The White House Correspondents’ Association may have said it was going to turn down the celebrity quotient for this year’s dinner, but the media said it turned up the thermostat instead of turning it down.
They may have disagreed about Conan O’Brien‘s performance as headliner and whether he was as funny as President Obama, but there was little disagreement about the celebrities in attendance.
“White House Correspondents Dinner Feeds on Star Power,” headlined The Washington Post’s report on the dinner from Joel Achenbach and Amy Argetsinger. The report said the dinner “showed new evidence of being completely overrun by red-carpet-posing actors, singers, sports superstars, models and other outsiders who couldn’t possibly name the ranking Democrat of the House Ways and Means Committee, much less its chairman.”