NYT: No more WH correspondents dinners

The NYT will be a punch line at next year's CD

 

And the 14 people who came to see toastmaster Norm Crosby will laugh into their Wheatena.

 

True dat.

 

He's not the cutting edge on a butter knife.

 

But not surprising, since: 1) Paul Lynde has been dead for 30 years; 2) Charles Nelson Reilly was probably busy; and 3) after the surgical evisceration performed by Stephen Colbert at last year's WHCA fandango, nobody with a sense of humor that anyone under the age of comatose appreciates was going to be allowed within two zip codes of this event.

I put this event and the Gridiron as the ethics question on my last midterm, whether it was simple source cultivation or an over-the-line, conflict-of-interest. My class was pretty much split down the middle on their responses.

 

Are these the dinners where they mail the entrees?

 

Its a fairly expensive event (even without having to pay the Secret Service expenses). In an era when layoffs and very poor performing stock prices are the norm - how can papers like the NYT justify this cost? Its not even a correspondents dinner anymore. It is a status event where people like Sheryl Crow can fly in on a private jet to chastise anyone who will listen about global warming. Last year it was a NFL QB reunion with people like Phil Simms and Ben Roethlisberger in the crowd.

Wasting money on an event like this is the height of bad business practice by any newspaper that is bleeding red ink. And taxpayers having to foot the cost for the President's security detail is just as big a waste of money.

 

Newspapers aren't bleeding red ink.

Magenta, maybe.

 

I guess Norm Crosby, Nipsey Russell, Fanny Flagg and Elaine Joyce were unavailable.

If they wanted to go old school but still funny, Bob Newhart.

 

Rich Little hasn't been significant since Nixon resigned...

Colbert was brilliant last year...

 

I felt bad for him on his time at the podium. They were better off calling on those two old men in the balcony from the Muppets Show than him.