[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img] Swish Obama’s drowning scene this week in his mawkishly schoolboy negotiations with near-nuclear Iran is an instructive lesson for future Presidents of the United States.
If you are going to fall onto your nose, make sure the scenario is so complicated that the the essence cannot be related to a stranger in less than 30 minutes.
That will assure unrecorded blank-slate coverage until the day you die.
Newspapers never will confront the story because it will be too labor intensive. They bequeathed investigative journalism to cable television in the ‘90s.
Even less so will television be tempted to touch this stick of dynamite.
Except for Fox News, the remaining networks are dumbed down so far your first-grader can regurgitate a typical newscast. Besides, except for Fox, every remaining television and radio network has refused to hint at relating any story that might cause embarrassment for the most liberal President in modern history.
In part, because they are in philosophical sync with the President and the other 50 percent is they have embraced the Chicago mob’s warning that to criticize Swish Obama is to denigrate a black man.
Is Anyone Noticing?
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you lock up control of a vast country without firing a shot — just a few well-timed sotte voce threats. (Remember the White House’s daunting warning visit to the New York offices of the CEO of Fox, Roger Ailes, last month?)
To say it differently, Swish has the media where he wants them, where he always has had them — petrified as newborn puppies of reporting any story remotely critical of the White House.
In a way, you can’t blame the media guys. They don’t want President Bully Boy to publicly spank them, to publicly humiliate them the way he has Fox News throughout this early autumn. That may explain why, by my reading, not a single network has stepped to Fox’s defense. Too career-risky.
Executively speaking, this is a delicious scenario that all of Mr. Obama’s predecessors only have fantasized about — 99 percent of television outlets and newspapers believe you are God, freeing you to pound hard on your lone critic.
Surely Mr. Obama’s most ardent supporters see the tomfoolery, the utter peril rampant in this schoolboy strategy that previously was the preserve of unelected leaders.
We Better Not Laugh
If President Washington or any — any — of his near successors had been covered only or mainly by a paralyzed, uncritical press, America would have failed early in the 19th century.
A large part of the reason the Castros remain firmly in control of Cuba, Chavez in Venezuela, Zelaya once, and possibly soon again, in Honduras, Ahmadinejad in Iran, Putin and the mob in Russia, and the unwashed dictators throughout the Arab world, from Mubarak on down, have their people by their throats, is because the media is muzzled.
Their tactics were similar, not identical, to the way Swish Obama is trying to handcuff Fox News. Make an example of them, make ‘em too scared to keep telling the truth.
The American press, on Swish’s 9-month anniversary in office, is free but disturbingly catatonic, which could mean that the freedom of ordinary Americans never has been at greater risk in modern times.
Mr. Obama and his negotiating team have made a holy mess of trying to keep Iran from going nuclear.
Ahmadinejad is laughing over making a fool of Swish, astonished he believed that Russia would co-operate with the West, of all people, in denying nuclear power to its BFF.
“Obama will believe anything,” the Smiling Dwarf tells his mullah supervisors with an unsuppressible giggle. He can laugh. But we Americans should not. We must be vigilant and informed.
