<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> didn&#8217;t hold back when she weighed in on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chrissy-teigen">Chrissy Teigen</a> appearing at the 2023 White House correspondents&#8217; dinner, calling it &#8220;absolute humiliation&#8221; when the model showed up in a &#8220;non-existent dress.&#8221;
During the Sirius XM &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WiQOhw9h3SY">podcast</a> on Monday, the host slammed the 37-year-old for showing up to the event with &#8220;serfs&#8221; carrying the train of her barely-there dress.
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&#8220;Here she is with John Legend her husband,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;She has, by my count, three minions following her – that&#8217;s minions in her view – following her, holding the dress or the train of her non-existent dress.&#8221;
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Far-left model Chrissy Teigen walking to the White House correspondents dinner with her servants trailing behind her to hold her dress.
This is what peak liberalism looks like. <a href="https://t.co/LK3F2UuH4N">pic.twitter.com/LK3F2UuH4N</a>
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&#8220;I can see underwear, okay?&#8221; she added. &#8220;I can see London, I see France, I see Chrissy’s underpants, which nobody shows underpants at the White House correspondents&#8217; dinner. Okay Chrissy? They just don&#8217;t do it. And nobody shows up with serfs to carry their train which there shouldn&#8217;t be on your White House correspondents&#8217; dinner dress anyway, because it&#8217;s barely a formal event.&#8221;
&#8220;The elitism, the serfs behind her, the self importance, the aggrandizement of this fake, stupid event,&#8221; Kelly continued. &#8220;It just tells you everything you need to know…It&#8217;s an absolute humiliation that she tried that hard for the White House correspondents&#8217; dinner. She should be embarrassed.&#8221;
The former Fox News host wasn&#8217;t the only one who reacted to Teigen&#8217;s appearance, with many on social media slamming the model for &#8220;peak liberalism.&#8221;
&#8220;Far-left model Chrissy Teigen walking to the White House correspondents dinner with her servants trailing behind her to hold her dress,&#8221; one account posted. &#8220;This is what peak liberalism looks like.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact that [JohnLegend] and Chrissy Teigen walked passed climate activists to support a pro-corporate, pro-pollution president tells you everything you need to know,&#8221; another user wrote.&#8221;NOTHING they say regarding climate change should be taken seriously anymore. FRAUDS.&#8221;
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While another tweeted, &#8220;Chrissy Teigen forgot part of her dress tonight for the White House Correspondents dinner.&#8221;
The swimsuit model has responded to some of the comments, tweeting, &#8220;I&#8217;m all for some good s*** talking but this is a legitimately great dress.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-already-booing-you-megyn-kelly-torches-meghan-markle-following-reports-she-wont-be-attending-kings-coronation">&#8216;We&#8217;re Already Booing You&#8217;: Megyn Kelly Torches Meghan Markle Following Reports She Won&#8217;t Be Attending King&#8217;s Coronation</a>

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‘Absolute Humiliation’: Megyn Kelly Slams Chrissy Teigen Appearing At WHCD In ‘Non-Existent Dress’

Megyn Kelly Slams Chrissy Teigen Appearing At WHCD In ‘Non-Existent Dress’

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Daily Wire editor emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> mocked the annual <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house-correspondents-dinner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner</a> (WHCD) on Monday for revealing why Americans can&#8217;t &#8212; and shouldn&#8217;t &#8212; trust the cozy relationship between big media and politicians.
“The WHCD is perhaps the best example of why Americans feel alienated by the Washington DC elite class – all of whom are supposed to be checks and balances on one another, but who are actually all part of the same blob,” Shapiro wrote in a Twitter thread.
The annual White House Correspondents Dinner was held Saturday evening in Washington, D.C., with journalists from major networks such as CBS and Fox News partying alongside numerous Republicans and Democratic leaders, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The event also featured stars from sports, Hollywood, fashion, and elsewhere, such as actress Chrissy Teigen and WNBA star and former Russian prisoner Brittany Griner.
Biden attended for the second year in a row after the dinner was canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID-19. Former President Donald Trump shunned the event for three years amid his adversarial relations with major media outlets in New York and Washington.
Shapiro took aim at some of the more blatant examples of what he dubbed the “blob” culture on display at the event.
“Hey look, it’s Joe Biden openly joking about the fact that he takes no questions – and the press are laughing uproariously as they give an award to a ‘journalist’ who writes sop pieces about him! Hey look, there’s [Republican National Committee chairwoman] Ronna McDaniel hanging with [Democratic National Committee chairman] Jaime Harrison!”
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Hey look, it&#39;s Joe Biden openly joking about the fact that he takes no questions &#8212; and the press are laughing uproariously as they give an award to a &quot;journalist&quot; who writes sop pieces about him! Hey look, there&#39;s Ronna McDaniel hanging with Jaime Harrison!
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1653025452410150918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The journalist Shapiro referenced was Matt Viser of The Washington Post. The White House Correspondents Association, which hosts the WHCD, awarded Viser the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage for his coverage of Biden, specifically Viser’s coverage of Biden’s faith.
