"Being cool...

can really help a new president."--Michael Beschloss

No sense, no shame.

This is reeeaally going to be hard to hide from for years yet.

Peggy too: "Part of the mystery of Mr. Obama is that he is cool..."

Wow what crap.

Then those in the media have the hubris to look down on us?

Murdoch was really understating matters:

"And the data support this unpleasant truth. Studies show we’re in an odd position: we’re more trusted by the people who aren’t reading us. And when you ask journalists what they think about their readers, the picture grows darker. According to one recent study, the percentage of national journalists who have a great deal of confidence in the ability of the American public to make good decisions has declined by more than 20 points since 1999. Perhaps this reflects their personal politics and personal prejudices more than anything else, but it is disturbing.

This is a polite way of saying that reporters and editors think their readers are stupid. In any business, such an attitude toward one’s customers would not be healthy. But in the newspaper business, where we rely on people to come back to us each day, it will be disastrous if not addressed...

newspapers whose employees look down on their readers can have no hope of ever succeeding as a business..."

As I have said there won't be hope until some editors have been humiliated in public and are afraid to admit to new people they meet that they intentionally stifled inquiry into the life and outlook of a man they wanted to be president because they are his groupies. After which they are replaced.