More bowing from the media
posted at 11:45 am on June 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Newbusters has this, although Power Line and pretty much everyone else has it linked. Newsweek’s Evan Thomas talks about Barack Obama with Chris Matthews, and in the kind of skeptical, detached tone we have come to expect from the national media:
EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
THOMAS: He’s going to bring all different sides together.
Shorter Thomas: He’s kinda like God, only cuter! OMG!!
I’d echo John Hinderaker’s “Good Lord,” but Evan Thomas might think I’m talking about Obama. We laughed when Brian Williams bowed to Obama to wish him good night, although thankfully Williams didn’t offer to tuck him into bed, but this goes beyond a bow. Thomas is almost literally worshiping at Obama’s image in this clip. And Newsweek doesn’t just employ Thomas as a reporter; he’s one of their editors.
Maybe Newsweek should just get a room at the White House and cycle its staff through it in order to allow for non-stop fawning. When will they announce that they’re changing their name to The Gospel Of Barack? I’d guess … 2012.
The front-page pic comes from our friends at The Corner, who are having fun with this today.
Update: Allahpundit already had this. I read his post last night, which dealt mainly with the explanation on flip-flops, but didn’t click through to the video. Fortunately, though, we are not the new Jon & Kate, as a commenter suggested (although I laughed out loud at it); we do read each other’s posts, but sometimes we overlap.
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I think Ed and Allah are the new Jon and Kate. It obvious neither them actually read each other postings: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/05/us-news-obamas-flip-flops-for-the-public-good/
Lance Murdock on June 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Stare Run Media / Government Controlled Media
Either choice; it’s so true…
Keemo on June 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Other than that Ed, you made solid points on the deity worship of Obama at “Newsweek”
Lance Murdock on June 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM
We’re boned.
BallisticBob on June 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Ah Um Er Ah, where is that in the United States Constitution? That the President of the U.S. is going to partner us with any religion, and fight on it’s behalf?
Bueller Bueller Bueller
Dr Evil on June 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Lance Murdock on June 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Almost closer to Hannity & Colmes
Keemo on June 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM
4 months into office, oh and by the way Obama has decided to fast track executions down in Gitmo:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/us/politics/06gitmo.html?_r=1&hp
rob verdi on June 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM
I would suggest someone photoshoping this image with the One’s face.
Although this is very good
Universal healthcare! So let it be written, so let it be done!
Mr. Joe on June 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Why do their lips look chafed?
God…
profitsbeard on June 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Media, Obama’s Lapdog…from The People’s Cube
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Newsweek is not TeenBeat magazine?
Wow, the removable poster inside is neat. The “Czar Star” pages are cool too. OMG!! Timmy Geitner is SO cool. He likes are spending OPM, and his favorite band is STYX.
portlandon on June 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM
It’s really uncomfortable to watch grown “men”, and I use the word loosely, so ga-ga over Obama.
CarolynM on June 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Try again.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 11:57 AM
I can no longer tell Newsweek and Teen Tiger apart.
drjohn on June 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Lol, it’s just laughable now.
nickj116 on June 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM
I think I’m going to throw up.
Eichendorff on June 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM
The left loves to evoke the memory of Edward R. Murrow. Was he ever this obsequious?
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Ed,
Glad to hear that. It’s just that in the couple of days there has been a lot of reposting of videos. This thread, the iowahawk video and the Obama Beach video.
Keep up the good work though. And tell AP to post more stupid videos. If he wants traffic, the more the better.
Lance Murdock on June 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Breathtaking! The cult of personality grows. We’ve been oddly smug that it couldn’t happen here. Creepy and worrying.
Mason on June 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM
These journalistic blow jobs are really getting disturbing.
infidel4life on June 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM
I’m no Bible expert, but isn’t this all kinda fitting into the predictions of a “False Prophet” in Revelations?
chromium on June 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM
I am glad that Newsweek is not in the bag for Obama.
Very balanced coverage of our living god President.
