At last night's annual spectacle of Beltway media types, politicians, actors and moguls known as the White House Correspondents' Association dinner (or as some of us would call it, the "We Have A Club And You're Not In It" dinner), President Obama had a few zingers, one of which was directed at CNN:
... Obama noted that Cecily Strong, the evening’s entertainer, impersonates a CNN anchor on “Saturday Night Live.”
The jab could easily have worked if you substituted almost any print or media news operation for "CNN," of course (=cough=“Which is surprising,” he said, “because the only people impersonating journalists on CNN are the journalists on CNN.”
Keegan-Michael Key of Key and Peale makes an appearance as "Luther," the President's "Anger Translator." The stony expressions of some in the audience (=cough= old white guys =cough=) speak volumes about the media's self-righteousness and lack of self-awareness.
Here's the full 22 minute video of President Obama's remarks (with additional zingers directed at Weeper of the House John "Mr. Tangerine Man" Boehner, Michele Bachmann, the Koch brothers, the Clown Car of Republican hopefuls, Dick "The Dick" Cheney, and Hillary Clinton among many others):
