Predictably Fox News hypocrites have spent all day clutching their pearls over Michelle Wolf’s remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner. But these are the same Fox snowflakes that support violent, even murderous “humor” from the likes of Ted Nugent and Donald Trump.
A Fox & Friends discussion was fairly typical of the poutrage: “She made her attacks so bitter and so nasty,” cohost Steve Doocy whined.
“Do you blame [Trump] for not wanting to go?” cohost Ainsley Earhardt asked self-righteously. “You heard what happened to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She’s sitting five feet from this comedian and the comedian’s making fun of her appearance.”
FACT CHECK: Wolf did not make fun of Huckabee Sanders’ appearance. She made fun of how Sanders lies. As Mediaite’s Caleb Ecarma put it, “Wolf was actually complimenting [Sanders’] “perfect smokey eye” as a means of criticizing her ability to lie.
Cohost Brian Kilmeade praised the pre-Wolf address by White House Correspondents Association president Margaret Talev in which she talked about her “fantastic” personal story as the child of immigrants from Bulgaria. “No one’s talking about that today,” Kilmeade griped.
“The buck stops with her,” Doocy said accusingly. “She’s the one who hired [Wolf]. … She knew what she was gettin’.”
“It was very vulgar, it was X-rated,” Earhardt added. “She went down roads that you probably shouldn’t go down – very controversial issues.”
We got a clip of Fox Democrat Capri Cafaro doing a yeoman’s job of auditioning for a contributor contract bashing the performance. We also saw a clip of the ever-sour Michelle Malkin complaining about the “misogyny of the left” under which she has suffered for 25 years and which has “finally erupted.”
“You would think it’s clear, the verdict,” Kilmeade said. “But it’s not.” He read supportive comments of Wolf from some of the people Fox loves to hate: Jimmy Kimmel, Kathy Griffin and Judd Apatow.
Earhardt lectured the WHCA that the next president will have to “vet them differently” and “read their speeches” ahead of time.
For the record, I did not like Wolf’s remarks. I thought some of them were funny but she seemed to jab for jabs’ sake without making any overall point or providing insight. But was I horrified? No. Horrified is how I feel at Donald Trump and Republicans sabotaging my health insurance, saber rattling against Iran and having Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.
But if it weren’t so politically expedient for Fox to play the conservative victims (their favorite role), they probably would not care a bit about what Wolf said or didn’t say. After all, these are the same folks who love Ted Nugent, despite his long history of violent rhetoric; cheered on Donald Trump’s “joke” about body slamming a figure named “CNN;’ and called Trump’s hideious Charlottesville remarks a “unifying message.”
Maybe that’s what Earhardt thinks the White House Correspondents Association president should look for in next year’s speech.
Watch the sudden sensitivity below, from the April 30, 2018 Fox & Friends.
Richard Santalone commented
2018-05-02 13:33:11 -0400
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“……I realize Wolf’s comments may make some people uncomfortable – but I didn’t find her conduct out of line. I do find the suddenly fragile nature of the Right Wing over a comedian’s remarks to be interesting.”
How right you are Kevin. I’ve said this NUMEROUS TIMES BEFORE on this site and by golly, I’ll keep saying it again and again until I’m blue in the face: goose-stepping FoKKKs Spews Channel watching reich-wingers — especially their dear Fuehrer Adolf Twitler — sure love to dish it out, BUT THEY JUST CAN’T TAKE IT!
doors17 commented
2018-05-02 12:40:25 -0400
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I would like to know who books the comedians. I’m sure Fox would call it the best ever if Greg Gutfeld were to host the event with his Hillary and Nancy Pelosi jokes.
Ellen commented
2018-05-01 23:09:29 -0400
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Kevin Koster commented
2018-05-01 19:51:15 -0400
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There are plenty of prior examples of similarly biting humor at the WHCD – it’s the press equivalent of the earliest, best seasons of SNL at times. Don Imus famously (or infamously) raked the Clintons over the coals in 1996. W took plenty of ribbing (and participated in it himself). Obama saw the WHCD land some solid hits. None of those Presidents hid from the WHCD in terror the way our current Tweeter-in-Chief does. But we shouldn’t be surprised at that – bullies are always cowards by their very nature. Sanders’ presence at the WHCD was frankly the equivalent of Mike Pence’s shameful conduct at the Olympics, where he petulantly sneered through the opening ceremonies because he didn’t want to acknowledge any of the other people sitting near him.
I realize Wolf’s comments may make some people uncomfortable – but I didn’t find her conduct out of line. I do find the suddenly fragile nature of the Right Wing over a comedian’s remarks to be interesting.
Eyes On Fox commented
2018-05-01 08:04:25 -0400
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I get someone has to be the butt of a joke and that jokes, particularly those addressing cultural and political issues, often offend someone. However, I can’t help but to think she needed a good editor to comb through her jokes before they went public. And while foul language is something that often flows from my own mouth (I served in the Navy after all), this wasn’t the venue for dropping f-bombs and s-bombs.
I love political satire and, in places, Wolf was brilliant. Seriously she was. However, overall, I think her routine missed the spirit of the dinner which is to build bridges through more gentle ribbing of all sides than a mean ripping of a new a-hole for our political foes. Unfortunately, Wolf’s performance may spell the death knell of the Correspondents Dinner.
And, yes Ellen, I agree with you 100% Trumpkins snowflakes wetting their pants over Wolf are massive hypocrites. Most are not only eager apologists for Trump’s vile behavior but giggle hysterically over it.
Ellen, while you may be correct a careful read of her remarks might not be mocking Sander’s looks, that’s how I took it when I watched the show live on MSNBC. And also the next couple of times I heard it rehashed on (liberal) pundit shows. Quite frankly, most of her Sanders bit made me very uncomfortable. And, no, not in the good sense of that’s how satire is supposed to make me feel but in the sense it was in extremely poor taste.
And I hope people here realize I can’t stand serial lying Trump and his equally dishonest ‘publicist’ Sanders. So my criticism of Wolf is not founded in partisanship.
Ben Newmark commented
2018-04-30 21:21:59 -0400
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