Obama's Fans Lash Out at NYT Columnist for Slamming Ex-President's Birthday as 'Orgy'

A major house party reportedly hosted some 400 guests, while at least 63 people on the island of Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for COVID-19 following the event.

Pulitzer Prize winner and NYT columnist Maureen Dowd has faced the wrath of Obama's supporters after criticising the politician, blasting him for "Hollywood whoring" in a piece titled "Behold Barack Antoinette".

"The party crystallized the caricature of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden had to fight against in order to get elected", Dowd said. "It was as far from Flint and Scranton as you can imagine: an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring".

Barack Obama dancing at his 60th birthday party

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She stressed that the president, who had to scale down his initial list, preferred to exclude politicians, but kept celebrities like Beyoncé and John Legend.

"Whether the party was 500 or 300 or 30, Obama should have made sure to have the people there who made the moment possible, the ones who worked so hard to get him elected and cement his legacy", Dowd said. "Obama closed his house to many of the invited after getting flak for hosting 'a celebrity mosh pit', as Stephen Colbert called it, while officials were telling people to mask back up".

The criticism immediately resulted in a harsh reaction from Obama's supporters on the Internet, with many of them noting that the author is bitter because she was not invited to the party.

Trump and the republicans have one spreader event after another. But Maureen Dowd attacks Barack Obama's 60th Birthday bash. Everybody there was vaccinated Maureen. It was no spreader event. And you weren't invited.

— D-LIB (@whittler_e) August 14, 2021

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— Paws 🐾 (@Cognac4Paws) August 15, 2021

Dear Karen, Wasting precious NYT space to critique a Black man’s private bday guest list whilst in the midst of a public health crisis is about as tone deaf as it comes. See also: petty.

— Sherry Pagoto (@DrSherryPagoto) August 15, 2021

You need to delete the article.

— Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast) August 15, 2021

I have read your article and I’m wondering: what’s your beef? Were you a “desenvitada”??? #MaureenDesenvitada

— Minzoparade 🇪🇺🇨🇦 (@Minzoparade) August 15, 2021

Who cares? Get a life! They worked their asses off and did excellent work, and they enjoy people at their own level. People at that level, including entertainers, all work very hard with tight focus. They can party together if they want to. Vaxxed, Tested Negative, party time

— Ferol Humphrey (@ferolhumphrey) August 15, 2021

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— Jo Lown 🎨🌴🌊🇺🇸 (@JLownLaw) August 15, 2021

​This is not the first time the NYT has triggered a twitterstorm due to Obama's birthday.

Users slammed New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni, who tried to defend the 44th by saying that the party was a gathering of "sophisticated, vaccinated" guests who were "following all the safety precautions".