Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism. The sound of the squealing of brakes is now audible all over the American press . . .The whole editorial is a firecracker. But we've been telling you this for months. Oh, and the op-ed's big flaw is its apparent insistence that Fox News is a grand cause of the president's problems. Ace of Spades disassembles this notion. OK, let me say this: Fox News might capitalize on public unhappiness with policy, but it's not the same as actually creating the unhappiness from nothing. Do you remember how the tea party protests began? It wasn't some creation by Fox News execs. It was sparked by a spontaneous outburst a year ago by Rick Santelli on a little CNBC (not Fox!) cable business show that struck a chord with millions of already-frustrated Americans.
Vacuous promises of change are hostages to fortune if they cannot be delivered upon to improve the living conditions of a people. The slickness of campaigning that comes from a combination of heavy funding and public relations expertise does not inevitably translate into an ability to govern.
And I don't have to watch Fox News in order to be increasingly fed up with the current administration's feckless foolishness about both foreign and domestic policy ... and its apparent inability to do simple math when it comes to deficit spending, indebtedness, and unsustainable entitlements.
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