Amber Ruffin will not occur for the Assn dinner. Correspondents of the White House later this month after the group's advice unanimously decided to invite him as a star artist.
The president of the WHCA Eugene Daniels – who recently joins MSNBC as a weekend host – declared in an email on Saturday to the members that the board of directors of the organization had unanimously decided to lose the actor and to refocus the event on journalistic excellence rather than “the policy of the division”, ” Politico reported.
He did not mention that Ruffin said on a podcast last week That the Trump administration was “a kind of group of murderers” who wanted the “false equivalence that the media make” because it “makes them feel like human beings, but they should not feel like this, because they are not” – and that there was “no means” that it was going to make fun of the two parts during the dinner. Or that Trump's deputy chief of staff called on the organization on Friday for having presented a “2nd rate actor” at dinner and the next day Rejection to Ruffin As a “waste and hateful actor”.
To comment on events – in a way – Ruffin appeared on Monday on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”, the program where she has worked as a writer and performer since 2014.
Meyers spoke of a supposed flight in a Bodega when the actor materialized on the set, saying: “Honestly, I am concerned about the way you are going to end this joke.”
“Obviously, I'm going to make a punchline to make fun of the guy who stole the Bodega,” replied the host.
“See, Seth, the problem is that it is division,” said Ruffin with sarcasm. “Take it from me. If there is one thing I learned this weekend, you must be just for both sides. ”
“Yes, but it doesn't make sense in this case,” said Meyers, playing the hetero man. “There is an innocent owner of Bodega. There is a burglar.”
“Or-Listen to me-There are very beautiful people on both sides,” she said. The public laughed by invoking comments made by President Trump when he was questioned in 2017 on the violence around the demolishing of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, demonstrations of North Carolina for and against the dismissal of the statue had occurred in the middle of a rally of the far right organized by white nationalists.
Not mentioned, perhaps because Ruffin is in the joke, was the game where Trump also said“I am not talking about neonazis and white nationalists because they should be totally condemned. But you had many people in this group other than neonazis and white nationalists, ok?”
Back in the late evening show, Meyers and Ruffin went back and forth. “Yeah, but he broke the front door of a Bodega,” said Meyers.
“Is he?” Ruffin replied. “Or did he provide an innovative ventilation system?”
Steal from the cash register? “He received a micro-lave.” Put the fire on the automatic counter? “He courageously fought inflation.”
Finally, Meyers said: “Amber, when people are objectively terrible, we should be able to report it on television.”
“I thought it too,” she said. “Friday. But today it's Monday. And Amber Ruffin on Monday knows that when bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fairly and respectfully.
“Do you mean the Nazis?” Asked Meyers.
“Call them that are so unilateral!” she replied.
The exchange continued with Ruffin finally saying that she was happy to have been prevented from making her speech at dinner, because “Ooh Baby, I would have been so terribly nasty.”
Then Ruffin said that she had to run because she had to return the dress she planned to wear correspondents to the dinner.
“I have already removed the labels,” she said, “but I'm just going to say that they exploded in the wind.”
