Posted on 05/06/2008 6:13:14 AM PDT by chickadee
If Barack is out of touch with America, then the media must be too.
People with the slightest interest in politics, especially journalists, spent 2006 and 2007 smacking their lips and rubbing their hands in anticipation of 2008, relishing the prospect of gorging on the story of a lifetime: no incumbents running, a free-for-all of mad-interesting candidates, world-historical issues at stake. Mmmm!Be careful what you wish for. This election cycle now reminds me of the one Looney Tune that terrified me as a child, where a selfish and gluttonous Porky Pig is subjected by a mad scientist to a nightmare of unending force-feeding. Enough already. Please. Enough.
And yet, being a glutton, I find I can’t kick my present addiction to political data and chatter, even though gobbling it no longer makes me feel good. That jones is partly a function of this year’s gripping Terminator battle between the Democrats—earnest young would-be savior-leader pursued by staggeringly destructive and nearly indestructible shape-shifting automaton. But it’s also because in this election, as never before, I’m not a disinterested observer, not even pretending to be, but rather an unapologetic believer—I’ve been an Obamaphile from the get-go. My whole life, I’ve never cared about sports, never experienced that intense, emotional, extra-rational rooting interest in any team’s struggle to win the championship. I figure this must be what it feels like to be a hopeful, fretful, stressed-out fan during the Super Bowl or World Series.
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And, yes, the media is as out of touch as Obama.
Oh, that’s delightful. There are a lot of talented people on FR.
“another George Sorass flim-flam” **giggle**
Really SICK ones as well.
But thanks anyway... :-))
Pansy
LOL - that was my first reaction, too.
Obama is definitely the metrosexuals’ candidate of choice.
Any moron terrified by Porky Pig needs a double shot of testosterone-STAT.
“If Barack is out of touch with America, then the media must be too”
Oh, well nevermind, then. That just can’t be.
I admit, that is the one Looney Tune that I have never forgotten either. (Unlike Mr. Andersen, however, even as a kid I was not "terrified" of the cartoon, only riveted by the totalitarian, sadistic imagery - my first glimpse of fascistic "science.")
[Obama is] relatively unsullied, an exquisite, idealized version of themselves: educated, thoughtful, twigged to nuance, a lovely writer, well-traveled, witty, cool, dignified, candid, a little quixotic, a clued-in grown-up but not yet ruined by the ugly facts of Washington life
Witty? Obama may or may not be a "lovely writer," but witty he is not. He can barely think on his feet. Watching his slow, painfully drawn-out answers in unscripted situations is like water torture.
He can barely think on his feet. Watching his slow, painfully drawn-out answers in unscripted situations is like water torture.When George Bush paused to choose his words, the Dems and the media mocked him. That same deliberateness in the Great and Wonderful Ozbama, I'm sure, will bespeak of wisdom and nuance and statesmanship, if the author of this article is anything to judge by.
I've already heard Obama-sycophants characterize those painful, halting news conference answers as "masterful."
FEARLESS LEADER SHALL NOT BE MOCKED!!!.
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