Michelle Wolf is sticking to her guns after receiving criticism for her joke about White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders ’ “perfect” eye makeup. Though Wolf insists her comments at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner focused on Sanders’ “despicable behavior,” critics have seized on one moment in particular.
“I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful,” the comedian said last night. “She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
“Hey mags! All these jokes were about her despicable behavior. Sounds like you have some thoughts about her looks though?” Wolf tweeted this morning before following up with , “Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials.”
“I’m never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders,” Wolf also said last night. “Is it Sarah Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Is it Cousin Huckabee? Is it Auntie Huckabee Sanders? Like, what’s Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women?”
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Whatever one might think of Michelle Wolf's performance, it's clear that anyone who works for or supports Trump has no basis for complaining about vulgarity or personal insults. Your house is made of very thin glass.
Donald Trump: — “Grab em by the pussy” — “I moved on her like a bitch” — “Blood coming out of her wherever” — “I would bomb the shit out of them” — “If she wasn’t my daughter I’d date her” — “African countries are shithole nations”
Republicans: — “Michelle Wolf was over the top”
And on top of that, she's a comedian known for telling racy or crude jokes, he's the President...
Which is a racy crude joke...
Here is her complete performance.
I watched the whole thing. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give it about a three. Many more misses than hits.
Trump and his group can never complain though. They have been down in the mud from the beginning.
That's the problem, and the risk comedians run. If you're not funny, you're only offensive. Dave Chappelle was offensive as hell, but he was also funny as hell. I have never watched the dinner, so I can't say what is and what is not the norm.
I've only seen bits and pieces of this year's, but what I've seen, I didn't find too humorous.
It was moderately funny and quite mild. Seems like Trump supporters are just as fragile as their moron in chief is.
I watched the whole thing. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give it about a three.
Gave it a higher grade myself but then again, I was a 60s radical.
Yeah. This was pretty good.
Fortunately for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, all she needs to do is stop lying in order to quell the criticism about her lying all the time. Easy fix.
It has to be hard to pretend that Donald Trump is telling the truth everyday. Talk about rolling a boulder up a mountain with your nose.
Oh yeah. Definitely the worst job in America, in my estimation. But, if she was really concerned with her credibility, she would have already gotten out most likely.
Then again if she ever told the truth she'd be out on her ass for a job and kicked out of her daddy's church!
For those who were sick of being politically correct...wondering if this provides the raw honesty they were seeking.
Unfortunately two truths American's previously held, freedom of speech and words have consequences, have morphed into a public display of disgusting oration. Any time, any place is now viewed as normal.
The right expects people to be PC when they are being referred to, but when they refer to others? Non-PC all the way. I am not shocked in the least that the rightists are whining and complaining that this comedian was non-PC and slammed trump repeatedly. At the end of the day, she was saying what a lot of people are thinking. The fact that the right is in a full blown meltdown over this tells us that Wolf hit pretty close to the mark.
You can tell that easily....They aren't saying Sarah tells the truth, they're response is about how cutting the truth was.
The right will be outraged because she was non-pc, which is what they profess to love. Snowflake in chief trump will be going on a week long twitter rant.
Huckabeesanders.....it was priceless to see her sitting there, getting slammed and not being able to say a word. Wolf clearly hit the mark given that Huckabeesanders sat there stone faced. Loved it!
I didnt see it, but I would give Sanders some credit for sitting there and taking it without much reaction.
She could have at least smiled or laughed. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. That's the whole point.
Perhaps you didn't know that Ms. Sanders was an invited guest last night. Do you disrespect and shame people you invite to your home and hide behind "free speech"?
Perhaps you missed it, but Ms. Sanders did smile. She understood that Michelle Wolf's despicable attempts to body shame her were what immature, hateful people do.
She was just being non-pc. Big deal. Trump is always screaming that, "PC is destroying our society", and we hear about it from the right all the time, "FUCK PC!!!!!!". But now all the sudden it's NOT ok? ANd you are right, she was exercising her free speech, are you now against that too? Going to keep screaming that it's the left that is trying to do away with free speech and is destroying our society with PC?
Do you know what hypocrisy is? Go look it up. Hey, guess who said this:
"Look at that face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who could vote for a face like that!!!!!!!!!!!!????????"
Trump said that to Carly Fiorina during a debate. But you want this comedian to be "PC"? Really?
