"The party, the uninvited were told, had been scaled back because of growing concerns about the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.... [Larry David] was uninvited. So were the majority of former Obama administration officials... The late-night talk show hosts David Letterman and Conan O’Brien were also cut from the guest list.... Celebrity couples Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, as well as Dwayne Wayde and Gabrielle Union, were photographed arriving on the island ahead of the party, alongside actor Don Cheadle and comedian Steven Colbert. Even a 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star, Kim Fields, was photographed flying into the island. It was possible that some of the famous new arrivals decided to come to the Vineyard despite being cut from the party list.... Steven Spielberg was on the guest list.... along with Bruce Springsteen... and George Clooney..... Tom Hanks.... was also still invited.... Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay had pulled out of the party earlier...."
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"We gotta cut the list down."
"How? Who?"
"Start with the Jews."
There's a huge tent on their lawn. An enclosed tent. With walls. They are not social distancing outdoors like is claimed.
It's good to be the Grand Poobah of the Progressives. Many will come to kiss your ring.
Covid is an amazing virus. In much the same way that it knows to infect people standing in line at a restaurant waiting to be seated but to not infect those already seated at the tables, it knows to infect crowds of 475 people but not crowds of less than 475. Also it knows to infect people who are together within solid walls but to not infect people together within canvas walls. A truly incredible organism!
From the article, regarding former officials being cut:
“ So were the majority of former Obama administration officials who had been looking forward to the reunion after an isolated year, and who generally credit themselves with helping create the Obama legacy that has allowed the former president to settle in so comfortably with the A-list crowd.
Sounds like the Obama Alumni Club is feeling a little slighted.
You seem to be flirting with the possibility of party crashers. Please, please let me in; I've told all my friends I'd be here.
So I googled party crashers in movies. I once brought up "Wedding Crashers" at work, and some nice ladies who had organized their share of weddings said: I would like to know how someone with no invitation would get a place setting or a plate of food. I just discovered the movie "The Hard Way," with some good stars, and the psycho killeer is actually known as "The Party Crasher." 1958 "The Party Crashers," semi-criminal boy leads his gang to crash "nice" teenage parties, and at least briefly (of course) attracts nice girl. Forgettable.
I can't believe that people still believe their lies. Close friends my butt. Stephen Colbert is a good friend?? Really??
Good thing Climate Czar took a private jet to fly in for this most important of all parties to ever be held in the history of America. Who cares about climate change when you are an elite going to an elitist party?
Barack is a fucking ingrate. He’d never have been elected without David Axelrod.
"It was possible that some of the famous new arrivals decided to come to the Vineyard despite being cut from the party list.."
What a snarky way to sniff, "Arrivistes!"
Best comment I read on another site: If you like your birthday party you can keep your birthday party.
I really wish there was a snarky journalist who would write this whole thing afterwards, it is so ripe for a vicious skewering, right down to the breathless reporting on it by the New York/Obama Times.
We was all uninvited. The article is talking about the dis-invited.
"From the article, regarding former officials being cut:
'So were the majority of former Obama administration officials who had been looking forward to the reunion after an isolated year, and who generally credit themselves with helping create the Obama legacy that has allowed the former president to settle in so comfortably with the A-list crowd.'"
We all have our views of the Obamas, but is anyone surprised that this beautiful man has gone Hollywood? All those people who helped him along did a wonderful thing for our country and for humanity (ask the Nobel committee) and they have their place in history for doing that, but this isn't a reunion, this is his 60th birthday party. Really, it is a private celebration for those who can approach the zenith of his wonderfulness because of their beauty, talent, and cool. Tiegan, Legend, Wayde, Union, Spielberg, Cheadle, Colbert, Springsteen, Clooney, Hanks...these are his close friends. These are his people.
We have come a long way from Harry Truman driving himself and his wife back to Independence, Missouri, when his term ended.
Thank god Larry David got cut - that will lead to a much funnier episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm!
“Barack is a fucking ingrate. He’d never have been elected without David Axelrod.”
Likely true. But the dis-invitations were probably due to previously invited individuals’ lack of documentation of vaccination. It’s a not-widely-known fact that the demographic group least vaccinated is Democrats.
From the Vanity Fair article:
There was chatter at one point that Pearl Jam would perform at the party, but this was officially denied. Frontman Eddie Vedder, however, is still expected to be there according to the Times. (Gee, Eddie Vedder vs Larry David? Tough call. Like pushing a bill through Congress, this sort of thing is not for the weak!) It was also reported that the meat-free menu was coordinated by musician and filmmaker Questlove."
A meat-free menu? That's a pretty sad birthday bash, especially for summer. He's the former leader of the free world and he can't even manage surf and turf, or something?
I wonder if net-net, this will cause him to lose or make friends. In the celeb pecking order, it's one thing to be passed over for George Clooney, but there's real disrespect when you get bumped for a Real Housewife. It would be amusing and educative if Larry David devoted a season of Curb Your Ambition to the social pretensions of languid ex-President and his even more status obsessed followers.
