Instead of cancelling the White House Correspondents Dinner over the shutting out of the Associated Press, the WHCA is cancelling its comedian so not to offend Trump. Now more than ever, it’s important to support independent journalism. thehill.com/blogs/in-the... - ThreadSky

erininthemorning.com • 2 days ago

Instead of cancelling the White House Correspondents Dinner over the shutting out of the Associated Press, the WHCA is cancelling its comedian so not to offend Trump.

Now more than ever, it’s important to support independent journalism.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5221808-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-comedy-performance-cancelled/amp/

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stevewarren209.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gutless fucks.

I hope a whole bunch of correspondents send back their invites. And Democrats. That'll leave them with and audience of MAGA nutjobs. And Schumer.

tesseract-cat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe all the correspondents could cancel the dinner? Send their tickets back?

suzinott.bsky.social•2 days ago

Obeying in advance. The WHCA is no more.

emi-w.bsky.social•2 days ago

And the WHCA joins the chorus of “don’t send us out to the cornfield, Anthony”

real-voices.bsky.social•2 days ago

Very sad.

snpiperpilot.bsky.social•2 days ago

WHCA has caved. Pathetic.

stoutpotentials.bsky.social•2 days ago

Organize a mock dinner. Invite Ruffin to speak. Empty chairs for Trump et al. Invite and celebrate independent journalists. Make it big.

They’d hate it.

suzinott.bsky.social•2 days ago

love this!

sheilawp.bsky.social•2 days ago

LOVE THIS!

hcrichardson.bsky.social•2 days ago

FWIW, part of the issue might be that the dinner is the organization's major fundraiser for WHCD scholarships for aspiring journalists. Not sure what kind of money they'll raise under these circumstances, though....

stoutpotentials.bsky.social•2 days ago

What’s next? The money raised goes only to aspiring journalists who glorify Trump?

How about organizing a huge alternative fundraiser dinner? Invite Ruffin. Empty seats for Trump. Celebrate independent journalists. Give the money to aspiring independent journalists.

skolgonzo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe figure out a fundraiser that doesn’t involve capitulating to a wannabe fascist dictator?

tedcfree.bsky.social•2 days ago

What about holding the dinner and NOT inviting the President.

ellibtru.bsky.social•2 days ago

Everybody should wear a Columbia University Journalism t-shirt …

shannonmykins.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s not an easy decision, but they would make more money in the long (and possibly short) term if they cancelled on principle and asked for donations. But that ship has sailed.

hcrichardson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, not the way I'd have gone. But I'm guessing they've already sunk huge amounts of money into the venue, etc., and maybe can't afford to eat the cost? Dunno. But that aspect of it is part of the story.

calvinonthebeach.bsky.social•2 days ago

How about an alternative event to raise scholarship funds?

desarrayed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Lord, can you imagine being an aspiring journalist and looking at this group for role models?

paulsillanpaa.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’d be looking more at the example of Columbia university. They bent the knee only to get kicked even harder.

hcrichardson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Amen. The worst thing you can do with Trump or someone like him is capitulate. It shows weakness. Those who stand up to him learn that he quickly pivots to someone weaker. Always.

robynlihau.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bullies don't like the challenge of someone who stands up to them, and there are always weaker targets to choose from. We need to stand up to him shoulder to shoulder.

pvdho.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is like the medieval “divide and conquer” right?
I hope you guys keep united, stay yourselves, and defend the person who is attacked tomorrow.

sheilawp.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly

thisisjoylps.bsky.social•2 days ago

I also heard that Johns Hopkins told their staff not to interfere with ICE. It’s very disturbing that academia won’t protect its students.

suziemusecast.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well. It seems he capitulates and then sics the DOJ on you with a little Trumpian retribution.

gratialeger.bsky.social•2 days ago

I grew up with an abuser. I learned early that whatever the cost of standing up to him, the cost of acceptance and compliance was far higher.
Same modus operandi

pvdho.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is so sad and true.