“The judges said Matt Viser stood out among his competitors for work that went beyond the humdrum of covering the managed events of the presidency and the White House. Viser captured the spirit of Joe Biden, particularly with stories about the president’s brother and how his Catholic faith influenced his strategic vision of the office,” said Karen Travers, the White House correspondent for ABC News who announced the award.
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At <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHCD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHCD</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WashingtonPost</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/mviser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mviser</a> gets award for how he “captured the spirit of Joe Biden, particularly with stories about the President’s brother and how his Catholic faith influenced his strategic vision of the office.” <a href="https://t.co/8FIzfAgflp">pic.twitter.com/8FIzfAgflp</a>
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Biden’s devotion to his Catholic faith often comes into question when he touts his support for policies such as abortion, gay marriage, and sex-change surgeries for minors. The contradictions between Biden’s politics and the tenets of his professed religion have been minimized in Viser’s stories.
“Biden is arguably the most observant president in decades, and his faith is a core part of his identity. He rarely misses Mass. He crosses himself in public. He quotes scripture, he cites hymns and he clutches rosary beads ahead of key decisions,” Viser wrote of Biden in a June 2021 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-catholic-bishops/2021/06/18/acf576c0-d04a-11eb-a7f1-52b8870bef7c_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, which characterized Biden’s views as part of a “church battle between traditionalists and reformers.”
The WHCA award was the target of some mockery and criticism online.
“His faith you say? Just reflect on how the press treated VP Pence when it was revealed his wife was a teacher at a Christian school,” Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs <a href="https://twitter.com/RLHeinrichs/status/1652764380226781188" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “It was like every newsroom discovered orthodox Christian views and lost their minds. But the faith of the president ‘overseeing’ the most anti-orthodox Christian secular admin in the nation’s history? charming.”
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1652668420649779204" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>: “Washington Post, speaking truth to power,” with a laughing emoji.
Viser also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/31/jimmy-biden-president-brother/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the president’s relationship with his brother, James, and some of James’ business deals and work with the president’s son, Hunter.

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Comedian Roy Wood Jr. slammed the media Saturday night during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner for the difference in how it reported on the classified document scandals of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you all but for me the easiest scandal to follow was the Trump documents scandal that was the one that was easy to follow,&#8221; Wood Jr. said. &#8220;It was simple, is some stuff that&#8217;s supposed to be in the White House that ain&#8217;t. In the media, you all did y&#8217;alls job. You all jumped on that story. As soon as the Trump document story broke, everybody was down at Mar-a-Lago. &#8216;We&#8217;re reporting live from the documents and we&#8217;re going to find them!'&#8221;
&#8220;And then we found out Joe Biden had documents too and it was like &#8216;oh, it&#8217;s not a big deal,'&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a big deal. Everybody got documents, everybody got documents, oh, look at Chinese spy balloon would you look at that. Well done media. Happy to be here. Very happy to be here.&#8221;
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An actual anti-media liberal bias zing from <a href="https://twitter.com/roywoodjr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@roywoodjr</a>: “As soon as the Trump document story broke, everybody was down at Mar-a-Lago reporting live&#8230;And then we found out Joe Biden had documents, too, and it was like ‘it’s not a big deal.’” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHCD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHCD</a> <a href="https://t.co/Wl0C2Vjx61">pic.twitter.com/Wl0C2Vjx61</a>
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Wood went on to mock Biden again over his age and some of the other scandals that he has faced.
&#8220;We have an 80-year-old man begging us for four more years of work, begging, begging. Let me finish the job. That&#8217;s not a campaign slogan. That&#8217;s a plea,&#8221; Wood said.
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&#8220;You&#8217;ve had quite a few scandals,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You know, we know about the documents, we know about the laptops, but there&#8217;s been no scandal more damaging than the scandal of is Joe Biden awake?&#8221;

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/veteran-journalist-warns-about-most-dangerous-reporters-ahead-of-white-house-correspondents-dinner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House Correspondents&#8217; Association</a> held its annual dinner Saturday night, an event meant to celebrate the First Amendment and raise money for journalism scholarships. Unfortunately for the press corps, its members didn&#8217;t realize President Joe Biden was laughing at the media — not with it — throughout the evening.
&#8220;In a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office. I’ll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away,&#8221; Biden said during his speech.
The president typically makes a number of wisecracks meant in good fun, but that one was a clear mockery of the so-called reporters who cover the president.
How did the 2,600 or so in attendance react? They all chuckled along, clapping like seals, unaware that they were the butt of the joke.
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BIDEN: “In a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office. I’ll talk for ten minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away.” <a href="https://t.co/LBjHMpgsmQ">pic.twitter.com/LBjHMpgsmQ</a>
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Don&#8217;t take my word for it. Listen to senior CNN commentator and former Bush staffer Scott Jennings explain to his colleagues why they should be embarrassed.
