hell out of ALL the press, from fox to cnn to msnbc. He looked them in their fucking faces and told them - and the whole viewing world - exactly what those incompetent assholes were - incompetent assholes.

Minhaj first job was to be funny and he did so. But his most important job was to serve as a critic, of both trump and the press, and that is where he really excelled in his presentation.

We all know what a stinking cesspool of filth Agent Orange is. Most of the time now much of the media is pointing that out - NOW - after giving him something like 2 billion dollars of free publicity. But when someone stands up and points out to Wolf Blitzer, Rachel Maddow and all the fox fucks - right to their faces - what incompetent useless meatwads they really are - and be funny when doing it - that is really priceless and worthy of all the praise and applause we can muster.

I will probably watch this video a couple more times. It may become my favorite, though Colbert is a bear to beat, for sure.