Far-removed from his days as a liberal media darling, former president Barack Obama has recently been hogging attention once again. The head-of-state’s 60th birthday celebration drew the flak of the American public for its failure to adhere to the COVID-19 regulations that his political party is recently forcing upon the people.
What was supposed to be a clandestine affair, was accidentally divulged when rapper Trap Beckham bragged about the party and posted photos and videos of it on social media. The birthday bash was held in Massachusetts and showed numerous celebrities and Obama himself not wearing masks and foregoing social distancing.
“Had to delete everything due to the rules. It was epic for sure. If any videos surface it’s going viral. He danced the whole time. Nobody ever seen Obama like this before,” Beckham stated.
The beachside event was attended by the likes of Steven Colbert, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Dwyane Wade, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey to name a few. Democratic Party politicians such as John Kerry and “The Squad” member Rashida Tlaib were also spotted. Tlaib also went viral when videos of her dancing without a mask were shared online.
Biased liberal-coddling journalist Annie Karni, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, defended Obama’s celebration and even glorified the elite.
“This has really been overblown, they’re following all the safety precautions, people are going to sporting events that are bigger than this, this is going to be safe, this is a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd and this is just about optics it’s not about safety,” Karni stated.
Karni was lambasted by netizens, journalists and politicians for her classist remarks that a vast majority of people feel was an implication that we are all just peasants, unworthy of being granted the same level of societal advantage.
“This @nytimes phony reporter consistently covers for Democrats. She’s been caught multiple times doing advocacy,” tweeted Richard Grenell, a Republican diplomat and former acting director of the United States National Intelligence.
“A NYT reporter on CNN justifying Obama’s huge maskless birthday bash because he only invited ‘a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd’ is about as emblematic of liberal discourse as it gets,” journalist/lawyer Glenn Greenwald said.
“One reporter from The New York Times explained why Barack Obama and his friends from TikTok can have maskless parties indoors without vaccine passports, at the very same moment you are not allowed to visit your dying parents in the hospital. It’s not arbitrary. It’s not capricious. There’s a reason, a medical reason,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson stated.