Slamming White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during April's White House Correspondents’ Dinner was apparently not enough for liberal comedian Michelle Wolf, so she continued her barrage on Sunday night as part of the premiere of Netflix's The Break.
Wolf, who was criticized for attacking the White House official’s “looks” at the dinner, was careful to state that she was not commenting on Sanders’ appearance but was instead criticizing her “ugly personality.”
“Do women have to support other women?” the Netflix host asked. “No, of course not. If we did, Hillary would be president, and I don’t think she is. But more and more women are achieving power.”
The comedian then turned her attention to Gina Haspel, who became the first female director of the CIA after being confirmed by Congress earlier this month.
“Who knew you could waterboard a glass ceiling until it broke?” Wolf joked before reading a Twitter post from “my best friend, Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” who tweeted: “Any Democrat who claims to support women’s empowerment and our national security but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite.”
The host then stated:
Well, if anyone’s an expert on hypocrites, it’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
And for the record, that was not a looks-based joke. That was about her ugly personality.
Wolf also compared Sanders to Mario Batali, who was forced to step down as head of his restaurant chain after he was accused of sexual misconduct by several women.
“Look, there’s nothing anti-feminist about not supporting certain women,” Wolf added before listing the “Top 5 Women I'm Not Supporting,” including MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, who Wolf complained rolls her eyes too much, and Dana Loesch, the spokesperson for the National Rifle Association.
“The only adult I’ve seen this humiliated by teenagers is me on the subway,” she joked before asserting that criticizing women doesn’t make her an anti-feminist, it just makes her a “bitch.”
According to an article from The Daily Beast's Matt Wilstein, Wolf used “a 10-minute stand-up set” to begin the Sunday evening program and “defended her right to make jokes about whatever she wants, telling her audience: ‘The point is: We’re all going to die, so until then, we might as well laugh, and laugh at everything and everyone.’”
“There will be no preaching or political agenda -- unless it’s funny,” the comedian stated.
Wolf reiterated these intentions in her monologue, stressing that she wants The Break to be a literal “break” from the news. “I’m not going to try to teach you anything or discuss political policy with you,” she said. “I guess I’m sort of like a cable news show in that way.”
“Though viewers can stream episodes of The Break whenever they want, Netflix clearly wants Wolf’s show to have the same timely cultural impact that hosts like [John] Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and others have managed to make on a consistent basis during the first half of Trump’s presidential term,” Wilstein added.
As NewsBusters previously reported, it came as no surprise when the White House Correspondents’ Association hired Wolf, an anti-Trump comedian, to host the April 28 event and as the event approached, the liberal comedian gave a preview of the dinner when she dared “poor little man” Trump to be in attendance.
After Wolf’s vulgarity-laden performance, everyone from NBC to panelists on CNN and the hosts on The View dismissed any complaints by asserting that the president had said much worse.
If it is indeed Wolf's desire to "laugh at everything and everyone," let's look forward to her fiery barbs when they're tossed at liberal Democrats. Of course, holding your breath until that happens is likely to be hazardous to your health.
