Mental Defectives at the New York Times and Elsewhere

“If I had my druthers right now, we would convene a special session  of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from  Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day… Just get me a Supreme Court justice  and a Bible, and let’s swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the  back of Air Force One. “
– New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Nov. 23.

Did I miss the part where Friedman kisses Obama’s butt in Macy’s window?

“Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really  special holiday by resigning. Seriously… Just to be on the safe side, the Vice President ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become President until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.”
– New York Times columnist Gail Collins in her November 22 column, “Time for Him to Go.”

I was with her right up until she said the P-word (Pelosi).

Co-host Diane Sawyer: “Speaking of the President-elect, kind of an anniversary today, 30 days since he was elected.

Wasn’t there a producer present who could have stopped her before she publicly fellated him?

George Stephanopoulos: “Well, he’s managed the transition with the same kind of precision and discipline that he managed to show during the campaign… It’s hard to imagine this first month going much better for the President-elect.”
– ABC’s Good Morning America, December 4.

Wow - two on one! I wonder what Michelle thinks…

“There are many who had such an optimistic and hopeful opinion of things, and you certainly can’t expect things to change on a dime overnight, but there are many who suggested that with the outgoing Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration there would be something of a lull in terrorism attacks. There had been such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope, with the new administration coming in, that precisely these kinds of attacks, it was thought — at least hoped — would be dampered down. But in this case it looks like Barack Obama is getting a preview of things to come.”
– MSNBC daytime anchor Alex Witt on November 27 talking about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

I am completely stunned.  It’s not like these people were just hired.  Most of them have been around a while.  This kind of raw fawning is positively nauseating.  In all of the time I have been following politics, I have never seen anything like this.  So much for even the appearance of objectivity.

The above is from the Media Research Center’s Notable Quotables (minus my added bits, of course).