Mr. Joe on June 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM
chromium on June 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Yeah. But apparently it’s bad form to point it out.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I find this mindset of equating Obama to God, truly interesting. What in the hell was done to these people, to make them believe, or even fathom this?
I keep going back to the comment, of Chris Matthews I believe, where he said…our job is to help Obama succeed. That’s very telling. As if to say. We know he’s not capable of doing it himself, so we’ll help him along.
This most recent comment, and NewsWEAK headline, reeks of this support. They know Obama is messing things up, they know a majority of Americans are against most policies, such as Gitmo, releasing photos, higher taxes. The polls say it. Yesterday, Rasmussen showed his support for him is waning. It’s now neck, and neck for approval, and disapproval.
The msm’s, papers, ragazines, all know it. So they’re going to pump up the volume on their support, to try, and sway thinking. But I think that time has come, and gone. Almost everyone knows the meek tax payer is going to get screwed in the end.
When Microsoft, who is an ardent supporter of Obama’s threatens to take their business out of the country, you know something’s not going well.
capejasmine on June 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Anybody taking bets yet on the date Newsweek prints its final edition?
My guess would be sometime in the next year.
AZCoyote on June 6, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Oh, by the way, now that he’s God can we dispense with the secret service protection? I mean, he’s obviously invinsible, so we could save some tax payer dollars.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Yup but it’s their god not mine. I assume it’s from the radiance of their lightbringer.
jmarcure on June 6, 2009 at 12:06 PM
It is nearly impossible for ANYBODY to defeat this man in ‘12 with all of the fawning and slobbering coverage he is getting, and I think that is exactly the point.
TampaBayBull on June 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Way beyond a “cult of personality” when they start refering to him as a god.
jmarcure on June 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM
There is such a thing as overexposure. Let’s hope the sheeple get bored with the show.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Thomas’s statement (admission?) brings to mind one of the observations by the late Father John Neuhaus: “The state is the religion for those who no longer believe in a God.”
Yes, a generalization but, historically, one that is quite true in too many cases.
Tocqueville, Neuhaus, Robert Nisbet (brilliant sociologist), others have noted similar dangers in a democracy.
SteveMG on June 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM
I thought the front-page picture was the real thing until Ed gave it away.
notagool on June 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM
So glad we have the “watchdog” media keeping the Administration honest, in the best tradition of All The President’s Men.
Oh wait. They’re only watchdogs during a Republican administration. They’re butt-licking little lapdogs for The Zero.
Cicero43 on June 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Some of the sheeple will but not his worshipers for which he can do no wrong. Add to that the growing number of worldwide worshipers and we have ourselves a leader for life. (ours not his)
jmarcure on June 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Here is the best part from the interview:
–”He’s all about let us reason together…He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’”–
See? We’re all just a bunch of adolescents who need guidance, a world of goofy kids who need the firm hand of Papa Ogabe to keep us in line.
Kiss my azz.
Bishop on June 6, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Good for China or other communist countries but in this case people are worshiping the man not the state. The state is only one of the tools their god can use to punish the evil ones and create utopia.
jmarcure on June 6, 2009 at 12:16 PM
As we speak, the economy is getting weaker and weaker. Jobs for recent college graduates are getting in shorter supply. The unemployment rate just rose to 9.4%. Obama just picked a racially biased supreme court nominee. The Obama Administration is pushing for even more spending. This is not a time to fawn over Obama.
Obama is a good looking guy, but he certainly lacks the experience and judgment to lead our nation.
Frank T.J Mackey on June 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Under Obama we are the evil empire. This is truly scary.
petunia on June 6, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I don’t think people like Evan Thomas or Matthews separate the two.
At least as long as Democrats/liberals are running things.
But it’s a fair point.
SteveMG on June 6, 2009 at 12:19 PM
All that’s left is for BHO to move to French Guiana and start his own religious community. He could take all his followers with him.
…Come to think of it…
Mojave Mark on June 6, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Or when their taxes go sky high, and everything they ever dreamed of, doesn’t quite live up to the hype. I imagine a shortage of pitch forks.
capejasmine on June 6, 2009 at 12:20 PM
When they start unrolling the 100ft tall Obama portrait on the front of the MSNBC building, then it`s panic time.
