RSSBarack Obama, Media Man
Gene Lalor | January 17, 2010
There’s something very wrong about political figures getting a free pass from the MSM or, worse, being idolized, lionized by an institution that historically, rightly, should be detached from politics and politicians so that it can accomplish its underlying raison d’être objectively.
We’re presently witnessing a journalistic sea change in which, instead of honest reporting on the political scene and on those who inhabit that scene, we’re seeing media fulfilling the role of lap dogs, snuggling up to Democrats in general and Barack Obama in particular in hopes of getting a gentle pat on the head and entry into the inner sanctums of their worlds.
In the past 18 months or so, Americans have witnessed a media phenomenon, a unique–and unfortunate–alteration in our media in which they have become virtual appendages of a political figure and a political party. In that process, the media have abnegated their informational responsibilities and disgraced their sacred duty toward our democratic republic.
Formerly reputable newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, magazines such as Newsweek, Time, and the US News and World Report, regularly bury and ignore news that would reflect unfavorably on the president, brazenly distort reports on his failures, and shamelessly exaggerate his abilities and accomplishments as if they were operating in the Pravda mode of the defunct U.S.S.R.
In pre-internet, pre-YouTube, pre-24/7/365 cable news coverage times, media were far better able to misrepresent and mis-report, which they did but never at the level they do today. They were also far better able to get away with it.
One of many fables created about candidate Barack Hussein Obama, which fable continues into 2010, is that he is one of if not THE most brilliant individuals to contend for and succeed in capturing the office of Chief Executive of the United States. There is little to substantiate that fabrication.
Likewise, for the fiction that Obama is one of if not THE most articulate orator of our time, a claim refuted both by the omnipresence of multiple teleprompters at every formal appearance he makes and by his flustered, stuttered, inarticulate presentations absent his trusty Mr. TPT. 
That’s not to suggest that the MSM-ers accent or even show any of the president’s flubs, fluffs, and foibles after delighting in GWB’s frequent malapropisms, his “Bush-isms” such as “misunderestimated.”
Twenty months later, candidate Obama’s most illustrious misoverestimation, “I’ve now been in 57 states–I think one left to go.” (at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon, May 9, 2008), still goes unreported.
With all that in mind, it’s high time for publication of a compilation of notable ”Obama-isms.” The Top 10 can be found here: http://bit.ly/74e8CW
In the interests of correcting the record, contrary to popular MSM opinion, America did not elect a Jesus Christ, a Stephen Douglas, an Abraham Lincoln, a William Jennings Bryan, an FDR or a JFK on November 4th, 2008. (All of them spoke sans teleprompter, by the way.)
Au contraire, America elected an average Joe, an average Barack, who managed to fool some of the people once, with the kind help of his media friends.
Before making it twice, the electorate should view this 4 minute, 34 second video of our president out there on his own, without Mr. TPT, and judge whether he’s all they thought he was, articulate-wise: http://bit.ly/89s6TR
Then judge whether he’s all you thought and expected in any other respect.
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