White House Correspondents' Dinner Cancelled for 2020

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, which airs annually on C-SPAN and usually makes more than a few headlines, has been cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic. The event had already been postponed from April 25 until Aug. 29.

In a statement, Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News and president of the WHCA, explained, “We’ve been working hard to reconfigure the dinner in ways to make it safe for guests and staff. But after consultation with medical experts, government authorities and our own members, we’ve concluded that it is just not possible to put on the kind of dinner that promotes the best in journalism and allows our guests to comfortably and safely enjoy themselves.”

Saturday Night Live‘s Kenan Thompson was slated to host this year’s gathering, while Patriot Act‘s Hasan Minhaj, who hosted in 2017, would have been the featured performer — marking a “return to comedy” for the proceedings following a one-year time-out. (In 2019, in response to Michelle Wolf’s polarizing 2018 WHCD gig, the dinner avoided controversy by choosing historian and Hamilton author Ron Chernow as its keynote speaker.)

In lieu of a dinner that packs thousands into a hotel ballroom, the WCHA hopes to host “a virtual presentation that would allow us to salute award-winning journalism, toast an impressive group of scholarship winners, and still enjoy a few laughs.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/white-house-correspondents-dinner-cancelled-for-2020/ar-BB15STA3?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP

[Initech]

1. Fucking coronavirus strikes again.

Though Trump would have canceled it anyway.

[a kennedy]

2. Or he would've have attended.......

Have I said again how much I despise this orange piece of shit??

[Dem2theMax]

3. Let's hope we can have one next year, and that they can make up for it.

I'm sure it will be priceless. They should invite Stephen Colbert to come back. Trump can watch from his prison cell.

[Initech]

4. Oh man I hope Biden's first one is a good one!

[Dem2theMax]

5. I will never forget Colbert roasting *Bush.

'Twas a thing of beauty.

[customerserviceguy]

8. It's a lost year

I keep saying that to my mom, who is hoping for Notre Dame football this year. She suspects I'm right, but doesn't want to really deal with it. She'll be 87 next week, and a lost year at this point in her life is something significant.

[Initech]

9. I keep moving back and forth between denial and anger.

I so far refuse to accept this new reality we're living in. This sucks more than anything before it.

[JesterCS]

6. More likely cancelled because Shitler

Can't take any criticism

[soothsayer]

7. This

[Xolodno]

10. Wait for Trump to tweet.

I was planning to attend this year, but since its canceled, I guess I can't.

Which of course is all bullshit. Imagine if they came out and said, looks like we can have it....and he'll respond that he now has another engagement since he thought they were canceled.