White House Humor

White House

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New York magazine has collected the “best” humor from some sixty years of White House Corrrespondents’ dinners. Some painful reads there! An example from our current President: “These days I look in the mirror and I have to admit I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.” That was 2013. This year he said, “These days the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me, which means orange really is the new black.” The writing has definitely improved over the years. Going back seven or eight administrations, you have to wonder, why were these people laughing?

This year’s dinner received the perennial criticism from some journalists, including Bob Garfield of NPR’s On the Media, who thinks the dinner is a violation of the separation of source and reporter, from his position on the outside, looking in.