My new best friend in my dreams, Sarah Kendzior, appeared on Velshi and Ruhle to discuss the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and criticism of Michelle Wolf's performance. Sarah doesn't really care too much about the dinner itself - but did care about something Wolf zeroed in on in her criticism: media complicity in the rise of Trump's autocratic rule.
Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle were quick to make sure she was aware of their regular efforts to call the Trump administration on its bullshit. Except, it really wasn't necessary.
RUHLE: Joining us now is Sarah -- I'm so sorry. Kendzior. Walk us through there. We were at the dinner, and you say that the dinner should have been done away with a long time ago.
KENDZIOR: Yeah, I don't think there's a need for it. I don't think the dinner is what's important. What's important are lies and what's important are liars in the White House, including the president and including Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and those in the press who are more willing to abet those lies, to not call them out openly, to practice this sort of access journalism that does nothing but prop up this proto-autocratic administration, rather than deliver the truth and expose corruption to the American public.
RUHLE: Why aren't both true? Why aren't both true? So, for example, we don't have access to the White House. I have asked the White House for the last 305 days for an interview. They say no.
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