Hot on the heels of the already bad presidential optics emerging from the Nuclear Security Summit this week, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post appears to get himself into quite a snit: “Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit”:
World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.
They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.
In the middle of it all was Obama — occupant of an office once informally known as “leader of the free world” — putting on a clinic for some of the world’s greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
And after all the Post has done for Obama (as their late former Ombudsman admitted, conveniently after the election, of course). But when Milbank compares The One’s summit to “Soviet-era Moscow” and “a clinic for some of the world’s greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press”, does he consider those good or a bad things?
I know what the Post’s counterparts at the other end of the Northeast Corridor think in their heart of hearts.
Update: Perhaps Milbank’s rhetoric has caused the president to back off from his jingoistic hardline stance…“whether we like it or not.”
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