Sunday, April 30, 2017

Serious Sunday Snark

Instapundit Glenn Reynolds writing about the flop that was the White House Correspondents' Dinner without a President on hand to be roasted.
Under Obama, the press was allowed to pretend that it was made up of celebrities on a par with Hollywood stars. Under Trump, it’s been stripped of that delusion. And they’ll never forgive him for that.
Perhaps they'll pine away and die like post-Soviet Russians and post-industrial blue-collar Americans - two diminished groups who "usta be somebody" once upon a time.

Having had a film made about them, only Woodward and Bernstein halfway are celebrities. The rest ... not really.