Obama Scolds The Press

Sometimes reality is farce.  This is one of those times, via Mary Katharine Ham:

At the end of Obama's jobs summit Thursday, Barack Obama put the press corps on the long list of adversaries who are standing in the way of the awesomely awesome success of his policies. ...

Here was the second part of Obama's answer:

But it's not going to come easily and it is going to require a level of cooperation and a willingness to work strategically together that we have not seen over the last several years. And frankly, this town and the way the political dialogue is structured right now is not conducive to what we need to do to be globally competitive. And all of you are leaders in your communities -- in the business sector and the labor sector, in academia, we even have a few pundits here -- it is important to understand what's at stake and that we can't keep on playing games.

I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I sat down for a round of interviews. Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy. I was asked several times about had I read Sarah Palin's book. (Laughter.) True. But it's an indication of how our political debate doesn't match up with what we need to do and where we need to go.

First things first.  Obama is -- as usual -- either lying or practicing some extremely selective memory:

As Twitter friend MayBeeTweet pointed out to Scherer, Major Garret asked the president about Obama's jobs summit and a South Korean trade agreement, and the stimulus' job creation numbers. Chuck Todd asked about the jobs summit and Chinese human rights. Ed Henry of CNN mentioned Chinese unwillingness to help with Iran and offered a viewer-submitted question on the economy.

And the greater point in this story, of course, is the laughable suggestion that the press is getting in Obama's way and making things harder for him.  That's like someone complaining that their brain is corrupting what their mouth is actually trying to say.  Or that the C4 is rudely interfering with the detonator cap.  Or that the creamy white filling really ruins the Oreo cookie.  Or...well, you get the point.

I wonder if there will ever come a time when the legacy media gets tired of looking like complete idiots on his behalf (the leg tingle, for example) while trading in their journalistic ethics, only to be thrown under the bus whenever it suits him...

There's my two cents.