You know that this dinner has been a roast for years now, yes?
Perhaps you didn't know that Ms. Sanders was an invited guest last night.
So was Donald Trump. He responded by sending a pawn to absorb every bit of criticism that he has rightly earned, because in his mind who gives a fuck about a pawn? Especially a female one.
Did she call anybody a bitch?
Or are you holding her to a higher standard than that to which you hold yourself?
A roast is NOT//NOT personal denigration and insults.
Lol! Ummm ... yeah it is. Check out any past roast on Comedy Central, including the roast of Donald Trump himself.
Right? Now some want to redefine a roast to make it not a roast anymore.
But only when it's their guy being roasted, of course.
Since when? Face it, the frat boy in the white house is a gutless wimp.
That is literally the only thing a roast is intended to be. Personal denigration and insults. Everything else is optional with a roast. You must not have seen too many roasts in your time. They are universally hilarious.
This was mild compared to the Comedy Central roast of Trump,
Apparently right wingers literally have no clue what a roast is.
Every year, the same bitch about the comedian. No matter who is in power or who is the comedian. Fucking deal with it! The only difference..and I mean the ONLY FUCKING DIFFERENCE THE LAST TWO YEARS...is the Donald J. Trump is too much a a thin-skinned, crying, whining, crybaby, "oh poor fucking me", spoiled little brat to sit there and take it!
THE ONLY FUCKING DIFFERENCE THE THE LAST TWO YEARS IS THAT DONALD J. TRUMP IS TOO MUCH OF A FUCKING PUSSY TO SHOW UP AND TAKE IT BECAUSE HE IS GUTLESS AND THAT IS ALL!!
I remember this real feisty poster on FR. She used to always talk about others looks and calling men fat bastards and such. Well one day she had one of her followers post her picture and guess what? She was this fat ass ugly as hell redhead from Chicago and her hypocrisy of talking about others being thrown in her face was Hillaryious.
Now if Wolfe wanted to put Sarah down for the job she does so what. But if you want to body shame her that wasn't cool.
I myself I don't think I could have sat thru Wolfe's performance with that annoying whinny voice.
Is this where conservatives profess their support for free speech rights?
If she would stop the obvious lies in the daily press briefings, the jokes about her would end immediately, but apparently, that concept eludes conservatives because they prefer to believe her lies to be factual.
Looks to me like there are lots of butthurt repubs. Tissue? Safe space? Comfort puppy? Maybe they should go scream at the sky.
Republicans aren't anywhere near "butthurt".
Those are the things that the butt hurt "Hillary Lost" crowd has been proven to need and use.
Yet it's the repubs that are crying and whining about this comedian....Weird huh? Personally, I think it's hilarious and I hope she offended a LOT of republicans.
You seem triggered.
They can dish it out, but they can't take it.
you said it.
Butthurt Republicans? From the NY Times? That's the stupidest comment I've seen today.
The leftist press continues to prove what Trumps says about them.
Is that the plural Trumps or a stitched together human centipede made up of Eric, Donald Jr and Ivanka with Donald as the head?
When they are all in bed together they make one big Trumps...otherwise known as a boil...though like all country folk know you have to wait until it "ripen'en's" (swells to a good-sized blackish/green head) properly before you lance it or it won't drain properly. Remember to use a good sized sewing needle (burned over an open flame first!) to lance it or the hole won't be big enough and to squeeze it good and hard all around from all directions to git all of the Trump pus out! The last thing you want is for your Trumps to reform and to have to go through the whole thing all over again as it hurts like all git out! Of course you can help it ripen along some beforehand if you have some Bag Balm to rub on (works great for rough hands too) and rub some balm on it afterward. Bandage it up and keep it clean for 4 or 6 days and your Trumps shouldn't return.
Trump continues to prove that the leftist press is right about him.
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Derogatory statements attacking all within a category (e.g. liberals, conservatives, theists, atheists, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, etc.) are indirect derogatory references.
"When they go low, we go high" was a myth from the get-go.
You can't go lower than a President who admits he doesn't "even wait" for women's consent and just grabs them by the pussy and has at least 19 credible accusers who confirm he sexually assaulted them. How many people have accused Michelle Wolf of sexual assault again? Who's the true scum, the one who tells a dirty joke or the one who is a dirty joke?
