I haven’t mentioned anything about the White House Correspondents Dinner because the White House Correspondents Dinner is dumb. The supposed outrage over milquetoast jokes about an apparatchik for the powerful plutocrats running the country is dumb. The outrage over that outrage is dumb. The jokes themselves were pretty dumb. The media trying to grease their sources by defending the honor of the apparatchiks they depend on for access is dumb. My own manufactured irritation to add some salt to this paragraph is dumb. We are drowning in the detritus of disposable infotainment. We are becoming dumber. Resist.

But like a moth to a flame war, when Leslie Rutledge grandstands hilariously, I report such hilarity to you, readers. The nattering about “nerd prom” is tedious, the profiles of Sarah Huckabee Sanders are dreary, but Rutledge is genuinely funny. She is a sui generis charlatan, a phony that never phones it in. No one could roast her; the roast is implied.

Seeing an opportunity to build her email list, Rutledge today announced that she is launching “#SarahStrong” in order to defend the well-compensated spokesperson for the most powerful government in the world against jokes. “We will not stay silent,” Rutledge clarified. Thank goodness. I don’t know whether to call this thing being launched a campaign or a hashtag or what. At one point, Rutledge calls it a “movement.” What does this new movement entail? The deal is that you sign up on a page on Rutledge’s campaign website and provide your email (the email address is the only required field). The webpage doesn’t say what Rutledge does with your email once she has it. We can only guess.

Alongside the email grab, here’s the manifesto that Rutledge penned explaining the #SarahStrong movement. Liberal comedians should be ashamed. None have produced satire quite like this.

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