From NewsBusters is this story of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas chatting with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on “Hardball”.
Matthews started the love-fest: “The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world. If he can, he’ll be honoring what happened on D-day 65 years ago tomorrow. He will be delivering the world once again from evil. Evan Thomas is editor at large for Newsweek magazine. Evan, you remember ‘84. It wasn’t 100 years ago. Reagan and World War II and the sense of us as the good guys in the world, how are we doing?”
Thomas replied with: “Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
Obama is sort of God? Are you kidding me?
But it continued. Said Matthews: “What’s his shtick? Reagan had the United States arms race, winning the arms race. And we had the threat of high frontier, we were going to beat the Soviets at technology.”
To which Thomas lovingly replied: “I don’t think he has – his shtick is he’s the teacher. He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that-”
He’s our Teacher, because he Knows and we’re Stupid. He’s our Loving Father, ready to control His Children. He has the Ultimate Moral Authority over the rest of us, and the rest of the planet.
Just remember this the next time you mistakenly think Newsweek is a legitimate media publication. Just remember this the next time you mistakenly think MSNBC is a legitimate news channel. Just remember this the next time you mistakenly think the mainstream media is not completely in the tank for The Anointed One.
I need a f*ing drink.
Newsweek, Evan Thomas, MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Obama
