Newsbusters' Tim Graham is irritated that the Gridiron Dinner didn't feature jokes at President Obama's expense. Graham quotes a Washington Post article to provide evidence of what happened at the dinner. Among those quotes is this passage:
Throughout the night, the Sarah Palin jokes keep coming, as do the Hillary Clinton jokes, unemployment jokes, AIG jokes, death-of-the-newspaper jokes, Obama-as-messiah jokes, jokes about Rahm Emanuel's potty mouth, jokes about Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh and the fate of the GOP -- everything you've heard before, and done better, on “The Daily Show.”
Wait a minute: Obama-as-messiah jokes? Aren't those the precise jokes Tim Graham and the Newsbusters crowd (tediously) make every day? Yes, yes they are. In fact, Graham makes one in this very post, which he decorates with what he calls an “Obama messiah image”:
So the Gridiron Dinner featured the very same tired Obama-as-messiah jokes Tim Graham just loves -- and yet Graham whines that the dinner didn't feature jokes at Obama's expense.