“‘Let me finish the job,’” joked Roy Wood Jr. about the president’s reelection pitch. “That’s not a campaign slogan — that’s a plea.' Dark Brandon and Roy Wood Jr. delight White House Correspondents’ dinner crowd:
WASHINGTON — Looking out at a ballroom full of celebrities, journalists, politicians and power brokers, President Biden told the attendees at Saturday night’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner that his appreciation for press freedom had deep — very, very deep — roots.and “not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it.”
“I’m happy to be here at this event amongst government officials who speak to MSNBC, former government officials who now work at MSNBC and future government officials who currently work at MSNBC,” Wood offered. “The free press is a pillar, perhaps the pillar, of a free society. Not its enemy,” Biden said, seeming to reference not only autocratic foreign powers like Russia but also an increasingly authoritarian strain within the American conservative movement. In Florida, lawmakers
. “After his reelection as governor, he was asked if he had a mandate,” Biden continued, delighting in skewering the prickly young governor whom he might face in next year's presidential election. “He said, ‘Hell no, I’m straight.’” Where Covington & Burling law partners sit next to Netflix comedians, White House deputy assistants and New York Times executives, this black-tie gala may not exactly be an apt indicator of the national mood. It is, however, a good way to take stock of the animal spirits pervading the halls of power in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.
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