OBAMARAMA
Cokie Roberts Draws Heated Reactions

From KGMB9 News Hawaii courtesy of Eschaton:

The latest is from ABC'S Cokie Roberts.

In "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Roberts spoke about Obama's visit to the islands, saying "I know his grandmother lives in Hawai'i, and I know Hawai'i is a state. But it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place."

Roberts went on to say, "He should be in Myrtle Beach if he's going to take a vacation at this time."

The comments received a lot of backlash from Hawaii's representatives in Washington.

More here.

The entire left side of the blogosphere has been all over this since Sunday. I've stayed away from this kind of corporate news media bullshit lately mostly because it happens almost all the time, and I don't pay much attention to it anymore. But this is particularly outrageous and encapsulates everything that's wrong with the "liberal" media.

That is, in addition to feeding into the right-wing myth that Obama is some kind of effete elitist - there's your "liberal" media at work - it's also just plain wrong. I mean, Cokie even explains why it's wrong immediately before she says it: Obama has family roots in Hawaii, and Hawaii is a part of the United States! As if my own parents, who rose from the working class into the Houston bourgeois suburbs, were elitists themselves because of their two vacation trips to Hawaii.

Cokie Roberts is stupider than shit.

All these corporate media talking heads are just dumb as rocks. Proof positive, day in and day out on your TV set in the middle of your living room, that college degrees, high visibility, fame, wealth, and respect in absolutely no way guarantee any level of intelligence above, say, fungus or a lichen. Fuck, if Hawaii is an exotic and foreign land, then I guess New Orleans, where I live, is foreign and exotic, too. So is Porter, Texas, for that matter.

The best and quickest way to make some positive change in this country would be to permanently outlaw television.

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