The easy winner of this week’s prize is Joe Klein’s latest contribution to the Swampland blog, in which he avers that Obama got the best of the GOP at yesterday’s summit:
Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans …the Republicans had nothing very interesting, or clever, to say … the President was his usual, unflappable, well-informed self.
If you watched the summit, you may be wondering how anyone could draw such a conclusion. Well, Joe didn’t actually watch it. He was, he tells us, “elsewhere.” But he explains:
How do I know that? From Matt Drudge, of course. I mean, Drudge’s takeaway from the summit is that the President talked a lot … the Times of London found it boring and the networks turned to other programming.
This tells Joe that the discussion was very wonkish, which means that Obama could not possibly have been bested by those knuckle-dragging Republicans. He obviously didn’t see this clip:
It doesn’t matter that Paul Ryan and the other Republicans cleaned Obama’s clock. With the special insight that is only granted to the members of the MSM, Klein delivers himself of the following:
The obvious truth here is that the Republicans do not want any sort of health care bill to pass at all because they do not want to hand President Obama a victory.
The “obvious truth,” of course, is that the President’s health “reform” plan, like those of the House and the Senate, is absolutely awful and the GOP made that blindingly obvious at the summit.
But such is the wisdom of the MSM that Joe Klein can render the opposite verdict without seeing the event. This is perhaps why the opinions of MSM journalists are so often at odds with those of the voters.
We, being mere mortals, must sweat and strain to find and absorb factual data. They, on the hand, just know.
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