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.
“There was nobody who watched her monologue who would think it was somehow balanced,” Schlapp said on CNN regarding Wolf’s Saturday routine.
American Conservative Union chair Matt Schlapp walked out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“It just got more and more uncomfortable,” he said of what he saw as a “mean-spirited” attack on Sarah Huckabee Sanders and “repulsive” jokes about abortion pic.twitter.com/ASvLvHV58c
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Schlapp added that Wolf’s jokes about abortion were a key reason why he left.
“For me the worst part, I would have to say… I think the jokes about abortion for my wife and I were particularly just galling and shocking,” Schlapp said, quoting some of her jokes on the topic. “I mean it was just repulsive, it’s not funny. I mean, you can have your views on abortion, but I don’t think anybody thinks it’s funny.”