&#8220;On Biden, the line that will stick with me is, ‘in a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office, I’ll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away,’&#8221; Jennings said on CNN Sunday morning.  &#8220;For the journalists in the room, he wasn&#8217;t laughing with you, he was laughing at you.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> on Biden taunting reporters tonight by joking that he never takes their questio ns: &quot;He wasn&#39;t laughing with you, he was laughing at you. I mean, the reality is, I think he&#39;s mocking the press. The guy does not take questions, &amp; he&#39;s up there joking about it. <a href="https://t.co/Bq71ynzzU6">pic.twitter.com/Bq71ynzzU6</a>
&mdash; Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinTober94/status/1652512585969704962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The guy does not take questions, he’s up there joking about it,&#8221; Jennings <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-panelist-calls-out-biden-joke-never-taking-questions-press-laughing?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m pro-reporter, and I think the President of the United States ought to have to talk to these reporters and not mock them.&#8221;
Indeed, think of all the alleged scandals that the White House press pool either ignores or covers late into the game: Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop, Russiagate, the real status of the war in Ukraine, Biden&#8217;s classified documents, the Biden family making money off the family name and political access,  the weaponization of the Department of Justice and so many more.
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There was barely a mention of any of that on Saturday night, except for the emcee who actually made fun of the lapdog media for its double standard over former President Donald Trump&#8217;s handling of classified documents versus Biden&#8217;s.
&#8220;As soon as the Trump document story broke, everybody was down at Mar-a-Lago reporting live&#8230;And then we found out Joe Biden had documents, too, and it was like ‘it’s not a big deal,&#8221; Roy Wood, Jr. said, again making fun of the inadequate state of journalism.
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WOW! Roy Wood Jr mocks the liberal media! “As soon as the Trump document story broke, everybody was down at Mar-a-Lago reporting live&#8230;And then we found out Joe Biden had documents, too, and it was like ‘it’s not a big deal.’” <a href="https://t.co/7nYDVve2If">pic.twitter.com/7nYDVve2If</a>
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The crowd chortled again. Why? Because it&#8217;s true. They know that journalists, by and large, have a double standard.
That&#8217;s what makes Biden&#8217;s disrespect for the press so incredulous. He has to face friendly journalists, and he still avoids them. Imagine if America had an actual media complex that held the president accountable.
We don&#8217;t. Biden knows that, and he laughs right in their faces about it.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Welp, Saturday night is the annual &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house-correspondents-association" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House Correspondents&#8217; Association Dinner</a>&#8221; and the Beltway media crowd is particularly elated because both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be in attendance.
Most in attendance view themselves as the cornerstone of Democracy, when in actuality they are propagandists for the professional political class. But one veteran journalist is offering advice to his colleagues while cautioning Americans to watch out for what he dubs the &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; kind of reporter.
&#8220;The @WhiteHouse press corps is under harsh scrutiny as never before — just as we prepare to gather, chummily, with @POTUS for the @whca #WHCA dinner tonight,&#8221; Newsmax White House reporter James Rosen tweeted. &#8220;Here is what I think, based on twenty-five years in the Washington media, and as a reporter who aspires to objectivity.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> press corps is under harsh scrutiny as never before — just as we prepare to gather, chummily, with <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> for the <a href="https://twitter.com/whca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whca</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHCA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHCA</a> dinner tonight. Here is what I think, based on twenty-five years in the Washington media, and as a reporter who aspires to objectivity. —&gt;
&mdash; James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesRosenTV/status/1652333014901219330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rosen praised many of his fellow press pool participants, acknowledging that they do actual journalism.
&#8220;But beware the reporters, in and beyond the @WhiteHouse, who believe themselves to be innately without bias and fearless pursuers of The Truth; they are the most dangerous, and often the most biased,&#8221; he tweeted. 
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(contd) But beware the reporters, in and beyond the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>, who believe themselves to be innately without bias and fearless pursuers of The Truth; they are the most dangerous, and often the most biased. —&gt;
&mdash; James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesRosenTV/status/1652333647347761154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rosen also admonished the White House for their contempt of journalism. He seems to be the only member of the press, save maybe Peter Doocey and <a href="https://twitter.com/simonateba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simon Ateba</a>, who acknowledges that Biden and his lackeys, such as White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, treat the press with utter disdain. KJP rarely gives straightforward answers, the president shies away from off-the-cuff questions, and his team dreams about censoring so-called &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and squashing free speech.
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&#8220;The current  @WhiteHouse disrespects the press corps in ways large and small on a daily basis, and tonight we will hear @POTUS serve up syrupy platitudes about his respect for us and the critical role we play in American democracy,&#8221; Rosen tweeted. &#8220;It will be difficult to take. At least @realDonaldTrump, his own contempt for the press notwithstanding, stayed away from the dinner and spared us the hypocrisy.&#8221;
Rosen also had some advice for the current White House Correspondents Association president, Tamara Keith of NPR. In that role, she&#8217;ll give an address Saturday night at the dinner in Washington, D.C.
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&#8220;@tamarakeithNPR can make the usual jokes and nods to a blend of cordiality and adversarialism, the safe route—or she can use this moment to remind this @POTUS of his historic avoidance of the @WhiteHouse press corps and other damaging practices towards honest journalism,&#8221; he tweeted.
