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Obamasession – The New Obsession
Posted by Duncan on January 18th, 2009
When a reporter approached him for comment, one of the officials responded: “No chance.”
NBC said “Today” show host Matt Lauer would interview Sullenberger from Washington on Monday, a day before President-elect Barack Obama is inaugurated.
Just in case you DIDN’T know that Barack Obama was being inaugurated on Tuesday, the day after Monday. My wife read this, being a journalism major in college, and thought it was perhaps the most random statement that had nothing to do with the story it was included in. And I have to agree with her. Unless ofcourse you are completely and utterly OBSESSED WITH OBAMA, as the Associated Press is…
Apparently Soledad O’Brien is equally obsessed with Obama, since she compares Sully to Obama, or Obama to Sully. Oh whatever.. from Kim @ Wizbang:
CNN’s Saturday filled with following Barack Obama’s train trip to the Inauguration was also filled with Obama praise. At one juncture, CNN couldn’t help but metaphorically merge Barack Obama with the exhilarating news of the US Airways pilot who landed his plane in the Hudson River without losing a single passenger.
A few minutes after 2 pm Eastern time, anchorman Wolf Blitzer recalled “Soledad [O'Brien] and I were talking about this earlier and she was saying metaphorically in some ways, the pilot of that airplane is very much like Barack Obama — that he got the plane down safely, but everybody else had to join together to get out of the plane and pull together to get through that adversity. I thought that was an interesting metaphor.
Kim does not that this comparison to a mere mortal is a step down for Obama….
January 18th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Conversely, if Captain Sullenberger had failed, and lives been lost, you can bet that someone would be blaming president Bush. Those geese being where they were would have been attributed to alleged budget cuts or something.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!