Sarah Palin is no fan of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: The former Alaska governor took to Facebook and Twitter to mock the “DC assclowns” who attended the festivities.”Yuk it up media and pols,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “While America is buried in taxes and a fight for our rights, the permanent political class in DC dresses up and has a prom to make fun of themselves. No need for that, we get the real joke.”Palin also tweeted:[embedtweet id="328346466567479296"]Continue Reading… … Read More
Watch Obama and Conan’s speeches at the Correspondents’ Dinner
At the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama joked about his birthplace (“I’m also hard at work on plans for the Obama library. Some have suggested that we put it in my birthplace but I’d rather keep it in the United States”) and Conan O’Brien knocked the NRA’s Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre for not having the top title in the group (“Which begs the question, how freaking crazy do you have to be to be the actual president of the NRA?”)Here’s Obama’s speech:And Conan’s:Continue Reading… … Read More
All you need to know about #nerdprom — in 10 tweets
What happened at this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner was by and large what happens at every White House Correspondents Dinner. A quick tour through the hilarious and infuriating proceedings:1). Lots of partygoers adopt the adorable term “nerdprom” for the night — which you should roll your eyes at and be appropriately skeptical of:[embedtweet id="328327562331824128"]2). People who most feel left out invariably throw a snit about the whole thing:[embedtweet id="328346466567479296"](Greg Mitchell posted four photos of Palin from 2011’s “nerdprom.” Did she not get an invited this year? )3). Conan O’Brien, a funnyman, was funny! Best joke:[embedtweet id="328341437341114370"](Watch entire video of O’Brien here)4). Barack Obama: Even funnier — maybe because a slight contempt for the proceedings seems to come through:[embedtweet id="328475355407073280"](Watch entire video here)Continue Reading… … Read More
Steven Spielberg’s surprise “Lincoln” follow-up
As part of a White House Correspondents’ Dinner gag, Stephen Spielberg debuted a teaser of his next big presidential biopic. Surprisingly, he’s decided to bring back “Daniel Day-Lewis” for the title role…Continue Reading… … Read More
Desmond Tutu: It’s time to talk to our children about rape
In an editorial for the Guardian on Friday, social justice icon and Cape Town Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called on parents to talk to their children about rape, the same way they would discuss bullying, guns and drugs.Horrific sexual assaults in the United States, India, South Africa and elsewhere have brought global violence against women into stark relief, and Tutu, joined by education nonprofit head Jacob Lief and author, activist and rape survivor Sohaila Abdulali, views stopping it as more than just the work of governments and law enforcement. Ending rape culture, they say, is also “family work,” a conversation that must be had around the dinner table if its message is ever going to take hold:Continue Reading… … Read More
To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape
Desmond Tutu, Jacob Lief and Sohaila Abdulali: Yes, governments should step up, but so should we. We must not be squeamish about bringing this issue to the dinner table. What will you discuss with your children this evening? Sports, the weather, celebrity gossip, rape? We are from three generations…
