Barack Ozymandias (More properly worded as "How a god turns into a mortal")

News is the first draft of history", or so we're told. In truth, the "news" reported by mass media seldom reflects the crucial events of the moment. News reports of the summer of 1914 treated the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand as a trivial Balkan matter, of little interest to anyone in the more civilized areas of Europe. Similarly, you'd look long and hard in the late spring of 1950 for any mention of a place called "Korea" in U.S. papers. "News", as the major media describes it, is almost without exception trivia.

Nothing has changed. In the summer of 2009 we're overwhelmed with stories about the death of the most notable trannie since Elagabalus, followed in short order by solemn meditations on the demise of a criminal politician, along with a few sidebars devoted to the imperial vacation at Martha's Vineyard. And oh yeah -- Michelle's shorts. How could I have overlooked them? But none of that, needless to say, will go into the books. The real story this summer, the one that the scholars will be pondering for decades to come, concerns the absolute collapse of the American messiah.

It looks as if Rush can rest easy -- the Big O has failed, and failed completely. You couldn't say the same about an ordinary president at this stage of his first term. At eight months after inauguration, the run-of-the-mill chief exec is still gearing up, getting a feel for things, beginning to put his plans into motion. But Obama, as we have been told time and again, is in no way ordinary. He is a man spoken of in religious terms -- the One, the Messiah, the Lightbringer. On the stage of history, we do not create our roles.

This was published too soon. It is WAY too early to be dancing around his epitaph, celebrating our Republic's close call with the statist grim reaper.

Let's not give ourselves too much credit. Obama has been his own worst enemy, but the demonrat emotions for statist/socialist solutions still run very high. They have the WH, majority control of Congress, a strong presence in the SC and a lot of calendar between now and the next two rounds of elections to do a lot of damage.

We have been lucky to have dodged the bullets so far, but now's not the time to become overconfident. There's still plenty of political war left to fight. Lest we forget, the republicans have shown themselves to be only a slightly lesser evil than the demonrats.

“We have been lucky to have dodged the bullets so far,”

While it may be difficult, there is nothing that has been done to date that cannot be overturned by a future conservative congress and Potus.

What concerns me most is the things that, once implemented, cannot be overturned.

Examples:
1. making 20 million illegals into American citizens(they will vote for the party that allowed this)
2. making Puerto Rico or DC into states(solidly Democratic)
3. the detonation of a nuclear bomb on a US city

That’s what we need to strive to prevent.

News is the first draft of history", or so we're told. In truth, the "news" reported by mass media seldom reflects the crucial events of the moment. News reports of the summer of 1914 treated the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand as a trivial Balkan matter, of little interest to anyone in the more civilized areas of Europe. Similarly, you'd look long and hard in the late spring of 1950 for any mention of a place called "Korea" in U.S. papers. "News", as the major media describes it, is almost without exception trivia.

Bingo!
"There's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper."
That is another way of telling a reporter, "Meet your deadline!" But it captures the ineluctable superficiality which the deadline imposes on journalism.
But the deadline was not at all the same issue in the days before the telegraph and the Associated Press newswire. Previously most "newspapers" were weeklies - and some had no deadline at all, and the printer simply went to press when he was good and ready. It is the value, and the expense, of the AP newswire which puts the pressure on the newspaper to meet short deadlines.
The fact that Korea wasn't a major topic in journalism prior to the invasion which started the Korean War, and that journalism was determined that foreign policy not be considered a live issue in the 1992 election when such an emphasis would have favored the sitting Republican President and Reagan heir over the untested Arkansas governor, shows that journalism's vaunted "objectivity" is hype rather than reality.
That proof is unnecessary, considering that hyping your own objectivity is the very definition of subjectivity. And that applies to journalism even if journalists restrict their hype to a mutual admiration society approach rather than direct self-praise. After all, praising those who agree with you is no different than praising yourself. Just as criticizing those you disagree with, as Obama criticized the Founding Fathers, is a form of self-praise. The Right to Know

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