Is the Love Affair Between Obama and the Media Over?
Monday, August 24th, 2009By: Chris Stirewalt
Political Editor, Washington Examiner
August 24, 2009
There’s nothing like a summer vacation to rekindle a romance. So maybe a week on Martha’s Vineyard can bring back some of the magic between the Obama administration and the media.
Before White House press secretary Robert Gibbs left town, he tried to clarify President Barack Obama’s comment that “everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up.” Gibbs explained to reporters that what the president meant was that they were a bunch of bed wetters who made too much out of the implosion of the White House health care strategy.
Gibbs has grown more sardonic and patronizing as the summer wears on and Obama’s poll numbers wilt.
The press secretary has lectured reporters on the nature of their jobs — apparently to defend the administration against “misinformation” rather than asking impertinent questions like “How will you pay for it?”
When asked recently about the administration’s endless evasions on the public option, Gibbs instead opted to define a monopoly.
“If you had one place to eat lunch before you came to the briefing, do you think it would be cheap?” Gibbs demanded of CNN’s Ed Henry.
Henry should have asked Gibbs to define monopsony: a market in which one buyer is so large that it can control suppliers and ruin competitors. Henry could then explain he’d rather pay too much for the sandwich he wanted than have to eat at a government chow line opened across the street to encourage “competition.”
Gibbs is so crabby because, incredibly, the administration blames the media for the president’s problems.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/The-thrill-is-gone-for-Obama-and-the-media_08_24-54389032.html
Face Fwd Comments:
I wish he’d take the rest of the year off. I don’t know if he needs a vacation or not………..I know I need a vacation form him.
Who knows, when he comes back maybe the thrill will be gone, the rose colored glasses and the kool-aid cups will be put down, and we will finally hear some truth from the rest of the networks about Barack from someone besides Fox and talk radio. I don’t expect much from ABC or NBC because they have a financial stake in Obama’s polices. But surely CNN will return to the middle.
