# The White House Correspondent Dinner **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354 "2011-05-01T05:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/61 "2011-05-02T17:22:38Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Ok. No, I got the joke just fine. I thought maybe there was indeed a conspiratorial rumour substantiating the joke. I’m guessing there wasn’t. There is now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/62 "2011-05-02T19:40:58Z")
“Does she look ill to you?” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/63 "2011-05-04T02:07:07Z")
Rewatching that knowing now what he knew then about Osama (who Meyers even made a joke about) it’s amazing how cool as a cucumber he was. That’s some flat out “Michael Corleone at the christening” coolness, and makes the “Gary Busey or Meatloaf, that’s a decision that would keep me up at night” one of the greatest lines ever. Reminds me of why I voted for him, though admittedly not as much as a picture of John McCain and Sarah Palin reminds me. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/64 "2011-05-04T03:49:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Rewatching that knowing now what he knew then about Osama (who Meyers even made a joke about) it’s amazing how cool as a cucumber he was. That’s some flat out “Michael Corleone at the christening” coolness, and makes the “Gary Busey or Meatloaf, that’s a decision that would keep me up at night” one of the greatest lines ever. > > Reminds me of why I voted for him, though admittedly not as much as a picture of John McCain and Sarah Palin reminds me. Heh. Every time I hear Palin speak, I have to touch my “I Voted” sticker on my desk for reassurance. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/65 "2011-05-04T05:30:55Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Sarah Palin was there and she didn’t even get mentioned by either Obama or Myers. Clever move by Obama: Trump plays the role of savvy successful guy and poking fun at him and popping his overinflated balloon with some smartass piss taking works well. My guess is that Trump supporters would like Trump because they see him as a “winner”. Seeing him made to look like a loser would turn them right off. Contrastingly, Palin plays the “I’m just dumb ordinary folk unlike these elitist Washington smartasses” card. If Obama had pulled the same stunt on her, her supporters would have felt sympathy for her, and had their prejudices confirmed about him. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/66 "2011-05-04T05:38:36Z")
> [@markm](#): > > So now I’m thinking maybe Obama wasn’t born in the US. What I got from that video is maybe he was born in Toontown? Is that right? That video doesn’t look anything like Toontown. Anyways, it’s Bachmann that’s rumoured to be born in Canada, not Obama. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ZYPeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9f8e36/32.png) [@ZYPeng](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZYPeng)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/67 "2011-05-04T06:33:05Z")
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**Author:** ![NiceGuyJack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/niceguyjack/32/3069_2.png) [@NiceGuyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NiceGuyJack)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/68 "2011-05-04T07:06:58Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > That video doesn’t look anything like Toontown. Anyways, it’s Bachmann that’s rumoured to be born in Canada, not Obama. > > 🆒 Has she produced her long form birth certificate yet? Waterloo is in Belgium isn’t it? I’m tempted to start a thread on GD on this topic. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/69 "2011-05-04T16:22:07Z")
I didn’t notice Meyers stuttering at any point. Did I miss it? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/70 "2011-05-04T16:29:35Z")
It’s probably futile to even try to relate anything Trump says to reality. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/71 "2011-05-04T16:52:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > "I would LOVE to hear some foreign political heavy weights weigh in on the stupidity of having this clown even think about running for office. When Karl Rove [can’t polish that turd](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/16/karl_rove_trump_is_a_joke_candidate.html) you know its over. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/72 "2011-05-04T17:24:51Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > I didn’t notice Meyers stuttering at any point. Did I miss it? I wouldn’t really say stuttering… but he spent a lot of time looking at paper in front of him, and tripped over his words a few times. He mostly just looked nervous, which was surprising. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/73 "2011-05-04T17:55:04Z")
Does anybody else think he looks like Hugh Grant’s American cousin? (He was really good at the dinner.) ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/74 "2011-05-05T00:46:42Z")
I thought the President’s line to Michelle Bachman (“This is how it starts.”) was not only funny, but really meaningful. He basically said, “You get to just lob grenades right now, because you’re the wacky representative from Minnesota. Once you get to the big show, shit gets real.” While not exactly the same in context, it reminded me of one of my favorite Jed Bartlet lines from the West Wing: [QUOTE=President Jed Bartlet] In the future, if you’re wondering: “Crime. Boy, I don’t know,” is when I decided to kick your ass [/QUOTE] It had exactly that same tone of an experienced campaigner schooling a lightweight. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/75 "2011-05-05T01:10:21Z")
It looks like Skeletor … I mean, FL Governor Rick Scott is sitting with Trump. Why? Are the in the same “Rich Men with Political Ambitions” Club? He looks like he kept looking at Trump to see if it was okay to laugh and since Trump didn’t laugh, neither did Scott. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/76 "2011-05-05T02:44:05Z")
It was the Washington Post’s table. The tradition at these dinners is that journalists try to get the biggest celebrity they can as their date. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/77 "2011-05-05T03:01:59Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > It was the Washington Post’s table. The tradition at these dinners is that journalists try to get the biggest celebrity they can as their date. And some poor sap got stuck with Trump? What, was Paul Reubens busy that night? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/78 "2011-05-05T03:13:34Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > And some poor sap got stuck with Trump? What, was Paul Reubens busy that night? Dunno. Were there any porno theaters nearby? ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/79 "2011-05-05T03:23:08Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Rewatching that knowing now what he knew then about Osama (who Meyers even made a joke about) it’s amazing how cool as a cucumber he was. That’s some flat out “Michael Corleone at the christening” coolness, and makes the “Gary Busey or Meatloaf, that’s a decision that would keep me up at night” one of the greatest lines ever. > > Reminds me of why I voted for him, though admittedly not as much as a picture of John McCain and Sarah Palin reminds me. It also takes big balls to invite someone to speak that is also making fun of you. And I laughed like mad at the Palin joke. Obama is an amazing speaker - his timing is spoton. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354/80 "2011-05-05T03:31:10Z")
Obama didn’t invite anyone. He was a guest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-house-correspondent-dinner/580354.md?page=5)