By Hugh Hewitt
Friday, September 14, 2012
If an American consulate had been attacked and four
Americans including the ambassador slaughtered on George W. Bush's watch --on
9/11, no less-- the outrage broadcast over the nation's elite media would have
been intense and round-the-clock.
Had George W. Bush then responded to those events by
jetting to Vegas for a fundraiser and campaign rally marked by a rote and
emotion-less nod towards the victims and a callous transition to the difficulty
of campaign life for political volunteers, well, the hysteria that would have
followed would have melted wires.
Because Barack Obama is the MSM's favorite president
ever; however, when these events followed that outrageous attack on Wednesday,
the Manhattan-Beltway media did not even pause from their unremitting attack
on...Mitt Romney, of course.
When the President compounded the day's fiasco by
announcing to a stunned foreign policy elite via Telemundo that Egypt was not
an "ally," much of the MSM didn't even bother to note the pratfall,
nor the fact that it was juxtaposed with the President's chest thumping
dismissal of Mitt Romney as as "shoot-first, aim later" candidate.
It was as though Jimmy Carter had campaigned on his
hostage release negotiation skills in 1980, or Bill Clinton on a chastity
platform in the mid-terms of 1998.
Perhaps the pressure on American media from declining ad
sales and dwindling circulation and viewership has caused a collective
crack-up. The elite media have always been left but rarely have they been so
collectively delusional.
By Thursday night the MSM's effort was underway to
validate their shared embarrassment by proclaiming that Mitt Romney was
"toning down" his criticism of President Obama even though the
Republican nominee blasted away at the President's assault on defense spending
in the day's one open media event. CNN, NBC, Politico all relayed their
"toned down" judgment despite the obvious compounding of Wednesday's
display of bias transmitted thereby.
It is a collapse. A complete collapse. As Mark Steyn said
on my show Thursday, the MSM is
"acting like a deranged, drugged up mob."
And everyone but the media knows it.
Meanwhile the Arab world is in a spasm of violence that
the President seems almost indifferent to, so remote is his demeanor. "No
drama Obama" is looking more and more like Chance the Gardener Obama, the
"Being There" president in fact being only in campaign mode and
detached from even the most pressing aspects of his job.
I can only
conclude that he took his already-evaporated convention bounce as a predictor
of the November vote and a ratification of his own immense self-esteem. Fine by
Team Romney which must be clinking glasses at the president's cluelessness and
the media's enabling of his spiral into retirement. The likely voter polls show
a dead heat nationally, and the map is full of Romney paths, with Wisconsin
heading Romney's way and Obama's alleged lead in Ohio gone in the last
Rasmussen survey (and never existing in the Columbus Dispatch poll.)
Obama threw everything at Romney, including hundreds of
millions in negative ads, Bill Clinton in prime time, and all of the
Manhattan-Beltway media, but it is a tie and the disaster in the Middle East is
just sinking in.
The President appears certain that he will not have to
leave the White House next January, so assured is he of his charm and
competence. But like his speech in Cairo long ago or his appeal on behalf of
the Chicago Olympics, the president is nothing if not overly generous in his
own estimate of his own abilities.
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