Amelia
Rookie
- Banned
- #81
The press did a disservice to the president early on by seeming to abdicate their role of objective reporting and of speaking truth to power.
Chris Matthews became the symbol of this phenomenon when he said that it was his job as a journalist to help the Obama administration be a success.
When the traditional watchdogs seemed to say they wouldn't be doing their jobs, we became watchdogs.
In addition to the natural partisan resistance anyone in the Oval Office will face, a significant portion of the resistance to Obama has been reaction to the people who were building him up as something tantamount to a savior before he had ever done anything. How many days was he in office before he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Less than 12.
That was nauseating.
And then when we expressed any dissent - whether it was to items on Obama's agenda or whether it was an expression of disbelief as we looked out onto the sea of euphoric Obama supporters -- we were told our dissent arose from racism. And then we were angered.
Since that time we have been waiting for others to wake up, and finally they are. It's been very amusing (and frankly a relief) to watch more and more members of the mainstream media start to recant the hype they were responsible for spreading in 2008.
Chris Matthews became the symbol of this phenomenon when he said that it was his job as a journalist to help the Obama administration be a success.
When the traditional watchdogs seemed to say they wouldn't be doing their jobs, we became watchdogs.
In addition to the natural partisan resistance anyone in the Oval Office will face, a significant portion of the resistance to Obama has been reaction to the people who were building him up as something tantamount to a savior before he had ever done anything. How many days was he in office before he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Less than 12.
That was nauseating.
And then when we expressed any dissent - whether it was to items on Obama's agenda or whether it was an expression of disbelief as we looked out onto the sea of euphoric Obama supporters -- we were told our dissent arose from racism. And then we were angered.
Since that time we have been waiting for others to wake up, and finally they are. It's been very amusing (and frankly a relief) to watch more and more members of the mainstream media start to recant the hype they were responsible for spreading in 2008.
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