Big Brother is everywhere. In his first eight months as president, Obama’s given more interviews than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined in the same period. I’m guessing that all but the most die hard Obamabots are suffering from Obama fatigue. It’s an endless infomercial for crying out loud.
“He’s turning the presidency into an infomercial,” warned former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer. “It’s not just damaging to the White House. It will also ultimately hurt President Obama’s image as a fresh, non-Washington leader.”
The media blitz has won Obama unprecedented wall-to-wall coverage in the mainstream media.
In the New York Times alone, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, 405 stories on the Obama administration have appeared on the front page through mid-August of this year totaling 119,678 column inches. That’s 9,973 column feet of Obama coverage on the Times front page alone.
But it is television that has been the most powerful draw for Obama.
In his five major appearances yesterday, Obama voiced skepticism about adding troops to Afghanistan, denied making a deal with Russia over missile defenses in Europe, and continued to push his government-run health-insurance program.
As of mid-August, Obama submitted to a total of 66 television interviews, dramatically outstripping his two predecessors, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project at Towson University in Maryland.
During the same period of their own presidencies, President George W. Bush gave 16 television interviews and President Bill Clinton gave just six.
There must be someone in the White House wise enough to know this media blitz could very well backfire. Are they afraid to tell him the truth, or does his ego outweigh any sensible advice he’s given by advisors? Will his over-inflated ego be his downfall? And will the media finally wake up and realize he’s playing them like a fiddle?
Everywhere on the Magnetron screens, traditional media immersed in the lather of oneness, mesmerized by false immortality, the only question to be asked is will it be the red pill or the blue?
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All Big Ears has ever done is campaign.
Has he actually ever governed?
Was he around to vote as a Senator?
Does he have any executive experience?
He out doing what he knows: Campaign and organize.
Reminds me of members of “The Party” in Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle: Talk and organize.
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