Now that the election is over and its man has won, the far-left San Francisco Chronicle has decided to return to the principles of journalism that once made for a profitable and halfway readable newspaper:
Lies, half-truths and contradictions: Obama now backs Burris
It's 10 days past the New Year, and Barack Obama has chalked up his first transition contradiction. On Dec. 30, the President-elect said that while he thought Roland Burris was a fine man, the Senate shouldn't seat him....
Today, less than two weeks and a New Year's Eve later, The O changed direction quicker than Darren Sproles against the Indy Colts. Now he's saying that "I'll work with him." Count it as a con-tra-dict-ion!
The not-so-funny part of the story is that the journalist in question apparently thinks it is one of Obama's first contradictions ever, judging by the pre-election coverage of the San Francisco fish-wrap.
I would be starting to feel bad for Obama. Sure, he was gifted a presidency by a head-in-the-sand media. But now he has to live up to his press clippings, an impossible task even for a man without a swiss cheese governing philosophy. It is doubtful that any president in American history has been less equipped to handle the expectations placed upon him.
But let's remember that he asked for it. He'e the one who had the gall to profess himself up to the job. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, right? Nobody's ever built themselves up so big, and no media majority has ever been more complicit in allowing, nay, abetting it.
UPDATED: The Washingtont Times follows suit:
Obama stumbles after smooth road to top
In the past four days, President-elect Barack Obama, once lauded as having the smoothest transition to power in modern history, has learned how hard it is to navigate the political high wire.
His commerce secretary nominee withdrew while facing a grand jury investigating corruption charges; he backpedaled on his Senate replacement; and he infuriated top Democratic senators by failing to consult them on his pick to run the CIA.
The missteps have chafed Capitol Hill allies and proved the difficulty of converting so quickly from candidate to leader of the free world.
This is gonna be fun.
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