While a few journalists were aware of their cult-like worship, most were hooked and competed to outdo one another with embarrassing hagiographic praise. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas declared Obama to be a deity (“Obama's standing above the country, above the world, he’s sort of God.”) His very words were able to make the leg of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “tingle.” His pants’ crease proved for David Brooks a talisman of his future greatness, along with the fact that the mellifluent Obama “talks like us.” Instead, journalists quickly started worshipping candidate Obama in a manner never quite seen before, not even in the days of the iconic liberal presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Jeremiah Wright, the neighborhood confidant and former terrorist Bill Ayers, and the wheeler-dealer and soon-to-be felon Tony Rezko. In the 2008 campaign, reporters ignored the close and disturbing relationships between the mostly unknown Obama and a cast of unsavory characters: his racist and anti-Semitic pastor Rev. Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries-was reduced to a cranky spoiler of the nation’s rare chance to be saved by the messianic Obama from the Bush era’s legacy of war, economic crisis, and callousness. In the 2008 general election, moderate Republican John McCain-once the darling of the liberal press during his bid to sidetrack George W. Senate after less than four years in office, appeared to progressive journalists to have come from central casting: glib and charismatic, an Ivy-League pedigree, mixed racial ancestry, a power marriage to a Harvard-trained black lawyer, and an exotic name resonant of multicultural fides.īy comparison, even the would-be first female president Hillary Clinton seemed staid. The progressive Obama, who had the most partisan record in the U.S. When Obama announced his candidacy for president in 2007, the media relinquished pretenses of objectivity. The common denominator of the two extremes is the abandonment of disinterested reporting. In tragic fashion, the hubris of deifying Obama has now come full circle to the nemesis of demonizing Trump. Now, they are energized by their thorough loathing of President Donald Trump. Between 20, the media were unapologetic about their adoration of President Barack Obama.
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