"We're supposed to call the White House Correspondents' Association dinner the 'nerd prom.'….Frankly, I find it offensive. George Clooney doesn’t go to 'nerd proms.'……frankly I've been to a half dozen correspondents' dinners, and nerds were far less well represented than rent-seeking K Street sleaze balls, social-climbing poseurs, and power-hungry pols of all parties. The elite DC press corps calls its annual gala the 'nerd prom' because it sounds self-deprecating around the Hollywood stars and New York bigwigs. They admire the former for being more famous than them, and resent the latter for being more famous than them." from Jonah Goldberg in the LA Times
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