Obama Mocks Critics And Himself At White House Correspondent's Dinner
April 28, 2015
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as posted by the channel"Following President Obama's annual speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, a strain of analysis/criticism emerged that cast the president as vengeful and/or angry during the address.
"Now, in his second term, Obama is finally free to air his resentments," conservative columnist Byron York wrote in the Washington Examiner. John Hinderaker, writing on the Powerline blog, concluded that "this year’s event was perhaps notable because it exposed our president’s bitterness, as he approaches the end of his term. Humor is often revealing."
At issue for both men was the fact that Obama used Keegan-Michael Key, one half of the "Key and Peele" comedy duo, as his "anger translator." The idea of the bit was that Obama offered some milquetoast rhetoric while Key said what Obama really meant -- pointed jabs about climate change, Fox News Channel and the BP oil spill, among others."
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