Reaction to Todd Spivak’s profile from Senator Obama
We noted the fascinating profile that Todd Spivak wrote of Senator Obama a couple of months ago. Now there is a sequel, and it includes Senator Obama’s reaction to the first piece:
I started to speak, and he shouted me down. He said he liked the other story I wrote. I asked if there was anything factually inaccurate about the latest story. He repeated that his former colleagues couldn’t have passed the bills without him. He asked why I wrote this story, then cut me off when I started to answer.
He said he should have been given a chance to respond. I told him I had requested an interview through his communications director. He said I should have called his cell phone. I reminded him that he had asked me months ago to stop calling his cell phone due to his busier schedule. He said again that I should have called his cell phone.
We can understand that Senator Obama might have been upset at not having the chance to comment on the profile, but it’s his own fault. His communications director ignored Spivak for starters. But what is a little weird is the repeated insistence that Spivak should have called the Senator’s cell phone, when it was the Senator himself who asked him not to. Hmmm. Not a fellow who likes the hearing the sound of his own mistakes, apparently (where have we seen that recently?). (HT’s: Jim Geraghty, larwyn)