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(contd) <a href="https://twitter.com/tamarakeithNPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tamarakeithNPR</a> can make the usual jokes and nods to a blend of cordiality and adversarialism, the safe route—or she can use this moment to remind this <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> of his historic avoidance of the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> press corps and other damaging practices towards honest journalism.…
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Well, to be blunt, Rosen&#8217;s caution about lapdog media who simply regurgitate Democratic talking points is refreshing., but from an outsider&#8217;s perspective, that comprises roughly 90% of corporate media. As for whether NPR&#8217;s Keith holds Biden accountable Saturday night, NPR&#8217;s coverage of the presidency doesn&#8217;t lend one to believe that will be the case. But, here&#8217;s to hoping.
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Veteran Journalist Warns About ‘Most Dangerous’ Reporters Ahead Of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Veteran Journalist Warns About 'Most Dangerous' Reporters Ahead Of White House Correspondents Dinner

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to answer on Sunday what it was like to be made fun of by Trevor Noah during the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner last week.
During an interview on Fox News with host Howard Kurtz, Psaki also repeatedly tried to downplay President Joe Biden&#8217;s (D) lack of media interviews and press conferences, claiming that he &#8220;speaks to the American people nearly every day.&#8221;
Psaki tried to dismiss the negative news cycles that the administration faces, saying, &#8220;We can&#8217;t determine what the media decides to cover, of course, that&#8217;s not our role. We&#8217;re not in China and Russia.&#8221;
Later in the interview, Psaki was asked about what it was like being made fun of by Noah last week when he brought up her apparent upcoming move over to MSNBC.
&#8220;The word on the streets is actually that Jen Psaki is going to MSNBC next month,&#8221; Noah <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/2022-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-transcript">said</a>. &#8220;Apparently, just being on CSPAN, the ratings were too high and she wanted more of a challenge. Wanted to switch things up. She can’t laugh at that. Don’t put the camera on her. If it’s true, congratulations to Jen on your big career change. But, moving to MSNBC is going to be a big switch up for you because right now your current job is to make the Biden administration look as good as possible at all costs. Now, you’re going to be at MSNBC and you’re going to have to… You’ll be fine actually. Sorry.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I have nothing to say about what I am going to do in the future, aside from it&#8217;s now been announced that I will be departing the White House next week, I have a lot of emotions about that,&#8221; Psaki responded. &#8220;They&#8217;re all filled together at once. I&#8217;m going to sleep. I&#8217;m going to read a lot of books. I&#8217;m going to watch a lot of movies I haven&#8217;t seen. What I will say is that you couldn&#8217;t have done my job. I don&#8217;t think anybody could do this job as White House press secretary if they didn&#8217;t value the role of the press and the media. And I do. Even on days where we disagree, on days we debate.&#8221;
Psaki later claimed that she was a good sport about being made fun of by Noah.

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When COVID-19 first came ashore in America — long before scientists really knew anything about the coronavirus — the top brains said in one breathless voice: Wash your hands!
The big dogs said wash, wash, wash, maybe wear gloves, don’t touch your face, blah blah blah. Yeah, no. Turns out there’s almost no surface transmission of COVID-19. Nearly none.
Now, you would think that the smart people running things (they must be smart ’cause they’re running things, right?) would’ve said, “Hang on, let’s study this thing first, collect some data, and then come up with some conclusions and courses of action.”
But no, instead, everyone was saying everything all at the same time — and the mainstream media was laughing all the way to the bank. “It turns out the pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle and that’s not going away anytime soon,” WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said in March 2021. “It turns out it’s really good for ratings.”
If it bleeds it leads, amirite?
Before the fact-checkers get their undies in a wad, let’s be clear: COVID-19 was pretty bad (for old and fat people and those with comorbidities). It did kill 993,996 Americans as of Tuesday (and if you’re keeping score at home, 596,599 came on President Biden’s watch).
For the record, 925,931 of those deaths were people 50 years old and older. And if you go “classic old” (65 and above), it turns out nearly 7 in 10 deaths (74.4) were in that age bracket. So yes, mostly “old” people.
So it’s bad, but eh, not that bad. There are 320 million people in America, so we’re talking less than a third of 1%. For comparison, COVID-19 has killed 6.3 million people worldwide; the 1918 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million, with some estimates running as high as 100 million.
But let’s get to the real Debbie Downer of the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. immunologist.
Back in March 2020, Fauci declared, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”
“When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is,” the doctor said on CBS News.
Yeah, so, wrong. Turns out it’s mostly airborne.
Then this in January 2021, Fauci said wearing two masks is likely more effective than wearing one. “If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on it, just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,” he told NBC News.
Duh. Wrong again. In fact, mask-wearing has been proven to be barely effective, especially with the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/05/cloth-masks-not-effective-omicron-covid/9091574002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omicron variant</a>.
Jump to last week. Fauci declared on Tuesday that the “pandemic phase” is over. But that was refuted the next day — by Fauci. Yup, the doc walked it all back — maybe after a miffed Biden got to him — and said, “by no means does that mean the pandemic is over.”
Then this: Fauci announced on Thursday he would not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, which was held Saturday. Fauci was invited by ABC News “and had planned on going,” CNN reported, but he “decided to abandon those plans and inform ABC that he would no longer attend because of an individual assessment of his own personal risk.”
Yup, 2,500 people in a room is too scary for the immunologist — but that didn’t keep him from attending the swanky white-tie Gridiron gala last month.
