Sunday, May 10, 2009

Highlights from White House Correspondents' Dinner (Video)

Here's 5 minutes of highlights from Obama and Wanda Sykes at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. This includes Sykes offering Limbaugh and Hannity no mercy whatsoever. On MSNBC last night, you could hear loud angry boos from the Fox News table.


[N]o one in his administration was safe from his one-liners.

Not Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: "The minute she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and said I should go down there myself."

Not Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel: "This is a tough holiday for Rahm. He's not used to saying the word 'day' after 'mother.'" . . . The evening's guest list featured (in no particular order): Glenn Close; Robert De Niro; Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck; Natalie Portman; Stevie Wonder; Sting; Taye Diggs; John Cusack; Demi Moore; Alicia Keys; Brad Paisley; Eva Longoria Parker; Forest Whitaker; Jon Hamm; Chris "Ludacris" Bridges; young actors Miranda Cosgrove and Chace Crawford; and, for good measure, directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. In the ballroom, Tom Cruise and his wife, Katie Holmes, obliged photo requests.