White House Correspondents' Dinner overshadowed by protests against Israel-Hamas war
Posted on AllSides April 27th, 2024
From The Left
An election-year roast of President Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war, with protests outside the event condemning both Mr. Biden's handling of the conflict and the Western news' media coverage of it. Mr. Biden, like most of his predecessors, used the glitzy annual White House Correspondents' Association banquet to jab at his rival, former President Donald Trump. He followed the jokes with solemn warnings about what he said would happen if Trump...