****OFFICIAL WH CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER THREAD****

...a whole lot easier to watch than when you-know-who was sitting up there!

'Celebrities' filing in...I would trade 20 of them for one normal person usually, but tonight it's interesting to watch and listen....

:)

:loveya:

Great stuff!

I can almost guarantee that she will step on somebody's toes.. :-)

Yes this year is for genuine interest although I dislike the love fest between the press and politicians.

It's just kinda incongruous to see it on CSPAN.

Judging by the screaming, you'd think Ashton Kutcher was the most important person there! :rofl:

How'd he get in???

Lovely dress Michelle - nice color.

She kept it simple this time.

And he's...GRRRRREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a difference a year makes!

LIVE VIDEO and MORE -

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Program/2009/05/09/HP/R/41944/2009+White+House+Correspondents+Dinner.aspx

Twitter Aggregators - http://twitter.com/#search?q=nerdprom and http://twitter.com/#search?q=whca

but the links don't work well for me -- they are choppy for some reason..

:evilgrin:

Our President.

Yay!

..so MF'n funny I forgot to laugh....

Spewing his bullshit to Tech University law students.

I was expecting that moran to show up only for the cops to slap the cuffs on his ass and haul him outta there before the appetizers!

I threw salt and did a little pleading to the powers that be. Who knows? Maybe they'll listen. :hi:

If anyone threw water on him he would've melted!

The CNN live feed just cut out! Crap!

It's just that the C-Span online feed is so lousy. The video is tiny and the stream cuts out regularly.

Sigh.

Everybody gets a one day pass on racist, sexist, anti-American, and homophobic, etc. jokes.

:hi:

:rofl:

They kind of have the same look goin' on.

he kissed Helen Thomas - that's class.and now Michelle does the same.

Who is Jennifer Loven?

She had a pretty good line..she said that Pres Obama would agree that Bush had at least one good idea. Putting the Vice President in an undisclosed, secret location. (A swipe at Biden?) The Prez laughed.

I thought for a second there she was Barabarella with that hair! The dress looked way too slutty and she didn't speak up loud enough!

Who does she write for?

Better image quality and a bigger viewing screen:

http://cnn.com/video/live

I'm so confused.

http://cnn.com/video/live

No sound yet but the picture is better.

I didn't even recognize her at first.

Scanning the audience noticed Colin Powell, Mayor Bloomberg, Tom Daschle, Owen Wilson, Tweety.

..while they fiddle...rome (US) burns......

but seeing the C-SPAN stream is better than nothing.

This is the best rite of spring in DC next to the cherry blossoms and Caps playoffs. Very refreshing to watch this for a change.

BTW, anyone see Keith? I saw Tweety and David Gregory (unfortunately).

his brief but fierce battle with pancreatic cancer last Friday. The WH dinner was always, for him, just a lark. So different from the day in day out work of tracking down shady corporate types or corrupt politicians.

Some of his work highlighted here:

http://online.wsj.com/public/page/johnwilke.html

You give them a ride across the river and they will sting your ass about half-way across...

I'm a Scorpio and we are pretty cool people. :) Maybe serial killing sociopaths, but at the end of the day, we are much more decent than the repubs I had to deal with at work today.

*There are black people here on the grounds. Do they belong here?" ... "I have been to Europe and it is full of gays. My wife shopped with some of them and now I'm convinced that she is a Lesbian.*

I honestly didn't know that people like this existed. My world is SOOO different!

Recapping the red carpet arrivals, etc.

WTF?

:)

I guess everyone else is at the dinner. :)

college teacher/journo saying M$M didn't like/comprehend it, but her students LOVED it.

about Colbert, Jon and Letterman and the way they speak more truth than M$M.

disaster

gee this is fun. well I am getting some paperwork done.

Doubleplus yum!

White House Correspondents Dinner: Who's Attending?

By E&P Staff

Published: May 08, 2009 4:56 PM ET

NEW YORK WHCInsider.com reports on the list of who’s attending the White House Correspondents Dinner tomorrow evening.

The list:

Bloomberg: Alabama Maersk Capt. Richard Phillips and wife Andrea Phillips
Houston Chronicle: Alberto Gonzales
Fox News: Chace Crawford, Todd Palin, Matthew Modine, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.

National Music Publishers’ Assn.: Kara DioGuardi
Wall Street Journal: Jason Wu
BBC: Sir Howard Stringer, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ellen Burstyn, Phil Gordon
CNN: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick, Brad Cooper, Tyra Banks, Janet Napolitano
ABC News: David and Susan Axelrod; Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff; Peter Orszag, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Valerie Jarrett, senior presidential advisor; Jackie Norris, First Lady’s Chief of Staff; Leon Panetta, CIA Director; Susan Rice, UN Ambassador; Justice Antonin Scalia; Meghan McCain; Jon and Dorothea Bon Jovi; Kate Walsh; Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel

NY Daily News: Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger
Fortune: George Lucas and Glenn Close
People: Sting and Trudie Styler, Miranda Cosgrove, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Jon Hamm, Eva Longoria Parker, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Brooke Shields

Glamour: Narciso Rodriguez, Alicia Keys, Kenneth Cole, Kerry Washington and White House social secretary Desiree Rogers
USA TODAY: Tim Daly, Justin Long, Richard Belzer, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen, Dept. of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Michelle Obama staffer Jocelyn Frye

