The Death of the Effective Press on display

Watching the so-called Press Conference with The One last night reminded me of a performance of South Pacific:

Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
Or all through your life you
May dream all alone.

Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go!

Just change the pronoun 'her' to 'Obama' and you will understand all you need to know about the 'questioning' The Messiah got.

Folks, journalism is oh-so-dead in this country. As we pointed out in a previous post - the press has crawled all the way into bed with this guy. They pulled the covers up around their chins and are whispering sweet nothings into each others ears. 'Sweet Nothings' - that was the degree of hard hitting questions we were treated to.

Here are some examples:

• Pakistan appears to be at war with the Taliban inside their own country. Can you reassure the American people that if necessary America could secure Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and keep it from getting into the Taliban's hands or, worst case scenario, even al Qaeda's hands?
  
  --Oh - tough question. What's he going to say, NO, I cannot make that assurance?
  
  
• Mr. President. On Senator Specter's switch to the Democratic Party, you said you were thrilled; I guess nobody should be surprised about that.
  
  --Ouch - now THAT was hard hitting.
  
  
• Is the Republican Party in the desperate straits that Arlen Specter seems to think it is?
  
  --What does his opinion of the Republican party have to do with many important issues of the day? This is the best question this dufus could come up with?
  
  
• During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office? Enchanted you the most from serving in this office? Humbled you the most? And troubled you the most?
  
  -Did he really ask that. Hey - did you notice the word 'enchanted'? And you thought I made that up!
  

Let's put this in perspective. These guys have the national spotlight when they ask a question. It is their chance to really ask some prickly, hard hitting questions. And if the question gets ducked, someone can ask a followup question. And they have very limited time - so they should be efficient in their questioning. A couple of examples come to mind:

• How are we going to afford to pay the multi-trillion dollar bill that your National Health care plan will cost? Do you intend to borrow it? Will we have to print more money - which will lead to inflation?
  
• Don't you think it was below the dignity of the President of the United States to accept the gift of a book, in full public view, from the dictator Chavez, which basically blames all the the Western Hemispheres problems on the United States?
  
• Don't you think it was below the dignity of the President of the United States to be hugging Hugo Chavez when he believes that the US is the biggest threat to world stability that there is?
  
• Don't you think it was below the dignity of the President of the United States to stand passively by while Daniel Ortega denigrated this great country for it's role in fighting communism in Nicaragua?
  
• How do you answer critics you content that the governments owning of significant voting shares in all of these banks, auto companies, and insurance giants is a precursuer to outright government control?
  
• What are you going to tell the American people when they realize that the 'cap and trade' policy that you are proposing will cost the average household over $3,000 per year total - to fight a problem, global warming, that a growing MAJORITY of Americans do not even believe is man made?
  

I don't know - that just would not seem so hard to me. Where was the toughness? Where was the tension? Where was the probing?

Unless - there is such a love affair going on between this guy and the press that

Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go!