Forget all that. You’re in the Fauci Vortex, where up is down.
Finally, (hypocrisy alert) a maskless Fauci was photographed attending a packed pre-dinner brunch on Saturday afternoon. And we’ve been to that brunch in years past — it’s packed to the gills. In fact, Fauci was snapped schmoozing it up all over the brunch, all with maskless garden party goers. He do get around, don’t he?
And now, after all that, Fauci is back to his doomsday predictions about another wave of death and destruction from whatever variant is out there now.
Comedian David Spade summed it all up in a show he did Sunday just outside Washington. Speaking as Fauci, he warned, “We have no data now, but it’s gonna be worse! It’s gonna be worse than Rocky 5!”
Now that we all know just what a hypocrite Fauci is, the question must be asked: When will he just go away? He’s 81, the highest-paid employee in the entire federal government (he gets more than the president), and he keeps getting everything wrong — and not practicing what he preaches, just like all Democrats have done from the beginning.
It’s time to go, Dr. Grouchy. We’re finally — finally — onto you.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@dailywire.com and on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/josephcurl">@JosephCurl</a>. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Exposed As Hypocrite Over White House Correspondents’ Garden Party

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Journalists from half a dozen news outlets have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association (WHCA) dinner, including ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who dined with Kim Kardashian and shook hands with President Joe Biden, according to new reports.
The dinner, held Saturday at the Washington Hilton and attended by 2,500 politicos, journalists, and celebrities, did not require attendees to wear masks.
&#8220;In the days since WHCD weekend, reporters and staffers from CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Politico, and other participating news organizations have tested positive for the virus,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/media/jonathan-karl-positive-covid-white-house-correspondents-dinner/index.html">reported</a>.
&#8220;[M]uch of Tuesday afternoon seemed to consist of attendees trading text messages and emails about colleagues and friends and people they had seen who had tested positive. That&#8217;s almost certainly going to continue in the days ahead,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s senior media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote.
Darcy spoke with WHCA President Steven Portnoy, who he quoted as saying: &#8220;We worked hard to publicize our protocols and encouraged those eligible to get booster shots in the weeks leading up to the dinner. Our event implemented protocols that went beyond any guidance or regulation issued by the CDC or the DC health department. We wish anyone who may not be feeling well a speedy recovery.&#8221;
CNN also noted that &#8220;While Karl did shake Biden&#8217;s hand at the dinner, to have gone on-stage at the event he would have had to have taken a medically certified proctored test that the White House uses because it believes it to be a measure of infectiousness, a source told me.&#8221;
Karl was on stage to receive the “Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure” award.  &#8220;He appeared on the dais, received his prize, shook hands with several others there, including Biden, and subsequently spoke at the microphone. Karl was also pictured at a table sitting next to Kardashian and one spot over from her boyfriend, Pete Davidson,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jonathan-karl-positive-covid-kim-kardashian-00029712">reported</a>.
“He tested positive for COVID Monday night, but tested negative on Saturday afternoon before the White House Correspondents Dinner by medically-supervised staff,” a person familiar with the matter told Politico. “He had no symptoms on Saturday. Jon is currently isolating and participating in contract tracing.”
Before the dinner, it was widely speculated that COVID-19 would be on the menu. “It is my great honor to be speaking tonight at the nation’s most distinguished super-spreader event,” comedian Trevor Noah said at the dinner.
The WHCA event followed another superspreader, the Gridiron dinner. More than 80 attendees eventually tested positive for COVID-19.
Among those were two members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet: Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. “Other attendees, including Vice President Kamala Harris’ communication director Jamal Simmons and Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro and Adam Schiff … have also announced positive tests,” CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-spreader-over-a-dozen-d-c-a-listers-served-covid-at-posh-gridiron-dinner">reported</a>.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Superspreader: Slew Of Journalists Who Attended Swanky D.C. Dinner Test Positive For COVID-19

Journalists Who Attended White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Test Positive For COVID

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Shortly after top U.S. immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci said the &#8220;pandemic phase&#8221; of COVID-19 was over in the U.S., he came out and said it wasn&#8217;t over.
With the matter settled, Fauci then decided to cancel his attendance at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association Dinner, which was held Saturday. Fauci was invited by ABC News &#8220;and had planned on going,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16510303831227820c4875e4e/raw?utm_term=16510303831227820c4875e4e&amp;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+April+26%2C+2022&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bt_ee=8qqKKvrHJ68vjOm8u8QM7gdIR1dQdFJx81VwJuq%2B4IZDpskI6P1lU93P3S0CdV52&amp;bt_ts=1651030383125">reported</a>, but he &#8220;decided to abandon those plans and inform ABC that he would no longer attend because of an individual assessment of his own personal risk.&#8221;
The annual bash, which draws politicos and journalists to the Washington Hilton, went on as scheduled, with nearly all of the 2,500 attendees packed in a ballroom going maskless.
Fauci&#8217;s decision to avoid the swanky event came after another similar fete, the annual Gridiron Dinner held last month, turned out to be a super spreader, with more than 80 attendees coming down with the virus. Fauci attended that affair but apparently had second thoughts about packing into a room with a bunch of unmasked people.