By turning things into politics, the propaganda, manipulation, bullying, abuse, creating chaos and fear is allowed, because some people agree with the final “objectives”

Just ‘cause you got the power, doesn’t mean you have the right.

Respect for the person of the message

psporich.bsky.social•2 days ago

...like...

heidischuster.bsky.social•2 days ago

It continues to shock, and disappoint, me how few people seem to realize this. Then again, maybe they do.

amdjerz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Classic bully maneuvers

jamoke2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

If bullies sense weakness, they keep coming at you. And they know weakness, because that's what's actually driving them. Stand up to them. It's the only way.

josettewea.bsky.social•2 days ago

Boycott the dinner and stand in solidarity

ohgreatjade.bsky.social•2 days ago

Comedy is legal again

mabsamabbin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Reprehensible

timtoo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hummmm. Black and female and critical.

hinsdale.org•2 days ago

Here's an idea:
#BoycottWHCADinner

ladyjay2000.bsky.social•2 days ago

Narcissists love dishing out criticism, but they can't take it.

Being that I am not a sociopathic narcissist, I can look within to find all the validation I need.

Narcissists need validation like air, but cannot find it within.

Remember, criticism is like kryptonite to them.

varricschesthair.bsky.social•2 days ago

Makes sense - Trump is too much of a child to allow jokes to be made about him. So WTF else is there to laugh about other than HIM?

musplus62.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tradition gone, self reflection over

mikesmith916.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why bother having the dinner then? Just tell Trump they aren’t serving McDonald’s this year and he won’t come.

wallabanjo.bsky.social•2 days ago

No comedian.
So Greg Gutfeld is hosting?

ericamoss.bsky.social•2 days ago

It could be worse I guess. They could have hired Jim Breuer to make sounds with his mouth, and simp for him.

ma-at.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fragile cowards

cherylkohs.bsky.social•2 days ago

Pussies.

jacquidesigns.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's now up to us to pick up the comedic slack.
Woo Hoo!

cascada57.bsky.social•2 days ago

because Krasnov has no sense of humor

pvdho.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can the dinner not be organized in a different place? We would love to hear the comedian, and I hope the journalist do not get afraid.

grayfarer.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope that Amber Ruffin performs the set that she had prepared in another venue where we all can get to see it. I have enjoyed her segments on The Daily Show.

nornaritheus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fascists have historically struggled to take jokes. They are obsessed with being taken seriously, and asserting that the only legitimate target of jokes are the enemies of the regime.

verrence.bsky.social•2 days ago

So it’ll just be republican politicians, Fox News employees, and alt-right podcasters eating dinner in silence?

The self-proclaimed “party of free speech” once again proving that it is not.

wardwellian.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cowards.

laura.direct•2 days ago

And we all know that the demands stop when you give into one wholly unchallenged, right?

…right?

suzinott.bsky.social•2 days ago

100%

tdwolf.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh I don't remember her name but if she was scheduled, yeah, I can see why they ran in terror.

lucidstyle.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is so wrong

alzbeth.bsky.social•2 days ago

These are the very people, once everything crumbles to the ground, will claim they were coerced. They are the worst, they are enablers.

alissa914.bsky.social•2 days ago

I really wish that The Daily Show is putting their own counter WHCD event... also, she used to be on the Daily Show so how did anyone think that this was going to end up? Seriously.

micaylah.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am underwhelmed.

hmgaillot.bsky.social•2 days ago

More obeying in advance. Just cancel it.

imhiding.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sounds like a good time for any self respecting journalist to sit home and catch up on white lotus instead of renting that tux, splurging on that dress…

Food probably wasn’t good anyway!

craftsandcuttings.bsky.social•2 days ago

The state of journalism is that it is on life support. State run media is doing great though. What a pitiful response.

obrian93.bsky.social•2 days ago

The shit? She was the only reason I was excited about this year’s dinner

terifaarr.bsky.social•2 days ago

We wouldn't want to offend Trump's widdle fee-fees.

