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At the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night [April 28], comedian Michelle Wolf roasted President Donald Trump and members of his administration in what's been described as a "scathing [theguardian.com]" speech.

In a series of tweets [twitter.com], journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized the event but commended Wolf for her comedy routine, declaring that she "was hilarious & struck exactly the right tone from start to finish. She heaped irreverent contempt on D.C. power centers because that's what good comedians do (& they deserve it)."

[She slagged the administration, of course. (Trump didn't attend, for the second year in a row.)]

She said she wanted to address Democrats too, but "Democrats are harder to make fun of because you guys don't do anything."

Her routine also featured jabs at the corporate news media: "There's a ton of news right now; a lot is going on, and we have all these 24-hour news networks, and we could be covering everything. But, instead, we're covering like three topics. Every hour, it's Trump, Russia, Hillary, and a panel of four people who remind you why you don't go home for Thanksgiving."

[...]Of [the White House Press Secretary], Wolf said:

And, of course, we have Sarah Huckabee Sanders. We're graced with Sarah's presence tonight. I have to say I'm a little star-struck. I love you as Aunt Lydia in "The Handmaid's Tale". Mike Pence, if you haven't seen it, you would love it.

[...]I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. Like, she burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like, maybe she's born with it; maybe it's lies. It's probably lies.

And I'm never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You know, is it Sarah Sanders? Is 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? Oh, I know: Aunt Coulter.

While Wolf's comments that were perceived as attacks on the women's physical appearances garnered intense criticism, some were quick to come to her defense.

[...]The New Yorker's television critic Emily Nussbaum broke down the remarks about Sanders in a series of tweets [which included]:

No. Her job is *exactly* like Aunt Lydia: she is the frowning female enforcer for a fascist patriarchal society, punishing those who resist her lies. it has a tinge of the looks element, but that's not the point of the joke, at all--it's aimed at her job.

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