Old Media Bending Over Backwards to Excuse Obama’s Ratings Fall
-By Warner Todd Huston
Derek Thompson over at the Atlantic seems to be a perfect example of blaming everyone and everything but Obama for the fact that the president’s ratings on his prime time TV pressers have steadily fallen since the first one. It can’t be Obama’s fault! It has to be other reasons. Why, Obama is da schnizzle,The One, the Obammessiah, dontcha know?
Here is what Thompson says of the low ratings that Obama got for his last TV appearance to push his healthcare plan:
Since Obama’s health care press conference notched the lowest ratings of his presidency, the word is growing that talking about health care is sure-fire way to kill your ratings. Health care, after all, is really complicated, and reforming it is even more complicated. What’s more, cable’s preferred method of discussing policy is to bring in two sides and have them “debate” for two minutes, which is a bad way to cover anything simple and a tortured way to explain anything complicated.
Michael Calderone of Politico spoke to a couple studio and radio people and comes away with the distinct sense that everybody considers health care reform very importantly, very complicated, and very tricky to pull off.
Oh, no, it isn’t that the president is losing his appeal. It couldn’t be that people are beginning to realize that the man is an out right liar. It couldn’t be Obama’s fault that his ratings are steadily falling with every new TV appearance. It couldn’t be that he is foolishly over exposing himself and making people sick and tired of him. Why, it MUST be that the healthcare debate is just too darn complicated for the dumb, stupid, lowly people to understand so they are turning off their TVs.
Thompson blames everyone but Obama for Obama’s falling ratings.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on August 3, 2009 2:01 pm
» Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility, Government, Government corruption, Healthcare, Journalistic Prostitution, Liberal Media/Bias, Liberal World, News, liberalism
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I’m glad to see Obama’s ratings dropping, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves that this is going to be the beginning of the end for the socialist revolution. Government run health care is coming whether we like it or not, because that’s what the freeloaders want. And the pols get elected by making promises to take things from productive people and give to the freeloaders.