Or did he?
A maskless Fauci was photographed attending a packed pre-dinner brunch on Saturday afternoon.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@donlemon</a>, Dr. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TonyFauci?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TonyFauci</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/CapehartJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CapehartJ</a> at the 2022 White House Correspondents&#39; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GardenBrunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GardenBrunch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/whca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whca</a> <a href="https://t.co/JmRkVZo0rq">pic.twitter.com/JmRkVZo0rq</a>
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Hundreds attended the brunch, according to one report.
&#8220;At the 27th Annual White House Correspondents’ Weekend Garden Brunch, the most buzzworthy attendee was Anthony Fauci, who said earlier this week that he would not attend the dinner over Covid concerns,&#8221; Twitchy <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/05/01/the-whca-dinner-was-too-dangerous-for-dr-fauci-but-not-the-outdoor-garden-party-that-sure-looks-a-lot-like-it-was-inside-at-times-a/">reported</a>.
Fauci even did an interview in which he (kinda) said it was all over while saying &#8220;we still gotta&#8217; be careful.&#8221;
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Dr. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TonyFauci?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TonyFauci</a> is glad to see people coming out after a stressful two and a half years and doing so safely. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GardenBrunch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GardenBrunch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/whca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whca</a> <a href="https://t.co/HfbyEQfzae">pic.twitter.com/HfbyEQfzae</a>
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Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had some fun on Twitter.
&#8220;Fauci bailed on attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner because of &#8216;individual assessment of my personal risk.&#8217; &#8230;so he just went to the crowed (sic) pre-parties,&#8221; he said.
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Fauci bailed on attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner because of “individual assessment of my personal risk.&quot; …..so he just went to the crowed pre-parties <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHCD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHCD</a> <a href="https://t.co/OEkX9OuYHL">pic.twitter.com/OEkX9OuYHL</a>
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Last Tuesday, Fauci declared the &#8220;pandemic phase&#8221; of COVID-19 is over.
But that was refuted on Wednesday — by Fauci.
On Tuesday, Fauci sat down with Judy Woodruff of “PBS NewsHour,&#8221; who asked Fauci: &#8220;Here we are. It’s the end of April. It’s the spring of 2022. How close are we to the end of the pandemic?”
“We are certainly, right now, in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Fauci <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/fauci-says-the-pandemic-phase-is-over-but-its-still-too-risky-for-him-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner/">replied</a>. “Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now.&#8221;
“So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are,” he added.
Well, that&#8217;s pretty clear.
But on Wednesday, Fauci walked it all back.
“We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” Fauci told the Associated Press. While the U.S. has “decelerated and transitioned into more of a controlled phase” of the virus, he added &#8220;by no means does that mean the pandemic is over.&#8221;
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Dr. Hypocrite: Fauci Stays Away From Big Media Dinner, Attends Packed Media Party

Dr. Anthony Fauci Stays Away From White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Attends Packed Media Party At Garden Brunch

Capital lawmakers, politicos, journalists &#8212; along with glitzy Hollywood celebrities &#8212; gathered on Saturday night for the annual &#8220;nerd prom,&#8221; the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner.
The night of frivolity usually ends with a comedian lightly roasting the president and the press, and this time that role was filled by Trevor Noah of &#8220;The Daily Show.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest if you didn&#8217;t come, I totally would have understood yeah, because these people have been so hard on you, which I don&#8217;t get,&#8221; Noah said to President Joe Biden, who was seated on the dais. &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know, I think ever since you&#8217;ve come into office things are really looking up. You know, gas is up, rent is up, food is up,&#8221; he said to laughter, even from the president.
Noah sure got that right.
When Biden moved into the White House on January 20, 2021, a gallon of regular gasoline cost an average of $2.37, <a href="https://www.gasbuddy.com/">according</a> to gasbuddy.com.
In early March, the national average rose to as high as $4.34. Today it&#8217;s nearly $4.20, the American Automobile Association (AAA) <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">reported</a> Monday.
