Major Garrett of CBS News asked the president a legitimate question yesterday, and the president lost his temper. The press corps went went nanners attacking Garrett for “disrespecting” their president… for asking a legitimate question.
Their are very few real journalists working in the American news media today, most of them could better be described as “Democrat Media Operatives.” But their fierce, almost tribal defense of Obama and attacks against his critics are not mere partisanship. A lot of that anger comes from the MFM knowing that Obama is not the massive genius intellect they sold the public in 2008. That he isn’t a great and awesome president. He isn’t even as cool as they would like to believe he is. He’s a mediocrity elevated far above his gifts, and that his presidency is a trail of failure and damage to the country.
The press actually gets to see Obama unfiltered. They know he’s a mediocrity at best, but they sold him. He is their product and their prize; America’s First Black President. Race, party, and ego trump everything else. And when someone like Major Garrett, or before him, Neil Munro of the Daily Caller, exposes the president’s mediocrity, the press turns on him.
It’s like “The Emperor’s New Clothes” only at the end, the truth-telling kid gets beaten to death by the angry mob trying to protect the delusions of their delusional and mediocre king.
To be fair, the first question did presume that the president was, indeed, content to leave the hostages be. It might have been better to simply ask why they were left out of the negotiations.
That said, the attacks on Major Garrett were highly partisan, when similar questions are asked all the time of other politicians. It was not disrespectful, merely presumptive.
That said, Obama’s reaction shows that he simply cannot stand critique. It goes back to his narcissism — to a degree that frankly makes him unfit for the office, if you as me.
Abe Greenwald at Commentary:
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh noted that Obama only responds to things that further his agenda or he can turn to focus on himself. The dead white girl killed by a repeat illegal alien can not benefit Obama or his cause, so her death is a non-event. Ditto Planned Parenthood selling body parts. Here is some of what Rush had to say:
David Goldman (Spengler) quotes an Austrian named Karl Kraus: A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his listeners, so that they will think they are as smart as he is.”
Goldman was writing about Trump, not Obama, but when it comes to demagoguery, it is a distinction without a difference.
The reason Trump is holding his own in the polls is because he is touching a raw nerve among the people who have become numbed by never ending “fundamental change” that Obama has continuously unleashed on Americans in terms of what “business as usual” looks like.
Major Garrett framed his question using the charge that Obama is “content” to do a victory dance as American hostages languish in Iran’s jails. What set Obama’s hair on fire was the charge that he was “content” to sacrifice the hostages in order to grandstand. But, that is, in fact the truth. The hostages were never a bargaining chip. But ….. Iran got the sanctions against Quds Force Commander Qasem Solemani lifted and taken off the international terrorist list. When Obama celebrated this great agreement, he must have been “content” with restoring Solemani to international respectability. He must also be “content” with $140 Billion flooding into a terrorist state that has not been constrained from being a state sponsor of terrorism as a condition of the treaty.
Iran got to right to lie, cheat and terrorize and we got nothing except a Nobel Peace Prize for Obama and Kerry.
Bernie Sanders got it basically right: “This is a victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling and could keep the United States from being drawn into another never-ending war in the Middle East.”
What Sanders failed to note is that Israel, the Saudi leadership and Eqypt will now unite in the nuclear club against Iran and ISIS and Assad blood vengeance within Islam.
Obama, don’t you know, will have his Nobel Peace Prize and his self written legend legacy as he leaves office and follows in the footsteps of the Clintoon grifters. When the fallout of his presidency hits the fan, he will be up front loudly shifting blame and undermining the presidency and America in general. And leftists will pay millions to hear him do us down and dirty.
Amazing, Grace, the depths to which we have fallen. It was a republic, but we didn’t care enough to keep it. Time to scrub Benjamin Franklin from the history books.
Wow!
If a fringe Right Wing Wacko like yourself considers Obama as “Mediocre” he must be doing great! In the past you right wing sheep say he is ba ba baaaad or he hates America or he is a the Anti-Christ or other such hate filled projectionist drivel.
But now Obama has been elevated from Satan incarnate to “mediocre” in your eyes.
Hope and Change here we come!
Holy BS batman!
Speaking of illogical projection just read comment #2!!
everdiminishinglittlelettermike fails to parse my “projection” @ #2 and demonstrate how it is illogical.
It is ever thus among the brain cell impaired. To steal some nomenclature from Iowahawk, this is typical “poutyface stompyfoot” poo flinging.
Go hose yourself off, everdiminishinglittlelettermike, your constipated mind is smoking under the strain from trying to rotate your bound-up gears.
Poor Major. The way the press corp attacked him must have made him as if he were still on Fox’s payroll. He changed organizations, and they probably thought that he would become an Obama cheer leader. He probably thought that being with a MSM organization that they would support and defend the quality of his work; to go where others have feared to tread before.
The MAN are essentially so far in the tank for Obama that they turn legitimate lines of questions into racist attacks on the president.
mike – aside from screwing with fellow citizens you do not like, I’d be interested to know what you think BHO has done to leave the U.S. better than he found it.
mike, allow me to explain the shift. I assume you have never been in a real fight, but do you know what you do when surrounded by opponents? You prioritize. You determine which of those opponents poses the greatest threat and proceed to deal with them in order of relative danger. Please note that I am not suggesting an actual fist fight, any adversarial confrontation will do–such as politics.
Satan is THE threat to everything and everyone, he is not ignorable, to do so would spell doom. Obama has, repeatedly, shown himself to be incompetent at every turn, he has finally made it obvious that he is ignorable. The shift from Satan to mediocrity evidences a loss of respect in the enemy. Not respect for who the enemy is, but respect for what the enemy does, like respecting the power of a black widow spider.
TL;DR Obama is now widely viewed as a contemptible failure. Why would we continue to enshrine him as an enemy worth the effort?
If you are incapable of following that logic chain to its end: the shift is the greatest insult that can be offered to an enemy.
How come the gay left doesn’t/didn’t insist that Iran start baking cakes for gay weddings instead of throwing gay people off buildings, stoning them or strangling them?
Would mike care to answer that question?
To be fair, Obama is the personification of wickedness and deserves to be arrested.
What, pray tell, is “fair” about this? Can you fill us in on how Obama is the “personification” of wickedness/evil? That makes him Satan himself. What high crimes has he committed which demand his arrest?
I believe he has committed impeachable offenses.
But, Holy Moses, you have damned him to perdition and I can not distance myself from that with any greater willfulness.
Hello Helio! In Youtube, try The Obama Deception and James David Manning’s amazing sermons on the fiend. (Yes, Manning’s extremely antigay, but that’s how it goes.) Google “Obama body count” for the murders surrounding him—the domestic individual ones, that is. Don’t miss the RT interview in which Manning declares that Obama has done nothing for black people.
I’m not discriminatory. Based on extensive study I accuse all U.S. presidents since 1989 of personifying evil, and lots that came before then too.
*Backs away slowly from the keyboard* O.o
Watching littlelettermike’s comments devolve into unhinged rants secretly amused the cob-logger.