President Obama was moonlighting again last week as a self-appointed media critic-in-chief, this time during a Rose Garden appearance to boast about the progress of the Affordable Care Act. It was a curious performance on many levels, not the least of which was the way he used the vice president, his own cabinet, and the White House press corps as silent props while he unveiled his message of the month.If the ladies and gentlemen of the press weren’t given a speaking role, they weren’t forgotten. At one point, he addressed them specifically, immodestly offering his own unsolicited definition of what...
