Bobby Jindal just won’t go away; he shows up Saturday night in attendance at the White House Correspondences’ Dinner

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Bobby Jindal just won’t go away; he shows up Saturday night in attendance at the White House Correspondences’ Dinner

May 1, 2016 by tomaswell

Bobby Jindal at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night

So now that he is no longer governor and now that his presidential aspirations are in the dumpster (for the time being, at least, because his ego will not let him ride off into the sunset), it appears that Bobby Jindal may be embarking on a new career as a White House correspondent which is as close as he will ever get to the White House.

Of course, he has written nearly as many op-eds devoid of substance as Jeff Sadow and is almost as familiar on Fox News as Bill O’Reilly, so perhaps he fancies himself as a real-life correspondent. We wondered why he showed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night. We later learned that he has apparently jumped Fox in favor of writing essays for CNN. Not that his defection would be a great loss to Fox.

A more believable explanation would be that CNN simply lost a bet with Fox News.

Unfortunately for Jindal, he generated about as much interest at the dinner as he did in Iowa while campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. While many in the audience were targeted in one-liners from President Barack Obama, Louisiana’s erstwhile chief executive was never acknowledged.

The wistful look on his face says he still thinks he deserves to be the one at the dais in 2017. At least he didn’t try to give a Republican response to Obama’s stand-up routine.

For that, Republicans everywhere can be thankful.

13 Responses

on May 1, 2016 at 9:38 pm | Reply John Kline

Well, he is not forgotten. His name appears fairly regularly in comments on news sites. Of course, comments about him are not very good, even though true.
on May 1, 2016 at 9:55 pm | Reply Kurt Corbello

Hah! This is so funny! Happy to be of assistance! Kurt

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on May 1, 2016 at 9:56 pm | Reply Irving M.Blatt, AB, MD, MHA FAAORL, FACS, FSACFM.FASAFE

Governor Bobby Jindal was elected by the voters in Louisiana for 2 consecutive terms. If he was vilified after the first term, Bobby would not have gained re-election. What happened voters? There were accomplishments in office.
- on May 2, 2016 at 7:20 am | Reply tomaswell
  
  Name one.
- on May 2, 2016 at 1:45 pm | Reply earthmother
  
  With all those ABCs behind your name, one would think you would recognize that of all those many accomplishments,,,,,none were good for the state of Louisiana. Not one.
  
  earthmother, BAJ, APR
on May 1, 2016 at 10:02 pm | Reply delkmom

We saw him, too.
on May 1, 2016 at 11:34 pm | Reply Fredster

I saw that image on the teevee and immediately made the sign of the cross.
on May 2, 2016 at 6:45 am | Reply Scooter

Bobby Jindal-the bad joke that nobody is laughing at any more…..
on May 2, 2016 at 7:05 am | Reply Hunycat

Finding Bobby? I don’t see him anywhere…all I can see are his wreck and ruin of Louisiana. What I can see are the same voters that elected him, continuing to vote for the same poor candidates to further ruin Louisiana. Cynical? yes…
on May 2, 2016 at 7:44 am | Reply Htrdtd

As many op-eds devoid of substance as Jeff Sadow. Paaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaa!
on May 2, 2016 at 11:41 am | Reply Trixxie

Could it actually be, that look on his face, has he actually come to grips with his chances of ever being elected to any office much less the POTUS?
on May 2, 2016 at 2:54 pm | Reply June B Butler

Was Jindal networking for a job? Calling FauxNews!
on May 2, 2016 at 10:45 pm | Reply VnVet2

President Obama could have said: “I see Bobby Jindal is here – I wonder if he got lost because IOWA is West of here”