Trump Thread

**Hooahguy** · 04-30-2018, 04:38

Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny

Oh poor Michelle Wolf.
The media has (not exclusively but mostly) been pretty negative on her appearance at The White House Correspondents Dinner.
I saw most of it and thought it was hilarious, and pretty spot-on.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/29/60683...ks-at-d-c-gala

She has always been fairly crude and outspoken in her routines, if they didn't want to hear the truth they should have hired someone else.
It has never been part of Michelle Wolf's comedy to "pull her punches"

This conservative site I think has a pretty spot-on assessment on what happened:

On his way to the White House, Trump mocked women, Hispanics, the disabled, and anyone who publicly chose not to support him unconditionally. Granted he did so without the skill of a practiced comedian so his digs were juvenile and repetitive, mostly consisting of calling people stupid, calling them losers, or mocking the fact that they aren’t as rich as he is.
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Many of those supporters are undoubtedly perturbed by Michelle Wolf’s attempt at comedy but fail to recognize the cognitive dissonance inherent in those feelings. You can’t complain about the level of discourse if you actively helped lower it yourself.

**Husar** · 04-30-2018, 12:14

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

This conservative site I think has a pretty spot-on assessment on what happened:

A site that wants me to fill out a captcha for "security purposes" because I'm a filthy foreign barbarian has to be trustworthy on such issues.
That aside, there is a difference between a president and a comedian. If comedians are supposed to debate political issues on the level of discourse you would expect form a president, then they're not funny anymore, like all the conservative comedians that I never heard of I guess.

That's assuming they're saying Wolf lowered it and not Trump, it appears unclear now, just going by your quoted part. No, I won't do the captcha monkey thing to get context.