The day F.D.R give H.L Mencken some of his own medicine.

This week much talk about White House Correspondences Dinner, where President tries to be witty and throw some insults at his critics.But classic case of reality dishing it out to a critic came not in the Correspondences Dinner, but rather at Gridiron Dinner back in 1934.
H.L Mencken, the legendary newspaper man, and critic of the New Deal spoke, then it was Franklin D. Roosevelt turn to speak, and spoke about the Press,and this is what he said," shot through with stupidity, coward and philistinism and staffed by men who could not pass the entrance examination for Harvard and Tuskegee, or even Yale."

It was several minutes before the audience came to realize that he was quoting from Mencken's essay," Journalism in America."