Robert Schmuhl
But a larger series of questions remain unanswered. Was it pique or policy? Is the White House assuming the role of the tough cop as opposed to Obama’s above-the-fray position? Will the administration’s approach extend to other less-than-friendly outlets? Down the road might the president engage in verbal fisticuffs of his own — and with what effect?
The self-appointed critic-in-chief could find that this is a war his presidency doesn’t need to fight — and really can’t win. With the media in a constant battle for audience, a contest with the White House or the president brings a news outlet into the spotlight of attention in a can’t-lose manner. Talk about catnip.
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Is water…
Never mind, why bother.
Enoxo on November 8, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Why, yes…bears do crap in the woods.
PBoilermaker on November 8, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Barack “Onion Skin” Obama?
BuckeyeSam on November 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Of course he is. He’s lived his whole life with no criticism, and “achieved” everything in his life with absolutely no effort.
Del Dolemonte on November 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Does a cannibal pass his friends in the woods?
CynicalOptimist on November 8, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Thin-Skinned in Chief
Primadonna in Chief
Joker/Liar in Chief
Deceiver in Chief
Ditherer in Chief
Incompetent in Chief
Unerdeveloped Teenager at the wheel of the world – the world has found him out and is nervous.
The chocolate Easter bunny melted, and a turd was left. The American people got a whiff of the smell…reality set in…thin skin can’t take it…catnip, alright.
Schadenfreude on November 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Absolutely. Shyt, I get worse criticism here than Obama does, don’t see me cryin about it
ernesto on November 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Feeling a widdle sensitive, Barry? Yeah, well suck it.
SagebrushPuppet on November 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Yes… but only when they want to threaten dissent.
mankai on November 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Megan McArdle, The Atlantic (HT Instapundit)
Wethal on November 8, 2009 at 5:31 PM
What criticism?
LibTired on November 8, 2009 at 5:32 PM
There has to be a way to say “DUH!” so that even a clueless, liberal reporter will understand.
rmgraha on November 8, 2009 at 5:32 PM
those tea bag, anti-government extremists!!!
deidre on November 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM
As kids we used to play cops and robbers, cowboys and indians and skins and no skins. Obama never grew up and is stuck with thin skin.
fourdeucer on November 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM
If he feels picked on, he can always go pick on Israel or Honduras.
Wethal on November 8, 2009 at 5:37 PM
If the man child would receive anywhere near the criticism leveled at GWB he will self destruct.
farright on November 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM
It’s Bush’s fault I’m so thin-skinned!
Realist on November 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Heaven help us if he ever really gets criticized.
SouthernGent on November 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM
The Child in Chief.
countrybumpkin on November 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Yes, the Pope is Catholic.
rbj on November 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Is Obama too sensitive to criticism?
Is a frog’s ass watertight?
R D on November 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM
The truth irritates people.
He knows he’s a far-left socialist but doesn’t have the balls to admit it.
artist on November 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM
The One can certainly dish it out…he just can’t take it is all.
JetBoy on November 8, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Not sure what that means but am pretty sure it’s an insult.
jeanie on November 8, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Most malignant narcissists are.
Kataklysmic on November 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Is this a rhetorical question?
changer1701 on November 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM
He promised his wife a date in New York with all the trimmings and paid for by Americans, and for that Ogabe gets criticized. Shameful.
Bishop on November 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Skin So Soft. Like a snake.
/Cue the leg Tingles.
Key West Reader on November 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM
This principle is at play here:
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
TwilightStruggler on November 8, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I rarely agree with you, but I had to laugh when I saw your post. So thank you, I needed to smile!
SG1_Conservative on November 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM
O needs to drink. That will cool his nerves some.
nyx on November 8, 2009 at 6:27 PM
If he really wanted to, he could attend a beer summit with “extremist teabaggers”. Maybe Anita Dunn can be there too, to catch flies.
nyx on November 8, 2009 at 6:30 PM
I remember way back to the beginning of 0bama’s candidacy, and MoDo said something about his ears. He actually went up to her and said something.
Right then I knew he was too thin skinned to be POTUS, and all evidence points to it getting thinner as time goes on.
Rebar on November 8, 2009 at 6:35 PM
He is as mean and insulting as he wants to be, yet he can’t stand the slightest scrutiny or debate over his own behavior.
Thin-skinned? Why his skin is the only thing about him that’s transparent.
INC on November 8, 2009 at 6:45 PM
He does that every Wed and Fri. Lawn parties. Obama gonna Party like it’s 1939~
Key West Reader on November 8, 2009 at 6:55 PM
You didn’t get the memo. It’s no longer Anita Dunn. It’s Beulah the Lounge Lizard. Thwap! Thewp! Thewp! Mao Se Tung.
Key West Reader on November 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Does a hobby horse have a wooden d#$%???
manwithblackhat on November 8, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Well, sorta. Zero is mostly used to having his grades hidden and his resume inflated.
viking01 on November 8, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Zero is too thin skinned to be a leader.
he sucks and will be dispatched in the next year.
wildcat84 on November 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM
You sure do. Jerkwad. I keed, I keed. But seriously, this is funny.
And On topic – Seriously, I half expect him to end up on Oprah’s (or Heaven forbid, Tyra’s) couch crying on her shoulder about how everyone’s so mean to him!!111!!!eleventy!!!
mjk on November 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM
He’d tell you, but he can’t even believe you asked that.
Jim Treacher on November 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Ya Think?
Brat4life on November 8, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Is the Pope Catholic?
HornetSting on November 8, 2009 at 11:10 PM