August 14, 2011 - 2:56 pm
Thanks to James Taranto for reminding us of this adulatory puffery from Dana Milbank not so long ago (via one of JT’s invariably helpful Tweets). It bears rereading, because while I often say that nobody’s perfect, and even the most deluded pundits get something right sometimes, this column challenges that theory. He says that Obama’s universe is looking “divine” but then all the really “good news” turned out to be either short-lived or wrong, and even the one bit of “bad news,” the fear that the Boston Globe might be shut down, didn’t happen.
Rats!
Wow! That article was creepy in its worshipful tone! How do those people call themselves “journalists” and still look themselves in the mirror?
Why should we take any of these cheerleaders who pose as journalists seriously? It was obvious to me that Obama was destined to be a disaster as president when he was elected. I was amazed that less than thirty years after Ronald Reagen had helped shove the USSR into the dustbin of history, and American electorate would elect a Marxist fool as president. Yet the the vast majority of journalists were convinced that we had just elected the best president since Abe Lincoln.
People need to be reminded of how foolish and wrong the pundits of the mainstream media were in 2009 as we get to the election of 2012. Let their records determine their credibility.