With apologies to Bernard Goldberg for his excellent chronicle on how the nation's media fawned over Barack Obama providing him soft coverage and loads of exposure to help promote his candidacy with no regard to their responsibility as reporters to maintain some sense of impartiality and objectivity, we call the reader's attention to Time magazine which surely is acting more like its Time-Warner sister publication, People magazine, in its feel good, hip-hip hooray for them stories on the Obama's. Seventeen times in the last year, an Obama has graced the cover of the "let's pretend we're a" news magazine. That's one in three issues, folks!!! Here's Goldberg's "slobbering love affair" in full bloom.Call it media bias or shameless fan worship, either way it stinks. What would you expect, the cover picture is a beautifully staged glamour pose looking more like something for the cover of Vogue than a news magazine. The story, "The Meaning of Michelle Obama," goes on to talk about how she got things going with the White House staff, her two perfect children, the dog, and all the other soft stuff that Obama devotees might drool over. Substance, hello, substance, did we miss something?
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Let's think back to our last first lady, Laura Bush, who quietly maintained a discreet profile while working tirelessly on education, literacy, and woman's rights issues. Did we ever see her on Time's cover. We don't think so. How much were her outstanding deeds covered?
How sad her treatment in the pop culture world. Enter "Laura Bush" into the Google search bar, and guess what comes up today, the first three links, "Laura Bush killed a guy," "Lura Bush car accident," and "Laura Bush smoking." Out of ten choices, others included "Laura Bush divorce," "Laura Bush killed a man," "Laura Bush abortion," and "Laura Bush smoker." Seven out of ten possibilities in cyberspace are inflammatory and hurtful to the former first lady. This is what cyberpunks are looking for on the former first lady who so gracefully with such grace and wit handled her roll for eight years. Yes, she was involved in a traffic accident, her fault, that killed a man when she was teenager, a personal tragedy that has haunted her all her life. Do the Bush haters stop at any level of deceit in their attempts to destroy them?
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The politics of personal destruction is alive and well against those who aren't the chosen people by the entertainment industry and its left-wing news operations who serve them. The haters stop at nothing to smear those with traditional values, the ones that most Americans in flyover country follow, ask Carrie Prejean, but oh to be in their inner circle, simple mortals are elevated to deity status. One note of humor, we did a similar search for Michelle Obama, most of the suggested searches had something to do with her dresses and fashion.
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Soft stories about first ladies, the White House children and even the White House pooch are unavoidable, but a reasonable sense of balance should also be expected. Michelle Obama as a public figure has done plenty to stir up a lot of bad feelings. We see none of that. All that's obvious is the "slobbering love affair."
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