WH slammed for upcoming concert; are critics justified?

[Jazzy]

With the White House gearing up to host its 51st-ever In Performance concert event, right-leaning news organizations this week are after the first family for rolling out the red carpet for Hollywood A-listers while simultaneously buttressing its chains to the doors of the White House visitors' entrance.



On Tuesday, the administration announced that the next installment of the concert series on April 9 will be themed Memphis Soul, and will feature performers like Al Green, Justin Timberlake and Queen Latifah. Within 24 hours, conservative websites were blasting out stories bemoaning the administration's decision to go ahead with the concert despite the continued suspension of public White House tours as a casualty of last month's sequester cuts.



White House to host concert for Hollywood's elite despite sequester budget cuts, First Couple hosts celeb-filled concert amid sequestration and White House throwing star-studded concert despite sequester, screamed headlines on Red Alert Politics, the Daily Caller and FoxNews.com, respectively.



Sean Hannity's Fox News show Wednesday called up an image of President Obama sneering smugly beside a house-made graphic reading, Party Time! Hannity weighed in: What happened to the 'fair share' stuff, and 'skin-in-the-game stuff,' and 'it's our patriotic duty' stuff, and 'we have to spread the wealth around' stuff? How about we spread the wealth around so kids can go to the White House and get a tour?



In the same segment, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin deemed the event a slam in the face of taxpayers, and the president, party animal in chief.

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Do you think the critics are justified?

 

[Evil Eye]

Probably.

At least they're not making all of you pay for it all.



You'd think they'd have more important matters to attend though.

 

[Jazzy]

To me it's a slap in the face to all the children that can no longer visit the White House. He's not sending out a very good message by having this huge concert. Maybe it's not costing me a dime but he's showing me and others that he has money to just throw away on something as frivolous as this. We're struggling to make ends meet and he's partying the night away.

 

[Evil Eye]

Yeah, I agree that it isn't exactly sending the best of messages.

 

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