Atlantic Magazine:Ed Westick (Gossip Girl), Newt Gingrich *
Newsweek: Lally Weymouth, Donald Graham and newly Pulitzered Jon Meacham, scored Obama heavyweights again: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder. R. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett Packard; David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca; Representative Eric and Diana Cantor (R-VA).; Fmr. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig; Amb. Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner; Amb. Richard Holbrooke, Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Ms. Kati Marton; Attorney General Eric Holder; Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post; Jeffrey Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, Inc., and Ms. Sharon Sullivan; Michael Kives, Creative Artists Agency; Martin Nesbitt, President and CEO, PRG Parking Management; Natalie Portman; Sir Nigel and Lady Julia Sheinwald, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the US; Puneet Talwar, National Security Council, Iraq and Afghanistan Affairs; Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago Medical Center; Owen Wilson; James Berkus, United Talent Agency

NBC: Colin Firth, Jimmy Fallon and Mariska Hargitay to Mike Myers and William H. Macy. Jason Bateman, Natasha Bedingfeld, Connie Britton, Warren Buffett, Kyle Chandler, John Cusack, Ari Emanuel, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Colin Firth, Whoopi Goldberg, Mariska Hargitay, Rep. Jane Harmon, Felicity Huffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Jones, Sen. Amy Klobucher, Denis Leary, John Lewis, William H. Macy, Cheryl Mills, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak, Gov. Ed Rendell, Wilbur Ross. Jeff Zucker, Steve Capus and Phil Griffin will attend, along with high-profile talent: Brian Williams, David Gregory, Al Roker, Ann Curry, Natalie Morales, Hoda Kotb, Amy Robach, Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Savannah Guthrie, Luke Russert, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz,Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinkski , Norah O’Donnell, David Shuster, Contessa Brewer, Carlos Watson, Tamron Hall, Jim Cramer, Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett.

CBS: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hall;Mayor Adrian Fenty; Sen. Lindsey Graham; Gov. Jon Corzine, Amb. Hector Timerman; Colin Powell; Stephanie Cutter; Tom Donilon; Arne Duncan; Michele Flournoy; Lisa Jackson; David Jacobson; Katie Johnson;Bob Schieffer; recording artist Brad Paisley.

LOL.

I want to sit with the NBC folks. That sounds like a party.

At least they can have dessert then, LOL!

:hi:

It would be interesting to see who was left off the list! :evilgrin:

I agree with the NY times - why is this a good thing?

remember when they refused to run the story about illegal wiretapping for over a YEAR, when it should have broken in 04?

remember Judy Miller?

should I go on?

writers/editors, but when push comes to shove, they'd NEVER print the Pentagon Papers today

their holding back on the wiretapping story pretty much proves that point

with judy miller..they don't fool anybody.

Now showing news clips of 2008.

she looks beautiful

:woohoo:

Wow what a gorgeous color.

:hi:

lol.

Larry King on Drew Peterson

:kick:

Apologies to the Fox table. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :rofl:

:spray: :rofl: :kick:

:rofl:

"Off the cuff." Up go the teleprompters. "Good evening. Pause for applause..."

Probably the last too...for this year.

Off to Iowa with Axe.

Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset. :rofl:
Cheney is working on his autobiography - How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People

Complete with the hand gesture.

Fresh young faces like Arlen Specter.
The pain on the RW faces is delightful.

he had some good lines, but he seemed like SUCH a phony

Obama's smile is pretty contagious....infectious?

he already did a swine flu joke

I don't think he has facial expressions.

to be fair and balanced...

BAHAHAHAhAHAHA

This is too good.

must. appear. to. be. enjoying. self....

:rofl:

But not one that appears in the natural world. :rofl:

I bet he turned a reddish burnt orange!

just not a color that is found in the natural world...

:rofl:

Boener orange joke!

And on the 73rd day I will rest.

eom

Funny as hell.

Here comes Wanda.

Could swear I heard that earlier tonite on MSNBC chatter.

eom

pretty funny so far

first time seeing her, she's great

on Jay Leno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo9VI5K2zDU

:hi:

also, check youtube for any stuff she did on Curb Your Enthusiasm

she just about always kills

shut up you'll be telling that one tomorrow:rofl:

Is there a beach at Camp David?

Somebody should have told her that's not how you practice abstinence. :rofl:

:loveya:

Just clicked in on C-Span

is, what's up, and he will spill his guts. :rofl:

Bring in Rascal Flatts, let everybody dress up. :rofl:

on the red carpet, at dinner, during the speeches...

Yich.

Sorry...

:puke:

:applause:

Double-yich.. Think about THAT!

the 20th hijacker strung out on Oxy so he missed the flight - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
I hope his kidneys fail.

Let Keith Olbermann waterboard him. .:rofl: :rofl:

So phony they are ~

I love her!

Everything was tight and hit the mark.

FUCKIN SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl:

Saying the same things as Osama Bin Laden. I think Rush was the 20th hijacker but was so strung out on drugs he missed the flight.

Oh man, I can't believe she's doing this hardcore for the dinner.

I told my kids if two cars pull up and one has Cheney and the other strangers go with the strangers. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! That was great. :rofl:

Some of the stiffs still can't laugh at Bushco.

Simple and powerful. She's a genus.

eom

She my shero!

:woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause:

:woohoo: :applause:
the righties will be buzzing tonight

so predictable....

so sad

just can't take it, can you, M$Mers?

:rofl:

Still, considering he's 300 years old, I think Sykes went over his head. I loved it!

:rofl:

Hannity is soft

is that the reporter who Chuck Todd leers at daily?

Wanda has great timing and did a great job.

Loved it when she talked about Michelle's arms.

LOVED it when she spilled the beans on Rush and his pill habits.
Old Pat B. thought that was not appropriate.


:bounce:
Now it's really out there ~ good for you Rush Baby!

:bounce:

Nancy Pelosi's?"

:thumbsup:, Wanda.

It was the funniest joke of the night, and I hope it is repeated over and over again.

that Oxycotin part won't help his ratings.