By
Rachel Alexander
web posted April 30, 2018
Unlike
comedy in past years, today’s
left-leaning comedians no longer
make funny jokes, the type of jokes the average person can
repeat. Now it’s a barrage of cruel, insulting and profane
remarks. This is
quite hypocritical because the left champions treating everyone as if
we’re
walking on eggshells. You can’t “fat
shame” or insult someone’s appearance, or
the precious little snowflakes might get upset. But last Saturday
evening’s White
House Correspondents’ Dinner was full of that kind of cruel
humor.
President
Trump did not attend — why would he
want to sit through a monologue of Trump bashing? If he wants to hear
that, he
can tune in to late night comedy, which has turned into vicious attacks
on
Trump and conservatives. Trump wrote in a campaign email,
“Why would I want to
be stuck in a room with a bunch of fake news liberals who hate
me?”
Michelle
Wolf, a comedian who hosted the event,
made disgusting jokes
during her 15-minute monologue, many which are too inappropriate
to reproduce here. She called White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee
Sanders “an Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint
other white women.”
She took a cheap shot at Sanders’ appearance,
“I’m just excited Sarah finally
gets to go to prom,” a reference to the dinner’s
reputation for being a “nerd
prom.” Sanders sat a few feet away not smiling.
Maybe
Wolf thought it was acceptable to make
rude jokes about Trump because he often attacks his opponents on
Twitter. But
Sanders has done nothing to deserve the vicious attacks. Wolf no doubt
thinks
of herself as a feminist. Feminists have been saying for years that
it’s wrong
to criticize women’s appearances. Wolf probably attacked
Sanders’ appearance
because there’s nothing substantive to attack about her.
Sanders has excelled
in the position of press secretary.
Wolf
called President Trump a racist who “loves
white nationalists.” She used profane language to talk about
Trump’s alleged
relationships with women and joked crudely about allegations regarding
him and
a porn star. Wolf made many more crude sexual references. Considering
the
left’s aggressiveness cracking down on sexual harassment with
the #MeToo
movement, it was pretty hypocritical for her to make sexual jokes so
crude they
cannot be reproduced here. She signed off her routine using the f word.
Some
of the left-leaning journalists realized
the rude and hypocritical joking directed at conservatives
wasn’t helping them.
AP reporter Meg Kinnard tweeted,
"If the #WHCD dinner did anything tonight, it made the
chasm between journalists and those who don't trust us, even wider. And
those
of us based in the red states who work hard every day to prove our
objectivity
will have to deal with it." Peter Baker, chief White House
correspondent
of The New York Times, tweeted,
“Unfortunately, I don’t think we advanced the cause
of
journalism tonight.” The Atlantic concluded
that Wolf did not understand the distinction between
“roasting”
and “bullying.” Axios, the Washington, D.C.
tipsheet, called
it a “big, embarrassing win” for Trump.
The
left-leaning Washington Post ran
an article entitled, “For the sake of journalism, stop the
White
House correspondents’ dinner.” In it, Margaret
Sullivan said “it’s become close
to suicidal for the press’s credibility.” She
admitted that Trump looked more
like he represents the interests of real Americans by holding a
campaign rally
in Michigan that evening instead of attending. In contrast, the
journalists
looked like elitists with their ritzy dinner at The Hilton. Plenty more
left-leaning journalists piled on,
realizing the disastrous dinner made them all look bad.
The
dinner has gradually been losing its allure,
no doubt due to the offensive joking. The New York Times
stopped
attending the dinner in 2008, likely due in part to really rude
skewerings of
President George W. Bush. The A-list celebrities who used to attend
mostly
stayed away. Comedian Kathy Griffin was one of the few celebs who
showed up,
probably because she is desperate to revive her failing career after
taking a
photo with a bloodied replica of Trump’s head. She fit right
in with the coarse
jokes.
Whatever
happened to good old-fashioned humor?
There was no need to sink into the gutter. If they had kept the jokes
tasteful,
Trump probably would have attended. Trump tweeted
Sunday that Wolf had “bombed,“ and that the dinner
was a “very
big, boring bust.”
Unfortunately,
these people with their demented
sense of what’s “funny” are the ones
writing daily news about the Trump
administration. If you needed any more evidence of their journalistic
bias, the
vile hatred toward Trump and his staff was on featured display at the
dinner.
It remains to be seen whether the journalists will clean up their act
next year
or whether they will continue to bring about the complete demise of the
annual
event, which has been around since 1921. 
Rachel Alexander and her brother Andrew are co-Editors of Intellectual Conservative. She has been published in the American Spectator, Townhall.com, Fox News, NewsMax, Accuracy in Media, The Americano, ParcBench, and other publications.