Trump at White House Correspondence Dinner, end result, the limelight, depsite press best intention - go to Donald Trump - imgae NowPublic.com
From the Huffington Post: Donald Trump, 2012 potential GOP Presidential candidate was “booed” on the "Red Carpet" prior to the annual “White House Correspondence Dinner” by members of the press. – This even is is normally seen on C-Span each year but this year was aslo carried by MSNBC (similar ratings overall). The dinner, a nod to the correspondents (journalists?) who cover the White House for a variety of media outlets both in print and on-air, as well as a smattering of political figures and “celebrities, normally features a comedian who will lampoon the administration and or members of Congress or the Senate, plus the President of the United States who indulges in a comedy routine, which pokes fun of himself and or his administration. Each year, the Association also chooses new “board members”, a scholarship award and a journalism award.
Normally the President and or comedian does his best to lampoon both himself and administration, this year, Obama took a departure of sorts, the first to lampoon Trump, in regards to the “birth certificate issue, asking if he would next be looking into Rosewell, etc. and so forth, as well as doing a stint on himself and the much “ballyhooed teleprompter”. Obama, in the event of losing his day job, may make a fairly good stand up comic, given the performance last evening.
That said, the press corp, which is supposed to be the impartial watchdog between government and the people, apparently could not contain themselves vis a vis hiding their true feelings regarding this president any longer, and when Donald Trump arrived, he was heartily “booed” on the red carpet.
We know that the press is supposed to be impartial, but anyone alive in the last 40 years, understands that it is decidedly not, and is, if anything more biased that any left leaning devotee - that said this was a tad extreme.
And it fuels: the more distaste for anyone who is a candidate in 2012 or may be which is aimed at that individual - the press and their obvious bias towards this particular president is more then perceived by those watching the "event". Like two year olds on the playground, this morning’s offerings (see Huffington Post, or any other of the articles), it is a proud moment for those members who booed Donald Trump, and a less than proud moment for the American people who were (the small percentage) watching the dinner and or expecting nothing less from this bunch or any other journalist.
The What if’s
It does appear that every time Donald Trump is called out for Being Donald Trump, from dropping the F-Bomb (al la Dick Cheney), it is scandal for the Beltway Republicans and fodder for news organizations. Trump being booed by those who are clearly enamored of one President and have lost site of the profession they were supposed to be wedded, ,makes the general public suddenly looks harder at Trump. The average middle class man or woman who is seeing their savings depleted, the high cost of food and fuel cutting into even necessities, look at Donald Trump and the treatment he is receiving and
Identify.
One thing about Donald Trump, he identifies with the regular guy – for someone who is “very smart and very rich”, his braggadocio is forgiven when he talks about saving the country and the economy. It could also be his background - being from Queens New York and all. Apparently the Press Corp. did not get that memo. Over the past weeks, the more Trump is excoriated by either the right or the left, his stock goes up with the voting public – except for one recent Fox News Poll, Trump has consistently led the pack of would be’s once his name was added to the list of potentials across the spectrum of pollsters.
One can imagine, when in 2013, should the press continue is inane assault on Trump, and should he receive the GOP nomination and go forward and beat the most beatable incumbent (and he is beatable, and growing more so every day – see gas and food), those Press members may end up in a room with Donald Trump as the sitting President. The vitriol from the press (which is, honestly, as bad if not worse than that dished out to Palin (and now Bachman), will do nothing but show the mettle of the man; if he calls them out in his usual style, or if he plays it cool, as he did with conservative columnist Charles Beltway Krauthammer, and yet preservers’, then the people, who find him so refreshing, will continue to support “The Donald” and the dinner in 2013 will be nothing but uncomfortable for that very same press (or for those left in attendance - the rest will be in therapy.)
Will they never learn?
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