{"id":4725,"date":"2011-05-01T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2011-05-01T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:25:22","slug":"the-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/the-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House Correspondents Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I watched and have the complete video of Obama\u2019s presentation for you.&#160; Obama was in rare form and lampooned friend and foe alike with excellent humor.&#160; But nothing sums up the evening quite as well as the \u201cEveryone knows I\u2019m a fool\u201d look plastered on Donald Trump\u2019s face throughout the evening.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"1whcd\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1whcd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/1whcd.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama poked fun at everyone &#8212; from his wife to Donald Trump &#8212; during the annual White House Correspondents dinner, before ending his speech with a tribute to journalists who brave deadly conditions to get a story.<\/p>\n<p>No one was safe from the president&#8217;s zings on Saturday night, including his wife and Republican presidential challengers. <\/p>\n<p>Days after releasing his long-form birth certificate to refute claims he wasn&#8217;t born in the United States, the president began his address by showing what he called his birth video\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/POLITICS\/05\/01\/white.house.correspondents.dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note that there appears to be a separation taking place in the hair.&#160; Will it be declared a national wildlife refuge?&#160; Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9mzJhvC-8E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A good time was had by all, with one obvious exception.&#160; I found it most enjoyable to relax and take in the humor, a pleasant break from the daily struggle to protect this nation from Republican predation.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched and have the complete video of Obama\u2019s presentation for you.&#160; Obama was in rare form and lampooned friend and foe alike with excellent humor.&#160; But nothing sums up the evening quite as well as the \u201cEveryone knows I\u2019m a fool\u201d look plastered on Donald Trump\u2019s face throughout the evening. President Barack Obama poked <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/the-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-politics","category-141-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}