Stopped Clock Syndrome: Obama Right About Trump

by JASmius

Never have I had a stranger bedfellow on anything.  But we both like to shoot baskets and he did receive the then-World Champion Seahawks at the White House a couple of years ago; that might somewhat alleviate the migraine awkwardness:

Barack Obama on Monday challenged [his] media [to] stop chasing ratings and take on 2016 election candidates who are willing to “lie out loud” and whose campaigns are “untethered from reason.”

Without calling out Donald Trump by name [because he didn't have to] Obama used a journalism award ceremony in Washington to deliver his toughest condemnation yet of the caustic tone of the presidential election campaign and the media coverage of it.

Training fire on television networks’ often breathless coverage of Trump’s campaign and wall-to-wall interviews with the controversial businessman, Obama said “a job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone.”

He said the electorate would be better served if the media were to “probe and to question and to dig deeper and demand more.”

“It would be better served if billions of dollars in free media (coverage) came with serious accountability,” he added.

The irony in O’s words does reach gamma-ray-burst-level blindness, doesn’t it?  It’s like, “If only it wasn’t Barack Obama who was uttering them,” because they are spot-on target.

I’d say, “pot, kettle, black,” but he might think it’d be racist, and I want to try those chili half-smokes.

That was one in a string of clear references to the former [?] reality TV star, who has leveraged his fame to appear almost constantly on television news.

“What we are seeing right now does corrode our democracy and our society,” Obama in remarks that were notable for their frankness and how much they reveal about the White House’s unease.

Actually, “what we are seeing right now” exemplifies democracy, which is precisely why the Founding Fathers didn’t trust it and wrote the Constitution to limit Da Peepul’s power as well.

“I’m not one who is faint of heart,” Obama insisted. “But when our elected officials and our political campaigns become entirely untethered from reason and facts and analysis, when it doesn’t matter what’s true and what’s not that makes it all but impossible for us to make good decisions on behalf of future generations.”

Imagine my plight at this moment, folks; I don’t know whether to high-five Barry or punch him in the mouth.  Other than the chili half-smokes, that is.

The outgoing [?] president dismissed disdain for political correctness — another common theme in Trump’s campaign — as “increasingly just an excuse to say offensive things or lie out loud.” [emphasis added]

Even though I know what he means by that, on the generic face of it, (Man, my fingers are starting to cramp up) Barack….Obama….is….absolutely….right.

Forget signs of the Apocalypse, it’s already here.

Though I hope I get to try those chili half-smokes first.