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The Point of Michelle Wolf’s WHCD Monologue

Posted byChristoph 06/05/2018

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On-point analysis of Michelle Wolf’s speech roast at the White House Correspondents Dinner by Rhonda Garelick at The Cut:

 Yes, it’s a sexist epithet, using a slur against women (“bitch”) to equate feminine behavior with inadequacy. But beyond that lay Wolf’s greater point: The White House currently resembles a misogynist dystopia, but the press has some complicity in this. The press complains, but they return again and again to that briefing room, asking questions as if they might ever get a straight answer, as if this were a normal White House that hadn’t declared the free press “an enemy of the people.” And so, in level four of her insult sequence, Michelle Wolf directed her comedic firepower not at her ostensible target, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but at every member of her audience.

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Posted byChristoph06/05/2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: analysis, Comedy, Michelle Wolf, quote, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, satire is over, Trump, US politics

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