DEAR PRAVIOUS...
WHY ARE YOU SO NAIVE?
I’LL RELEASE THE MEMO IN A COUPLE OF DAYS, AFTER THE GLOW OF MY SOTU ADDRESS FADES. DUH!
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Oh, nonsense.
WHAT “glow”? The media was trashing the speech five minutes after he gave it, and still are.
And AFTER the Patriots run away victory in the Super Bowl.
You've clearly missed some of the commentary. Of course many were trashing it, such as the predictable Van Jones. But both the CBS and CNN polls showed strong approval, and several commentators who you would expect to trash the President instead have gone on record and admitted that his speech was strong and effective.
So some cracks have begun to appear in the Media's uniformly negative narrative—so I guess you're only seeing what you want to see. However, there are indeed several surprising examples of talking heads who grudgingly admitted that the President delivered a good speech. Those examples have been posted here on FR—but don't let them interfere with your pessimistic tunnel vision.
In any event, everybody knows why the memo hasn't been released yet—and that it will be released very soon. But gratuitously stomping all over his State of the Union speech by prematurely releasing it was properly deemed imprudent by the President and his advisors...