"How Michelle Wolf Blasted Open the Fictions of Journalism in the Age of Trump"
By Masha Gessen
Before you read this, Wolf's jokes were not the nastiest jokes I have heard at roasts. Wolf's jokes were not as ugly as most roasts.
"Wolf’s routine burst the bubbles of civility and performance, and of the separation of media and comedy. It plunged the attendees into the reality that is, in the Trump era, the stuff of comedy. Through her obscene humor, Wolf exposed the obscenity of the fictions—and the fundamental unfunniness of it all. Her last line, the most shocking of her entire monologue, bears repeating: Flint still doesn’t have clean water."
"Michelle Wolf’s caustic comedy routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, annotated"
by Callum Borchers April 29, 2018
These jokes are NOT nasty!
"Trump is racist, though. He loves white nationalists, which is a weird term for a Nazi. Calling a Nazi a white nationalist is like calling a pedophile a kid friend or Harvey Weinstein a ladies' man — which isn't really fair; he also likes plants.Trump's also an idea guy. He's got loads of ideas. You gotta love him for that. He wants to give teachers guns, and I support that, 'cause then they can sell them for things they need, like supplies. A lot of protractors."
More.
"No, things are changing. Men are being held accountable. You know, Al Franken was ousted. That one really hurt liberals. But I believe it was the great Ted Kennedy who said, “Wow, that's crazy; I murdered a woman.”
“Chappaquiddick” in theaters now."
More. Here's a joke media thought was too bad. It was NOT bad.
"You guys gotta stop putting Kellyanne on your shows. All she does is lie. If you don't give her a platform, she has nowhere to lie. It's like that old saying: If a tree falls in the woods, how do we get Kellyanne under that tree?
I'm not suggesting she gets hurt; just stuck. Stuck under a tree."
Are you kidding? This is not bad. Why is this joke about Sanders so bad?
"I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. Like, she burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like, maybe she's born with it; maybe it's lies.
It's probably lies."
Sanders twists the truth so it seems like lies, that is certain!
You have to see the show and the CNN and other media BS to believe how unfair they are to Wolf. I must be imagining it.
It cannot be CNN and other media is defending Sarah Huckabee Sanders! Sanders has been ten times nastier than Wolf was, but to show they are "fair," these idiots criticize Wolf!? OMG!
The main-stream media went into coward mode, pretending to care about Sarah Huckabee Sanders because she got roasted at the White Hose Press Conference dinner! The media tought Wolf was too hard on Sanders? Too harsh? Too nasty?
Where has CNN or other "fake news" (Tweety's words) outlets been during Sanders press conferences?
If you dish it, you better be ready to take it! Being nasty works both ways, folks. The media doesn't get to choose whether we can return Tweety Trump's and his surrogate sycophant bull shit. We can choose to take it without reacting, we can just comment on how mean it is, or we can give it back in kind! Anger is anger!
"Kathy Griffin Nails The Hypocrisy Of Critics Calling On Michelle Wolf To Apologize"
“So journalists are willing to demand that a comic hired to roast people apologize but they aren’t willing to demand that Trump or his staff apologize to people?” the comedian tweeted.
Rebecca Shapiro 29 April 2018
"Kathy Griffin issued a staunch defense of Michelle Wolf to critics who are calling on the comedian to apologize for her roast at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Wolf’s performance, a brutal takedown of several officials and journalists both present in the room and not, has won praise and sparked outrage. Some high-profile members of the media, including Fox News’ Ed Henry and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, have called on Wolf to apologize for her remarks, particularly those about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Griffin said such calls were “absurd,” pointing out that the comedian was hired to perform a roast. Griffin also noted that the mainstream press does not regularly call on President Donald Trump to apologize for his more outrageous lies and remarks. "
Ya know, Sanders has not been a real nice person, and maybe her type of naty is acceptable, but not really.
