{"id":93613,"date":"2024-04-28T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/glitzy-parties-and-gaza-protests-collide-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T20:47:18","slug":"glitzy-parties-and-gaza-protests-collide-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/glitzy-parties-and-gaza-protests-collide-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Glitzy Parties and Gaza Protests Collide at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Chef and restaurateur <strong>Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s<\/strong> was in the house, as was <strong>Bill Nye<\/strong>, sipping a martini near the back of the room. I asked him what he\u2019s been up to this weekend. \u201cNetworking for the betterment of humankind,\u201d he told me. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about how we\u2019re going to use our platforms in media to engage people in the challenge of climate change.\u201d Fair enough. So what\u2019s the best thing he\u2019d seen all night? \u201cMy wife,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd eurnFY iXWezO caption__text\">L-R: Dr. Anthony Fauci; Kellyanne Conway; Desi Lydic, Jordan Klepper, and Tammy Haddad; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar and John Bessler.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\">While some events come and go, veteran TV producer <strong>Tammy Haddad<\/strong>\u2019s annual garden brunch is, apparently, forever. The event began in Haddad\u2019s backyard 31 years ago and is now held at a Georgetown home owned by venture capitalist <strong>Mark Ein<\/strong>, a co-owner of the Washington Commanders\u2014which would explain why someone dressed as the team\u2019s mascot, a six-foot-tall hog named Major Tuddy, was greeting people as they made their way into the main tent, which was particularly packed this year due to intermittent rain. Among the sea of journalists, political figures, and media executives\u2014<em>Times<\/em> CEO <strong>Meredith Kopit Levien<\/strong>, Vox Media CEO <strong>Jim Bankoff<\/strong>, NBCUniversal Chairman <strong>Cesar Conde<\/strong>, Axios\u2019s VandeHei\u2014were a handful of Baltimore police, whom Haddad was honoring for their work on the collapsed bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Meanwhile, Dr. <strong>Anthony Fauci<\/strong> mingled in a black turtleneck, <strong>Andrew Ross Sorkin<\/strong> chatted with Melber, and <strong>Ben Smith<\/strong> caught up with Klobuchar and Substack\u2019s <strong>Hamish McKenzie<\/strong>. \u201cI am always impressed with Amy Klobuchar\u2019s pain tolerance for this stuff,\u201d Smith told me later. On my way to grab a Bloody Mary, I ran into <em>The View<\/em> co-host and former Trump aide <strong>Alyssa Farah<\/strong> <strong>Griffin<\/strong>. \u201cI had to come because it might be the last White House Correspondents\u2019 Weekend before Trump is back,\u201d she told me. \u201cI\u2019ve heard people say, listen, if he got re-elected, it might save cable news for another decade, and my thought is like, ok, but what about democracy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\">You could spot Senator <strong>John Fetterman<\/strong> from a mile away inside the Politico-CBS reception tent on Saturday night, not only because he is 6\u20198\u201d, but because he was the only person in sweats. Not one for formality, Fetterman played up his signature style in a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jdawsey1\/status\/1784352208202367188\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/jdawsey1\/status\/1784352208202367188&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jdawsey1\/status\/1784352208202367188\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tuxedo sweatshirt<\/a> and black shorts. He was chatting with CBS chief election correspondent <strong>Robert Costa<\/strong>, who\u2019d brought his dad as his plus one this year. \u201cThis is a very brief break for me,\u201d said Costa, who has been covering Trump\u2019s criminal trial in New York. \u201cI essentially live in lower Manhattan now,\u201d the DC-based journalist joked. \u201cThis weekend is nice to celebrate journalism and to get together and socialize for a few hours, but we all need to buckle up,\u201d Costa added. \u201cThis will be a rare party this year, a rare moment of respite for this industry. Because we\u2019re covering a convulsive moment in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I found <strong>Andrea Mitchell<\/strong> nearby, in a sparkly silver gown. The veteran chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News had spent the morning out in Chevy Chase, playing tennis, working out with a trainer, and packing for an upcoming trip to the Middle East. \u201cI\u2019m traveling with the Secretary of State,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">During the dinner, <strong>Kelly O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>, a senior White House reporter for NBC News and the president of the correspondents\u2019 association, spoke about journalists who have been captured, including <strong>Austin Tice<\/strong>, who was kidnapped in Syria nearly 10 years ago, and <strong>Evan