White House Correspondents' Association Fired Comedian Hired For Annual Dinner Because…Crazy TDS Lib

Posted • March 30, 2025: The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) will hold its annual dinner on April 26. As is customary, the association invited a noted comedian to roast the current president and make fun of politicians from both sides. That's the way it used to be, anyway. […] Eugene Daniels, the president of the WHCA, was excited about this year's invited comic. https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1886820803234136064/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LSmHKib6sgPs0xjz.mp4 —— Who is Amber Ruffin? She hosted her own late-night show on the streaming service Peacock and is a writer for "Late Night with Seth Meyers." I don't know how this recommends her for a prime comedic gig. At any rate, Daniels should have done a little more research. Ruffin appeared on the Daily Beast podcast and immediately proved why she might be ready for an underground sex club, but not for the stage of the WHCA dinner.

On Thursday, Amber Ruffin sparked MAGA outrage when she said that she wouldn’t try to make sure that her jokes targeted both sides of the political spectrum during her set, as she had been instructed to do by the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA). She told hosts comedian Samantha Bee and Beast Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles that the Trump administration are “kind of a bunch of murderers,” adding that playing to both sides “makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way, ‘cause they’re not.” —— Charming. Daniels tried to backtrack by changing the format for the dinner, nixing the comedic performance altogether. He wrote in a Saturday email: “The WHCA board has unanimously decided we are no longer featuring a comedic performance this year." He added that the event’s “focus is not on the politics of division” but on honoring the association’s journalists. (…)

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