The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner is a pretty wack affair, let's be honest. Every year, all of the journalists come together with all the celebrities and sit in a big ballroom listening to the president tell jokes, and listening to a comedian tell jokes. Every year? Every year. What about we are at war? ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE AT WAR. It's weird, I think we can all admit that it is weird. It's also a pretty powerful litmus test about how you feel about whoever is currently holding the office. If you like the current president, you might find the whole affair to be a little bit wack, but ultimately light-hearted and inoffensive. If you don't like the current president, it's a fucking shit show. Anyway, during last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, Obama kept up the performance while being fully aware that that very same night, a team of highly-trained special forces were going to carry out a mission to assassinate Osama Bin Laden. This year, there were no secret paramilitary exercises weighing anyone down and we could finally, FINALLY get back to the JOKES. Thank goodness.
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LADIES AND GERMS! Like I said, I am sure your personal reaction to this varies depending on your personal opinion of Barack Obama. I like him, so I find this to be quite fun and charming (while fully recognizing the wackness of the dinner itself, which I have pointed out, but which Obama did not invent and so he cannot truly be blamed for that part of it) but I bet someone else is watching this and choking to death on bile and misplaced outrage about, like, Benghazi or whatever.
You can also watch Conan O'Brien's keynote address, but again, I would only watch it if you like him and/or the subject matter.
