{"id":609208,"date":"2021-08-02T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609208"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:36:30","slug":"piers-blasts-obama-for-birthday-bash-shamefully-selfish-incredibly-reckless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/piers-blasts-obama-for-birthday-bash-shamefully-selfish-incredibly-reckless\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Blasts Obama For Birthday Bash: \u2018Shamefully Selfish,\u2019 \u2018Incredibly Reckless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpiers-blasts-obama-for-birthday-bash-shamefully-selfish-incredibly-reckless%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609208&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PiersMorgan.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Piers Morgan blasted former President Barack Obama on Monday for planning to host a 60th birthday bash for himself on Martha\u2019s Vineyard for roughly 500 people, calling it \u201cshamefully selfish\u201d and \u201cincredibly reckless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan started by asking how Obama\u2019s party would be treated if it were being hosted by former President Donald Trump, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>The biggest test in these hyper partisan days is to switch names on any breaking news story involving a politician and see if the same criticism still applies. So, imagine for a moment that Donald Trump&nbsp;was throwing a massive birthday party for himself and 475 conservative friends in Martha\u2019s Vineyard next weekend? What do you think the reaction would be from liberals, given that America is currently in the grip of a very dangerous new phase of the coronavirus pandemic with the Delta variant of COVID that has seen infections rise 148% in the past two weeks and hospitalizations by 73%?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think we all know what Trump\u2019s liberal critics would say: that it\u2019s shamefully selfish, incredibly reckless, and a former President of the United States should be setting a better example to the American people at such a perilous time for the country,\u201d Morgan posited, adding, \u201cAnd they would be right. But it\u2019s not President Trump who is having the party, it\u2019s President Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After detailing the specifics of the party and the concerns of U.S. health chiefs about the Delta variant and his own experience in getting the virus after he had ben vaccinated, commenting that his recovery showed that the \u201cvaccines work astoundingly well in preventing serious illness. I thank God that I got jabbed,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cWhat the sequence of events also showed me is that no mass gathering is \u2018COVID-safe.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, the optics of this event couldn\u2019t be worse for someone like Obama who\u2019s always prided himself on take public health very seriously and leading by example,\u201d Morgan noted. \u201cIn May, he posted a video of himself visiting a COVID vaccination center in Greenbelt, MD, and congratulating those there on \u2018being good citizens.\u2019 But there\u2019s nothing \u2018good citizen\u2019 about hosting a weekend of self-congratulatory birthday celebrations for 700 people in the middle of a deadly new COVID surge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it couldn\u2019t come at a worse time,\u201d Morgan wrote. \u201cYet at the precise moment America\u2019s most high-profile leaders should be setting a good example, Barack Obama is doing the complete opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAxios reported he\u2019s asked guests that in lieu of gifts they \u2018consider giving to programs that work to support boys and young men of color, and their families here at home in the United States, empower adolescent girls around the world and equip the next generation of emerging community leaders,\u201d Morga reported, snapping, \u201cA fine virtue-signaling gesture, doubtless designed to deflect criticism and make the liberal celebrity guests feel better about their complicity in this ill-advised event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan concluded, \u201cBut if Obama really wants to support his fellow Americans, of any color, then he should be a good citizen and call off his party. If he doesn\u2019t, he will encourage many skeptical unvaccinated Americans to continue refusing to have the shot at the precise moment when it\u2019s desperately important they have it. Put bluntly: he will cost lives. Cancel your party, Mr. President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piers Morgan blasted former President Barack Obama on Monday for planning to host a 60th birthday bash for himself on Martha\u2019s Vineyard for roughly 500 people, calling it \u201cshamefully selfish\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}