THEY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING, AND FORGOTTEN NOTHING:  “More than three weeks after Democrats got stomped at every level in the 2016 elections, Barack Obama still bitterly clings to Fox News as the reason for his undoing,” Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air. “In an interview with Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Obama said that media fragmentation has undermined national consensus. Having Fox News playing ‘in every bar and restaurant’ made it more difficult for Democrats to connect to voters.” I think I can count the number of bars or restaurants where Fox News was playing on only of Homer Simpson’s hands, though I have been in plenty of bars, restaurants, banks, hospital waiting rooms, airport departure lounges and other public areas where the ubiquity of CNN feels very much like Orwell’s inescapable, impossible to turn off two-way telescreen:

It’s funny — Barack Obama managed to win two national elections in a world where Fox News dominated cable ratings, and yet he’s never stopped whining about them. He began his presidency with an ill-considered war on Fox, and he’s wrapping it up the same way. Fox may never get this level of promotion again, so it’s no wonder they’re lapping it up as much as possible now.

Speaking of presidential promotion, Wenner’s doing as much as he can while he has the time, too. He doesn’t bother to remind Obama of any of these inconvenient facts or challenge Obama’s whining, but instead rolls over for a very strange bellyrub while asking for government subsidies.

Which is also how newspapers began Obama’s administration as well. Like their lame duck boss, the DNC-MSM marches in place, ending the last eight years exactly how they began.