My Messiah, My Liah
Hey Barack, re-re-remember that time you turned water into wine, and then, and then you walked on it, or something? Yeah, remember? And then that time you made the dead guy, like, live again?
What happens when a president has such an obsequious media following that he can’t legitimately complain about being held accountable for his actions? He generates fantasy harassment for fun anecdotes to fawning audiences. In this case, Barack Obama told an audience in Turkey that he has to remind the White House press corps that he’s actually not the Messiah:
“So words are good and understanding is good, but ultimately it has to translate into concrete actions. And it takes time. I was just talking to my press team and they were amused because some of my reporter friends from the States were asking, how come you didn’t solve everything on this trip? They said, well, you know, it’s only been a week.”
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!! It is to laugh. How droll.
Too bad the actual White House press corps doesn’t actually ask questions like this. According to Jake Tapper’s Twitter feed during the speech, no one in the press corps asked the dumb question Obama attributed to them.
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[T]hey didn’t ask him why he hadn’t solved all of America’s problems in foreign policy in a week. They asked him why he hadn’t managed to show any progress on the three big issues on the American agenda. The press corps did a good job in putting Obama’s feet to the fire, and Obama tried to use it to make himself more One-ish. Lame.
Oh, I don’t know. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is fond of the expression “do business as business is being done”: which I take to mean don’t follow the rules as they are written; rather, follow them as they are applied, as they are enforced.
If Barack Obama walked into the press briefing room dressed like Bozo the Clown, Helen Thomas would wax rhapsodic about his fashion forwardness.