WHCA throws Michelle Wolf under the bus: "not in the spirit of the mission"
Dystopia-watchers had another anxious weekend, as attendees of the White House Correspondents Dinner heard jokes from host Michelle Wolf about press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being an unapologetic liar and traitor to women and decided to wag their fingers at Wolf for referencing eye makeup and comparing Sanders to Ann Dowd’s Aunt Lydia on The Handmaid’s Tale. (Which is only a mean-spirited jab at Sanders’ looks if you leap right over Aunt Lydia’s role as an enforcer for a misogynist, totalitarian government on the show and land on “Ann Dowd is ugly,” but we digress.)
This, naturally, fed into the anti-press sentiments of a right-wing media who would call a rainy day “millions of paid protestors spitting in our faces on the orders of George Soros” if it suited their agenda. By this morning, it had spiraled into this: