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At the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, one of the big comedic targets was CNN. Both President Obama and host Joel McHale made fun of the cable news network, with Obama mocking CNN’s widely criticized overkill coverage of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

“I think they’re still searching for their table,” Obama quipped in reference to the CNN staffers in attendance, and during McHale’s routine a C-SPAN camera offered a reaction shot from CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer — who had apparently found his seat, but did not look very happy. He had a thin-lipped, barely-there smile on his face, as if he was only begrudgingly enduring the ridicule.

Honestly, I felt for Wolf. He’s been at CNN since 1990, one year shy of a quarter-century, and it’s gotta suck having to watch his once-respected network become an easy joke (and a ratings-challenged one at that).

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