Watch Amber Ruffin's "both sides" response to her White House Correspondents' Dinner firing
"We have a free press so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners. That's what it says in the First Amendment."
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Last week, the White House Correspondents’ Association showed the world what cowardice looked like by rescinding Amber Ruffin’s invitation to perform at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner because, now that comedy is legal, no one is allowed to make fun of the President. Despite the Association’s president Eugene Daniels’ insistence that he wants to move away from “the politics of division” and into an era of White House subservience, it’s more capitulation from elites afraid that they’ll have to stand up for something instead of coasting on expected good sportsmanship from administrations with fewer opinions on comedy but a much thicker skin. The Association did Ruffin dirty to serve an audience that will never respect them because their appetite for cruelty and humiliation is endless. Nevertheless, Ruffin has an audience of her own, and on tonight’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, she tells the audience that she has found the true meaning of “both sides” after the whole thing.