White House Correspondents Dinner

[kcchiefs6465]

What a joke on America.

[kcchiefs6465]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4

Comment from youtube:

Imagine Hitler:
"This is my daughter Ursula...and to any of you soldiers getting any ideas... I have two words for you: Extermination. Camp. (cue Nazi audience laughter)..." Disgusting.

[kcchiefs6465]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EN1wsT-xjc

Comment from Youtube:

How could members of our "esteemed" press corps even had laughed at any of this? What a sad state of affairs our mainstream media has become where they feel that they have to suck up to our leaders in order to maintain access. They should be holding these leaders' feet to the fire.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJQS3eLSXgA


To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.

My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.

[kcchiefs6465]

Joe Biden just finished writing the headlines for Politico, The Hill, and a couple others.

It's funny cuz it's true!


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/eye twitch.

[kcchiefs6465]

Obama just mentioned, "Rand Paul disinvited that embattled rancher from the dinner."

[Origanalist]

Um....thanks for watching....?

[kcchiefs6465]

"Speaking of Rand Paul, Colorado just legalized marijuana. I hope that doesn't lead to people getting paranoid thinking that the federal government is listening to all of their phone calls... that would be bad."

[kcchiefs6465]

Um....thanks for watching....?
A war criminal gives a joke laden speech about his atrocities, the main who's who of Washington/Hollywood and the MSM shows up, applauds and laughs. Scholarships are given to aspiring journalists.

I am rather amazed that no one seems as annoyed as I by these circuses.

Hell, a third of my check is taken each pay period. This undoubtedly costed a few tens of millions. It's the least I could do.

And truth be told, why I originally was watching it is because I knew he would joke about spying on American citizens.

These fucking cocksuckers.

[Origanalist]

No offence meant. I could have wrote the script before it began.

I can only stomach so much.

[kcchiefs6465]

President Barack Obama taught everyone a little lesson about racist Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy during the 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Obama was touting the success of Olympic snowboarder Jamie Anderson, who was in attendance at the dinner, saying he hadn't "seen someone pull a 180 that fast until Rand Paul disinvited that Nevada rancher from this dinner."

"As a general rule, things don't end well if the sentence starts with, 'Let me tell you something about the Negro,'" Obama said. "You don't really need to know the rest of it, just a tip for you."
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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, playing the role of comedian-in-chief, took some jabs during Saturday night's annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner at journalists, lawmakers and celebrities and, most pointedly, at his own administration's botched rollout last year of healthcare.gov, the federal online enrollment portal of Obamacare.

"Of course, we rolled out healthcare.gov," Obama said of his tough year in 2013. "That could have gone better."

"In 2008, my slogan was 'Yes we can.' In 2013, my slogan was control-alt-delete," Obama also said to laughs early in his remarks.

The President also joked that the launch of his signature domestic legislative achievement had been turned into one of the year's biggest movies, as a poster for Walt Disney's ubiquitous animated hit "Frozen" was flashed on the large video screens in the ballroom.

Obama returned to the troubled rollout of the Obamacare website at the end of his nearly 20 minutes of jokes.
350 million wasted?

ROFLMAO....

[kcchiefs6465]

When a video Obama introduced failed to play properly, he asked, "Does anybody know how to fix this?" To laughter, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepped up and said: "I got this. I see it all the time." In the wake of the problems with the website, Sebelius has announced she is stepping down.
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[milgram]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idrrdgjETxY

Joel McHale's set.

[bunklocoempire]

A war criminal gives a joke laden speech about his atrocities, the main who's who of Washington/Hollywood and the MSM shows up, applauds and laughs. Scholarships are given to aspiring journalists.

I am rather amazed that no one seems as annoyed as I by these circuses.

Hell, a third of my check is taken each pay period. This undoubtedly costed a few tens of millions. It's the least I could do.

And truth be told, why I originally was watching it is because I knew he would joke about spying on American citizens.

These fucking cocksuckers.

You don't even know.:(:mad:

EDIT: I was thinking about some sort of annual event to counter this evil bs Rally For The Republic style.

[pcosmar]

Didn't watch it. Don't even want to.

Someone mentioned a "joke" about eating Bundys Beef. Everyone laughed.

Any one who watched it confirm or deny please. No i don't want a tube.
:(

[devil21]

retracted

[kcchiefs6465]

Bump.

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

The only WHCD performances worth watching are Norm MacDonald from the Clinton years and Stephen Colbert from the Bush years. Everything else is Orwellian garbage.

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

I was thinking about some sort of annual event to counter this evil bs Rally For The Republic style.

I think people from the Free Republic website protest outside most years.

[kcchiefs6465]

Bump for recent thread.