By Sniffles
The world's stupidest event returned to the Washington Hilton last night. We were hoping that the White House Correspondents' Dinner would never come back after COVID. We hatehatehate it, and we will die on this hill (nine times!). But we have to admit that Trevor Noah and Joe Biden made good use of their star turns.
That one fabulous dig of Trevor's at Chuck Todd was enough to put him in the WHCD hall of fame forever. But his closing? Incredible. It was brilliant and affecting and profound and insulting, all at the same time. (And many people who call themselves journalists really deserved the insult — we're so tired of bothsidesism). While Stephen Colbert was highly critical of his audience back in 2006, he was acidic and nervy. Trevor is so charming that maybe a good part of the audience didn't realize what he'd done until later.
And President Biden's swipes at Fox "News" and "horrible plague" that was the Trump Administration were delicious.
It turned out that while everyone was yukking it up at the Hilton, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi led a Congressional delegation to Ukraine and met with President Zelenskyy in Kiev — sporting a blue suit that echoed the Ukrainian flag and a wicked pair of matching Joan Crawford pumps! (Do Nancy and Chrystia Freeland shoe-shop together?) Our Speaker is a badass, all right.
Pelosi's trip to Ukraine, a country still under brutal Russian attack, was a reminder of the importance of what Trevor Noah said last night. Will journalists hear him? We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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