Bob Cesca over at HuffPo asks the million dollar question about the Press and Obama:
And today, the word of the day in the corporate press is… “presumptuous.” Used in a sentence: Senator Obama is being presumptuous during his trip — acting all presidential and dignified. How dare he be presidential while running for, you know, president. Presumptuous. During the live CNN web feed of the Berlin address, an anchor used it to describe the event. Joe Klein used it in a blog post today. Of course Joe attributed it to racist voters rather than very serious reporters — racist because it’s presumably a synonym for ‘uppity’ and we can’t accuse the press of such awfulness. And Candy Crowley used it in her post-address analysis on CNN. That’s a lot of coincidences. “Presumptuous” must really be a popular word. Odd that it’s being used so often by people who want Senator Obama to win.
AP: “In a speech that risked being seen as presumptuous…”
TIME Magazine: “capable to become the Commander in Chief of a superpower — without seeming presumptuous…”
The National Journal: “He is well aware voters here at home might see that as presumptuous…”
Washington Post: “Whether by the end of this week he will be seen as presumptuous or overly cocky…”
Chicago Tribune: “That means walking the fine line between looking presidential and appearing arrogant and presumptuous…”
Boston Globe: “plus the growing sense in some quarters that the presumptive Democratic nominee is getting a little presumptuous…”
Can you feel the wanting-Obama-to-win love radiating off your computer screen? No?
“Presumptuous” is Village-speak for “The uppity elitist black man thinks he’s already in the White House!”
But the GOP keeps screaming how THE LIBERAL MEDIA is in the tank for Obama.
Digby has more.
Oh good, I was getting tired of the word arrogant. I told a friend of mine it was a good thing I wasn’t playing the drinking game based on how many times I heard the word arrogant in the last few ‘news’ cycles.
How bout a guessing game for the next word when they move on from presumptuous. I’ve already heard cocky and swaggering and believe it or not that he’s a diva so those are out.
Yep.
John McCain attempts to display “leadership” by citing Czechoslovakia and the Iraqi-Afghanistan border, it’s a “small gaffe.” He goes to a oil rig to say that Bush is responsible for oil prices dropping from $4.19 to $3.99 by saying we should drill for oil (while blocking releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve because $4+ gas isn’t a crisis), well that’s Being Presidential, My Friends.
Barack Obama gives one of the better foreign policy speeches of the last decade, he’s being “presumptuous”.
Jesus hell, if McCain wins, we deserve our misery.
I’m wondering really just how many ‘gaffes’ McLame gets to make anyway before people realize he’s just as stupid as bush only older(I seriously believe he’s in first stages of senility or some sort of mental downturn)
The real burden here seems to be as always that the democratic candidate should be perfect and the rethug can do anything only now of course we have the underlying theme that the black man has to be doubly better just to break even. And all these words are just a cover up for the word ‘uppity’ that just shimmers in the air when words like arrogant and presumptuous get thrown around.
CBS is giving a helping hand by editing out the gaffes
That’s really something isn’t it..so gdamn disgraceful is goes beyond media whoring and I think about the only person really covering it was KOlberman.
If anyone outside the Internet had any doubts about the ‘news’ that should have nailed the coffin shut for good on any pretense of fair and balanced by the media.