Give Obama Some Elbow Room

Feb 5, 2009 (Re-posted Feb 11,2009)
By LANCE MACHO
Editor In Chief




I am amazed at the tear down of the Obama administration being conducted by the news media a mere three weeks after the inauguration. Have we truly become so cynical, so spoiled, so impatient, that we won't allow the new President to even seat a full cabinet before we start hammering away at the pedestal we placed him on less than a month ago ?
I don't think so.
What I do think is , the news media whipped itself into such a frenzy while heralding in our new leader, that they are now, in turn, overcompensating for sitting on their hands for the last eight years of looting, pillaging and constitutional shredding by the portly robber barons of the previous administration. We now have a White House that is not fearful of the media, is forthcoming in information, has already held more executive press conferences and interviews than the previous president held in his entire first term, yet, the news media has decided this is the time for all journalists and pundits of both genders to bravely let their collective balls drop. After eight years of " Look - terrorists ! Red Alert! Don't question us you unpatriotic commie bastards ! Run in circles with one foot nailed to the floor and your hair on fire ! ", they have decided that They're mad as hell and they're not gonna take that shit anymore !! ...Now that it's over. There was an almost industry wide steeling of reporters' spines the minute Marine One lifted off, starting George W. Bush on his long journey to seclusion in Texas,
while Dick Cheney, doing his best Dr. Strangelove impression, slithered across the Potomac river to his lair where he can delve into madness making sinister phone calls that sound like Gollum from Lord Of The Rings -"If you release the hard-core al-Qaeda terrorists that are held at Guantanamo, I think they go back into the business of trying to kill more Americans and mount further mass-casualty attacks .......my precious !"
These same reporters and pundits who moments earlier were admonishing the millions gathered to witness the inauguration for booing W. upon his arrival and singing ' Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye ' as he flew away. One pundit, I believe, said it was " bad form". Booing ? Singing ?.... Really ? They're lucky the millions in attendance didn't storm the capitol steps and hang both W. and Darth Cheney from the balcony by their ankles a la Benito Mussolini ! Now that's 'bad form.'
So, as the new administration tries to pick up the pieces of the political and financial Hindenburg that preceded them, the media should be mindful of one thing- if you're talking to the rest of us, that means you still have a job. So, for at least a few more days, I would stand back and give Obama some room. Your entire way of life could be riding on it.