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Interesting article by George Scoville
When did Americans become so infantilized as to treat the president of the United States like hes the only adult in the room?
Last Friday, The Daily Callers Neil Munro set off a firestorm of debate over decorum when he interrupted President Barack Obama, whose staff had gathered a Rose Garden press conference to announce an executive order that would grant temporary work permits to children of immigrants who came to the U.S. by extralegal means. The entire kerfuffle transmits resounding signals to us onlookers: the government would like the market for political representation to continue failing, and the members of the mainstream media are willing accomplices.
nterrupting the President, any president, is NOT doing your job, tweeted Fox Newss Ed Henry, a reference to White House Press Secretary Jay Carneys recent missive that reporters are not rigorous enough in providing context to their stories. The stunt dummy interrupting POTUS during statement hurts whatever cause he represents by being rude, tweeted outgoing CNN host John King. Tony Fratto, former assistant Treasury secretary, former deputy press secretary under President Bush, and CNBC contributor, tweeted, Reporters dont interrupt presidential statements. Period. @NeilMunroDC should be banned from WH. ABCs Diane Sawyer reduced Munro from White House correspondent to heckler. Sam Donaldson, himself a long-time antagonist to President Ronald Reagan, said in a statement to The Huffington Post that Munros behavior evidences a pet leftist trope: that any critical questioning of the president or his motives is necessarily rooted in anti-African-American sentiment. An MSNBC panel agreed, naturally.
The list goes on.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who found herself barred indefinitely from traveling on Senator John McCains campaign airplanes in September 2008, understands better than most the importance of not trading the integrity of ones craft for access to the powerful. I applaud her for not (publicly) joining the rest of the pack in crucifying Munro. According to Washington Post reporter David Nakamura, Jay Carney emailed Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson after the incident, presumably about the reporter who interrupted Obama today. Munro and Carlson may now learn what happens when you dont play the game according to the political classs rules...
Read more: Whither the 'challenge and question authority' liberals? | The Daily Caller
When did Americans become so infantilized as to treat the president of the United States like hes the only adult in the room?
Last Friday, The Daily Callers Neil Munro set off a firestorm of debate over decorum when he interrupted President Barack Obama, whose staff had gathered a Rose Garden press conference to announce an executive order that would grant temporary work permits to children of immigrants who came to the U.S. by extralegal means. The entire kerfuffle transmits resounding signals to us onlookers: the government would like the market for political representation to continue failing, and the members of the mainstream media are willing accomplices.
nterrupting the President, any president, is NOT doing your job, tweeted Fox Newss Ed Henry, a reference to White House Press Secretary Jay Carneys recent missive that reporters are not rigorous enough in providing context to their stories. The stunt dummy interrupting POTUS during statement hurts whatever cause he represents by being rude, tweeted outgoing CNN host John King. Tony Fratto, former assistant Treasury secretary, former deputy press secretary under President Bush, and CNBC contributor, tweeted, Reporters dont interrupt presidential statements. Period. @NeilMunroDC should be banned from WH. ABCs Diane Sawyer reduced Munro from White House correspondent to heckler. Sam Donaldson, himself a long-time antagonist to President Ronald Reagan, said in a statement to The Huffington Post that Munros behavior evidences a pet leftist trope: that any critical questioning of the president or his motives is necessarily rooted in anti-African-American sentiment. An MSNBC panel agreed, naturally.
The list goes on.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who found herself barred indefinitely from traveling on Senator John McCains campaign airplanes in September 2008, understands better than most the importance of not trading the integrity of ones craft for access to the powerful. I applaud her for not (publicly) joining the rest of the pack in crucifying Munro. According to Washington Post reporter David Nakamura, Jay Carney emailed Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson after the incident, presumably about the reporter who interrupted Obama today. Munro and Carlson may now learn what happens when you dont play the game according to the political classs rules...
Read more: Whither the 'challenge and question authority' liberals? | The Daily Caller
