https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/01/18/president-obama-literally-shuts-down-main-street/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:45:04 -0400<![CDATA[Imagine a Republican president visiting a major tourist attraction in the midst of a severe recession and shutting down that park&#8217;s Main Street just so he could deliver an address to a closed audience. The mainstream media would have a field day with that, don&#8217;t ya think? They would go on about the economic impact on the park, and about how the insensitive president is depriving children of their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity both to see Disneyland and to see the president up close. The MSM would connect the shutdown of the park&#8217;s Main Street to the death of jobs on America&#8217;s Main Streets. They might even find one of the president&#8217;s former supporters who worked on a Main Street but has lost her job. The MSM would turn the event into a week of coverage and a campaign narrative that the president is out of touch, insensitive to kids, and a threat to Main Streets from Florida to Alaska.]]>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:29:46 -0500<![CDATA[Bryan Preston]]>https://pjmedia.com/bryan-preston-1/2012/01/18/president-obama-literally-shuts-down-main-street-n159523