'Appearance Is As Important As Reality'

It falls to Gene Robinson this year to write the obligatory self-flagellating column about the impropriety of the administration and the press getting together for all these “fun” press dinners.

Today, he has some questions about this weekend’s Gridiron dinner:

“The point isn’t the program or the performances. The point is that the nation’s leading journalists get together with the people they are supposed to hold accountable and have an evening of penguin-suited, designer-gowned fellowship….

“With apologies to my hosts, I ended up feeling conflicted about the whole thing.

“Reporters

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