Burning roast of ‘liar’ Sarah touches nerve
WASHINGTON WAS split Sunday over comic Michelle Wolf’s roast of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
“I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful,” Wolf (photo below) said at the Saturday night event, as Sanders sat nearby.
“She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye,” she said. “Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
Some conservatives didn’t see the humor.
“The WHCD was supposed to celebrate the 1st Amendment. Instead they celebrated bullying, vulgarity, and hate,” tweeted Mike Huckabee, Sanders’ father and a former Arkansas governor.
Several White House reporters also thought the act went too far.
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell suggested Wolf apologize, saying the comedian was the “worst” since Don Imus needled the Clintons at the 1996 Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner.
Margaret Talev, a Bloomberg News reporter and president of the White House Correspondents Association, defended her decision to have Wolf speak.
“I invited her because I thought that she was a talented comedian with a message to deliver,” Talev said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
She lamented that Wolf’s 15-minute delivery took away from a night in which she wanted everyone to come together.
Wolf denied her comment about Sanders’ makeup mocked her appearance. Instead, she said she roasted Sanders’ job performance.
“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,” she tweeted.
President Trump skipped the dinner for the second year in a row.“The so-called comedian really ‘bombed,’” he opined Sunday.
Gun control advocate Shannon Watts likened the tough comedic approach to the pending midterm elections.
“If DC elites and Trump supporters are upset about the strong opinions of Michelle Wolf at #WHCD, just wait until election night November 2018,” she tweeted.