"Let them eat cake!"
Posted on 01/08/2012 12:47:37 PM PST by tcrlaf
It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist.
A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new tell-all.
“The Obamas,” by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the top that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to mingle with invited guests.
The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished down the rabbit hole.
“White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,” the book says.
However, the White House made certain that more humble Halloween festivities earlier that day — for thousands of Washington-area schoolkids — were well reported by the press corps.
Then the Obamas went inside, where an invitation-only affair for children of military personnel and White House administrators unfolded in the East Room.
Unbeknownst to reporters, the State Dining Room had also been transformed into a secretive White House Wonderland.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The hubris of the clowns in the criminal administration is utterly, jaw-droppingly, AMAZING.
Searched and didn't see this posted. Can you just IMAGINE the hours of faked media OUTRAGE we'd be subjected to if George Bush had done something like this?
They threw it earlier today, too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830167/posts
With 60-odd replies yet.
And I’m sure NO ONE in the msm knew anything about it.
Was Helen Thomas dressed as the Mock Turtle?
Let me guess Biden was the Mad Hatter?
Mechelle was the Queen of Hearts?
Barack was the Cheshire Cat?
Already posted!
The most amazing part to me is that the Media was in a conspiracy of silence.
The whole Media. Not one word got out from anyone, including Fox, and they had to know.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at that,there has been a Conspiracy of silence by the Media that has benefited Obama from the “Git go”.
Now as they dig up everything on all Republican Candidates for the ofice including a funeral for one of the Candidates children, they continue to hide anything anti-Obama.
Certainly a Free Press is necessary in a Free Country, but we do not have a Free Press.We have a Propaganda agency that would rival anything Joe Goebbel’s put together.
The slightest familiarty with the post Civil War Reconstruction period would eliminate any surprise regarding the conduct of the current White House occupants.
The party never ended
I bet Fox didnt know ....if they had they would have run with it
Ohhhhhh....a TEA PARTY...I get it.
And LeftBall Chris Matthews as the Fish out of Water, but Yet in the Tank...
What’s with all of the zots in the other thread?
and the media helped keep this a secret.
and the media helped keep this a secret.
Maybe they were told it must remain a secret for national security reasons?
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