The 2,432 Reason to Dislike the Media and Pundits in General

This morning while listening to Imus in the morning I heard Jeff Greenfield equate critics of the president over his prejudiced comments in regards to the Gates affair with the Cult of the Birth Certificate. This is pathetic, the President lacked the facts but made a judgment anyway, it was clearly a mistake to do so and his actions the past couple days show his recognition of that fact. Now I wasn't THERE so I will not make judgments on who is wrong or right, although as the tapes of the 911 call come out and the we should get a fuller picture of what occurred. What Greenfield was doing was attempting to equate critics of the president with people who are feeding off a paranoid conspiracy that feeds into their worse fears. There is nothing uncommon in this. Look at the Truthers, the JFK conspiracy types, heck the fear of the Freemasons as sinister beasts was one of the one of the most passionate beliefs in early 19th century America. But Greenfield went for the cheap shot as a means to undercut the Presidents critics by lumping all his opponents into the same tent. Of course its not just about Obama, its about the intellectual vanity of elites and liberals in general. They are above such things, unless of course its Sarah Palin, then every scurrilous rumor and malicious gossip is treated as a legitimate critique. Some have decided to fill in the blanks, erroneously of course. For the record 2,431 was the latest claptrap about Palin found in the op-ed section of the Times and reasons 2,367 to2,430 were various Michael Jackson stories.

As I said, the truth will come out: