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Filmmaker: White House Correspondents Dinner Increasingly ‘Out of Touch’

A new film by former Politico journalist Patrick Gavin is challenging the culture surrounding what has become DC’s most self-absorbed annual event, the White House Correspondents Association dinner. His assessment: things started to go south around the same time Hollywood began using the event as an excuse for a four-day party.

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Seth Meyers Attacks ‘Clinton Cash’ Without Disclosing His Conflict of Interest

Seth Meyers, the host of NBC’s “Late Night,” spent much of Thursday night pretending to be a mash-up of Jon Stewart and James Carville. Meyers used his “entertainment” podium to launch into an intellectually dishonest attack against “Clinton Cash,” and more specifically, its author Peter Schweizer. The attacks were pure Clintonista.

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Ben Affleck and Henry Louis Gates Revising History of How Star’s Slaveholding Ancestor Was Edited From PBS Program

Hollywood movie star Ben Affleck and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates continue to revise recent history in their public statements surrounding Affleck’s successful pressuring of Gates, executive producer and host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” to remove any mention of his slaveholding ancestor, Benjamin L. Cole, from the “Roots of Freedom” episode that aired on PBS in October.