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25 May 2011

King Obama? The media are going overboard, says Mehdi Hasan

The press coverage of the US president's state visit to Britain is bordering on the ridiculous.

By Mehdi Hasan

I blogged in the weekend about Andrew Marr’s soft interview with Barack Obama in the White House ahead of his state visit to the UK. There were plenty of journalists willing to take potshots at Marr’s giddiness and obvious excitement at being in the presence of “The One“.

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