Where are these accusers today? Only one is in the spotlight, only trying to cash in and gain more than 130,000 she got before. Every one of the remaining scattered back into the shadows after the election.
Even the lawsuit Stormy Daniels filed against Trump today is nothing more than to keep her in the news, as everything else about her has faded and even liberals realized......Americans don't give a shit.
You mean all the women our Glorious Leader bribed to stay quiet?
I can't help but think the event would've been more cordial if trump hadn't wimped out, been a good sport and shown up. Too bad he doesn't know anything about sportsmanship and is terrified of being in situations where there aren't mobs of brainless thumpers trying to lick his ass.
Try to take an open minded look at this, I know I'm asking a lot, but if you were Trump, would you have gone? Honestly? What upside would there be?
Yes. Tradition, and not being perceived as a fucking coward to all but his loyal fluffers.
I think even many of them think he's a coward. That's why they cry foul when he's treated as he treats others. They know he can't handle it, and he'll demonstrate his inability to handle it.
Maybe Trump could grow up and attend the dinner instead of running off to hold his own ego boosting rally, the way a normal president does. Obama attended for 8 years and as a good sport about the jokes at his expense.
Even the notorious war criminal George W Bush attended.
Trump's fragile ego wouldn't let him lest he burst into tears.
Trump gives cowards a reason to call themselves courageous by comparison! I would call him a cunt, but he is missing the strength and character!!
The PR of him being able to make jokes at including himself...Would have shown some humility.
"Great, now that I have you all here, You're Fired! Oh Damn! wrong show."
I gotta say, this crowd is yuge! Bigger than my.....er Obama's inauguration"
The headlines the next day would have been so favorable.....But nope.
He'd have to have at least a tiny shred of humility to be able to show it. Expecting that from Donald would be like expecting Charles Manson to have shown regret before he died.
The master of marketing misses a golden opportunity due to his ego. What a cowardly f'n moron.
trump requires the same type of loyalty as charlie did.
Really? To whom has Sarah Sanders ever been vulgar or insulting?
And by the way, is insulting people what the event is supposed to be about? Isn't it possible to make jokes about a person without actually attacking them?
Some think being lied to from an official podium is insulting.
Yep.
For example?
Obviously your unqualified opinion, but curiously saying that sister sarah has a fat ass is uncalled for, double standard?
The American PEOPLE!
When specifically?
Hallie Jackson, and Comey just for starters.
How so?
It appears that once again those working in the White House did NOT do diligence by researching the venue they were attending so they would know what to expect.
As several have already posted, the venue was a roast. Everyone is a potential target and they know that.
Sarah Sanders is without question nothing more than a liar and imo has surpassed her father as the worst celebrity Christian on t.v.
With that said, I started to watch it and then just became too uncomfortable with some of the dialogue so I turned it off.
She made it just another loser shit based "Dick and Pussy" MTV Roast show. Real "Roasts" were the old Dean Martin "Roasts". People these days don't even know what the "Dean Martin Roasts" were. THEY WERE FUNNY !
"They were also funny!" Fixed it for you.
The old Rat Pack Roasts were great. Especially since Don Rickles was very much a don't give a shit person and would call everybody out back then. Especially when you consider the day and age, he was way more brutal than most roasters these days. In fact, he was known as the "insult comic" back in their day. THE insult comic.
Anyway, I see no difference between then and now except that they were taking things even further, back in the day.
I agree with you in a sense. I can't dispute that the roasts of days gone by were incomparable. They were funny but they also made you cringe at times.
The time has passed in which civility can be expected or demanded. The Christian right and everyone else who voted this man into Office have no moral ground to stand on. This is the America that President Trump voters wanted and they need to stop pretending they are appalled.
They used innuendo. The roasts these days actually use the phrase ..... "He/She sucks dick" for a laugh.
"The time has passed in which civility can be expected or demanded."
Liberals claim Trump is crass, and hate it. Liberals love Crass when it comes to talking about Trump and the folks that voted for him.
"Don't do what I do, do what I say" ??????????
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You fixed nothing. You just proclaimed you loves you some You is "Fucking, Sucking, Dicking and pussying show", and find that to be funny.
Ignorance is bliss....Trump is Fat.....Sarah is Fat....blah, blah, blah !
Could you use real words next time? It will make deciphering train-wrecks like that comment you made a little easier. Thanks ahead of time.
Tissue ?
Every single one of those words are in the dictionary !