ThePrez on June 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM
To me that can only mean that one side is going to prison.
Dr. ZhivBlago on June 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM
I think it’s going to be real easy to defeat this idiot in 2012 once the bond market collapses and the commercial real estate market implodes, which is right around the corner.
People vote with their pocketbooks. Inflation here we come.
Knucklehead on June 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM
America got pwned.
BPD on June 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM
No the panic time is when they call him a god. And that is now. It is like someone wrote a script on how America fails and now they are following it. I wonder how this story ends…
But there has to be a backlash at some point doesn’t there? Oh Heaven help us.
petunia on June 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM
A new Obama t-shirt, the first line on the front with his picture.
The second line on the back.
ThePrez on June 6, 2009 at 12:25 PM
What we have is yet another religious reference to the messiah. BO is so much wiser then we are. He is so knowledgeable that he is our teacher, our guide in life and more importantly we are but children. Are we his children? I’m much older but I guess I’m still a child. Lets see, where did I here that before. That’s right that best selling fiction called the Bible. Some silly notion the there is a god who is our holy father who came to earth to teach us about our errant behavior. And many of you people think this is a personality cult following like Madonna or Angelina has?
jmarcure on June 6, 2009 at 12:27 PM
When they start unrolling the 100ft tall Obama portrait on the front of the MSNBC building, then it`s panic time.
ThePrez on June 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Or when members of the Domestic Security Force comes around to provide you with your obligatory photo of Dear Leader for required prominent displaying in your home.
It’s going to be a sad day when Americans start trying to escape to Cuba.
Bishop on June 6, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Are we having fun yet?
One in nine Americans now on food stamps.
Mike Honcho on June 6, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Bernie Goldberg might consider a followup tome. A Slobbery Love Affair – Part II. The Blowing of a President.
whitetop on June 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I am embarressed for this man. This appears to be a critical case of terminal brown-noseitis.
flyoverland on June 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Holy cow! Is it possible that Chris Matthews was just out-MSNBC’d by a non-NBCer?!
OneGyT on June 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Just because they are collecting food stamps and live in America does not necessarily mean they are all Americans.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Is that cover fake or real? I honestly don’t know.
angryed on June 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Thank the Lord neither of them offered to kiss him good night either.
And EWWWWWW. What the hell is up with the worshipness? There was a woman yesterday wearing some T-shirt with Obama’s image on it. I refrained from being a smartarse, but it was hard….
mjk on June 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I hope you meant Tiger Beat, the other one is porn.
Tommy_G on June 6, 2009 at 12:36 PM
It’s nice that Meacham finally got to cover someone of his own intelligence- Bo.
drjohn on June 6, 2009 at 12:38 PM
If the cover photo is showing lip prints on Ogabe, shouldn’t the picture be of his backside?
TugboatPhil on June 6, 2009 at 12:38 PM
oops. Thanks.
drjohn on June 6, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Related: Chris Matthews had a leg tinkle off camera.
locomotivebreath1901 on June 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM
It seems that the National Enquirer has more real journalists that the state-controlled media. So, this print garbage must be ignored. We still have talk radio, for now.
BottomLine5 on June 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Sorry to go typo Nazi on you, Capt Ed, but you missed the “l” in your headline “More bowing from the media”.
andycanuck on June 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I was in the drugstore yesterday. Ahead of me in line was a store employee using her Delaware state debit card (read “food stamps”) to buy her break snack — a big bag of M7Ms and another of pretzel Combos.
BigD on June 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I’m not seeing a lot of commentary on this, but the writing is on the wall. If people think the housing meltdown was bad, just wait till they get a load of the hurt this sector is going to put on the banks.
califcon on June 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM
It is so easy envisioning that front cover shot of B.O.with a custard cream pie smashed right into his smirking kisser!
