Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump didn’t have to ditch one Washington for another to get the greatest gift he could have hoped for out of the White House Correspondents dinner weekend. But that surely didn’t hurt. Trump was in Michigan bashing what he called the “very dishonest” people in the media while a comedian hired by the media was delivering a vulgar routine that didn’t make anyone in the room look better for the evening. It plays into the kind of positioning the president and his allies favor. Trump being mocked by elites allows the president to play the victim – laughed at, or so the argument goes, because he’s such a threat to the status quo. There are lessons here for the many journalists who are committed to fair and thorough reporting on this White House. There’s also a lesson for Trump’s political opponents. Laughing at the president may be easy, and even tempting at times. But that doesn’t make it sound or productive strategy. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Voters were deeply divided on cultural movements as well as electoral politics, during a focus group conducted by pollster and ABC News contributor Frank Luntz and sponsored by Andrew Shue last week. Conversations about sexual harassment in the workplace and the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, elicited starkly different reactions and responses, falling along party lines, from the two dozen self-identified angry voters Luntz met with i... Link to the full article to read more