Matt Schlapp explains why he left the ‘not funny’ and ‘mean-spirited’ White House Correspondents’ dinner

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American Conservative Union chair Matt Schlapp said Monday he bailed out of the White House Correspondents Dinner after comedian Michelle Wolf’s “not funny” monologue became more “mean-spirited.”

“You can like or not like Sarah, you can like or not like her politics. It just seemed mean-spirited. Everyone around me was groaning,” Schlapp said on CNN Monday.

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