Oh, That Liberal Media

Mr. BigHopeyChangey is going on a world tour to try and pump some air into his Foreign Policy cred, and the media big wigs are all too willing to supply their tire gauge and tell us how good he is at it.

Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last March was a low-key affair: With a small retinue of reporters chasing him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on Mr. McCain’s visit there from New York, including it in the “in other political news” portion of his newscast.

But when Senator Barack Obama heads for Iraq and other places overseas this summer, Mr. Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two network evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Mr. Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Mr. Obama on successive nights.

And while the anchors are jockeying for interviews with Mr. Obama at stops along his route, the regulars on the Obama campaign plane will have new seatmates: star political reporters from the major newspapers and magazines who are flocking to catch Mr. Obama’s first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. A “Meet the Press” interview is also being planned.

Also don’t go talking about how the media is in the bag for Captain Bullshit. I know I just did, but they’re used to me doing it. Remember, I warned you. When the Obamaniacs get violent because you shattered their worldview, don’t come running to me.

Oh, gee the new, younger, more exciting kid on the block is getting attention and depriving the poor old Maverick of his usual entourage. Which is too bad because if he got any attention given his recent embarrassments it would be all the worse for him.

But someone more exciting has come along and now he doesn’t get the limelight and the hugs like he used to.

When McCain had a handful of reporters following his campaign around and helping him get is message out, that was the media being in the bag for him.

But when the Obamessiah has all three of the major network’s anchors going live to fawn for a word with him, that is “fair and balanced coverage”.

I guess that when your spine is bent so that you can point your head to your ass, it makes your though processes run in half circles like that.