Thank goodness, that silly exercise known as the White House Correspondents' Dinner is over for another year. We cats aren't sure that we'd agree with calling it "an abomination" — it's not important enough for that. Instead, it's like Twitter: lightweight, adolescent and, too often, an outlet for meanness.
Not that we're necessarily against calling 'em like they deserve. (We're looking at you, Chris Christie and Fox News.) We're just glad that Washington journalism's cringeworthy annual oh-how-we-wish-we-were-Hollywood event will soon be gone from the headlines. So on this blessed day after, here are some WHCD and non-WHCD thoughts.
We think that mocking CNN's coverage of the missing Malaysian jet is funny. However, the jet is still missing, and that's not. So the yuks about CNN were just a tad, um, uncomfortable for us. Still, though, Wolf Blitzer needs to learn how to smile indulgently, lest he win the Donald Trump Great Stone Face award.
How great is it that Rutgers students have forced Condoleezza Rice out of their commencement? It's about time somebody said "no" to Miss Mushroom Cloud! May this be the first of many times that the Bush Administration war criminals get run out of town — and may Condi forever be banished to speechifying to groups like the Association for the Preservation of the Coelacanth and the American Dehydrated Onion and Garlic Association.
Has anyone besides us noticed how the recent Jeb! 2016 boomlet is uncannily like the GOP clearing the 2000 Presidential decks back in 1998? (Stories like this wouldn't be happening without some intense Rovian lobbying behind the scenes.) We wouldn't be surprised if the party heads into its nominating process with only Jeb! and a few nutcases, who will fracture the anti-establishment vote. Hey, Rand Paul and wacky Republican base: Don't say we didn't warn you.
Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention last night's sly reference to Senator Lindsey Graham, who is tiring us all with his never-ending bleatings about Benghazi. (Our friends over at Free Republic are thrilled.) But unlike the Freeps, we have no interest in Lady Lindsey's sex life or lack thereof. Wake us when the Republicans get around to doing some actual work, like on the economy or immigration or jobs. We cats HISS.
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