This is Why We Can’t Take the Media Seriously Anymore | NewsReal Blog

This is Why We Can’t Take the Media Seriously Anymore | NewsReal Blog: "If you’ll remember, President Obama and the Democrats took a beating in November. A “shellacking,” as the president himself called it.

As is usually the case with the media and the 24 hour news cycle, pundits quickly forgot about that.

Then the lame duck session started.

In one final gasp, the Democratic Congress pushed a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the passage of the DREAM Act and a pork-laden Omnibus, sought an end to the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 and ratification of the new START treaty with Russia. Of all those five things, the Democrats got a grand total of… two. And in the case of the Bush tax cuts, the great Democratic president of hope and change from the past eight years signed an extension of the capstone of the Bush presidency.

So what’s everyone talking about just before Christmas? Obama is the “comeback kid!” He’s the new Bill Clinton! This, translated, boils down to one word: “hallelujah!”

At Obama’s post-lame duck press conference, the media was bursting at the seams in manufactured excited for “the comeback kid.” The phrase itself is so annoying I don’t why anyone takes it seriously."

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