New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza's failure to get a seat on the Obama plane to the Middle East and Europe is being read as a direct snub, and as payback for a certain cartoon cover. If that's true, it's not a good look for Team Obama. The decision probably originates at a press level below Communications Director Bill Burton, knowing how campaigns work. Still, Burton should clean this up. It's an unnecessary distraction to have a story like this appear on the homepage of the Guardian a few days before Obama lands in Britain.
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