The liberal media loved Obama to death

Noemie Emery

Last Thursday, the press could no longer cover for Obama.  He was on a stage alone.  After giving him a Nobel Prize on the come, inflating his non-accomplishments, proclaiming his genius, his finely creased pants and his God-like presence.  After covering up his mistakes, excusing his failures, ignoring his gaffes, explaining what he "really meant," it was time for the American people to see him in the raw.  It wasn't pretty.

It was in Denver one week ago that the long-running romance between Barack Obama and the national press -- aka the "Slobbering Love Affair," as Bernard Goldberg put it -- hit the wall. The motel bill, unpaid these many long months and ages, at long last came due.

Remember those "gaffes" and "bad weeks?" Noemie does.

On Sept. 12, the day after mobs ransacked American embassies, burned the flag and Obama in effigy, and killed one Marine, two Navy SEALs, and one ambassador, NBC's Chuck Todd took to the air almost in shock and seemingly tearful, because Romney critiqued an official in Cairo who apologized for provoking the riots, citing a barely-seen YouTube video as the pretext for the violence. Voice shaking, he channeled the shock on the part of the White House (which later itself condemned the apology).

For days after, Romney's "mistake" was the story. On Sunday, after a week in which Obama was burned in effigy on several continents and his Middle Eastern policy exposed as a failure, he lost his best (perhaps his sole) campaign issue, and questions were raised about criminal negligence. But Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post said that Mitt Romney had had "the worst week in Washington." Obama's failures had turned out to hurt Romney, most of the press corps agreed.

It's really rather amazing when you think about it: ambassadors killed, embassies ransacked on Obama's watch and the story is ... Romney.

Glenn Reynolds cites a comment made by a reader:

“I’ve tried explaining the situation in the Middle East to friends and there are blank stares. I believe what they’re thinking is that how come, if it is so bad, I haven’t seen it in the newspapers or on the national news? The New York Times doesn’t mention it at all.”

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it , does it make a sound? If Jihadists take over the Middle East or if Israel is nuked by Iran and the NY Times doesn't write about it, has it actually happened?

Stay tuned.