A whole flock of scapegoats

Noemie Emery at the Weekly Standard contemplates the large violin section of Obama's media orchestra. A sample:

It’s the fault of the mad: In the eyes of some of your number, the country’s gone bonkers, for no apparent reason at all. It’s a “weird mass nervous breakdown,” says Maureen Dowd, who ought to know weird when she sees it. Packer agrees. “The main fact of our lives is the overwhelming force of unreason,” he intones in the New Yorker. “Evidence, knowledge, argument, proportionality, nuance, complexity, and the other indispensable tools of the liberal mind don’t stand a chance.” This of course goes to explain why The One has lost traction: He’s “a rational man running a most irrational nation” in Dowd’s estimation, or, as Packer has put it, “he’s the voice of reason incarnate, and maybe he’s too sane to be heard.” Well, if you say so. But this is a form of dementia that comes and goes oddly: In the ’08 campaign the nation was wonderfully rational. It was even more so at Obama’s inaugural, when his approval ratings were soaring, but then, as winter became spring and spring became summer, the grip on reality started to fade. It slipped with the stimulus package; slipped even more with Government Motors; and by August, with both the national debt and the town halls on fire, the last trace of reason had disappeared.

Ah, fascinating. So, according to the likes of Maureen Dowd, opposing Obama is the equivalent of curling up in the fetal position with your hands over your ears, or spooning mashed potatoes into your hair. How scary it must be for Obama and Dowd et al to be surrounded by millions and millions of crazy people.


"Olbermann, Matthews, Dowd...you, too, Brooks; I see you hiding in there...go forth and spread The Narrative".