https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/08/17/obamateurism-of-the-day-806/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 11:14:57 -0400<![CDATA[Seriously &#8212; how hard is it for a Democratic President to antagonize the media into open war?  Almost as difficult to fumble Medicare to the point where it becomes an effective Republican attack in a presidential election &#8230; but that&#8217;s an OOTD for another day.  This week, Barack Obama gave interviews to two hard-hitting news sources: People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.  That got Joe Scarborough laughing at his lack of courage in facing the White House press corps, but got ABC&#8217;s White House correspondent Jake Tapper mad enough to take public the rising anger among the reporters assigned day-in and day-out to cover the President.]]>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:01:30 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/08/17/obamateurism-of-the-day-806-n200671