Katha Pollitt and Andrew Sullivan
Katha,
Actually, the dity little secret of the White House Correspondents' Dinner is that you don't have to be invited. The most fun is at the pre-party, and all you have to do is show up in a tux or a long dress and no-one even asks you for an invitation. I crashed loads of parties no-one invited me to. I wonder if this got out, if next year's event would be crammed? The 15 minutes syndrome again. Sure, you have to have an invite for the rubber chicken/presidential speech, but that's a bore anyway. And the Vanity Fair event afterwards is just like the pre-party, only everyone's more drunk. It was more fun at Christopher Hitchens's place in the old days. (i.e. 1995.) Oh, the decline of Washington ...
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