Notes from the Correspondent's Dinner – UPDATED

Note scraps found around or on the tables of big-time professional journalists in America:

UPDATE: No, it’s not real, it’s a joke! I was sick this weekend and threw it together in my fevered brain! But it’s surprising how many emails I’ve had from people asking if its real!

Instapundit show us how laughable it all is. Thank God we have “gatekeepers and mediating intelligences” who ask the tough questions, conduct themselves with professional detachment and protect the public trust. Thank God we have journalists who “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

Hot Air on the Wanda Sykes routine. Remember when Bill Clinton got up and told the world that Sister Souljah’s words were filled with “a kind of hate” that was unacceptable? When does Obama-the great unifier-have his “Wanda-Wake-Up” moment?

Brian Montopoli at CBS recaps on reactions by and for the president of all the people.

Jules Crittenden has a great round-up of reactions to the lip-smacking

While the bit-time journalists are drooling: they’re not asking questions.

Treason: And other words they don’t really understand.

Ann Althouse: That Air Force One “photo-op” seems fishier every day.