Just like the mediascum to pass up their most “newsworthy” item (imagine the hay they would make if a Bush had said that).
They would far rather miss the opportunity to report genuine newsworthy info (Obama’s crazed egomania in his own words) than to do anything that might “hurt the cause.”
They are ideologists first, and only interested in real news reporting a distant last.
I presume by Johnson, President Obama meant President Andrew Johnson. Surely he would not say stupid LBJ with his bimbos was better than him.