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President Obama keeps the zingers coming
President Obama shares a few laughs at the White House Correspondents #39; Dinner.

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President Obama at White House Correspondents #39; Dinner
President Obama at the 2014 White House Correspondents #39; Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. May 3, 2014.

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President Obama reveled in the opportunity to roast just about everyone including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, cable news networks, and even himself in his speech Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

The president was joined by comedian emcee Joel McHale and a host of celebrities, including a stunning Sofia Vergara, at the celebrity and political soire in the Hilton ballroom in Washington.

We rolled out healthcare.gov. That could have gone better, Obama admitted. In 2008, my slogan was Yes we can. In 2013, my slogan was Control-alt-delete.

The annual event brings the Beltway press together with Hollywood stars for a barrage of good-natured political humor.

MSNBC is here, Obama joked. Theyre a little overwhelmed. Theyve never seen an audience this big before.

The president also took aim at the cable news fixation with the mysteriously missing airliner.

Im a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia, he said. It just shows the lengths you need to go to get CNN coverage these days.

Speaking about the culture in Washington, Obama noted that he wasnt the only political leader catching flak from the GOP. Republicans are giving [House Speaker John] Boehner a harder time than me, which means that orange really is the new black, he said.

The president had a creative answer to the cause for political stalemate on Capitol Hill:

The gridlock in this town got so bad that you gotta wonder: What did we do to piss off Chris Christie so bad?

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Obama ribs foes, himself at White House Correspondents dinner

Little was sacred when President Barack Obama tossed out playful but pointed jokes Saturday night not even his own health care plan.

"We rolled out healthcare.gov. That could have gone better," Obama said in remarks at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. "In 2008 my slogan was 'Yes we can.' In 2013 my slogan was 'Control-alt-delete.'"

One the plus side, the president said, "they did turn the launch of healthcare.gov into one of the year's biggest movies." On a screen flashed the poster for "Frozen."

When a video Obama introduced failed to play properly, he asked, "Does anybody know how to fix this?" To laughter, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepped up and said: "I got this. I see it all the time." In the wake of the problems with the website, Sebelius has announced she is stepping down.

The annual dinner has become a tradition in the nation's capital, promising a black-tie evening of humor and celebrity gazing. The event once again attracted an array of journalists, government officials, politicians and media personalities as the association raised money for college scholarships. The featured entertainer was comic actor Joel McHale, the star of the NBC series "Community."

In his own stand-up routine, Obama didn't waste any time turning his barbed jokes toward the news media.

"MSNBC is here," he said. "They're a little overwhelmed. They've never seen an audience this big before."

Noting that he had traveled to Asia recently, Obama said: "The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days. I think they're still searching for their table."

The president saved his sharpest jabs for another cable news network. "The Koch brothers bought a table here tonight, but as usual they used a shadowy right-wing organization as a front. Hello, Fox News!"

He added: "Let's face it, Fox. You'll miss me when I'm gone. It will be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya."

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President Barack Obama is promoting the work he's done in what he's calling his "Year of Action."

In his weekly radio and online address Saturday, the president says he's taken more than 20 executive actions to help the economy. The White House paired the address with a 28-page progress report detailing each action.

With midterm elections six months away, Obama is criticizing congressional Republicans for blocking a minimum wage increase and other parts of his economic agenda. House Speaker John Boehner's office responds that if Obama really wants to create jobs, he'd approve the Keystone XL pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries.

In the Republican address, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida says Obama should be imposing tougher sanctions on Russia over unrest in Ukraine.

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Obama address: http://www.whitehouse.gov

GOP address: http://www.youtube.com/user/gopweeklyaddress

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