As we’ve seen in the previous two posts, Brian Williams of NBC is having second thoughts about Obama, as is Gloria Borger of CNN. Meanwhile, ABC runs an article with this metatag, and a similar, if slightly toned down headline: “Oil, Immigration, Romanoff: Is the Obama Administration Falling Apart?”
AdvertisementAssuming BP is able to get the oil spill in the Gulf plugged, how much of this is the media laying the groundwork for their “comeback kid” narrative to roll out…right around September or early October, and running to, oh at least, the first Tuesday in November — and possibly longer, depending upon the outcome on election night?
Who knows how the next months will play out, but it’s something to salt away for the future.
And the future is now!
As Jim Hoft writes at Gateway Pundit:
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Barack Obama held a press conference this afternoon after Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed and the liberal Senate passed START Treaty and the 9-11 Emergency Responder’s Bill.The first reporter Caren Bohan from Reuters praised Barack Obama as “The Comeback Kid.”
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Hey, at least she didn’t ask the president what “enchanted you the most from serving in this office,” as the New York Times’ Jeff Zeleny did last year, thus proving that cool dispassionate objectivity has finally returned to a once-smitten press corps.
Related: On the PJM homepage, with alliteration aforethought, Bryan Preston explores how a shellacked Obama is readying his regulatory runarounds. We know he’ll have a complicit and docile press; how painful will it be to watch the incoming GOP Congress swimming upstream against the president and his MSM PR flaks?
Toughest question at today’s sniveling toady convention:
1)Can I paint your toenails?
2)Do these knee pads come in different colors?
3)How can we help you defeat the Republicans after the New Year?
4)Can we give you a “Slurpee” right here and now?
The media can play handmaiden to Obama and Dems all they want.
Ending DADT, ratifying the Start treaty, won’t employ a single person. Obama gets re-elected, or possibly impeached/convicted, based on the economy. If unemployment falls to 5%, and wages/real income rises, he’s a lock. If not, he’s in deep trouble.
His move to stage a battle with incoming Republicans over raising electricity and gas rates for everyone to “save the planet” is evidence Obama is deeply stupid.
This is an example of most of the partisan big media being on the pragmatic side of the liberal equation, when it cones to pragmatist and true believers.
The media people know the Clinton-Morris triangulation story, and they know it helped him stay in power in 1996, so they are OK with him moving to the middle on some issues, because staying in power after 2012 is the end game. Hence the Reuters “victory lap” for Obama today. And as presdent, Obama does control the messaging to a great extent, so if he wants to keep triangulating, the media can keep getting their leg retingled.
But the House GOP does have control of the purse strings, and they can grab the messaging away from Obama if the go after cutting back on the health care bill in the early days of the new Congess, while the swing voters are still focused on being angry over the bill and why they put the Republicans in charge in the first place. The key is to take Obama to budget cutting places he doesn’t want to go, and killing off his signature piece of social welfare legislation (even if he did little work in creating it) definitely is not a trip this president is going to want to take.