New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd stirred up something of a tweet storm in leftist quarters last
weekend with a hit piece on Barack Obama’s super-spreader birthday bash, titled, without subtlety, “Behold Barack Antoinette.” The reference is to Marie Antionette, the soon-to-be-beheaded French queen who reportedly dissed the revolutionary masses with her classic brush-off, “Let them eat cake.”
In reading the column, I found myself amused at Dowd’s discovery that Obama is “a diffident debutante with a distaste for politics.” Given the access to power provided by her lofty perch at the Times, I had to ask myself, “How had it taken her so long to grasp the obvious?”
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