The White House Correspondent's Dinner is elitist. Why rush to defend it? | Ross Barkan

It is one of the worst traditions a moneyed, out-of-touch Washington media class ever concocted.Everything Donald Trump did on Saturday night was designed to insult and infuriate the very people who will forever see him as a stain on the American republic.Swaggering through Pennsylvania on the night of the White House correspondents’ dinner, Trump savaged his usual targets: the “failing” New York Times, CNN, MSNBC and Hollywood.