The White House Correspondents Association is already having a bad week. They fired comedian Amber Ruffin from their White House Correspondents Dinner. Add to that President Trump is taking over the seating chart in the White House Briefing Room. What will they do as the left sees them as weak? Managing Editor Curtis Houck takes it on.
First, the WHCA fired Amber Ruffin, the leftist comedian they were delighted with just last month. Well, she went on the Daily Beast Podcast with Samantha Bee and proclaimed she would not try to make sure her jokes targeted all sides of the political spectrum as the WHCA had requested, and likened the Trump administration to “kind of a bunch of murderers.” Playing to both sides “makes them feel like human beings,” she said, “cause they’re not.” Let's guess no "independent fact-checkers" will throw a flag: Team Trump is not a "bunch of murderers" and they are human beings.
Ruffin said the WHCA people told her "You need to be, you know, equal, and make sure that the that you give it to both sides, and blah blah blah. I was like, ‘there's no way I'm gonna be freaking doing that, dude, under no circumstances.’”
There has never seemed to be no need for a balance of jokes. They dropped comedians for a bit after Michelle Wolf mocked then-White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her eye makeup.
For her part, Bee agreed there should be no balance in comedy: "Some people are more culpable than others. And they get more jokes made about them and the jokes are meaner because they're doing things that are worse in a lot of ways. That's how that goes. It can't be even." That is the spirit of the left: fairness makes you a traitor to Democracy, or something.
Then the WHCA is furious that Team Trump wants to take over the seating chart in the White House briefing room. They proclaimed “Our members want to cover the administration without fear or favor, and stand ready to question government officials from any corner of the Brady Briefing Room.” They certainly operated from fear of Team Biden, and favored them for large periods of time. Do they think nobody noticed?
Besides, the supposedly "sycophantic" journalists from right-leaning media outlets have asked plenty of solid journalistic questions that don't sound like tee-ball questions like "What is your plan today?"
Finally, at the Washington Free Beacon, Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr penned a blockbuster piece Monday morning that revealed far-left Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) lives in a $1 million home in DeKalb County, Georgia without having ever owed a penny thanks to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he still serves as part-time senior pastor when he's not representing the state of Georgia in Congress.” The headline was “Raphael Warnock Lives Free in $1 Million Luxury Home—Purchased by His Church.”
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