In an interminable article on the president's fund-raising problems, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer puts it down in part to his aversion to schmoozing:

Mayer has come in for criticism from irritated conservatives, who rightly note that the substance of the quote is preposterous. We haven't read the whole piece--we'll suffer for our craft, but only up to a point--but we can't fault Mayer for reporting that one of her sources said something silly.

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