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To: LindyBill who wrote (361884)	4/29/2010 3:16:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 793955

The Anchoress offers a disturbing, but probably fitting analogy: "I've seen a few comments that the press might 'turn' on Obama. I doubt it. The press needs an intervention -- a few people to force them to confront this sick relationship. Lacking that, they will continue as they are. They're griping because their feelings are a little hurt, but the press knows that -- ideologically -- they are all on the same page with Obama; they understand that he will put into effect the policies they desire. So, they embody the sick delusion: 'My boyfriend smacks me around, but then he buys me this fur coat! We can work it out, I know we can!' All Obama has to do is crook his little finger and smile at them and they'll come running back, like a battered wife who apologizes for 'forcing' her husband to kick her and then hurries off to make him a steak dinner and Crepes Suzette. This Politico piece is just venting between girlfriends, over coffee." I daresay the Anchoress is right about the press as a whole. But not every battered wife stays with her abusive husband. I think this bad treatment of the press will have some effect on the reporting, just not as much as deserved.

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