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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Whew, for a minute there I thought the Newsweek cover was for real.
It’s a parody, right?
PattyJ on June 6, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Little bit of good news…
Rasmussen daily tracking poll:
+1 (34-33) NET APPROVAL INDEX
+6 (53-47)OVERALL APPROVAL NUMBER (lowest yet)
Maybe the sheeple at least are waking up…
davek70 on June 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM
You’ve got to be friggin kidding me.
I feel like I’m watching a scene from The Omen.
These people are scarey. I bet they’d sacrafice their first born in order to recieve Obama’s blessings.
iceman1960 on June 6, 2009 at 1:36 PM
New spin for partial birth abortion?
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Evan Thomas should have chosen his words more carefully…
Obama will return Washinton soon, and he may NOT be pleased!
I’m picturing Evan Thomas prostrate before The Chosen One…and as the lash descends upon him Obama shouts:
“Sort of a god? SORT OF???”
Poor Evan! Although (of course) our Dear Leader can be merciful, he does demand FULL respect!!
Justrand on June 6, 2009 at 1:44 PM
I don’t know about a god, but he does remind me of a certain mythical figure – Narcissus. Hmmm… maybe we just need to smuggle something a reflective surface into Obama’s path…
bitsy on June 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Some of the most provincial people I’ve ever met have been New Yorkers who like to use words like “provincial” when describing how they imagine rural people to be. Seriously, some of the folks I know from NYC don’t know one damn thing about anything West of the NJ Turnpike, and they go around calling other people “parochial” or “provincial”.
forest on June 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM
The only god is
AllahObama andMohammedthe media is his messenger.Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Problem is he is also a vampire.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Newsweek knows they are a dying concern so why have any pretense of objectivity? They are acting as if they will cease to exist in 7 and a half years.
Pretty much all “mainstream” media is now dead as a reliable source of news. Pravda without the charm.
The final proof will be when Dear Leader’s taxes destroy the economy and nary a peep will emerge.
jjshaka on June 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot.
bitsy on June 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Proof of that is how European nations are bending over backward to take prisoners in order to help Obama close down Gitmo.
Daggett on June 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM
You forgot the “L” in the second word of the headline.
holygoat on June 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM
What does God have to say about that?
Tim Burton on June 6, 2009 at 1:58 PM
The media hated Bush because he unleashed the evil US military and the evil CIA on people of color from non-Western nations with “legitimate greivances” against the White devils. The thing is, the only Americans who were affected by this were the troops (who volunteered to serve) and their loved ones. By contrast, Obama’s awful economic policies will affect every American.
At a certain point, many people will start saying “You know, five years ago I was making a decent living and every time I turned on the TV I was being told how awful Bush was. Now I can’t pay my bills, my investment portfolio can’t buy me a Happy Meal and every time I turn on the TV I’m being told how wonderful Obama is”.
The MSM is in full Kamikaze mode. They will happily destroy themselves to accomplish their assigned mission.
ardenenoch on June 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM
PackerBronco on June 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM
God is dead…..long live Obama. I think I’m going to puke.
afotia on June 6, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Is there a misspelling in the title? ;)
baldilocks on June 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Meachum is on MSNBC all the time. His is nothing but a toady. His magazine stinks and will be done soon. By his slavish statment, he has thrown any journalistic credibility and decorum out the window. He is now nothing more than a idol worshiper, bowing down to this modern day version of the Golden Calf.
kingsjester on June 6, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Just made it more accurate, Ed. You’re welcome.
Schadenfreude on June 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM
I actually didnt bat an eye about the cover. Seemed plausible Newsweek would do that.
Chuck Schick on June 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM
And all these glowing assessments after only 120 days in office. With this president the words, “Time will tell”, never apply.
pjean on June 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM
BO has dropped to 51% on Rasmussen. These morons and sycophants are praising a falling star and a false god.
Jdripper on June 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Does anyone remember just after the election?
I guess creepy is in, now. Whoopee!
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 2:26 PM
And they wonder why some people call Obama the anti Christ.
And there sits Matthews going Yeah.
I know it was tough for these guys back when Bush was talking about liberty and awful crap like that, but now that we are the good guys again…maybe they won’t want to trash their country.
Until and unless another Republican gets elected.
It seems to me that these morons did not like Reagan much better than they liked Bush..so what is this 1984 stuff? I can remember huge anti American demonstrations in Europe when Reagan was going toe to toe with the Soviets.
