From Rick Wilson:
The leftie media is turning on Obama. After years of frenetic fawning over this empty suit, the media is spitting mad that their protectee has been exposed as a semi-coherent cipher by a mere 90 minutes of unscripted conversation. They will take it out on Obama himself.
For the media, Obama has done the unforgivable-- the one thing that could make them turn on him..
He has made them look like fools.
The cracks in the Acela Corridor's Barack Protection Protocol are showing because Obama's most compelling attribute was the belief that his intellectual prowess is unmatched by any President, perhaps any mortal. A cornerstone of their faith in him was always that Barack Obama's intellectual firepower could be deployed at will, and destroy Mitt Romney at a time and place of the President's choosing.
What they saw Wednesday night wasn't the demigod they've protected like so many cultural Myrmidons, but a stammering, detached, utterly outclassed man hoisted on the petard of his own laziness and incuriousity. The damage to their perception of him isn't enough to draw them to Romney, but in their post-modern, super-ironic world, the moment Obama showed weakness, he became a legitimate target.
The cover of the New Yorker -- one of the tentpoles of respectable liberalism and elite opinion -- is a signifier of the scope of Obama's failure this week.
As the dozens of snarky articles, brutal editorial cartoons, late night comedy shows taking new and unaccustomed shots at Obama (I'm not counting Chris Matthews and his epic rant) build up a certain cultural momentum, the sense that Obama's failings are suddenly funny is a deadly virus in the bloodstream of liberal opinion.
Barack Obama is a man of abundantly evident self-regard. The growing sound of mockery and derision must be painful to him, especially coming from the unexpected quarters of his erstwhile allies. Once the mockery starts, it's hard to stop. Ask Bill Clinton.
The clues of an Obama meltdown in high-, low- and even pop-culture tell me that the next debates for Obama aren't just consequential: they're existential.
The leftie media is turning on Obama. After years of frenetic fawning over this empty suit, the media is spitting mad that their protectee has been exposed as a semi-coherent cipher by a mere 90 minutes of unscripted conversation. They will take it out on Obama himself.
For the media, Obama has done the unforgivable-- the one thing that could make them turn on him..
He has made them look like fools.
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