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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Kudos to Michelle Wolf for Best Speech Ever at Tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Just a brief post to record my appreciation of Michelle Wolf’s appropriately expletive-laden keynote address at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight.

And kudos to CNN for broadcasting it unmaligned by bleeps and cuts. That in itself is a wonderful expression of freedom of speech - not to mention emergence from infantile journalism, which most media suffer from.

I have no idea what MSNBC and Fox News did, but I bet they went the cravenly bleep route, rather than airing Wolf’s words just as she spoke them.

Those words were not only funny but true - or especially funny because they were true - and that makes this speech on CNN a great day for America, sanity, and freedom.

Note added 30 April 2018: Some additional thoughts on Wolf's important address, in my quote (scroll down) in Helen Ubiñas's article, In Defense of Being Mean, in The Philadelphia Inquirer

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