Terrye on June 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I thought it was legit, heck, I saw Michele’s face on the cover of Time and thought it was a story about the recent ‘missing link’ discovery.
thomasaur on June 6, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Thank god (not Obama) for alternative news sources. If we didn’t have the internet, all of our news would come from these smug elitist east coast libs. These people disgust me, and their willingness to get on their knees for Barry O and accept what ever he shoves in their faces is the exact opposite of what journalism should represent.
BayCon on June 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM
So when are we gonna stick it to the media?
Isn’t it time that we the people go after them?
atheling on June 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM
One other point, isn’t it deeply disturbing how easy it is for these followers to exibit disdain for those who lean on faith, but then they turn around and refer to this president, a mere mortal, as being “like God”? Pathetic.
pjean on June 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Dear Leader Barackito Obamalini seems to have developed a cult of worshipers so dedicated as to make even Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il envious.
MB4 on June 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Worry not, they will suffocate under that sticky substance, soon enough.
Schadenfreude on June 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Lips-to-ass disease.
Geministorm on June 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM
We were viewed as the Good Guys in 1984?
Not according to the media.
Not according to European elitists.
Not according to Jihadists everywhere.
Pretty much the same guys who don’t think we are the good guys today.
The medial lies about today. And lies even more about history.
MarkTheGreat on June 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Is this cover a parody?
Ted Torgerson on June 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM
im sorry….there just is not enough of a halo around Barry’s head for me to believe that Newsweek cover is real…
alexraye on June 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I knew someone would beat me to this. +1
baldilocks on June 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM
When they did the re-do of Newsweek, why didn’t they just go all the way and call it Tiger Beat? If they had, these kinds of covers would be more appropriate.
myrenovations on June 6, 2009 at 2:40 PM
What’s hilarious is that nobody can tell the difference anymore.
ddrintn on June 6, 2009 at 2:54 PM
I just got a little throw up in the back of my mouth.
jukin on June 6, 2009 at 2:55 PM
And Newsweek wonders why their revenues are down……..
………. because there is only so much room in the White House.
Seven Percent Solution on June 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Good point atheling. The sooner we can bring this fight into the open and make the American people more aware, the better. Turning the other cheek doesn’t work. The McCain team proved that.
bw222 on June 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Myself, I don’t pay much attention to single polls, but I just checked RCP averages and for the first time since his inauguration, I believe, Obama, now at 59.7%, has gone below 60.0 approval.
MB4 on June 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM
If Obama’s approval numbers dip below 50%, I think he’ll snap.
ddrintn on June 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM
I said this a while back. I advocated burning MSM reporters and commentators in effigy, but that wasn’t received too well.
Still…deep down inside, you know you want to.
And even if we don’t, because burning effigies is somehow “not family-friendly” (that’s debatable…), we may want to leave the kids at home and start showing up to media events with eggs.
It’s not about being family-friendly anymore. If we don’t go toe-to-toe with the MSM, who will? If we don’t start getting rude about how mad we are at them, WTF are we complaining about? If the MSM is a bully (and they are), why aren’t we standing up to them?
/Change?
bluelightbrigade on June 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM
^ I remember he started to lose it visibly when Sarah Palin first came on the scene. Stalking the platform in his shirtsleeves with that scowl on his face like a kid who’s been told he can’tr take the car to the prom.
ddrintn on June 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM
And if they just go below 55%, I think Michelle will snap!
MB4 on June 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM
I think he has some sort of compulsion to be loved, worshiped and thought of as special. I think he’ll snap before it gets to 50. He doesn’t just want those who voted for him to love him. He wants us all to submit.
myrenovations on June 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Don’t worry, the MSM won’t disappoint……….
……… they will over hype, overreach, overexpose, overinflate, over prop up, over report, and eventually overdue.
Seven Percent Solution on June 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM
And while the Bastard-in-Chief is paying off a-hole-corn and the unions he has cut veterans benefits. These are the same blue-krackers who claim they support veterans but get fake Marines to campaign for them.
jdkchem on June 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I would agree, except that the idiot messiah can’t even count to 50.
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I hope Evan Thomas can get some attention for that condition.
I really, honestly think a lot of people in the MSM have mental disorders, and most of the rest are enablers. It’s pretty clear that very few if any of that crowd live in the real world.
Merovign on June 6, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Not true. He can count to 57.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM
I don’t know if this has been mentioned, and sorry for the OT.
I got my latest Limbaugh Letter the other day, and the in depth interview subject is…..Ed Morrissey!
