Though the chummy Washington, D.C., media to which President Barack Obama was speaking last week probably just nodded their heads in assent, many heads outside the Beltway shook in derision at the president’s remarks about the need for a “well-informed electorate.”
“A job well done is to probe and to question, and to dig deeper, and to demand more,” he said at the ceremony for the presentation of the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. “The electorate would be better served if that happened.”
Ironic, isn’t it?
One of the reasons Obama is president of the United States is because the media didn’t do what he called for in his speech the other day. It didn’t probe or question or dig deeper about him, or if it did it kept everything to itself, knowing if it was revealed his campaign was toast.
His early associations with communist Frank Marshall Davis and terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn barely registered in the 2008 presidential campaign. His adoption of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” as his guide as a community organizer, and his years at the feet of America-damning pastor Jeremiah Wright were lost in the media’s obsession in justifying him as a Christian (and not a Muslim, as some claimed).