I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.
Mark Cuban
Is Fucking in the dictionary?
edit: turns out it is. Color me surprised.
Actually.....Yes.....Yes it is !
Yeah. I looked after I asked.
Weird what happens when one looks before speaking. The initial thought before "Foot-in-mouth" disease sets in, is curbed !
More folks should aspire for that.
Bullshit !
It's less fun at times.
That said, I don't think the word Fuck being in the dictionary is something people would expect in general. I like the normalization of the word though, and it does render the vilifying of such words obsolete.
You're in the wrong century then.
This is what liberal types like Wolf find to be FUNNY !
I'm truly still trying to find "Originality" in your commenting....but it alludes me.
Help Me find it ?
Because?
I know !
Okay. That one isn't making any sense.
However, I will say that my surprise comes from the dissolution of "curse" tropes that have existed for far too long anyway. As dogmatic as people can be, I find it interesting.
Now, I have an off topic question which you have no obligation to answer, but: why do you leave a space between the last word in your sentences and the closing punctuation marks? Is it intentional or accidental?
You seem to miss all the base humor that is the republican primary means of denigrating and communicating.
Is that what Liberals are STILL saying about "Voters" ?
How'd that do in 2016.
Some just "Won't" learn from history......
That's a "Media" issue for bucks. TV's and Radios have an "OFF" Button.
" Now, I have an off topic question which you have no obligation to answer, but: why do you leave a space between the last word in your sentences and the closing punctuation marks? Is it intentional or accidental?"
Only the "Shadow Knows" !
Not relevant !
I really wish you would explain your thoughts in greater detail. What is the "Media" issue? Swearing or lack thereof? Making a big deal out of so called swearing when it shouldn't even be looked at as a valid talking point? Something altogether different?
I don't agree. You often take the tac of questioning people and their intelligence. As such, I feel it is pertinent.
"Imagination land" is not real world.
I don't do "tac". I'm about as forward as one can get. If you don't keep up with current affairs, it's not my place to catch you up. YOU should be doing that all on your own.
You definitely do "tac"....and apparently you have a bit of an issue with being truthful as well.
I really don't see how it's my responsibility to make sure you string a complete thought together while posting. I feel you should try harder at accomplishing that....on your own. That said, it was definitely nice of me to give you a little push to do so. You should be appreciative of my effort.
Wrong is just WRONG...no matter how much you try to explain the opposite to yourself.
Not liberals specifically, but rather people with a brain which also includes liberals.
Real dictionaries like the OED are taxonomic not prescriptive. Plus you'll get the full etymology of the word "fuck".
"Shit" is another fun one to look up in the OED.
I interpret it a little differently. I think liberals have decided that it doesn't pay to be civil or respectful. If President Trump supporters can embrace ignorance and vulgarity then why not everyone.
Sure....why not. We've had this supposed Civil (BLM, Cop Shootings, School Shootings, Syria, Libya, etc...) for a few years now. Look where it got us.
But now, with all this Trump stuff, there may be Peace in Korea soon. What a Hoot huh !
That's my way of thinking too. We can add rape, child molestation, embezzlement, tax evasion, illegal appropriation of federal funds, ethics abuse, domestic abuse, racism, and treason to the list to round it off.
You've learned me. Bravo.
Fantastic job by the White House Correspondents Association in revealing what it is.
Talk about false outrage.
Bottom line is If you were okay with voting in President Trump after his vulgar talk, open misogyny and constant lying then you don't have a moral compass to point at anyone else. This is the new America that you all wanted so suck it up buttercups.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has made so much indefensible bullshit at the service at the feet of her audience of one, the moronic idiot watching her from the Oval Office, that not one single person should feel the least bit sorry for her for anything offense that is ever said to or about her if she was called the worlds worst lying bitch. If anyone feels sorry for her then they should suggest a more dignified job, like jacking off dicks at a bull semen extraction machine.
If anyone feels sorry for her then they should suggest a more dignified job, like jacking off dicks at a bull semen extraction machine.
HEY! Something, just occurred to me! That IS what she does for a living!!! The only difference is that she just does it for only one dick!!! I'll be damned! Got it right the first time!!!
Holy FUCK, I Am Good!!!
hell, i should figure out a way to do this shit for a living...
“i should figure out a way to do this shit for a living”
Yes you should you have my support 100% on that.