Congratulations, Ed. That was a good interview, and if Rush respects what you’re doing, then you are doing something right!
Nice job.
Brian1972 on June 6, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Still waiting…
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM
He had to go change his pants right after this clip. Mathews was empathetic and offered him a box of tissues.
Grayson on June 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Hogwash!
Obama is the most divisive person that’s every filled this position.
Thomas is a fool.
rplat on June 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM
I’m so f*cking sick of seeing this horse’s a$$ every time I go through the checkout line!
Sorry… I needed to vent.
ErinF on June 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM
The press is acting the part of the jewish trustees at the concentration camps. Outwardly they are telling everyone, “Everything will go better for everyone if we all cooperate. Just head for the showers, please.” While inwardly they go, “Maybe if I’m at the end of the line, they will run out of gas before they get to me.”
J in STL on June 6, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Evan Thomas reminds me of another Evan & another important Black, uh, person…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OAUa8bo14
jgapinoy on June 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM
So, it’s “FDR” and “JFK” but not “BHO”? Okey dokey …
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM
I think it would be funny if someone like Limbaugh nominated Thomas as an entrant for the Pulitzer…
Either the Thomas would be considered (making the left look absolutely ridiculous)… or Thomas would be sent away for his dribble.
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Out: Playboy
In: Playbama
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I prefer BO
I also think it’s great that they compare him to FDR… it makes it easier for us to call Obama a fascist. As for JFK… ah, Vietnam…
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I will not submit.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Out: Hustler
In: Hustler
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Out: Swank
In: Swagga
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Out: Penthouse
In: White House
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 6, 2009 at 4:12 PM
It’s about time the media humbled itself and, at this point, I don’t care to whom that subservience is aimed. The pic of that ‘reporter’ (I forget his name because it’s not worth remembering) will last forever, hopefully to remind future Americans the Presidency is NOT an Imperial station.
Can you imagine the stink two years ago had a reporter bowed to Bush? Liberals in general, and the ‘royal’ Kennedys most of all, would have had cows, kittens, and maybe nested a few dinosaur eggs (I won’t use the term ‘laid’ when mentioning a Kennedy).
Let the media fawn, I say. Excess is it’s own undoing and Lefties are known for consuming their own.
All good things come to those who wait.
Liam on June 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM
It’s ok, the more they build him up the harder he shall fall. No one could possibly live up to their glorified version of who he is. As with Narcissus…”As divine punishment he falls in love with a reflection in a pool, not realizing it was his own, and perishes there, not being able to leave the beauty of his own reflection.”
scalleywag on June 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Eh. The sycophants would love to be sniffing this guy all over. They’d eat his sh!t if they thought he’d smile at them for it.
The only thing is that the actions FDR and JFK took would have landed them in front of a BHO “truth commission” for their war crimes. FDR understood the need to decimate cities and JFK threatened to nuke the USSR if Cuba launched a nuke at French Guyana – both extreme violations of the fantasy rules that liberals play by (and we won’t even go into what the CIA was doing to people during the COld War, which BHO also blamed for the ills of the third world and the muslim primitives during the Cairo stop of his Traitor Tour).
But my pointing out of the lack of “BHO”, given “FDR” and “JFK” is more for the bloggers at HotAir :)
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Correction: They’d love to eat his sh*t. Period. Although I’m sure Chris Matthews would be sorely disappointed when he realized Obama did not eat Collard Greens — How’s that Arugula, Chris?
Well, the left has whitewashed the sins of JFK. All they remember was that he somehow stopped Vietnam and loved MLK.
As for FDR… Well, times were different. This is what the left is always saying, right? Further, even though FDR was much more hawkish, they can always admire him for his stance with the Soviets and initially Mussolini. Basically Obama would be the love child of Carter and FDR with Eleanor rearing him…
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM
BTW… looks like we found 2 Obama voters ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8087266.stm
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Gives new meaning to Ross Perot’s “The Giant Sucking Sound”, circa 1992
regal on June 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Very true, which is why I always keep handy:
Third: It shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.
– Nationally televised JFK address, Monday, October 22, 1962
That usually has lefties dancing in circles for a little while, until they think everyone’s forgotten about it, again. Though I really love the standard liberal line that “threats to exterminate tens of millions of civilians are not against the Geneva Conventions”, which elicits huge laughter as the mere publication of photos of captive enemy soldiers constitutea a grave violation.
