Saturday Night Live's head writer Seth Meyers was the featured entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD), which took place Saturday night. The event always generates a lot of media attention, and this year was no exception. It would be reasonable to suggest that the WHCD was the most-discussed news story on Sunday morning and afternoon.
The establishment media's reportage of the event has been utterly predictable and virtually identical, regardless of the outlet: Seth Meyers was hilarious, President Obama was even more hilarious, the buffoonish Donald Trump was rightfully skewered by both, and the audience loved every minute of it.
One small factoid was left out of the media's coverage of the event. A minor detail that I had to research myself, because literally no media outlets reported it. It turns out Seth Meyers is a major Obama supporter and donor. Meyers donated to the Obama campaign on four separate occasions in 2008, giving a total of $4,600, the maximum amount allowed under federal election law at the time.
You'd think media outlets would have considered this bit of information relevant enough to share with their readers. Especially since Meyers and Obama essentially worked as a tag-team against the President's harshest critic Donald Trump, who was not given an opportunity to reply. You'd think that, but you'd be disappointed. It appears the press does not want this fact widely known.
A Google News search using the query "Obama" and "Seth Meyers" and "donation" turned up precisely zero results. Replace the word "donation" with "donations" and you get a single, old, off-topic news story. Another search for "Obama" and "Seth Meyers" and "$4,600" likewise came up empty. Replace "$4,600" with "$2,300" (which was the amount Meyers donated to Obama's general election campaign) and you still get nothing.
This wasn't difficult information to dig up, either. It took me just a few minutes of research on Google.
If a Republican was President, and the featured entertainer at the WHCD was a conservative who had donated thousands of dollars to the President's election campaign, and both of them spent most of the evening savaging the President's most prominent Democrat critic, don't you think the media might have mentioned the entertainer's conflict-of-interest? The question answers itself.
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