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A Giddy Sense of Boosterism
The New Editor — A "No Shit, Sherlock" moment, courtesy of the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz.

The Media Boosts Barack Obama as “The One”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Howard Kurtz is RIGHT on this one. The FALL will be HARD. Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Media, Media Bias Bookmark/Search this post with: ...

Obamaism: More on the Cult of O!
blonde sagacity — ... Each writer, each publication, seems to reach for more eye-popping superlatives. "OBAMAISM -- It's a Kind of Religion," says New York magazine. "Those of us too young to have known JFK's Camelot are going to have our own giddy Camelot II to enrapture and entertain us," Kurt Andersen writes. The New York Post has already christened it "BAM-A-LOT." (Read the whole WashPo piece by Howard Kurtz) ...

Coulter, Drudge, Limbaugh and the House Of Cronkite
Swampland - TIME.com — ... Another story that should not be missed: Howard Kurtz writes today about all the kinda-creepy (or really-creepy) ways news organizations are trying to merchandise Barack Obama's victory. ...

The Monday Duh List
Michelle Malkin — [image] Media in the tank for Obama? Duh. Criminal illegal aliens still being caught and released thanks to the deportation abyss? Duh. Immigration chaos still leading to the death of innocent Americans? Duh. Open-borders lobbyists demanding Obama give them the amnesty he promised? Duh. Lindsay Grahamnesty ready to work with Obama on immigration? Duh. Maybe I should call this the D’oh List.

Howard Kurtz: So, how ’bout that media hagiography of Obama, huh?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Note the line about mythmaking. Media apologists will dismiss the euphoria as a reaction to progress in race relations, but what’s noteworthy about Kurtz’s examples is how few of them view Obama through the prism of social progress rather than in terms of his own supposed inherent greatness as a leader. Obama as FDR, Obama as JFK, and of course Obama as Lincoln, a comparison The One’s been nudging them towards since, literally, ...

Dan Quayle with Good P.R.
Confederate Yankee — Dan Quayle with Good P.R. WaPo's Howard Kurtz belatedly notices the mainstream media's bromance with President Elect Barack Obama and the utter lack of foundation for that relationship, and wonders how the impossible expectations people have developed for his Presidency will fare once it becomes obvious that he can't be what he has allowed people to fantasize. For all the love and devotion he has inspired because of what he is, who he is still is still a largely unvetted, untested and inexperienced politician prone to exquisite gaffes when not following a prepared ...

THE PRESS ON OBAMA: Howard Kurtz says it’s showing “a giddy sense of boosterism.” Indeed.
Instapundit — THE PRESS ON OBAMA: Howard Kurtz says it’s showing “a giddy sense of boosterism.” Indeed. ...

Kurtz On Media Bias
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... The man who acted as Steve Schmidt's stenographer and Sarah Palin's p.r. outreach in the campaign is befuddled by media gushing over the first black president in a country founded on slavery. Jeez. I have no idea why anyone would get a little excited, do you? ...

Obama's Victory: The Aftermath
Power Line — ... The conduct of the press, not only during the Presidential campaign but in its aftermath, has been so embarrassing that even those inside the journalism bubble have noticed. ...

Media - You’re Dumbasses, and We’re In the Tank
Daily Pundit — Howard Kurtz - Journalists, Glorying in Obama’s Moment But aren’t media people supposed to resist this kind of hyperventilating? I might have some respect for Kurtz, but for the fact he didn’t say anything about all the media people - including those on his own paper, and, in fact, himself as well, hyperventilating for Obama all through the campaign. This is just the pathetic effort of a tired, outdated, partisan Democrat hack trying to salvage some self respect after his entire industry leaped deep into the tank ...

Media shills for Obama
Babalu Blog — Media shills for Obama No! Really? But what happens when adulation gives way to the messy, incremental process of governing? When Obama has to confront a deep-rooted financial crisis, two wars and a political system whose default setting is gridlock? When he makes decisions that inevitably disappoint some of his boosters? Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at November 18, 2008 12:34 AM Comments Post a comment

Media Continues Ban On Political Journalism
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — No, not in North Korea. Here, in America. Howard Kurtz: Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled “Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story.” Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama’s campaign. Perhaps it was the Newsweek commemorative issue — “Obama’s American Dream” — filled with so many iconic images and such stirring prose that it could have been campaign ...

links for 2008-11-18
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: mittromney) Howard Kurtz - Journalists, Glorying in Obama's Moment Obama's days of walking on water won't last indefinitely. His chroniclers will need a new story line. And sometime after Jan. 20, they will wade back ...

Now That the Election’s Over…
California Conservative — ... focuses on The Washington Post’s not vetting Obama. This article by Howard Kurtz speaks to the depth of the media’s infatuation with President-Elect Obama. ...

Culture Of Condescension
small dead animals — ... room in his pajamas writing.' But eventually it was the guys sitting in their pajamas who forced Mr. Rather and his producer to resign. "Mr. Rather and his defenders are not alone," he continued. "A recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let's be clear about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves." Nobody's listening. Posted by Kate at November 18, 2008 7:31 AM

Merchandising Obama
Ben Smith's Blog — ... I basically shared Howard Kurtz's discomfort with the commemorative Obama products being put out by various publications (our job, after all, is to cover the guy): ...

Papers sell Obama gear . . . and their Objectivity?
Top of the Ticket — ... Howard Kurtz fretted this week in a Washington Post column about, as the headline said, "A Giddy Sense of Boosterism," surrounding Obama's Nov. 4 victory over Republican John McCain. ...