Here we are, just one day after a bloody shooting rampage in Washington D.C. and the chief topic of the talking heads is the audacity of the President to go ahead and give his economic speech while the "event" was still in full motion. How tasteless it was for him to lambaste the Republicans with a partisan political speech; how inappropriate it was for him to wait until evening before lowering the White House flag to half-staff.
These attacks on the President are onerous and uncalled for. We all know that this President is a narcissistic and insensitive cad. Belaboring the fact in a time of national tragedy is petty. Who really cares if Obama made an ill-timed speech? Who listens to any of his speeches anymore, anyway? All of the major networks and news carriers ignored him and stuck with the Washington Naval Yard story. Whenever he speaks, 90% of the television sets in the country either get switched to a different channel or shut off.
There are so many and much more important issues of the day to contend with. When are we going to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious? Why won't the President authorize the interview of Benghazi survivors? If the N.S.A. is gathering so much information about Americans on the basis of preventing terrorism, why didn't they intercede in Boston or even in Washington? When are we going to find out how infested the I.R.S. is with political agendas? On what basis did the D.O.J. surveil the Associated Press, James Rosen and others, and who else was a victim?
Those are the questions we should be concerned with. The flak over his Monday speech is illustrative of the depths to which our national journalism has sunk.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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