The press finally falls out of love with Obama.
By Howard Fineman | NEWSWEEK
Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, was 50 minutes late for his briefing, apparently a record for tardiness, but few reporters in the White House Press Room bothered to feign outrage; they didn’t seem all that eager to ask him questions anyway. When his boss flew to Missouri to give another of his “high octane” (The New York Times), “impassioned” (The Washington Post) health-care speeches, no cable channel covered the event. If you are president, the only thing worse than criticism is not being covered. And the truth is, we in the press are bored with Barack.
The “mainstream media” are losing patience with, and even interest in, their erstwhile hero. President Barack Obama never had a chance with the Ailes-Murdoch crowd, of course, and it didn’t take the president long to offend the fierce left wing of the blogosphere. But now, finally, the MSM, which views itself as ideologically neutral, has found ideologically neutral reasons to lose patience with him: that he may be ineffectual; that he doesn’t know how to play the game; that he can’t get anything done. Exhibit A: the health-care bill. The Times’s Frank Rich, the astute dean of the commentariat, wrote recently that Obama has failed to “communicate a compelling narrative” in office and, as a result, “could be toast if he doesn’t make good on a year’s worth of false starts.”
And yet this collective falling out of love is great news for Obama. Calling it quits with the MSM is just what he needs. A breakup might even save his presidency.
[Editor's Note: This is what I meant by the major "Spin Cycle." Obama's problems go way, way beyond the press' allegedly falling out of love with him. It's not that the press no longer has warm and fuzzy feelings toward him, it's that the public feels like a jilted lover and is looking for a new knight in shining armor. If he jams the health care bill through, the MSM's love affair will be instantly rekindled. "Historic acheivement" and all that.]
Finally someone publishs something about OBAMA’s honeymoon period being over within 14 months of the begining of the reign of his socialist platform.