Makes me smile just thinking about it.
pilamaye on June 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM
I’ve been to church a few times, and what Thomas is doing is worshiping a greater being (although it’s just in his own mind).
Fitting that it happened on Chrissy’s show, for no man loves Obama more than Chrissy. By the way, that’s not a thrill up your leg Chrissy, it’s a certain male appendage rotting and decomponsing.
Hog Wild on June 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Eventually this is going to catch up. All this worship and printing of money. This time next year.
Kini on June 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Look at it this way: It’s just another sign that Newsweek is closing to going under.
Blake on June 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Gad – I love to vomit first thing on Saturday morning. Getting more and more difficult to remain optimistic.
Fishoutofwater on June 6, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Since when does the MSM believe that “we were the good guys in 1984?” In 1984 they were calling Reagan a warmongering fearmongerer. He was as hated in Europe as Obama is loved.
Isn’t it great that the MSM can rely on America’s crappy educational system and their own revisionist history to ensure that people forget that they hated Reagan as much as they hated Bush?
29Victor on June 6, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Wow, absolute disgusting propaganda now and not even trying to hide it.
dogsoldier on June 6, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I think this is the money line:
Obama is above being all about America.
drjohn on June 6, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I thought the cover was a joke. Are you sure this isn’t from Onion.
RedSoxNation on June 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Well stated.
FireBlogger on June 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM
How is this NOT the new definition of insanity? How can Evan Thomas ever be taken seriously again? Even at his own dinner table, people have to be laughing AT him!
Freddy on June 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Can we get a PhotoShopper to replace “Newsweek” with “Newspeak”?
ConstantSorrow on June 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Something tells me Newsweek won’t renew their ad on Michelle’s site.
SnarkVader on June 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM
They started to die 5 years ago, when this same male prostitute (Evan Thomas) correctly predicted his profession going in the tank for the guy who served in Cambodia.
Del Dolemonte on June 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM
How revolting, though it is nice to see yet another confirmation that the people at Newsweek and MSNBC are still a bunch of twats.
diditagain on June 6, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Oh god, I’m scared to check our mailbox and see what’s on the Time’s cover. There’s a limit to how much one’s stomach can endure.
Michelle Dubois on June 6, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Our Socialist Indoctrination Centers (aka, public schools) are busy forming new Democrats.
whitetop on June 6, 2009 at 1:00 PM
closing = close
Blake on June 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Evan Thomas’ grandfather was Norman Thomas, who ran for President as a socialist a couple of times.
Do magazines get daily briefings from Rahm Emanuel and David A$$holerod just like the electronic media.
bw222 on June 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM
What was that about Newsweek insisting that they’re objective journalists?
threeCents on June 6, 2009 at 1:03 PM
LOL
Freaking media lap dancers
blatantblue on June 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM
It’s so easy for me because I’m a conservative, but I’m thoroughly disgusted.
Connie on June 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM
FIFY
profitsbeard on June 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM
The media’s god, Obama, is on TV more than a test pattern. Frankly, their gushing has become sickening.
rplat on June 6, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Americans love only one thing more than putting our celebrities on a pedastal. Tearing them down.
Newsweek, MSNBC et al are doing a splendid job of mindless idolatry. Keep up the worship and keep creating the disconnect. It’s dangerous territory and they don’t even know it.
sherry on June 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM
It’s inevitable when you have a consumer driven economy and collapsing consumer demand. What’s worse is that most of those losses will be borne by small and mid-size banks who managed to escape the sub-prime mess unscathed. I’ve read $200 billion in losses by the end of 2010. That’s a lot of small and mid-sized banks going under.
No wonder the FDIC is desperately seeking “emergency assessments” to replenish it’s insurance fund.
Mike Honcho on June 6, 2009 at 1:15 PM
This is how you get on the bailout bandwagon.
Kini on June 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM
I’m disgusted too!
:D
blatantblue on June 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Fake but accurate.
fogw on June 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Evan Thomas D-Newsweek
Chris Matthews D-MSNBC
whitetop on June 6, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Wrong verb. Wrong direct object.
Kafir on June 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM
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