If You Don’t Show Up, Everybody Talks About You
30th April 2008
The New York Times has been taking hits of late for its new policy of boycotting the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Would that Republican Presidents felt the same way. Why subject yourself to an evening devoted to being nice to people who spend the rest of the year being ugly to you? It’s not as if any of them voted for you, or support your policies. What a waste of time….
(Al Kamen’s Washington Post column is archly entitled “In the Loop” — and for good reason; I can’t think of a loopier person in modern “journalism”.)