Gershkovich<\/strong>, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reporter who has been detained in Russia on bogus espionage charges since last March. Gershkovich\u2019s parents were in attendance. O\u2019Donnell also noted the more than 100 journalists who have been killed in the past six months of the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Jill Biden Joe Biden Colin Jost Adult Person Crowd People Audience Debate Speech and Accessories\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 120w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 240w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 320w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 640w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 960w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 1280w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/662e4c6925a46116ecb34613\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/vf0424-Whitehouse-Correspondents.png 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd eurnFY iXWezO caption__text\">Clockwise from top L: Colin Jost and US President Joe Biden; First Lady Jill Biden; Eugene Daniels and US Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd bCPQcu fNaHcW caption__credit\">All from Getty Images.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/27\/politics\/joe-biden-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did not mention<\/a> the war during his speech, though he did call on Russia\u2019s <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> to release Gershkovich. \u201cWe are doing everything we can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThere are some who call you the enemy of the people. That\u2019s wrong and it\u2019s dangerous,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/04\/28\/fun-and-foreboding-at-the-washington-hilton-00154835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the crowd, adding that \u201cthe defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Jost ribbed the president and the press, as expected, at one point saying he was honored to be at what might be, \u201cjudging by the swing state polls, the last White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.\u201d He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/politics-news\/colin-jost-roasts-biden-white-house-correspondents-dinner-1235885528\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck<\/a> a serious tone: \u201cWhen you look at the levels of freedom throughout history, and even around the world today, this is the exception,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cThis freedom is incredibly rare and the journalists in this room help protect that freedom, and we cannot ever take that for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\">The hot ticket this year was the NBCUniversal after party, held at the French Ambassador\u2019s Residence\u2014the outside of which was lit up in rainbow with NBC\u2019s peacock logo\u2014a few blocks away from the Hilton. \u201cFor a party that was impossible to get into, there\u2019s a lot of fucking people here,\u201d one journalist grumbled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">People were letting loose, dancing alongside portraits of historical French figures hanging on the wood-paneled walls, sipping French 75\u2019s, and eating passed hors d&#8217;oeuvres (lots of salmon). Leaning into the <em>SNL<\/em> theme, there was a <em>Weekend Update<\/em> photobooth that guests embraced as they got increasingly drunk. Everyone was fawning around the celebrities who had congregated on the tented patio\u2014ScarJo and Jost, Pine, and <strong>Jon Hamm<\/strong>, who I spotted chatting with MSNBC\u2019s <strong>Lawrence O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>. Standing a few feet away was senior Trump campaign adviser <strong>Chris LaCivita<\/strong>, holding an unlit cigar as \u201cGimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)\u201d played throughout the party. And there was <em>Mad Money<\/em>\u2019s <strong>Jim Cramer<\/strong>, drinking a Belvedere and cran. \u201cI had a dynamite weekend,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cColin Jost had a pretty apt joke tonight when he said this may be the final White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner,\u201d CNN\u2019s <strong>Jim Acosta<\/strong> told me. \u201cI think people have to think seriously about what\u2019s going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/glitzy-parties-and-gaza-protests-collide-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef and restaurateur Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s was in the house, as was Bill Nye, sipping a martini near the back of the room. I asked him what he\u2019s been up to this weekend. \u201cNetworking for the betterment of humankind,\u201d he told me. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about how we\u2019re going to use our platforms in media to engage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,643,1531,7724,1791],"class_list":{"0":"post-93613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-joe-biden","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-protests","12":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}