The majority of thr press have betrayed us and they’re gleeful and arrogant about it.
I wrote this post in response to the question of why the media ignored the Nashville floods. It applies to this story, too.
The MSM is dying, and what limited capital resources they have left have been deployed in maintaining their bunkers in New York City and Atlanta.They have systematically shut down bureaus both at home and abroad, and have nothing left to offer except their reputations that are based on what used to be.
With the meager resources that they have left, they are squandering them on protecting their Pyrrhicly-won victory in the government, and on reporting the minor opposition incidents that they are trying to enlarge into damaging career-ending scandals in a last-ditch effort to protect the gains that they destroyed their careers for.
They know their works will be undone in 2010, and overturned in 2012, and are now on seek-and-destroy suicide missions to delay the inevitable.
They don't have the time or resources anymore for the petty run-of-the-mill stories like floods in Tennessee when they have a legacy to protect and preserve.
-PJ
Of course, Fineman is criticizing the idea that, in his mind, Bambi has maintained Bush’s policies. He hasn’t - while he hasn’t closed Gitmo, for example, it wasn’t for lack of trying. He was simply unsuccessful in his attempts to reverse them, but he has tinkered with them enough so that they are ineffectual or distorted.
But I guess Fineman proves his own thesis: Obama is never even criticized for not being effective in totally undoing Bush’s programs. No matter what he does, Obama is protected by the press.