The Docile Press

Can you imagine the hue and cry of the media if Bush was still the President with the economy hemorrhaging six hundred thousand plus jobs? There would be no old line media passivity in the face of such catastrophe. We would never hear the end of criticism for Bush's mismanagement. Obama is given carte blanche to ruin us with any blame devolving back to the previous administration. This administration is about to attempt to initiate salary caps across the financial industry. During the campaign I predicted this and was told that was unconstitutional nonsense by a family friend who held a high position with Merrill Lynch in Huntsville, that actors, artists, and athletes would be specifically excluded because they by in large support Obama and the Democrats, but others in the private sector would have their bull gored by the rising socialist. Some might have thought Obama would exclude those who did not participate in TARP or ask for government assistance from this unprecedented government intrusion, but I knew Obama would make a grab for all the power he could get. Obama and the Democrats may extend the "helping hand" of government to sustain the nation's dying newspapers. Don't expect any complaint about violation of the First Amendment or how accepting Federal aid would make newspapers compliant instruments of the administration-they mostly are even before the first stimulus check. No matter how ambitious Obama's expansion of government becomes, he will continue to enjoy rave reviews in the dinosaur media, his leftism, race, and ability to blame Bush make him invulnerable, immune from criticism.