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Posted on 07/18/2025 7:11:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It may not be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but when historians write the definitive story of the first half of the 21st century in the U.S., a single weekend in the spring of 2011 may well go down as the era's hinge point—a 48-hour period that set into motion a string of events still unraveling now, 14 years later.
That weekend, President Barack Obama authorized the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and kept it secret from the world as he delivered a cutting speech that brought down the house at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. What no one knew at the time was that Obama's remarks were laying the groundwork for the killing of the customs and traditions that underpinned the relationship between the American presidency and the press that covers it.
Now, almost a decade-and-a-half later, the glitzy tentpole event for the Washington media establishment is a shadow of its former self, boycotted and browbeaten by President Donald Trump and his supporters.
The long and irrevocable decline of the dinner and the norms that once defined the Beltway establishment—as well as the current political force ripping through it—were all planted that night, historians and others who spoke to Newsweek said, with Obama's lampooning of Trump to the laughter of a room full of tuxedo-clad D.C. power brokers and their guests.
Busy for a Saturday
April 30, 2011, was a warm spring day in Washington, and the White House was oddly abuzz for a weekend. As Obama met with his speechwriters to put the polish on his keynote for that evening's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner across town, a small cadre of his top national security advisers were huddled below the White House in the Situation Room,
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Oh, he’s defining alright.
What a load of BS. He had to be dragged into doing it. Then his people revealed who did it and they got killed as a resiult.
What a load of BS. He had to be dragged into doing it. Then his people revealed who did it and they got killed as a result.
Huddy carried secrets to a watery grave
Wasn’t he nowhere to be found that night?
Leon Panetta ordered the hit, yes?
When it’s Obama, they write “a small cadre.” When it’s Trump, they call it “a handful of his cronies.” And Trump wasn’t merely the host of a TV show. He was a billionaire who was the toast of NYC when he was a Democrat. God I hate the media!
I believe all the cash and gold Obama sent to Iran in the closing days of his presidency was to buy the cancelation of a Fatwa on his head over taking out Osama Bin Laden. He knows how Islam works.
Obama learned it all from his gay professor.
I thought he was playing golf that day.
I dunno. OBL was Sunni, no? And Iran predominantly Shia?
Obama had no sense of humor. Obama’s humor always consisted of mockery of others. I remember Reagan, he would sometimes make jokes about himself. But he never belittled anyone else.
Obama was trash.
Panetta did. Obama looked like a little boy in the back of the room, not the leader.
Obama gave conditional permission at a time he knew the conditions would not be met. Panetta quietly met the conditions weeks or months later and ordered the mission.
He boxed in Obama who was called in from a golf course. Obama would have had to cancel it in front of all his advisors and the military who knew Osama had been located.
Show me Bin Laden’s body.
April 27, 2011 was when the Kenyan released his crap birth certificate that began gaining the wrong kind of attention. What a perfect way to sink that story by taking out Osama.
Pockeestahn.
Obama is an insufferable faggot.
That was Benghazi.
But I'm not sure about Seth Meyer? At the time, Trump was not the President. So he should be roasting Obama instead.
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