gordong.bsky.social•2 days ago

I would be embarrassed to be in attendance.

gordonvincent.bsky.social•2 days ago

Simultaneously a sign of their bootlicking sycophancy and of his petulant cowardice.

beatlesbarb.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cowards.

nature-ali.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump is a humorless stain on humanity. He has zero sense of humor about anything. A black female comedian is too hard on his snowflake ego. He is the king of his humorless peers; people who are deliberately ignorant.

amdaz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wouldn’t it be epic if a Trump Empty chair roast by a few comedians would run and air at same time as WHCA. Even better if Trump’s roast may get more views would be icing on the cake! In the process have a fundraiser for independent journalists that have no desire to join the WH STATE press pool!

darnitall.bsky.social•2 days ago

He is a precious little eggshell isn't he?

onclejef.bsky.social•2 days ago

JF says what?

I really would have wanted to see that...

lipblue.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/lipblue.bsky.social/post/3llksvt2xnc2k

leachphrog.bsky.social•2 days ago

R8cism is an awful feature of f8cizm. And, do not underestimate how utterly corrosive and hugely indicative a complete lack of humor is regarding f8cizm.

voteblue4vr.bsky.social•2 days ago

Did the WHPC celebrate Tim Poole and Marjorie's BF joining it? Just completely useless these days.

fagankara.bsky.social•2 days ago

It should be cancelled anyway. It’s a farce.

analise-pink.bsky.social•2 days ago

#SayWhat? Amber was so excited to be speaking at the dinner this year!

hyperestis.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope someone pays her to make jokes about him anyway.

jessbheart.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Alt white party sure can't take a joke now'a'days..
❄️Republicans❄️

alvarvog.bsky.social•2 days ago

snowflake potus

pdxeagle.bsky.social•2 days ago

Safer for her. They would have destroyed Amber afterwards the way they did Kathy Griffin.

balloonatic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Obviously guilty of being black, female, and successful. Can’t have any of that.

bestill234.bsky.social•2 days ago

Will Paula be opening the dinner with a prayer?

jamoke2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, absolute cowards! How is it that a 78-year-old, grown-ass man can get so triggered by a Black woman?

Just curious what y'all think. Would they be cancelling on Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers, if they had been scheduled to appear?

micaylah.bsky.social•2 days ago

You phrased it correctly.
"Black"
"Woman"
Trump is mortally afraid that strong women have his number.

obrian93.bsky.social•2 days ago

that, and the fact that Ruffin would have absolutely fucking smoked him.

ctrebnick30.bsky.social•2 days ago

Elbow up! Don't capitulate!

studentsdemocracy.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Not sure we need a WHCD or a

WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM

sheisinvisible.bsky.social•2 days ago

If she offended tRump. She would have been immediately removed by the men in black cloths and masks. And, she would have been sent to detention in Louisiana and "disappeared".

micaylah.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sadly this is realistic these days. IIRC 4 ppl have quietly disappeared since 47 did his hostile takeover. I have nothing offhand to show you, but I'm pretty sure it's on the weeeb.

Pamela1960.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@erininthemorning.com Everyone knows Trump, Musk, et al, have no sense of humour and don't understand satire.

elle-gato.bsky.social•2 days ago

they really made comedy legal again
👊 🇺🇸 🔥

frede-is-aspec.bsky.social•2 days ago

Noooooo! Not Amber Ruffin! I loved watching Amber Ruffin’s shows. Amber Ruffin also only wears fancy, flashy suits and is very gender non-conforming and inspiring to me as a person. This is terrible news.

faustianorgan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hoping she gets a "Here's what I would have said that night" engagement. Maybe a tour.

katcreates.bsky.social•2 days ago

If established institutions won’t make a stand. Let us find a way new way by creating new spaces. Like literally find a new space and host a new event. DC is has lots of options.

msdenisesays.bsky.social•1 day ago

Terrible.

carlosharwith.bsky.social•2 days ago

Jokes hurt the feelings of people who like to revoke rights. Some sensitive racists in Washington.

