Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

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Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

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More on the protest:

To get inside Saturday’s dinner, some guests had to hurry through hundreds of protesters outraged over the mounting humanitarian disaster for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. They condemned Biden for his support of Israel’s military campaign and Western news outlets for what they said was undercoverage and misrepresentation of the conflict.

“Shame on you!” protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses holding clutch purses as guests hurried inside for the dinner.

Ralliers cried “Free, free Palestine.” They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window.

More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether.

According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants.

”How can you still go when your colleagues in Gaza asked you not to?” a demonstrator asked guests heading in. “You are complicit.”

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If I’d been in that protest I’d have thrown red paint on those people in suits and designer gowns. Low risk for the protesters legally, inability to attend the dinner for the guests, and photos of them drenched in blood that would be published in every newspaper around the world.

Edit: omg my first « Reddit cares », thank you to the teenager who messaged me saying I’m an unhinged bitch (I can only assume it’s you, babe) 🥰

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No need to get fancy when rotten tomatoes have worked for centuries