Who’s Afraid Of the Big, Bad Media, Part VI
By Mitch Berg
When Michele Bachmann – representative from a mostly-conservative, mostly rural district – limits her appearances to conservative and Christian media, freezing out the traditional media and their anti-conservative hatchet-jobbery, the Minnesota Monitor furrows its brow and makes concerned-yet-snarky noises.
Uh-oh – now Barack Obama has abandoned all non-liberal-suckup media!
TalkLeft has some interesting criticisms about how Barack Obama is handling the press. Obama hasn’t held a press conference in 10 days, has limited his appearance to friendly outlets like The Daily Show, and snapped at a reporter who gave him a foreign-policy question at a Pennsylvania diner.
I don’t care about the waffle “incident” so much – let the poor fella eat! But he wants to be the President after exposing his ideas to nothing more challenging than John Stewart, who wore knee pads to the interview?
Furrow your brows, MinMon.
Furrow.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
For the record, that Daily Show guy on TV spells his first name “Jon”. Proper spelling, to me, is “John” and that’s not the only difference between us. On behalf of the Green Lantern Corps, I thank you for your attention to this detail.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 am
A great-great-great-great-grandfather of mine was named John Stewart. He thanks you as well.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hillary will do O’Reilly. Obama does Stewart. Obama’s got balls of marshmallow by comparison.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Obama won’t go on Conan because he’s afraid of the taunts he’d receive from Triumph.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
It’s a good thing Obama doesn’t really have a theme song, so Triumph can’t do to it, what he did to Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name”.
There is very little out there that compares to the 15 seconds of that lyrical masterpiece.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
“Triumph on Obama” would be interesting to see.
Hehe…
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I think Triumph would taunt him with:
Little girl, dressed to kill
I see through your disguise
You wanna be big time but you never will
Cuz I see through all your lies
You say you’re somethin’ special
You talk a real good game
But now the party’s over
An’ you just don’t sound
You just don’t sound the same
Don’t say you love me
Don’t say you need me
Say goodbye
April 24th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Mitch,
If contrast is fair between Obama and Bachmann (uber alles), then how about the contrast between what you claimed..
Paraphrase (or satire perhaps in this case)..
Peev – “Mitch, if BushCo used attorney firings to derail investigations into their own conduct, it’s called obstruction of justice. These guys have engaged in a pattern of using positions for political gain and even witch hunts, why would they not do so here? Often, where there is smoke, there’s also fire.”
Mitch “Peev you spittle flecked ass, you don’t know crap, all you do is purport deluded crap, you’ve never been right on anything, shut up shut up shut up – PROVE IT! Right NOW!! – I don’t have to take your crap.”
Peev – “Ok Mitch, and I’m the irrational one..”
Peev 4/24/08 – http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/23/national/main4039857.shtml
Mitch – would you care to again suggest that the isn’t fire here?
April 24th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Is this on topic?
Peev, perhaps you should read my blog post.