-By Warner Todd Huston
The White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) has been a mainstay Washington to-do for years. Lately, however, it has come under fire for turning Hollywood–literally. In the wake of the event, some outlets continued the bashing but most lavished attention on the dinner or at least lauded it as harmless fun.
One of the quickest to slam the event was Sarah Palin, who did not attend. From her Twitter account, Palin indulged some rather salty language in criticism.
That #WHCD was pathetic. The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw themselves a #nerdprom
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) April 28, 2013
Britain’s Guardian newspaper was so fascinated by the whole thing, the paper set Jim Newell to live blog the night.
Newell opened his coverage with a nice slap at the pretentiousness of it all.
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WHCD Lauded and Bashed”
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