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Michele Wolf vs Maggie Haberman
Wolf was right all along.
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Though her routine — which you can read in full here — was littered with edgy one-liners, one joke about Sanders stood out: “She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
It was one of many that ripped into Sanders, and the punchline of all these jokes shared a common idea — in Wolf’s view, Sanders lies to the media. But many critics took it to be a comment on the press secretary’s physical appearance, rather than her integrity. And, as many noted, Sanders was mere feet away from Wolf, watching the comic with a fairly blank (certainly not pleased) expression.
Wolf told Gross that “having the ability to laugh at yourself is important.” As an example, she pointed to former president Barack Obama: “There’s plenty [of moments] where you could look back and the camera was on Obama when people were making pretty aggressive jokes about Obama and he was laughing.”
Furthermore, she said Sanders wore the same displeased expression throughout the night, not just during her routine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/04/30/michelle-wolf-says-she-wouldnt-change-a-single-word-of-her-correspondents-dinner-routine/
It was one of many that ripped into Sanders, and the punchline of all these jokes shared a common idea — in Wolf’s view, Sanders lies to the media. But many critics took it to be a comment on the press secretary’s physical appearance, rather than her integrity. And, as many noted, Sanders was mere feet away from Wolf, watching the comic with a fairly blank (certainly not pleased) expression.
Wolf told Gross that “having the ability to laugh at yourself is important.” As an example, she pointed to former president Barack Obama: “There’s plenty [of moments] where you could look back and the camera was on Obama when people were making pretty aggressive jokes about Obama and he was laughing.”
Furthermore, she said Sanders wore the same displeased expression throughout the night, not just during her routine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/04/30/michelle-wolf-says-she-wouldnt-change-a-single-word-of-her-correspondents-dinner-routine/
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