The Weekend That Defined Obama, Provoked Trump—and Changed History

Newsweek ^ | Apr 25, 2025 | Carlo Versano

[Chgogal]

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[paudio]

Who own Nesweek now? I notice they have some decent pieces now, that while still tilting to the left, not overtly like NYT or CNN. I also know at least one Editor-at-large is a conservative.

[know.your.why]

But I'm not sure about Seth Meyer...

Seth Meyer do whatever da boss-man tell 'em ta do.

[UnwashedPeasant]

The rest of the story: Obama knew where Osama was for [about 6?] months and refused to approve the kill mission. Just before Obama finally agreed to the mission, the fake birth certificate story was rapidly accelerating. The Osama killing wiped the birth certificate story totally out of the news except for mockery. The media treated Obama like a hero, and no one wanted to go against that strong narrative.

[Libloather]

Show me Bin Laden’s body.

High-def even.

[TalBlack]

Basically Obama effed around that night at the correspondents dinner and found out . Now his name has been uttered in the same breath with “treason” . And ain’t it great that the demon party normalized prosecuting former presidents? …film at eleven…

[SomeCallMeTim]

I have that Frontline show recorded. I watch it again every now and then. It’s awesome. It’s the beginning of FAFO.

[ronniesgal]

yes he is indeed. Especially that second part.

[libertylover]

The long and irrevocable decline ... were all planted that night,

The press brought on their decline on their decline by DECADES of lying and distorted stories, not just one night. See Tagline.

[nagant]

All I see is a coffin.

[Albion Wilde]

I’m so glad you posted this retrospective on what most of us conservatives had been very aware of at the time.

The author tries to balance his tiresome lefty bias against Trump by criticizing Obama’s handling of Afghanistan, having nothing whatsoever to do with his main thesis—that the left and the media (but I repeat myself) are rightfully enraged that the scurrillous birther Trump eventually won the presidency in spite of Obie-Wan and other comedians attempting to humiliate Trump in front of their precious Nerd Prom.

Voters actually didn’t like the poliitics of destruction coming from the elites, he speculates, and it made the stylish and clever people lose, and that was a bad move. Who really cares about the People, the principles, the constitutional purpose of a free press—nah. Not when all the media’s gay-wannabes can land like hornets on a patriot they want everyone to loathe as much as they do.

[Albion Wilde]

Obama’s humor always consisted of mockery of others... Reagan, he would sometimes make jokes about himself. But he never belittled anyone else.

This is as close as he ever came. Even the guy he poked fun at laughed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kGUyqOpFA