While we do not condone presidential participation in the idiot follies of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, which should end each year with the detonation of a dozen limo bombs, we have not run any photos this year of the president having diplomatic talks with a comical pirate, so here it is. [Pete Souza/White House]

Two issues “on the table” in this week’s heads-a-bloggin’ exchange between your editor and Choire Sicha: that goddamned White House Correspondents Association Dinner/Jerkoff, and a curious new marketing video put out by our former employers at Gawker Media. Who will win?! MORE »

Julia Allison and Henry Kissinger, the two poles of Washington reprehensibility (even though they both actually live in New York — it’s a crazy night, folks). — Photo courtesy HuffPo

Was the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the worst party we’ve ever gone to? No, probably not — we’ve gone to more than one Capitol File party, after all. But if we’d spent our Saturday night staying home, ordering a pizza, getting wasted, and watching Arrested Development episodes, would we have had a better time? Yes. And more material, probably.

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It’s not that we don’t appreciate all of you nice people who keep sending us the Laurie David/Sheryl Crow-Karl Rove story, hours after we posted it. We do! It just seems like David and Crow might not have been the kind-hearted ingenues they suggested they were in their Huffington post. Byron York of National Review got his own report of the confrontation.

Immediately after Dowd’s introduction, the witness says, David began lecturing Rove about global warming. This administration has done nothing on the issue, she told Rove. We face a crisis. The time to act is now. This administration has done nothing… MORE »

So did everyone else have a good time at the party? Huh? MORE »

Here, at long last, are your pictures from the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Thrill to Newt Gingrich, Morgan Fairchild, Michael Bloomberg, Eliot Spitzer, Mitt Romney, Tim Gunn, and the usual gang of idiots who are at this shitshow every year. MORE »

President Bush made a difficult decision.

“I was looking forward to doing a little poking myself, but in light of this tragedy at Virginia Tech I decided not to be funny.”

And so, honorably, did Rich Little.

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Check in Sunday, probably, for the start of Wonkette’s exclusive coverage of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. MORE »

Sanjaya Malakar, the Barack Obama of American Idol, except that he lost while Obama will be assassinated by the CIA, is the newest announced guest of People magazine to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association gala dinner. MORE »

* Expert tips on eating for free. [Arjewtino]
* Tim Gunn to spend weekend in DC. [DCist]
* Video of bike thieves, Police ask if you know any of them. [Life in Mount Vernon Square]
* Take a ride on Diane Rehm’s tracheotomy tube. [circumlocutor]
* WUSA9’s Bruce Johnson obviously not invited to the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner. [Bruce Johnson's Blog]

This would be much funnier if he actually killed the White House press corps, but George W. had some “fun” yesterday by briefly acting like someone who worked for a living. Bush got on a tractor — we don’t know why he’s going to tractor factories, do you? — and solemnly putted around for a moment. MORE »