It seems like it was only yesterday that I was devoting a withering (so I hoped) footnote to some recent balderdash emitted by Glenn “Stay Off My Lawn, Negro” Reynolds, who’s now topped his previous balderdash by a very wide margin, a margin that, in fact, tends towards infinity. The gist of Glenn’s latest outburst is that, to save the Constitution, we must elect only white male Republicans as presidents, because the lamestream media will applaud the extra-constitutional acts of any president who isn’t.
Well, I am no fan of many of Obama’s executive actions, like the invasion of Libya, but let us point out that many of Obama’s worst actions, like Libya, could have been prevented by a (cough, cough) Republican Congress that preferred to sit on its hands whenever the president did anything warlike and then wax hysterical when he did anything peacelike. And I also remember a lamestream media that proved pretty lapdog towards the many misadventures of the notoriously white, male, Republican George Bush.
As a journalist himself, of sorts, Glenn might have taken notice of the fact that what the lamestream media does 99% of the time is simply repeat whatever it is that “important people” say. If Mitch McConnell or Eric Boehner or Paul Ryan would denounce President Obama’s many violations of Americans’ civil liberties, the media would report that. They haven’t, so the media hasn’t either. It’s as simple as that.
There was a time when Glenn offered a cantankerous, quasi-libertarian take on things that was often irritating but often enlightening as well. Those times, it would seem, are over.
