The mainstream media’s latest supposed scandal revolves around Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s dinner parties, decrying them as “elite taxpayer-funded dinners” with political leaders, titans of industry and celebrities.
Yet when President Obama hosted a slew of fancy dinners during his second term, press coverage was quite favorable.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles has more:
“At Dinner Tables, a Restless Obama Finds an Intellectual Escape,” read the New York Times headline in July 2014. The article describes a series of late-night dinner gatherings with business leaders and celebrities that offered “a glimpse into a president who prefers intellectuals to politicians, and into the rarefied company Mr. Obama may keep after he leaves the White House.”
Attendees at these dinners included filmmaker Ken Burns, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, Bono, architect Renzo Piano, and members of “Italy’s intellettuali.” Many of the guests, according to the Times, “have been financial supporters of Mr. Obama’s campaigns.” And yet the article, for some reason, does not mention any concern—from “officials” or otherwise—about the use of taxpayer dollars to finance these intimate gatherings with campaign donors.
Instead, the article contains numerous quotes praising Obama’s intellectual curiosity. “It keeps him fresh,” said White House adviser Valerie Jarrett. “It gives him new ideas to think about.” Piano, recounting a recent dinner party with Obama at a 15th-century manor surrounding the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Rome, told the Times: “He is a curious man, and even the president of America is sometimes struggling to explore, to understand, to search.”
Obama was president, of course, while Pompeo is merely the secretary of state. Perhaps that explains the difference in coverage. Or maybe Pompeo’s guests weren’t as fashionable. What else could explain it?
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It was quite refreshing to see such a clever bonobo
Since when Hollywood celebrities are considered intellectuals? I thought they were bunch of scripted airheads. Oh wait! Obama’s recent speech, bad mouthing trump, without his famed speech writers, sounded grade school. Boy, Obama has us fool. “Elite”, “Intelligent”, chickens are less brain dead then these airheads.
Pompeo and trump’s dinners are like a flock of vultures gnawing at peoples carcasses with the agenda to plan how much mute money they can siphon from the public’s coffers. Yes sir Bob, they are different than Obama’s.
Who gives a data a**.
I was expecting a piece recognizing Obama filling the house with rappers, hip hop artists (?), and thugs, at taxpayer expense (many times). I am certain this was more than sufficient “slave reparations” for those who were never slaves
That is a minor inconvenience. It has never stopped the Democrats in giving away our future in order to buy votes.
Perhaps the press is simply being its overly biased, perverted self. The huge majority of the US press has been educated into leftist/socialist philosophy as though it was a religion, and diverting from that attitude brings the crush of virulent apostasy from its still faithful elements. Obama and his people could do no wrong, and Trump and his people can do no right. The US press has completely lost its way.
There IS a double standard. The Democrats break laws, rape women, steal billions from Haiti, steal elections (going back at least to LBJ)
Just a single question. As to when they stand before God at the final JUDGEMENT, who do you believe will be justified? Trump? Or one of these sorry individuals —— George W., Bill Clinton, Hillary, Sanders, deBlasio, Cuomo, Chris Wallace……… and a lot more? Oh, that is right. NONE of these vile people believe in God.
It keeps him FRESH? That is rich. Decadebt to the core. Rotten with no good in his existence. And yet the media can’t do other than defend him or their bosses in the elite ONE WORLD ORDER, would have replaced them.