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"FacebookPinterest\n\nAh, the memories. In case you were out and about having yourself a normal Saturday night, here's everything you need to know about the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 24 tweets, courtesy of Hollywood funny-man (and former WHCD joke-writer) Jon Lovett, who agreed to take over our feed for the weekend. (Oh, and be sure to follow him, and us.)\n\nIt's @jonlovett. I'm back! First of all. What a night. The celebrities. The print journalists. My head is spinning! Some thoughts on #WHCD:\n\n1. Yearly ritual at the #WHCD: watching movie stars awkwardly get the hell away from conversations with WASHINGTON'S TOP MINDS.\n\n2. Upon entrance to the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair after-party, it is customary for guests to congratulate each other for making the list.\n\n3. I've never seen anyone swarmed the way George Clooney was swarmed. I'm pretty sure a Reuters correspondent threw her bra at him.\n\nClooney could've ordered the DC establishment to commit group suicide and all of a sudden people would be passing out little cups of poison.\n\n\"Here, drink this,\" says Howard Fineman of the poison. \"George Clooney wants us all to drink this and so we are drinking it. George look!\"\n\n4. It is de rigueur to mock the #WHCD mercilessly while fiendishly lapping up every single moment. It is a collective guilt.\n\nIf you were to say, \"I love this party! I'm having fun with celebrities and pundits!\" I think it is required that Gloria Borger shoot you.\n\n5. There are two overwhelming feelings at #WHCD: A) Is this all there is to life? Why are we here? and B) Jason Stackhouse from True Blood!\n\n6. There are Washington luminaries that I believe are defrosted once a year to attend #WHCD. This is just a theory right now.\n\nI don't want to name names, however. Afraid David Gergen will lead a posse of pundits to my house and bore me to death. #WHCD\n\n7. Also a twinge of sadness to the whole affair. The sense that many of the great journalistic institutions are barely holding on.\n\nBut they still buy tables while the world burns. \"Who needs a reliable revenue stream in the internet age when there is champagne!\"\n\n8. Eventually, it'll just be Politico tables and Huffington Post tables in there. And then this experiment we call America will be complete.\n\n9. As a rule, most people want their conversations at fancy parties to be \"Hello. We had a conversation. Now onto the next conversation.\"\n\n10. Observation: Kate Upton is like a vacuum cleaner for men's eyeballs.\n\nYou could walk around carrying a \"GOD HATES FAGS\" sign in the Bloomberg party and no one would notice if Kate Upton was in the room smiling.\n\n11. When it comes to #WHCD, there is no lie told as often or as easily as \"Hey, how are you? So good to see you!\"\n\nIt's a universal greeting. And I'm no innocent. I have said, \"So good to see you!\" to people I consider to be monsters wearing human suits.\n\n12. For this is the dark truth: there is no way to participate in the Correspondents Dinner ironically.\n\nNo matter how hard you roll your eyes or make fun of the weekend, you are there because you want to be. And it hurts.\n\nSo I will start the confession: I believe the #WHCD is a disgusting display of preening and insincerity and I look forward to it.\n\nOK this has been fun but handing this feed back to GQ's editors in their adorable (but VERY RIGHT NOW) men's spring culottes.\n\nThanks to @marklotto and @reidcherlin for having me. If you need me, I'm heading back to @jonlovett. Politics is the worst, Jon\n\n Read more on Death Race 2012\n\n\"I can do it one night, but don't ask me to come again tomorrow night.\" Scenes from the White House Correspondents' Dinner\n\n\n\n \"Well, that was a decadent one percenter orgy of pilfered wealth\": Scenes From Last Night's White House Correspondents' Dinner Pre-Parties\n\nWeekend Watching: Robert Draper on The Daily Show\n\nThe Most (And Least) Powerful People in Politics This Week\n\nFollow @GQPolitics for more ridiculousness on the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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