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"Looking back on Saturday night&amp;amp;#8217;s White House Correspondents&amp;amp;#8217; Dinner, I can&amp;amp;#8217;t help but think about its nickname: #NerdProm. For all the chatter about it losing its focus (many attendees said to me, &amp;amp;#8220;It has gotten out of hand, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to be all Tom Brokaw about it, I&amp;amp;#8217;m just going to enjoy the evening&amp;amp;#8221;), everyone there just seemed to be having a damn good time. I certainly did. Without all the PR handlers and front-office men, a proud Game of Thrones nerd like me could walk up and say hello to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau or Robin Wright from House of Cards as easily as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia or former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (who, when asked how she chose her pin for the evening since she&amp;amp;#8217;s so famous for them, &amp;#x27;fessed up, &amp;amp;#8220;Just because it matches!&amp;amp;#8221; Is it wrong that I&amp;amp;#8217;m psyched I got to talk accessories with Madeleine Albright?). And who knows why this year&amp;amp;#8217;s dinner was such a good one? Perhaps because President Obama is enjoying a second term and was more than willing to poke fun at himself (&amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be&amp;amp;#8221;), and no one was talking about 2016 yet. (Vice President Joe Biden&amp;amp;#8217;s appearance was only felt in an opening video montage asking everyone to sit down; Hillary Clinton&amp;amp;#8217;s run, when it was discussed at all, was &amp;amp;#8220;when,&amp;amp;#8221; not &amp;amp;#8220;if.&amp;amp;#8221; Chris Christie and Marco Rubio got the shortest of mentions.) Or maybe it was because Hollywood is doing such a good job showing the underbelly of Washington these days (the casts of Scandal and House of Cards were some of the hottest attendees, especially with Kevin Spacey&amp;amp;#8217;s brilliant opening video) that the real power players could relax and do a little star-gawking of their own. It certainly didn&amp;amp;#8217;t hurt that everyone was equally the target of jokes&amp;amp;#8212;MSNBC took as many hits as Fox News, and both fared better than Mitch McConnell (Conan compared him to Dame Edna). Buzzfeed.com, which didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have a table at the dinner because it didn&amp;amp;#8217;t send its check in on time, was the only group that may have come out more unscathed than anticipated. I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s because we&amp;amp;#8217;ve all finally realized: Nerds are cool. These days we all know that geeky guys in the garage and baseball-stat nerds go on to become the tech heroes and election pundits we all wish we&amp;amp;#8217;d given a chance in high school. They are the Prom King of today, founding companies like Facebook and Twitter that have changed how we report and get our news and how we view our politicians. Yep, on Saturday night everyone was a nerd, and they were pretty proud of it, just like Gilbert. Zing! Did you catch the White House Correspondents&amp;#x27; dinner? What was your favorite moment? Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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