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Saturday night was the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the take away from the event was that comedian Michelle Wolf was a vile person. She targeted White House staff for ridicule that went beyond friendly jabs, such as when she ‘joked’ about putting adviser Kellyanne Conway under a falling tree or the ‘joke’ about murdering babies. The event drew great condemnation from average Americans and praise from the media elites. But during Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC Chief White House correspondent Jon Karl denounced Wolf.
Karl, who’s actually a board member of the White House Correspondents Association and its future president, ripped into Wolf’s performance when he was asked to weigh in on the deeply personal attacks she launched at Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“We mentioned at the top of the show, that we saw you at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night sitting right next to Sarah Huckabee Sanders who endured some scathing criticism by the comedian Michelle Wolf about her looks, her job performance,” prefaced co-anchor Dan Harris. “How uncomfortable was it being in the room? Is there a way in which this whole situation could ultimately redound greatly to Sanders' benefit?”
Karl began by defending the rest of the event by noting it’s held to promote the First Amendment, give out journalism awards, and to hand out scholarships. But he had strong words for Wolf’s terrible act, saying: “I think that the comedian crossed the line. And this went from -- poking fun to being mean-spirited. It was very uncomfortable.”
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