Posted on 02/23/2011 3:01:47 PM PST by Barry Secrest
Fascinating how we rarely hear the word "messiah" used anymore, isn't it?
Has the seemingly Biblical turmoil in the mideast, along with all of the dark portents swirling all around us, much like an ill wind of doom, insulated our collective political vitriole, or is it, perhaps, something else? A recent story at ABC News spoke to this fairly new phenomenon.
The story essentially admonished the President for using his own brand of "self-specialized" media while locking out the traditional news outlets. In fact, the reporter went on to state that "the President has narrowed access by the mainstream media to an unprecedented extent." Ann Compton, a senior reporter at ABC News, went on to state that "access here has shriveled."
Interesting choice of verbs, shriveled, but probably not accidental when we harken back to the often breathless omni-sexual reporting done on Obama's behalf prior to the eye opening economic awakening of which the President can, at present, dutifully lay claim. Even high level members of the media appear to be enduring deficits of readership, dollars and job positions, and it appears that most have now taken a duly alarmed note.But the story went on to explain that the "current dynamic is different and dangerous," to which we would note Indeed, and in more ways than one, my awakening Liberal friends. In fact, the President's handling of Egypt, while rarely criticized even by GOP politicians, has officially been panned by a significant number of the media as an abject failure. Even the patently liberal Newsweek's cover brandished an ashamed looking President...
There are still those shallow swimming liberal fanatics within the media whose function belongs more to that of the simple-celled Obamaphibians, in that they know not why they swim, or even that they swim, but swim they do nonetheless.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativerefocus.com ...
A high ranking Dem was talking to Andrea Mitchell today and he revealed how Obama has not met with most of his cabinet members for almost two years. Howevah, he constantly meets with Union leaders weekly....
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