Well, at least they heard about them.
At least Big Gov Inc. knows everything about the serfs.
Can you imagine the uproar from liberals, if anyone in the Bush administration had said, that they learned of problems in the administration from watching the news???
We would have heard lots of talk about how Bush was disengaged, how can he not know what is happening in his own White House, etc.
But because this happens with Obama, the media are very forgiving.