Shocking!

The establishment media can’t seem to grasp the following dynamic:

Nationally televised prime time press conference = Serious
Lighthearted appearance on the Tonight Show = Fun

Maybe this is what happens when a guy spends a Saturday night with his young children instead of attending the barbecue media’s gridiron circle jerk.

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  • http://leestranahan.com Lee Stranahan

    Here is the underlying narrative – it’s not ‘phony like Gore’….it’s phony like this…(President Obama is)

    A Manchurian Candidate who benefited from an informal yet fortuitous network of like-minded communist/socialist sympathizers(?): birthed and nourished by a radical, molded by communist Frank Marshall Davis, infiltrated via William Ayers’ extensive connections (which Barack left Occidental and traveled to NYC to take advantage of), finished by Saul Alinski, promoted by a series of dupes and sympathizers (Emil Jones to Harry Reed), given quiet logistical help by George Soros, now entrenched as the most powerful and deceptive man on the planet?

  • bjritz

    Selling controversy is hard when the President acts, well, presidential like last night or acts human like he did on Leno. What bizaar glasses and headphones these “journalists” must have to put on when watching our president.

  • bjritz

    Spot on, Lee.They couldn’t find an immediate failure to report so they have to punt.

  • http://cgwaltney@mac.com cgwalt

    I Heartily Agree.*used “heartily” for added seriousness, hope you don’t mind*

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    I’m another that agrees that Lee got it.Our MSM is basically useless as a source of news. They just fling shit everywhere and hope we don’t notice that they are failing to provide any useful information.We had eight years of the MSM just printing whatever the White House told them with no critical analysis whatsoever. They acted like cheerleaders for all the president’s men and screwed up policies.Now we have a new President from the other side of the isle and all they can do is come up with criticism of bullshit that doesn’t matter. Was there a single question asked last night that was relevant to what the country now faces?What the hell are these fools doing?Can we get these bozos replaced with real journalists? If I wanted clowns, I’d go to the circus.

  • Lexaburn

    You all aren’t actually expecting so-called “journalistic integrity,” are you?This new crop of so-called “journalists” i.e. news anchors and/or commentators are complete scum. They smile while playing rhetorical games like the Cheshire Cat, they do. They believe themselves lucky to be where they are.Luck runs out at some point for everyone.No more whimpering about the retarded press antics.It’s time to get serious about doing something about this. I began last week when I cut my cable off for good. Let others follow the example.American media is dead. It’s been replaced with a reality show rife with high school hijinks.NO MORE!

  • avkodoll

    From election night on for quite a while, I found myself crying for joy at the drop of the hat. And now, from shortly after the inauguration, I find that I’m ready to cry from sorrow at the drop of a hat. Is there any hope for a nation that seems to have such a high percentage of idiots in it?

  • Hilz

    I had the pleasure of catching Chuck Todd’s idiotic question while I was pumping my gas…. I was tempted to light light a match.What a fool. I had been arguing with friends all throughout the primary that he was useless as a journalist. Yea, he’s good with numbers…. but his critical thinking skills regarding questions to ask the POTUS are embarrassing.

  • Elena

    Obama challenges the status quo, and it scares them. They have no real deficiencies to pin on him, so they make stories like his seriousness (or lack thereof) and the teleprompter into a mountain, when they’re not even a molehill.

  • thespacecowboy

    The concept of objective media died on 9/11. For some reason this appears to have been when the press started giving Bush a pass on just about everything.They started to wake up when Katrina happened, but by then the media was too firmly entrenched in the gospel according to Bush.They’ve tried to get out (some of them anyway) but to no avail. Now they’re stuck with kowtowing to their corporate overlords.Jornalism is basically dead in the MSM.But, hey, I’m preaching to the choir here…

  • Kaleokualoha

    Lee Stranahan has a very active imagination. Does anyone have evidence that Obama was “molded by communist Frank Marshall Davis,” or is it pure unsubstantiated speculation? Obama’s book indicates Davis advised him on ethnic issues, not economic issues.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Kaleokualoha -Lee is not saying that that is what Lee believes. Lee is saying that that is what the wingnut blogs are saying and yes, Lee is correct. The wrong wingers are saying things exactly like that and a whole lot more. They are delusional.

  • http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha Kaleokualoha

    Sorry. I have been fighting the real wingnuts so long on this issue that I failed to recognize it.