The liberal media goes off the rails

Erick Erickson:

They routinely lament on twitter that there surely must be more important things than conservatives focused on Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, the Libyan disaster, the Syrian disaster, the growth of ISIS, the resurgence of Al Quaeda, etc., etc., etc. They lament that we are a frivolous society easily distracted from important things. They give awards to deep thinkers who write 20,000 word pieces on subjects no one cares about outside of the Circle of Jerks who make up the political press.

Then Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and failed Presidential candidate who will never serve in public office again, suggests President Obama does not love America (he doesn’t, by the way). The very same Circle of Jerks who lament a lack of seriousness in American discourse, immediately swing into action to protect their precious.

These are Barack Obama’s boot lickers.

From the New York Times to the Washington Post to the Atlantic to the Politico to National Journal to the various news networks to NPR, these people want to have President Obama’s baby, protect his policy, and advance his cause.

They could be focusing on all the important stories they lament are being ignored, but instead they have to ask Republicans whether they believe in evolution and whether they believe President Obama is a Christian. He’s not, by the way.

This is not just why Americans increasingly hate the media, it is also why Republican Presidential candidates should kick them, rhetorically, in the nuts at every opportunity. When some Presidential boot licker asks a Presidential candidate if he believes Barack Obama is a Christian, he should ask the boot licker why it is relevant to anything. After all, the constitution says there can be no religious test for office.
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Giuliani has done a service in showing just how craven the mainstream media can be when it "gets on it high horse" about criticism of the President.  The same people who didn't think much was wrong with the Senate Majority leader calling private citizens who opposed his polices "unAmerican" get goofy over questions being raised about Obama's love for American and some even argue that it is disqualifying for potential candidates not to jump to the defense of a President whose polices lead some to the conclusion that he is at least ambivalent about the issue.  They never got too concerned when Obama was accusing opponents of being unpatriotic.

The Washington Post has been particular bad of late which probably reflects the attitude of the inside the beltway establishment. Ironically they are not really helping Obama, but all this just causes more attention to be focused on Obama's criticism of the US.