'Embrace the flop': Attendees report Rep. Donna Edwards WPCF dinner speech an 'epic bomb'

Doug P. | 11:17 PM on February 05, 2014

+1 RT @mikememoli: "I survived the Donna Edwards #wpcfdinner speech of 2014" #isitdoneyet ?

— Ed Henry (@edhenry) February 6, 2014

At the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner Wednesday night, tweeters on hand reported that Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Mass.) tried her hand at comedy, and apparently failed miserably:

Rep. Donna Edwards is an epic bomb at WPCF dinner. It's painful.

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) February 6, 2014

I am hurting for Donna Edwards right now at the #wpcfdinner. Standup comedy is hard.

— Michael Rose (@dcmichaelrose) February 6, 2014

Quote at my table: "She should stick to her day job."

— Bob Cusack (@BobCusack) February 6, 2014

The silence / awkward chuckles are deafening. #wpcfdinner

— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) February 6, 2014

Donna Edwards. Ouch. #wpcfdinner

— Christopher Thorne (@cs_thorne) February 6, 2014

That Edwards speech was just….. I don't know. So painful #wpcfdinner

— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) February 6, 2014

I'm wondering if Donna Edwards could have made this crowd more uncomfortable by just like taking her clothes off or something. Not likely.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 6, 2014

Let’s not judge too quickly. How about an example of one of the jokes first:

@repdonnaedwards: we want to make sure that every american has access to free birther control #wpcfdinner

— Jay Newton-Small (@JNSmall) February 6, 2014