Sunday, April 27, 2008

George W. Bush Entertains His Celebrity Guests

The stars descended on Washington D.C. last night, there for US President George W Bush’s last White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Among those in attendance were newly engaged couple Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz, along with reality show stars Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.

During the course of the evening, held at the Washington Hilton, the president said he “was surprised his potential successors were not in the audience before making jokes at their expense.”

Referring to Republican candidate John McCain’s absence, Bush said: “He probably wanted to distance himself from me.”

Poking fun at controversies surrounding the Democratic candidates’ campaigns, he said: “Hillary Clinton couldn’t get in because of sniper fire and Senator Obama’s at church.”

BBC reports tell: “He was referring to Mrs Clinton’s ‘mis-speak’ when she erroneously claimed she faced sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia in the 1990s; and Mr Obama’s pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who criticized America in fiery sermons.”

To end the evening, Bush conducted the US Marine band in a medley of patriotic marches, as the Jonas Brothers, Pamela Anderson and Miss USA cheerfully looked on.

Gossip Girls

Enjoy the pictures from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (April 26).