{"id":179157,"date":"2018-04-30T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/30\/some-commentaries-on-the-white-house-correspondentss-dinner\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T22:50:00","slug":"some-commentaries-on-the-white-house-correspondentss-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/30\/some-commentaries-on-the-white-house-correspondentss-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Commentaries on the White House Correspondents&#8217;s Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/taibi-michelle-wolf-slays-useless-white-house-correspondents-dinner-w519682\">Matt Taibbi<\/a>, who unloads a righteous can of whup ass on the chorus of whines from the &#8220;elite&#8221; press that must be read, and while both the <i>New York Times<\/i> and the <i>Washington Post<\/i> published articles that similarly extolled the virtues of comedy and the condemned the general uselessness of the establishment press.&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/30\/opinion\/michelle-wolf-white-house-correspondents-dinner.html\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2018\/04\/29\/michelle-wolf-got-it-just-right\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it&#8217;s the same pathetic self important hurt feelings that we saw after Stephen Colbert cut the White House press corps(e) a new asshole in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read Matt Taibbi, who unloads a righteous can of whup ass on the chorus of whines from the &#8220;elite&#8221; press that must be read, and while both the New York Times and the Washington Post published articles that similarly extolled the virtues of comedy and the condemned the general uselessness of the establishment press.&nbsp; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[385,496,403],"class_list":["post-179157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-media","tag-reviews","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}