As we have been told, Michelle Wolf ruint the White House Correspondence Dinner.
But not so fast: did you know it was already ruint?
I had completely forgotten about that particular national nightmare until my memory was refreshed after a search for Fawn Hall (sparked by the news about Ollie North’s new gig with the NRA) turned up a WaPo piece from 2012 by Al Kamen which brought back those days of yore.
It’s almost 25 years to the day since Hall became the first “celebrity” to walk among the journalists, officials and other assorted Washington types usually gathered at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. [...]
Then, she turned heads — the secretary to Oliver North had been thrust into the paparazzi crosshairs in the weeks before the black-tie dinner when the story emerged that she had helped her boss cover up evidence (hiding some papers in her dress) of the arms-for-hostages deal.
And her appearance on the arm of Baltimore Sun reporter Michael Kelly (who died in 2003 while covering the Iraq war) helped spawn, for better or worse, the all-out star-ogling that marks today’s dinners.
So the next time you hear someone like Margaret Talev vilifying Michelle Wolf for ruining the WHCD, you can remind them, “No, she didn’t. Fawn Hall already had!”