Vanity Fair Best WHCD Party (As Expected) Gets Clooney, Patti Smith, Kate Hudson

The night in question is the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, this year hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. The whole weekend, which kicks off with Friday cocktail parties, is a kind of real-life Huffington Post: lowbrow celebrity chasing and high-brow

I was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. And I loved 85% of it. This makes me somewhat of a hypocrite because I often criticize a lot of the people in that room, and I especially single out the chuminess of the press with the government

The weather finally cleared up just in time to finish White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend at the Hay Adams hotel with Thomson Reuters/McLaughlin's annual brunch. Though it was sunny and gorgeous outside,

It's one thing to have the White House Correspondents' Dinner be the one time of the year where the watchdogs let down their guard and have civil, even friendly, conversations with the people they cover. I would enjoy that.

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