&#8220;To be fair, gas prices moderated modestly toward the end of April, but remain above $4.00 a gallon,&#8221; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, said in a <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/biden-and-gas-prices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a> last week. &#8220;Since the start of the Biden Administration, gas prices are up over 80 percent.&#8221;
Addressing Biden directly, Holtz-Eakin said: &#8220;This record of futility drives home the basic economics of the situation: Either admit you want gas (and other carbon-based fuel) prices higher and sell it politically on the merits, or take some real, permanent action on domestic production that stands a chance of increasing supply enough to reduce gas prices.&#8221;
A chart compiled by gasbuddy.com shows that less than two months after Biden took office, the average price had jumped from $2.37 to about $2.85. A gallon topped $3 in May 2021, then soared to $3.25 by October. At the end of 2021, with the price nearing $3.50, Biden announced the U.S. Department of Energy would release 50 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
One <a href="https://dcbusinessdaily.com/stories/624334183-american-action-forum-president-since-the-start-of-the-biden-administration-gas-prices-are-up-over-80">website</a>, DC Business Daily, has been keeping a &#8220;<a href="https://gasolinemiseryindex.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gasoline Misery Index,</a>&#8221; which &#8220;tracks how much more (or less) the average American consumer is paying for gasoline on an annualized basis.&#8221;
&#8220;According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in January 2021 the national average price per gallon of gasoline was $2.33. It has increased nearly 79% when compared to Friday&#8217;s national average price of $4.16. With a number that gasolinemiseryindex.com calls the Biden Misery Index, Americans are spending an average of $961 more per year on gasoline today since the president entered office in January,&#8221; the website wrote.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Gasoline Price Per Gallon Soars Nearly 80% Since President Joe Biden Took Office 

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President Joe Biden took some heat for laughing at jokes highlighting the fact that, since he took office, the American people are having a hard time affording a decent quality of life. The man who promised to restore &#8220;decency&#8221; to the Oval Office was filmed laughing at comedian Trevor Noah&#8217;s joke about inflation at Saturday night&#8217;s White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
Saturday featured the first WHCA Dinner in two years — and the first one in six years to be attended by a sitting president. The event <a href="https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/kim-kardashian-pete-davidson-more-at-2022-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-1235170413/">featured</a> D.C. media elite and celebrities like Kim Kardashian, who arrived alongside her new beau Pete Davidson. Roughly 2,600 people crammed into a Washington hotel basement and chuckled along to various quips about the presidency and current state of politics. Outside the ballroom and beyond the tuxedos, wine glasses, and multi-course meal, Noah&#8217;s joke about inflation fell a little flat while critics slammed the president for his out-of-touch laughter.
&#8220;Since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up,&#8221; Noah, the emcee of the dinner said while addressing Biden,&#8221;Gas is up, rent is up, food is up! Everything.&#8221;
During the bit, the camera panned to Biden, who could be seen clapping his hands and laughing.
The interaction can be seen here:
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“Since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up. Gas is up, rent is up, food is up! Everything!”
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If you fail to see what&#8217;s so funny about high prices, you are not alone.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) tweeted, &#8220;Here&#8217;s regular Joe from Scranton laughing uproariously at the inflation he&#8217;s inflicted on Americans while surrounded by cheering journalists.&#8221;
&#8220;What a model of empathy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You can&#8217;t make this up.&#8221;
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Here&#39;s regular Joe from Scranton laughing uproariously at the inflation he&#39;s inflicted on Americans while surrounded by cheering journalists. 
What a model of empathy. You can&#39;t make this up. <a href="https://t.co/QW1ucFdEyT">pic.twitter.com/QW1ucFdEyT</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1520804181103194112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Paris Dennard, a spokesman for the GOP, <a href="https://twitter.com/PARISDENNARD/status/1520606818887958528?s=20&amp;t=sjiXSywelTvFP60FaL0jvQ">added</a>, &#8220;Joe Biden thinks it is really funny that millions of Americans are suffering right now because of rising costs &amp; inflation caused by his policies!&#8221;
&#8220;This isn’t empathy or leadership it’s shameful!&#8221; Dennard stated. &#8220;Tell Biden your life isn’t a joke!&#8221;
Biden, of course, knows that not many Americans are in a jovial mood right now. In late February, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meads-joe-biden-blames-nations-foul-mood-on-psychological-impact-of-covid-19">blamed</a> that pessimism on the &#8220;psychological impact of COVID-19.&#8221; In Biden&#8217;s mind, the reason why U.S. citizens were unable to appreciate the economy was because they were too worried about whether or not they would get sick from the virus.
The president said in an interview at the time, &#8220;Almost a million Americans have died of COVID and so I think it’s hard for people to get their arms around the fact that we have the fastest growing economy in 40 years, wages are actually up — not down, unemployment is the lowest it’s been….You know it’s just incredibly low, and it’s around the in the three-point range,” he claimed.&#8221;
“We find ourselves in a position where it’s hard to fully appreciate that when you wake up in the morning and wondering whether or not your uncle, aunt, mother, father, son, daughter who has COVID are going to be okay,” Biden added.
If the comment was out of touch then, based on recent economic numbers, it seems to be even more out of touch now.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-consumer-price-index-march-2022-11649725215">announced</a> that inflation rose 8.5% year-over-year in March, according to the Consumer Price Index.
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wholesale-inflation-surges-11-2-breaking-another-record">reported</a> that based on the BLS&#8217; <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.t01.htm">Producer Price Index</a>, which measures inflation from wholesale producers, rose 11.2% annually between March 2021 and March 2022, the highest that figure has been since 2010. Wholesale food prices also jumped 16.2% annually, 2.4% monthly while wholesale energy prices rose 36.7% annually, headlined by liquefied natural gas, which saw a massive 91.4% increase, nearly doubling in price between 2021 and 2022.
In the first quarter of the year, America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10763421/US-economy-shrank-1-4-Q1-consumers-kept-spending.html">economy shrank 1.4%</a>. The president blamed that downturn on COVID-19 and Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine causing a rise in prices. Various polls <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/polls-voters-blame-biden-for-inflation/article_bf2811f6-aa0e-11ec-bde8-c3db8056c94f.html">show</a> that the American people blame the president — of the U.S., not of Russia — for inflation.
As all of it adds up, the economy is quickly becoming a top concern for voters, too.
