Media's softballs are the only pitches Obama can see

Fox ^ | 8/21/2012 | Richard Benedetto

[mojito]

When it comes to going up to bat against questions from the news media, the only pitches President Obama likes to see are softballs.

And for the most part, that’s all he gets, largely because of his careful selection of media pitchers and their willingness to play the game. He loves to do interviews with soft throwers from ESPN, People Magazine and “Entertainment Tonight,” which he did recently, but not so much from hard-news hurlers such as The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, the nation’s two largest newspapers.

Obama as president has never done a sit-down interview with The Journal. He last did one with USA Today in December 2009, some 32 months ago.

Yet, on Monday, he did interviews from the White House with local TV anchors in Jacksonville, Fla., Norfolk, Va. and San Diego.

And when he does interviews with the big TV networks, he routinely seeks to pick the times, the dates, the topics and even the interviewers. And more often than not, he succeeds.

[....]

Obama fielded questions from the press for 22 minutes on Monday. As he entered the briefing room he made note of his prolonged absence from the podium, saying, “Jay (Press Secretary Jay Carney) tells me that you guys have been missing me. So I thought I’d come by and just say hello.” But given the opportunity to hurl some fastballs, the reporters’ questions were mostly softballs....

[mojito]

Yeah, of course they were missing you, Barry. You're Mr. Wonderful. You're their BFF. Who wouldn't be missing you, Barry? Everyone loves Barry. Especially Barry.

[loveliberty2]

“Jay (Press Secretary Jay Carney) tells me that you guys have been missing me. So I thought I’d come by and just say hello.”

Now couple this outrageously un-Presidential, casual and arrogant remark to journalists with his glowing opinion of himself, as expressed at the Obama Classic yesterday:

"It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person. Usually the folks want to take a picture with me, sit next to me, talk to me. That has not been the case at this event and I completely understand.”

The foundations of the American Republic are shaken, "the People's" Constitution is being trashed by likewise arrogant and provincial thinking of the entire so-called "progressive" movement, the world is looking for America to relight the lamp of liberty for oppressed people all over the globe, and the nonchalant and shallow thinker elected to lead it comes up with this kind of self-aggrandizing nonsense.

Seriously????

[generally]

He would be the least intellectual person in any room.

The only thing that keeps him from being the least interesting person in the room is the same reason that makes a train wreck “interesting.”

[mrsmel]

It was a sign of trouble that this empty egomaniac got enough American votes one time to win, it’s a sign of BIG trouble that it’s even close a second time. This country has a sickness.