Obama is doing what Tom Wolfe said so well so long ago: mau-mauing the flak catchers. What amazes me is the media’s cowering. Every question is divisive, distracting or an attack; he is not going to change if/when he gets into the White House, so, do all these reporters intend to spend four years being told that questions about this, that or the other thing are irrelevant, distracting etc.? Just goes to show how dumb or perhaps self-loathing (not without justification) these folks really are: the candidate who makes himself available is yesterday’s news (that would be McCain), the guy who looks down his nose at them and says “That’s distracting” is worship-worthy.
The only comfort I take in all of this is that by the 2012 election, many of the major daily newspapers will have gone under and a lot of the network news apparatus will probably have become extinct as well, taking with them the journalistic detritus of the 60s. These “old media” guys are having their last hurrah and I guess they’re determined to do as much damage to America as they can, dragging it down as they themselves drown. Bye, boys!