chickenlady.bsky.social•2 days ago

Remember how MAGA called Democrats snowflakes?

susanrankin.bsky.social•2 days ago

What a worthless bunch of phonies.

hondodavid.bsky.social•2 days ago

Without the comedian, it's just another "rubber chicken" dinner. If I were a WHCA member, I'd just skip it.

flatmouse.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why are people still attending his events.

suzinott.bsky.social•2 days ago

So that they can continue to breathlessly report on the regime without angering Dear Leader.

goddessofcringe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because the people attending are fascists or collaborators.

ravenmaven.bsky.social•2 days ago

Free speech is weaponised when it’s aimed against target the administration hates & shut down when it disagrees. Welcome to the US(SR)

chrishehim.bsky.social•2 days ago

Elon Musk: "The left want to make comedy illegal"

mamahipster.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s because she’s Black. Jesus these people are so racist. She wouldn’t feel safe there anyway. Glad she doesn’t have to expose herself to that kind of abuse.

micaylah.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bingo!

jassyrn.bsky.social•2 days ago

She’s black and a woman for starts. Find a fucking magat comedian. I remember that one from the campaign.

khia213.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cowards.

myshkin11.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is such a weak thing for them to do. Trump has been attacking the idea of freedom of the press by limiting access or declaring illegal media that don't kowtow to him. This would have been a great chance to stand together to show that they wouldn't be afraid to stand up to power.

myshkin11.bsky.social•1 day ago

And it's not their idea. They had already announced Amber Ruffin as host. Now they're claiming they did it to use the event to champion freedom of the press, while canceling the speaker they chose because Dear Leader pressured them to, since he is too fragile to have any jokes at his expense.

oopsallmuffintop.bsky.social•2 days ago

What a bunch of babies

hillbilliejean.bsky.social•2 days ago

But could you imagine if Amber Ruffin performed for those psychopaths? I wouldn’t want that for anyone.

trychick.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fuck those guys.

drrabbithole.bsky.social•2 days ago

But I heard they might wear "first amendment" pins. That seems like an effective protest, right?!?

beatcitystray3.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's just going to be a far right rally with all the incel talking heads.

qrow92.bsky.social•2 days ago

They call us thin-skinned and snowflakes, but their dear leader can take ZERO jokes about himself.🙄

angelvidz.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is a sensitive little snowflake isn't he 😂

scbluedot24.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump's a fragile little man. There is no room in the White House for such a person.

docstock.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disgusting Vichy quisling worms.

smilinblueyez.bsky.social•2 days ago

Underneath that burnt orange hue is the pastiest, thinnest of skin PAB FFS

sherryintulok.bsky.social•2 days ago

This really sucks. She's so funny.

offthepigs.bsky.social•2 days ago

#FascismIsNotFunny

rodin20583.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's reminiscent of when Trump visited a naval port in Japan (May 2019), and the White House requested that the USS John McCain be moved so as not to upset him.

Donald Trump is a fragile snowflake who tries to create a fake world where everyone likes him and he doesn't make bad decisions.

micaylah.bsky.social•2 days ago

47s psyche can't handle even a little ribbing. He has the maturity of a basket ball.

billiejsweeney.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even in its better days, this event only celebrated the clubbiness of pols and elite press. It’s past-due date has come and gone

thebaroness.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cowards.

epicmorgana32.bsky.social•2 days ago

protect the lil baby

tcstoll.bsky.social•2 days ago

The continued existence of this event bolsters the argument that the adversarial relationship between the press and the pres is all for show during the work day, and that they can all chum around together after work because they're all ultimately on the same side.

micaylah.bsky.social•2 days ago

It used to be a fairly genial event.

lancethepants.bsky.social•1 day ago

The point is it never should have existed to begin with. Its an affront to the concept of a free press

micaylah.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is now.

bethannc.bsky.social•2 days ago

They want access to Trump & the WH so they’ll capitulate. That means they’re gossip columnists.

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