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Martha’s Vineyard Residents Who Justify Obama’s B-Day Bash: ‘Sophisticated, Vaccinated Crowd’

Joseph Curl
Martha’s Vineyard Residents Who Justify Obama’s B-Day Bash: ‘Sophisticated, Vaccinated Crowd’
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Some people on Martha’s Vineyard defended former President Barack Obama’s huge birthday bash on the island because it was a “sophisticated, vaccinated crowd” that packed into tents at Obama’s seaside mansion, according to a New York Times reporter. 

White House correspondent Annie Karni made the comments on CNN following the weekend birthday party, in which Obama and others were seen dancing while not wearing masks amid a renewed outbreak of a COVID-19 virus variant. She says she was relaying a description of what some Martha’s Vineyard residents thought of the party. 

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