Over the weekend, famed New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd pilloried former President Barack Obama over his 60th birthday bash which was full to the brim with Hollywood glitterati while some political figures who had helped Obama rise to power were either left out or disinvited. Dowd described the party as “an orgy of the 1 percent — private jets, Martha’s Vineyard, limousine liberals and Hollywood whoring.”
Dowd began her attack by likening Obama to the fictional Jay Gatsby of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic “The Great Gatsby”:
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