LA Times Writer Falls Overboard Praising Obama’s Oracular Oratory

January 15th, 2017 8:13 AM
Jeffrey Fleishman, arts and film writer for the Los Angeles Times and its former Cairo bureau chief, waxed insufferably eloquent about the departing President Obama’s oratorical skills in a pandering panegyric: "Obama’s legislative legacy may be in jeopardy from President-elect Donald Trump, but the grace of his prose will endure....His sentences soothed and stung, coaxed and challenged, drawing…

CBS Trumpets Caroline Kennedy as 'Representative of The Best In Americ

April 2nd, 2013 3:50 PM
CBS again paid homage to Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday's CBS This Morning as they hyped her possible nomination to be the next ambassador of Japan. During her report, Jan Crawford featured liberal historian Robert Dallek, who gushed over the apparent worldwide reputation of the presidential daughter's family: "The Kennedys, generally, have an extraordinary, continuing hold on the public's…

Jodi Kantor in NYT: Obama Carving 'Own Grand Place' in History While F

November 7th, 2012 2:42 PM
The New York Times at least saved Jodi Kantor's gushing over Obama until the votes were in. Kantor, political reporter and sympathetic Obama biographer penned the pompously headlined "Now, a Chance to Catch Up to his Epochal Vision," about private dinners Obama took with left-wing professors to calibrate the strategy of his presidency and lauded "the urgency and seriousness that he brought to…

Daily Beast Readers Mock Notion of Obama Gay Marriage 'LBJ Moment

May 11th, 2012 5:13 PM
One of the best things about the internet is the ability of readers to quickly and easily post their reactions to articles. In the strictly hard copy era before the web, authors who wrote completely absurd articles could be easily shielded from reader reaction. This is no longer the case as evidenced by this Daily Beast article by Lyndon B. Johnson biographer Robert Dallek: Obama’s LBJ Moment…

NYT: Iraq Isn't Like Vietnam -- Now That Bush Makes Comparison

August 22nd, 2007 2:39 PM