President Trump's performance at last Friday's retooled White House Correspondents' Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon's media attack dog. In a speech, Agnew called politicians critical of Nixon administration policies "nattering nabobs of negativism," a phrase written by his speechwriter William Safire and later usurped by media to apply to journalists.

That was mild compared to the disgusting personal insults Trump hurled at journalists who were at the dinner to support the White House Correspondents Association's scholarship awards for young journalists and to honor reporters who uphold the principles of free speech and write the truth under often precarious and dangerous conditions, penning stories of fact that Trump doesn't like.

In case you were watching something else, or reading a book (and you are fortunate if you missed his hour-long speech), here are a few low-lights of what........

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