Just as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner began, the online livestream C-SPAN was streaming suddenly stopped. An onscreen legend indicated that the event had already ended.
The stream eventually returned. But the critically-inclined viewer might have responded to the C-SPAN text: No kidding. “There’s no president, there’s no comedian,” declared White House Correspondents’ Association president Eugene Daniels from the stage of an event that has historically featured both. The result was an evening that — to those not in the room — seemed to serve no particular purpose at all.
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