Though I am really hard pressed to say something good in regards to Mr. Trump and Ms. Sanders, Ms. Wolf lost me when she took a page from Trump and attacked Ms. Sanders looks.
Relegated the whole thing to something out of high school, mean spirited and trivial. After all the criticism regarding Trumps personal attacks (justifiable in my opinion) it seemed a bit hypocritical to follow his lead.
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Well to be fair Ms. Wolf is a professional comedian while Trump is whatever Trump is.
Insult comedians are a long standing part of our culture, one might say they even go all the way back to court jesters spoofing royal assholes.
Ms Wolf might have missed her mark now and then, depending the listener, but taking shots at Trump and his court is not that weird a deal.
And don't get me started on how FUNNY and SAVAGE Jonathan Swift was as he laid into the asshole, 1% and rulers of his day with works like Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal
Ms Wolf broke no new ground, hit no new lows, (or highs).
Come on conservatives, you've been royal dicks for the last decade but a couple of hours of the same old, same old pointed your way and you start weeping and rending your garments.
Jeez Louise , keep acting that way and Trumps going to come up and GRAB you.
He wont be able to stop himself around such P*ssies.
One thing both Phylis Diller and Don Rickles did was self deprecating humor, and Michelle followed in their footsteps and did not disappoint. People getting upset at the "perfect eye makeup" comment about Sarah apparently didn't hear her call herself "It's like if my name was Michelle Jokes Frizzy Hair Small Tits." which was an actual attack on her own looks. So while some Republicans who scream about liberals and progressives being too PC, Michelle pushed some boundaries but landed solid shots at everyone from Trump to Ted Kennedy. She was an equal opportunity offender and should be applauded. Not every joke landed, some flailed a bit, but that would be my only criticism. Otherwise it was a proper indictment of Washington and this incompetent administration.
She did not attack her looks. She attacked her integrity and her character. I guess if you want to twist it by saying that a person's character can make the ugly, then yes, Sarah is fugly.
Perhaps a gender gap regarding "smokey eyes"! Recognition for smokey eyes is a good thing, my girl pride would puff up if my eyes were significant enough to garner comment!! Source of ash not so much...but I tend to look at the positive side
Wolf didn't do that, she merely ridiculed Sanders for her lies.
Breaking news from the WH:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders declares Mar-a-lago an UNESCO world heritage site after Donald Trump mistaken for a rare golfing panda.
I see why no one has ever heard of her.
I had to look up who she is and what her claim to "fame" is, just like I had to do with Kathy Griffin. "Comedians" ain't what they used to be, that's for sure!
No one south of the Mason-Dixon line maybe, I've known who she was since I first saw her on the Daily Show about two years ago and have seen her on many shows since. Now she may not seem funny to those who guffaw at the comedy styling's of Larry the Cable guy, but she definitely hits the funny bones of any modern progressives and pro-women, pro-choice Americans. And she's not nearly as filthy as some comedians like Rodney Carrington who can pack the house in the south and split their sides with laughter as he describes in gratuitous details going down on fat drunk cow girls.
It's nice to get out more.
Meh, if they don't want their feelings hurt and to be called out on their bullshit, if they only want people to sit up there and make boring ass golf jokes, don't invite comedians. Otherwise quit being a bunch of babies, you are in the public spotlight which means people are gonna say mean things about you. Grow the fuck up.
This faux outrage reminds me of the same ignorant debacle over the Beatles when a comment taken out of context spawned bonfires of burning Beatle records by right wingers who did not remotely understand the context.
When Lennon made the comment about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus, he was speaking out about the amount of media attention and fan attention invading their lives beyond all reasonable norms. They were a phenomenon that caused an outrageous amount of privacy invasion. Lennon even explained it afterward and the right wingers still failed to grasp the context and what it meant even with a true explanation.
The same kind of debacle is going on now, This is a comedian who was hired by the organization who now trash her, failed to come to her defense when they knew what was coming, and she is being trashed by the right who are ignorant enough to not understand some of the jokes discerning between appearance and jokes about lies.
Trump sent his minions to take the jokes and if Bush could show up and take what he was dealt, surely the "brave" draft dodger Trump could have taken the jokes. I mean he said he would rush in without a gun to confront a shooter. The proof is in the pudding and Trump is a puddle when it comes to showing any courage facing the truth or even facing a joke.
She did a great job and people should be applauding her.