I’m still waiting for someone to ask The Precedent why he carries the nuclear footbal around with him. Yeah … I won’t hold my breath. I know that they all like to pretend that it doesn’t really exist …
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM
I think FDR’s big accomplishment domestically was in co-opting the realllllly loony leftists…like Evan Thomas’s grandfather. The Obama types who wanted to remake the country in their own radical image.
ddrintn on June 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Hmmm… You really think he carries that football around?
I don’t believe he is a pacifist. If he were, he wouldn’t be involved in say Pakistan and he’d start bringing soldiers home (and not just from Iraq mind you). But I do wonder if he’s going to sell of South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps Japan off. This would be his chance to do a Kennedy and tell the Chinese he will arm Taiwan, India, South Korean and Japan to the top if they don’t intervene with little brother (nuclear weapons included). This doesn’t mean that he has to start a new Cold War. I think the Chinese aren’t very happy with the Norks anyway. But they might think that the US has no backbone.
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:36 PM
I think he empowered them… but I think they may have shaped him more than he shaped them. Just my opinion. More should be written about this man. One wonders what the world might look like had FDR NOT been President. Actually, one wonders what the world might have looked like had Wilson not ever been elected.
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Watch for this couple to become the cause célèbre of the left and changes dropped.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM
I was wondering this myself. Anyone know if they [the Myers] have connections to any leftists organizations? I haven’t heard much on this from our media… but it usually takes them a while to stop sucking off the Tap.
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I think we could’ve done a lot worse in both cases. In the ’30s, the far left was really gathering steam. And I think TR became far more radical than Wilson ever was.
ddrintn on June 6, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I don’t know about their leftist connections, but this quote from the article amuses me. Apparently, the reporter has never read Whitaker Chamber’s Witness.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Thomas’ statement he’s god needs only slight modification. Assuming that Obama is not an enemy agent, his speech in Cairo may be summed up as follows: He thinks he can get Muslims to discern the true meaning of their religion based upon what he says about the religion, not based upon the words and deeds of its founder, the so-called prophet Mohammed.
And since, according to Muslims, the words of Mohammed came directly to him from Allah, through the angel Gabriel, Obama may not be god but he thinks he’s god.
Obama: a man who thinks he can change 1400 years of Muslim history with an opinion of Islam that contradicts the words of Allah.
This gives new meaning to the words arrogance and narcissism.
Basilsbest on June 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM
“Where’s your God now, Evan Thomas?”
/Edward G. Robinson voice
Consumer and commercial bankruptcy filings rise to 6,000 a day, on pace to hit 1.5 million for the year
Mike Honcho on June 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM
The reporter’s got a point. Everyone knows that the safest way to carry out grand espionage is to have the New York Slimes and WaPo publish it.
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Yeah, JFK “loved” MLK so much, he had him spied on.
Del Dolemonte on June 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Jesus is soooo 2000 years ago… BHO is now!!!
Claypigeon on June 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Yeah, I don’t know a lot about TR, but I know he was a Progressive. It’s Scary that McCain thought of him as his hero.
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Yeah, I don’t think the reporter even cares. I think they found it Romantic somehow.
I also heard that Hemingway probably spied on the US more than the left would like to admit — but I heard he sucked as a spy.
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Racist!!!
Moving on…
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Move over Beatles,all future worship,will now be
done,at the Liberal Alter Of Obama,the Lefty’s
false God!!
Somebody is gonna get stoned done good,me thinks,
for this HERESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on June 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Unfortunately, yes, and it scares the living sh!t out of me.
Damn straight. He just doesn’t like seeing America’s enemies attacked.
Japan would be better off, as they can ramp up their weapons in no time. South Korea and Taiwan must be shaking in their boots, though.
The Precedent likes the idea of the Norks having nukes. He welcomes anything that harms the US’ interests and security.
The Chinese know that the US poses no threat to them, whatsoever. I expect them to finally move on Taiwan, as they know that this is a sigular opportunity for them – though they might wait for the US to disintegrate, first.
progressoverpeace on June 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM
OK, tough question… Who was kewler? Clinton or Obama?
Yeah, this is a hard one. I’m thinking Obama makes swagga look bad (at least Clinton didn’t sleep with TOTUS)
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Does this mean that all ACORN employees must lick up the remains of BO’s false persona once it finally is crushed?
Upstater85 on June 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I didn’t know that. Fascinating. Maybe that’s why he blew his brains out.
Disturb the Universe on June 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM
This guy needs an intervention, and then a rehab…
RalphyBoy on June 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM
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