It’s a not-widely-known fact that the demographic group least vaccinated is Democrats.
@Meade, with respect, sir. It’s a fact that’s pretty well known, just not very well published. I suspect we both know why that is.
The NYT story says "plant-based meat" is going to be served to hundreds of self-centered celebrities talking solely about themselves between bites of green-bean hot-dogs. The celebs will be photographed if they stay out of the tent and their mask status will thus be determined. Then they will be watched like Princess Di to see if they are spreaders by disgruntled party workers and donors not invited to the party who will ally with Republicans never invited to the party to spread viral photos. All this for a steak made from Brussel sprouts and a chance to notice how they bore Obama.
I'm glad Tootie made it to remind everyone of the facts of life.
Society-page news is just as empty and boring on Martha's Vineyard as it is anywhere else. Not even the jet-set climate-hypocrisy gives it any pizzazz.
Said by a self-confessed rube from the Southern Appalachians.
Larry David got disinvited?! That sounds like the perfect plot for a Curb episode!
For fun, go listen to Glenn Loury's July 23 Glenn Show interaction with Richard Epstein and their long discussion of the planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Ripping up a beautiful lakeside park, a major thoroughfare, and 1,000 old-growth trees for a huge monument to vanity (and it is not even in fact a presidential library). For about 20 acres of prime park real estate, the Obama gang will get a 99-year lease for the princely sum of TEN DOLLARS! They won't build it a few blocks in from the park where it might actually help with some economic spin-off effects for the community. No they want it in historic Jackson Park, rising 300 feet on the lake for all the world to see. "Pharaonic" is too tepid a label, though I must admit the pyramids were a tad taller.
I am still waiting to see the pictures smuggled out where the waitstaff are all masked and gloved and the glitterati are not. I will gain a measure of respect for Obama if the waitstaff are all unmasked like the guests.
To Blair:
"Did you say, 'I believe you showed up, Larry?'"
Nice to know that Larry David and I now may have more in common than Larry David and Stephen Colbert.
Sounds like Obama failed to curb some people’s enthusiasm. The people flying in despite their disinvitisment. That might not be a word, but since it appears to be so many scratched out of the guest list, the word does appear to be in order, at least in my own mind. Obama’s next book- Dreams of my disinvitisment.
Meade said
"It’s a not-widely-known fact that the demographic group least vaccinated is Democrats."
Not true (it could have been sarcasm). Last night on the Twin Cities' 5 Eyewitness News we learned that only 23% of pregnant women in the USA are vaccinated.
Poo-poo Obama if you must, but c'mon, admit it, he's the guy who put the hip in hypocrisy.
MadisonMan I really wish there was a snarky journalist who would write this whole thing afterwards, it is so ripe for a vicious skewering, right down to the breathless reporting on it by the New York/Obama Times.
Dave Barry?
>>their long discussion of the planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Ripping up a beautiful lakeside park, a major thoroughfare, and 1,000 old-growth trees for a huge monument to vanity (and it is not even in fact a presidential library).
I should try to work up the energy to listen to this discussion, but I doubt that it will do any good.
I grew up on the South Side. Hi to Doctor Mike (about 15 to 20 years older than me) and Redcoat (roughly my age), if they are still around to any extent.
Locating the Obama monstrosity (no, Valerie Jarett, I won't be making any contributions in honor of Obama's birthday) in Jackson Park is truly a bad idea. If the center, first, needs to be done and, second, should be done on city parkland (very doubtful on the latter point), it should be done in nearby Washington Park, where it might do some good in stimulating economic activity in a long-depressed minority neighborhood (beside the point, but we're talking here about the neighborhood where the characters in Raisin in the Sun lived). It should not be hogging ground (and raising the other issues flagged above) in one of the very few areas on the South Side where tourists and others (ok, I'll say it, white people) are already willing to go.
--gm
The Obamas could easily whittle down the number of attendees by raising the admission fee.
Regarding the Obama center, the bait and switch on that was truly stunning. For two years we heard about sites in or near Washington Park, Then in the final roundup just before the city council presentation, Team Obama added a new site, namely 20 acres in Jackson Park. Guess which one the Obama and their architect favored?
The reason for the choice is obvious. You can go from the luxury hotels on Michigan Avenue down Lake Shore Drive to the Jackson Park site without ever passing a poor person or seeing a run-down neighborhood. Washington Park? Not so true.
This was a Hollywood move by the Obamas.
Did the Clintons get an invitation?
Glancing at articles about Obama's birthday party I noticed the guest list and an "artist" who performed a "song" called "Birthday Bitch". I looked up the lyrics, and they were as unpleasant as the title suggests.
All this reminded me of the old adage “A man is known by the company he keeps”.
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