“Americans&#8217; confidence in the economy remains very low, and mentions of economic issues as the most important problem in the U.S. are at their highest point since 2016,” a recent poll from Gallup <a href="https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/nation/americans-more-worried-about-inflation-than-they-have-been-in-decades/article_f6557693-81e8-51f5-b558-62493fb06fdd.html">said</a>. “Inflation, which registered as the top economic problem last month and continues to be, was previously at this level in 1984.”
Without any economic reprieve predicted, it is evident that voters&#8217; concern about the economy will continue through the 2022 midterms.
While the president may have found Noah&#8217;s remarks hilarious Saturday night, it&#8217;s unlikely he will be laughing if that clip is used as a GOP advertisement down the line.
Just like excuses, jokes have a tendency to get a little old after you hear them more than a few times. The American people will only be able to tolerate Biden blaming Putin and outside factors for the state of the economy — while appearing to laugh at their misery — for so long before they take out their frustrations at the ballot box.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Digital Dunkirk organizer Alex Plitsas criticized comedian Trevor Noah after the latter used his platform at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner to crack a joke about the Biden Administration&#8217;s disastrous exit from Afghanistan.
&#8220;Please be careful leaving tonight,&#8221; Noah said. &#8220;We all know this administration doesn&#8217;t handle evacuations well.&#8221;
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Trevor Noah: &quot;Please be careful leaving tonight. We all know this administration doesn&#39;t handle evacuations well.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHCD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHCD</a> <a href="https://t.co/6QLR5JlmH6">pic.twitter.com/6QLR5JlmH6</a>
&mdash; Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1520596885530193926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I finally understand the &#8216;too soon&#8217; response to a joke,&#8221; Plitsas replied. &#8220;There are a lot of people who were left behind and are suffering after we made a promise to them as a nation. We are not done.&#8221;
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I finally understand the “too soon” response to a joke. There are a lot of people who were left behind and are suffering after we made a promise to them as a nation. We are not done. <a href="https://t.co/8FwvDONKlL">https://t.co/8FwvDONKlL</a>
&mdash; Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 (@alexplitsas) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexplitsas/status/1520598537528086528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Plitsas, an Army veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, was instrumental in a massive civilian-led rescue operation known as &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/u-s-military-veteran-escapes-ukraine-with-help-of-american-rescue-group/">Digital Dunkirk</a>&#8221; — so named because of its similarities to the massive civilian rescue operation that took place at Dunkirk between May 26 and June 4 of 1940. Plitsas has worked tirelessly with other civilians and intelligence operators to aid American citizens and Afghan allies in their <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/group-of-veterans-rescues-another-374-evacuees-from-afghanistan/">escape from the Taliban</a> after President Joe Biden ordered all American troops to leave Afghanistan — and that work is still ongoing.
Plitsas was not alone in his criticism of the joke, however. Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI) was not amused either.
&#8220;Ha ha that’s a great joke [at the expense of the tens of thousands of Afghan allies we left behind to rot that @WHCOS wants to forget bc it’s the reason why Biden’s favs/unfavs are absolutely dismal but] lolol great zinger much laughs,&#8221; Meijer <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMeijer/status/1520607083359793152">tweeted</a> in response.
&#8220;For the record Afghanistan is still going on, and not just in the context of throwaway nerd prom jokes about abandoning people who risked their lives for the US,&#8221; he added.
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For the record Afghanistan is still going on, and not just in the context of throwaway nerd prom jokes about abandoning people who risked their lives for the US <a href="https://t.co/CYb17F3caJ">pic.twitter.com/CYb17F3caJ</a>
&mdash; Rep. Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMeijer/status/1520607147813339137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Leaving Americans to die on their own in Afghanistan is just a joke to those who think they&#8217;re better than you,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/AF632/status/1520654544887160832">commented</a>.
GOP rapid response director Tommy Pigott <a href="https://twitter.com/TommyPigott/status/1520634248537206784">added</a>, &#8220;13 people died trying to save people from his mistakes.&#8221;
Texas Congressional candidate Jenny Garcia Sharon made it clear that she was not impressed either. &#8220;I find nothing humorous about the disastrous evacuation that cost the lives of 13 American soldiers &#8230;what a disgusting display of callousness. #WHCD,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/jenny4congress/status/1520633144986140673">said</a>.
&#8220;Wow. How completely inconsiderate and disgusting of #TrevorNoah, to joke about #Biden’s horrible evacuation from Afghanistan which resulted in the deaths of 13 members of our military. #WHCD,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/Kimba212Jupiter/status/1520628893950136320">added</a>.
Plitsas, for his part, has carried on with the mission and continues to assist Afghan allies as they slowly make their way out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to the United States or other safe countries for refuge.
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Four Afghan children who we helped to rescue in Kabul were reunited with their loving mother in New York. She’s experienced health issues and is unable to work. They need help!
I&#39;m raising money for Home &amp; Food for Afghan Refugee Children.👇🏼
Donate: <a href="https://t.co/4LVrxLsZPM">https://t.co/4LVrxLsZPM</a>
&mdash; Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 (@alexplitsas) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexplitsas/status/1519701822272942086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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