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White House Correspondents Cancel Comedian Booked for Annual Dinner - Elsacat - Mar 30 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/politics/white-house-correspondents-dinner-amber-ruffin.html
https://archive.ph/mCfsX
Canceled because she won't kiss the ring. Woman erasure continues under the administration that kNOwS wHAt a wOmAn iS
RE: White House Correspondents Cancel Comedian Booked for Annual Dinner - VerdantHorizon - Mar 30 2025
I'm only familiar with a little bit of her work, but I'm surprised she was ever invited in the first place, to be honest. I wonder if they invited her in hopes of her cancelling, so they could say "she's too liberal for us" if she cancelled or else crow about how they got a liberal comedian to acquiesce if she had agreed to their demands?
RE: White House Correspondents Cancel Comedian Booked for Annual Dinner - eyeswideopen - Mar 30 2025
The whole dinner should die tbh - wish the media in this country were more adversarial re the people they cover, a la journalists in the UK and Ireland. That said, there probably has never been a more delicate group of snowflakes than Trump and his psychophants. Of course he can't tolerate being laughed at, let alone having a woman do it.
RE: White House Correspondents Cancel Comedian Booked for Annual Dinner - Elsacat - Mar 30 2025
"psychophants" I adore that.