Obama Quips at White House Correspondents Dinner: ‘Orange is the New Black’

Juan Cole 05/04/2014

CBSNews.com Web Extras: “President Obama skewers the press, pols, and Obamacare at correspondents dinner”

AFP reports:

Obama yuks it up with Washington reporters (via AFP)

President Barack Obama cracked jokes about the government’s disastrous health care policy rollout and mocked political opponents at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event, known informally as the “nerd prom,” brings Washington’s top…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.