The New York Post caught this photo of the president getting into a Secret Service vehicle with a copy of this month’s GQ Magazine. It happens that the president’s face is on the cover. The picture showed up on Inside Edition last night and the Post print edition this morning. By this afternoon, a jammie-wearing fool had declared: “Nothing like stroking your ego on the way to the golf course.”
The wingnutosphere produces so many contradictory narratives. “Obama is so narcissistic, he got a subscription to GQ and got elected president just to be on the cover” doesn’t quite square with “Obama is too humble when meeting the Emperor of Japan.” Yet rationalization comes easily to wingnuts, and the media has a vested interest in the Obama failure narrative. This is classic stovepiping.
The Post is the Faux Noise of New York metro-area newspapers. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the man who reinvented Faux Noise with Fox News Channel. Behind the sex and celebrity obsessions of the Post’s front page, its coverage leans aggressively right. Inside Edition is owned by ABC, the network that gave you John Stossel.
Somebody tell me where the “liberals” are in this story.
