Mike Masnick on Nostr: Beyond everything else that's wrong with the White House Correspondent's Dinner... ...
Beyond everything else that's wrong with the White House Correspondent's Dinner... can I just note that Oz Pearlman is... way overhyped as a mentalist? He uses off the shelf mentalism tricks anyone could buy and does average performances of them and pretends he's not just using simple magic tricks.
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