Obama Reelection: Will Media Cover for Him Again?

September 19, 2011

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 They likened him to a messiah and gushed like groupies meeting their boy band crushes backstage.  Chris Matthews declared that he ‘couldn’t stand up’ and had a tingle down his leg when he spoke.

 He’s St. Barack.
A Canadian columnist asks (here) will the media attempt to cover for this buffoon again? Could they possibly? Other than the awful response to recession, Rex Murphy also observes:

Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sychophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.”


And there are no 57 states, his pastor for 20  years is a racist, he hangs out with domestic terrorists and, and, and…

Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity.

On the Sunday talking heads show, “This Week,” host Christianne Amanpour asked George Will if President Obama could pull out a win on his tax plan with a grand speech. Will looked incredulous, saying:

“He went to Massachusetts to campaign against Scott Brown. Scott Brown is now a senator. He went to New Jersey to campaign against Chris Christie, who’s now the governor. He went to Virginia to campaign against Bob McDonnell, who’s now governor. He campaigned for the health care plan extensively, it became less popular. He campaigned in 2010 for the Democrats, they were shellacked. He began, in a sense, his presidency flying to Copenhagen to get Chicago the Olympics. Chicago was the first city eliminated. There is no evidence that the man has rhetorical powers he is relying on.”

The media hadn’t noticed.

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