Disgraceful White House Correspondents' Dinner

Disgraceful White House Correspondents' Dinner by Bill Wilson  

The White House Correspondent's Dinner is usually where the media gets together once a year and roasts the President. In years past, maybe because the "president" has been one of their own (translated: Leftist), the jokes have been tempered with a bit of respect for the office. But then again, the immediate ex-"president" told the attendees in 2016 that the media and his Administration were partners and worked together with the same goals to bring truth to America and to preserve democracy. The current president has refused to even attend the gala, saying that he would rather not be stuck in a room with a "bunch of fake news liberals who hate me." He is right. The dinner was full of left-wing, vulgar disrespect.

 

Headlining the evening was comedian Michelle Wolf, who left no doubt of the evening's agenda. She attacked Trump and his White House relentlessly with vulgar, inappropriate, disrespectful "jokes" that most Americans would not dare repeat at the dinner table. Sexual innuendo was checked at the door as Wolf openly described sexual body parts, used the slang name of the female sex organ to describe the President; attributed perverted sex acts to members of the Administration, and said Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was an "Uncle Tom" to women-with Sanders sitting at the same table from which Wolf was speaking. She called Sanders and Kellyanne Conway liars and the President a racist.

 

While not a "White House Correspondent," I often covered the White House when Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were in office. I also covered the 1980 Presidential campaign between Carter and Reagan. As a reporter, I believed in conducting myself above board, respectfully, yet firmly, showing respect for the Office of the President, while at the same time, a toughness to hold accountability to the truth. One can be friendly, but not friends. Also, as a correspondent or reporter, one must seek to report the news without bias, without a political agenda. If it is your opinion, that must be stated up front. It seems all those rules that good journalists once lived by are gone with this generation.

 

Allowing an agenda-driven leftist disguised as a comedian to address the premier gathering of America's White House reporters with such blatant disrespect and vulgarity speaks volumes about the character and agenda of those bringing so-called news to the world. The New York Times motto is "All the news that's fit to print." When those reporting the news are unfit, the news is also suspect. A free press should not have a political agenda. Today's press is not free because of its agenda. As the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 1:22, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Michelle Wolf's vile, inappropriate monologue, as embraced by the White House correspondents, is evidence of their reprobate minds-a disgrace to free speech and to the title "Correspondent."