The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is back, and Trevor Noah will be the event’s emcee come April.
The timing couldn’t be worse for both parties.
The WHCA is the embodiment of media corruption in 2022. The group’s signature gala nails journalism’s hive mentality, the buddy-buddy banter between souls who hold only one party accountable for its sins.
Noah, part of late night TV’s progressive lineup, wouldn’t dare mock the Fake News pumped out by the men and women in that expansive D.C. ballroom.
But it gets worse.
“The Daily Show” no longer draws a crowd as it did in the Jon Stewart era. The show was beaten by all its key competitors, and it fell to a humiliating 260,000 viewers in November.
The show’s most recent numbers aren’t much better.
Would the WHCA be better off going in a different direction. Greg Gutfeld is the Fox News star who won the contest last week. Why not tap him? He’d give the staid event a kick in the posterior?
Instead, they chose one of late night TV’s lowest rated stars.
Noah is going to be easy on President Biden, while criticizing any GOP names he has written in his notes. It’s why he was chosen in the first place. Comedy Central features him doing this four times a week.
If Noah were to batter Biden with satirical smart Bombs, the WHCA team wouldn’t hire him.
That’s precisely what Gutfeld would do, though. It’s how Stephen Colbert treated his 2006 WHCD appearance, teeing off on President George W. Bush with alacrity.
It’s the Comic-in-Chief’s chief duties at the dinner … unless the president is a Democrat. You may recall how Keegan Michael Key slapped the Commander in Chief in 2015.
Gutfeld didn’t stand a chance at landing an invite to the annual gala. He’s a conservative.
Disagree?
Quick: Name any conservative comedians who have emceed the event’s annual events in the past 20 years. You can’t. You won’t.
Wolf’s routine proved so angry, so divisive it even gave the liberal WHCA body pause.
It’s like hiring two left-leaning comedians to host Academy Awards. It’s guaranteed to keep select viewers away, driving the night’s ratings even lower.
If the WHCA cared about its image, and being as neutral as possible, they’d pick comedians from both sides of the aisle to host the dinner.
That isn’t the point of the gala, though. It’s to extend the Left’s dominance over news coverage and show that reporters have little interest in changing the status quo.
[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto]
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