Michelle Wolf at The White House Correspondents' Dinner

Michelle Wolf’s Sad Commentary on America
The View from the Middle

In case you missed it, Michelle Wolf was the “comedian” (and I use that term loosely) who performed at this year’s White House Correspondents’ dinner this last Saturday night. In my opinion, the only thing funny in her routine was her voice, which even she made fun of, so I’ll give her credit for that one funny joke. The rest of her performance was vile, disgusting, slanted and decidedly unfunny!
And it was not just the political right who was offended, but this time even the left leaning media called it “mean”, “bullying” and just plain not funny. The list of liberal media heavyweights who condemned Wolf’s act is long and distinguished and includes the likes of Andrea Mitchell from NBC News, Peter Baker of the NY Times and Pulitzer Prize winner Judy Miller, also from The Times. How clear does it have to be before the left admits that they went too far? This total arrogance and misunderstanding of average Americans is what is going to bring down the Democrat Party and continue to erode lame stream media ratings, unless they wake up.
But there are a few of the self-appointed elites who have confused wealth with wisdom and fame for judgement who are actually defending Wolf’s bit on Saturday night. Seth Meyers actually defended Michelle Wolf by calling her “filthy” and “mean”, just the kind of qualities you need when you are trying to bring people together as Margaret Talev (President of the event) said she was trying to do. Stephen Colbert said, “grow a pair” as if he has a pair and Trevor Noah said…well who cares what he said since no one watches him. The combined viewership of these “giants” is about five million per week which, for perspective, compares unfavorably to Rush Limbaugh’s 14 million listeners each week. Maybe it is Stephen, Seth and Trevor who need to rethink their definition of “funny”.
Some of her supporters actually tried to suggest that she was “balanced” in her critical humor. Well, let me pour a cold dose of reality on those claims. Once you subtract the four jokes she told of herself (she should have done more of that) Wolf made 67 jokes at other people’s expense and of abortion (yah, abortion is such a funny subject). A full two thirds (66%) of those jokes were about Republicans and a total of four jokes or 6% of the total were about Democrats. That’s more than ten times the focus on Republicans vs Democrats. Only the lame stream media could define that as balanced. And even one of those Democratic jokes actually took a swipe at Republicans. She quipped that Democrats could even lose to “Jeff Pedophile Nazi Doctor” who I’m assuming is the Republican candidate. I’ll call that a draw if not even more offensive to Republicans. Considering that the Democrats are the party of Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken and John Conyers, I would tread carefully on the sexual abuse jokes if I were Ms. Wolf.
I’m hoping that the broad-based outrage for Michele Wolf’s performance at the WHCD is a sign that Americans are getting tired of the divisive, demeaning and dehumanizing rhetoric that the pompous, arrogant elite in this country accept for humor. If you want to see how it is really done, watch the Don Rickles roast of Ronald Reagan during his second inaugural in 1985. I’ve supplied a link below that you can click on or copy into your browser. I’ll give the progressive media a hint on finding a good person to roast anyone. First, find a person who likes, or even loves, the target of the roast. That’s how you “singe, but don’t burn”, and end with a classy close as Don Rickles did just 33 years ago.
The only hope we can draw from the response to Michelle Wolf’s disappointing performance Saturday night is that America is bouncing off the bottom of the civility barrel and it’s time to lift our rhetoric and behavior up. If we do, America will be a better place for it. Maybe we could all acquire the class of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who took the abuse with a quiet dignity and even suggested that she would pray for Michelle Wolf. So Michelle, you got that going for you, which is nice.

Link to Rickles Roast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kJ7VPJnmI