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The media did quite a Barnum & Bailey job of drumming up suspense, but President Obama’s address tonight on his new military strategy “to bring this war [in Afghanistan] to a successful conclusion” was wholly anticlimactic. Not to mention the pedantry he displayed in restating all of the (now Bushy) reasons why this is a just war, which only served… Read more.
The way Saturday Night Live (SNL) parodied President Obama’s failure to follow through on campaign promises demonstrates why liberals have already become so disillusioned with his presidency. For here, in part, is how his hopeful presidential checklist was lampooned on Saturday night by the show’s Barack Obama impersonator (who, incidentally, looks more like Pee Wee… Read more.
As great a celebrity as President Obama has become, I really did not expect coverage of his Moscow summit to compete with the obsessive, predatory and wholly redundant coverage of (plans for) today’s Michael Jackson Memorial. But nothing demonstrates the tabloidization of the news media quite like the fact that even coverage of Sarah… Read more.
In what has to be the most ironic, and potentially implosive, development of his nascent presidency, Barack Obama is being dogged more by criticisms from liberals than from conservatives. Specifically, liberals are simmering with disillusionment over the fact that he has been systematically adopting many of Bush’s war-on-terror tactics, which they, and he, routinely condemned… Read more.
One can be forgiven for thinking that North Carolina winning the NCAA (men’s) championship on Monday is the biggest story in basketball this year. After all, even President Obama took time out of his busy schedule to have ESPN broadcast him filling out his NCAA tournament brackets. He completed them by picking North Carolina to win.… Read more.
