Obama has complained so much about the media since his ascendance to the Presidency that it was commented on by last summer.
Media says go back to the Gulf coast
Obama makes second visit to the Gulf coast...3 days later
Media says meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward
Obama announces meeting with BP CEO Tony Hayward..2 days later
Media says cancel trip to Indonesia
Obama cancels trip to Indonesia...2 days later
Media says Obama should deliver a primetime address
Obama delivers primetime address..12 days later. (That required a speech, it takes time to coordinate a million monkeys with a million keyboards.)
Media says, "Show Passion!"
Obama "furious" "jaw clenched"..lag time, 2 days
Media says Obama "too detached"
Obama tells sweet, personal "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" story.. lag time, 4 days
Media says "get angry!"
Obama looks for, well, you know..
"Treat me good, and I'll do anything..I'm just a puppet and you hold my string..I'm your puppet."
Obama Complains About the News Cycle but Dominates It
Obama: 'Circus' of 24-hour news cycle
Maureen Dowd recently had this to say:
The press traveling with Obama on the campaign never had a lovey-dovey relationship with him. He treated us with aloof correctness, and occasional spurts of irritation. Like many Democrats, he thinks the press is supposed to be on his side.
The former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines.
Now that Obama has been hit with negative press, he’s even more contemptuous. “He’s never needed to woo the press,” says the NBC White House reporter Chuck Todd. “He’s never really needed us.”
All of this makes the truth quite ironic. The man who affects to despise the press and to be above following the news has displayed a very telling behavior pattern regarding the Gulf spill, as covered in this excellent piece in the Washington Examiner.
In Gulf crisis, Obama follows media cues
Here are the highlights, with accompanying sound track..
Obama makes second visit to the Gulf coast...3 days later
Media says meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward
Obama announces meeting with BP CEO Tony Hayward..2 days later
Media says cancel trip to Indonesia
Obama cancels trip to Indonesia...2 days later
Media says Obama should deliver a primetime address
Obama delivers primetime address..12 days later. (That required a speech, it takes time to coordinate a million monkeys with a million keyboards.)
Media says, "Show Passion!"
Obama "furious" "jaw clenched"..lag time, 2 days
Media says Obama "too detached"
Obama tells sweet, personal "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" story.. lag time, 4 days
Obama looks for, well, you know..
