Jean Paul-Sartre once said: Freedom is what you do with what\u2019s been done to you, and America \u2013 with its freedom from Britain and other colonial powers \u2013 develop its own peculiarities, one of which is the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, a night where the press and the White House ostensibly bury their differences over a few shots. Normally those shots are jokes like Obama\u2019s anger translator or Reagan dialling in after an assassination attempt, but this year they came from the barrel of a deranged gunman who had managed to waltz past security.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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