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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Is America’s Most Pathetic Display Of Privileged Whining

It’s a place where a couple thousand of Ted Baxters get to preen.

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Pompous, hysterical, historically ignorant, self-important, self-pitying, smug, inept. It’s that time of year again.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner began in 1921 with, you’re not going to believe this, White House correspondents. Just them. There were no stunt invitations, no Hollywood celebrities at anyone’s table. It was for people who covered the presidency, actively and directly. There were fifty of them. It was a professional dinner, a collegial gathering of men who shared a task and a duty. The organization that sponsored the thing, the White House Correspondents’ Association, had been created a few years earlier to fight for access to information. They were doing something.

The event has swollen now to an average attendance around 2,600 people, who must do a lot of very important journalisming, because look how much deeply reported........

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