Former White House Reporter: The Media is “Happy” to be Managed by Obama

While most Americans are already familiar with Obama’s regular hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities and cracking jokes on TV talk shows, one can only truly appreciate the depths of the president’s fixation on being the center of attention after Benedetto catalogues and analyzes a mere fraction of the photo ops Obama has made time for:

“An ABC News video gives us Mr. Obama’s helicopter landing on the rainy grounds of Britain’s Windsor Castle, and then we visit the president and first lady lunching with Queen Elizabeth II on her 90th birthday.

In other news clips, we see a doctoral-robed Obama speaking to graduates of Howard University, a tuxedoed Obama yukking it up at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, a brave Obama drinking a glass of water in Flint, Mich., a cool Obama grooving with Aretha Franklin at a White House jazz concert, a serious Obama intently listening to Saudi King Salman, a jubilant Obama on his showy trip to Cuba.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but with Mr. Obama you also get the thousand words.

Benedetto theorized that all of Obama’s troubles in foreign and defense policy are handled by sober servants who are somehow never connected to him. He concluded:

One of the news media’s main jobs is to hold public officials accountable, from the president on down. But Mr. Obama is the beneficiary of news-media managers and reporters who mostly like his style and agree with his policies, from his reluctance to make strong military commitments to his advocacy for LGBT rights, fighting climate change and supporting tougher gun-control laws. Case in point: The administration’s easy orchestration of the media story line about the Iranian nuclear deal, recently revealed by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, only scratches the surface of the White House’s skill at managing a media happy to be managed.”

Celebrity-in-chief indeed!

Source: Newsbusters