The Media Research Center’s resident comedy cop, Alex Christy, did not approve of Amber Ruffin being chosen to headline this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner:
On Tuesday, White House Correspondents’ Association President Eugene Daniels of Politico announced that Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Amber Ruffin will be this year’s featured comedian at the organization’s annual dinner.
Daniels wrote, “Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them. This dinner is about centering the importance of a functioning democracy and Amber is the type of entertainer who understands both the significance of that mission as well as the mechanics of power in this country.”
That might be the funniest thing to come from this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, and the actual dinner isn’t until April 26. Ruffin, who also once hosted a late night show on Peacock and is currently part of CNN’s Have I Got News For You, does not roast “all sides.”
Recently, Ruffin tried to smear Sen. Deb Fischer’s husband Bruce as a racist for not shaking then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s hand at his wife’s recent swearing-in while omitting that he had the Bible in one hand and a cane in the other.
But when Ruffin was dumped from the dinner, the MRC predictably cheered. Tim Graham did the deed in a March 31 post:
In a shocking turn-around, the White House Correspondents’ Association canceled plans to have extremely anti-Trump comedian Amber Ruffin perform at its annual dinner on April 26. President Trump, as well as his press secretary Karoline Leavitt, will not be attending the typically tilted proceedings.
As Variety reported:
Ruffin told a podcast backed by The Daily Beast that she would not try to make sure her jokes targeted all sides of the political spectrum as the WHCA had requested, and likened the Trump administration to “kind of a bunch of murderers.” Playing to both sides “makes them feel like human beings,” she said, “cause they’re not.”
Let’s guess no “independent fact-checkers” will throw a flag: Team Trump is not a “bunch of murderers” and they are human beings. Here’s the clips, as Ruffin talked with fellow leftist comedian Samantha Bee and editor Joanna Coles.
Then again, it’s not like Graham or anyone else at the MRC has interest in fact-checking anything Trump says. Graham rehashed his complaints in his podcast later that day, further huffing: “There has never seemed to be no need for a balance of jokes. They dropped comedians for a bit after Michelle Wolf mocked then-White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her eye makeup.” The MRC raged about that joke, whining that it was poor taste to mock someone’s appearance despite its own history of doing so.
The same day, Nicholas Fondacaro similarly whined in his hate-watch of “The View” that “none of the cast members gave a full throated condemnation of comedian Amber Ruffin after she called everyone in the Trump administration and Trump’s supporters sub human. Instead, they whined that the White House Correspondents Association axed her from their dinner, suggested they deserved to be dehumanized, and invited Ruffin on The View to do her set.”
Christy returned to grumble in an April 1 post that Ruffin had something to say about being dropped:
NBC’s Seth Meyers welcomed one of his Late Night writers, Amber Ruffin, to join him on Monday’s show to attack the White House Correspondents Association for canceling Ruffin’s comedy routine at this year’s dinner. Ruffin made the mistake of saying the quiet part out loud when she claimed she would not use the occasion to roast all sides because the Trump Administration is similar to a “bunch of murderers.” Meyers and Ruffin reacted to the news of her cancellation by comparing Trump to a Nazi and an arsonist, while Ruffin claimed the WHCA believes that the First Amendment is about being “nice to Republicans at fancy dinners.”
Towards the end of his monologue, Meyers pretended to be solemn about the whole thing, “Hey, also, before we wrap up the monologue tonight, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced on Saturday they’re canceling their plan to feature comedian Amber Ruffin at this year’s correspondents’ dinner. The organization said that in this political climate, they don’t want to focus on the politics of division. I just want to take a moment to say, I’m a big fan of Amber Ruffin, and I would have loved to hear what she had to say.”
[…]There is a difference between roasting someone and just viciously attacking them. Ruffin clearly doesn’t know the difference. The only question is, does WHCA President Eugene Daniels really expect people to take him seriously when he originally claimed that Ruffin would roast both sides?
Graham raged that Ruffin was cheered on CNN’s comedy show in an April 6 post:
One obvious way you can tell that CNN is “comfort food” for Trump haters — to borrow a phrase from Brian Stelter — is all the clapping and yelling when Amber Ruffin starts trash-talking Trump on CNN’s Saturday “comedy” panel show Have I Got News For You.
The show’s host Roy Wood Jr. put Ruffin in their “Offend-o-Meter” segment to discuss the White House Correspondents Association firing her from their dinner gig. The crowd wildly supported offending Trump and journalists who thought it would be best to mock both parties.
Wood asked if Ruffin thought she was dumped for revealing her hand too early that she would only mock Republicans.
“Oh my God, I could f–king talk for the next three hours,” Ruffin said. “But what I choose to say is, it’s like, I lost the gig because I was out here talking sh-t. And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig, because I was going to show up there and act all the way out. Also, it’s not anyone’s fault, because when I was hired, we were like, ‘oh, yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody.’ And I was like, bet.”
She continued, “Then they started f–king disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador. They rolled back f–king civil rights. So I was, like, if I make this equal, then I’m also a piece of sh-t. I can’t f–king do that.” The crowd whooped some more.
Notice Ruffin & Co. didn’t act offended when illegal aliens were killing people in America, which certainly rolls back a person’s civil rights.
Christian Toto took his own shots at Ruffin and the WHCA in his April 19 column:
The White House Correspondents’ Association, part of the corrupt Legacy Media, recently hired and then fired far-Left comic Amber Ruffin from hosting its annual D.C. gala. The announcement didn’t mention Ruffin’s name – a classy move, no?
Ruffin planned to go scorched Earth on Trump that night. Apparently, the biased body thought that might be a bad look.
Maybe withholding key information from news consumers is an even worse look.
The president didn’t attend the previous four WHCA dinners during his first term. He recently announced he’s skipping this month’s gala, too.
President Trump had nothing to do with that cancellation or the others.
Toto’s main theme was being happy that liberals were self-censoring out of fear of “a fear of Trumpian retaliations. Yet we saw nothing of the kind during the president’s first term.”