Since “I've really been getting pretty upset in the last week, just like every other American,” NPR's Nina Totenberg decided to watch President Obama on the Tonight Show “and he calmed me down. And he was presidential. I thought it was just a masterful performance.”
The eager-to-be-impressed Totenberg made her comment on Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by Washington, DC's ABC affiliate and its all-news cable channel, News Channel 8:
When I heard he was going to do this I thought, should a President really do that? Then I actually stayed up and watched it and he calmed me down. I've really been getting pretty upset in the last week, just like every other American I think. And he calmed me down. And he was presidential. I thought it was just a masterful performance.
Three weeks ago, my NewsBusters post, “Nina Totenberg's Friend: 'Oh My God, We Have a President Again!'” recounted:
NPR's Nina Totenberg revealed Friday, not surprisingly, that she was enchanted by President Barack Obama's address earlier in the week to a joint session of Congress. "It made me feel pretty good. I thought it was a great speech," she enthused before relaying a contrast with former President George W. Bush: "A friend of mine said, 'oh my God, we have a President again!'" Totenberg added that "in some ways, that's not fair to Bush," but she insisted: "That's the way you felt. You felt this was a guy who was totally in charge."
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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→ Stepford wife
March 23, 2009 - 08:34 ET by Cool Arrow"Masterful"
Reminds me of the original "Stepford Wives" movie.
On a more serious note, isn't referring to Obama as "masterful" sorta' racist?
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Giddy Obama is our GIGGLER IN CHIEF
March 23, 2009 - 08:36 ET by ekslibWho but socialists and sociopaths would laugh while describing their countrymen's increasing economic burdens?
Is Obama a sociopath or a socialist or both?
If my plan was succeeding as well as Obama's, I'd be giddy, too.
March 23, 2009 - 08:39 ET by R D Helm-Dave
This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.
So true! Can one imagine
March 23, 2009 - 08:59 ET by jondelwicheSo true!
Can one imagine the lib reviews if W had gone on Leno and 60 minutes in the Katrina aftermath and was laughing it up?
The liberals really have become eerily delusional. I mean REALLY!
Galvanic
March 23, 2009 - 09:45 ET by GalvanicObama's certainly displaying al the political direction and tactics of a socialist.
I think he's giddy because he can't believe that he's been able to get away with it so easily. The bail-out is merely a game masking the larger agenda. Under the guise of staving off an economic catastrophe (The Politics of Fear that Dems feigned shunning), he's managed to get the biggest spending bill in the history of the US through a criminally negligent Congress without vetting and full of pen and ink changes; in fact, no one had any time to read and comprehend it at all. We are now discovering that it's chock full of funding for his Big Government concepts, from universal health care, to national bank ownership, to government contracting to union-only firms, to the fraudulent socialist organization ACORN.
Game - set - match OBAMA. It was oh-so-easy. The rest of his Administration is merely riding out the storms --- and there will be many.
As for Totenberg, she's proof that one can become a journalist/pundit with only one brain cell. She's always been big on rhetoric and short on analysis of facts. She better suited for The View than any news analysis program. Actually, she's better suited for garden clubs and PTA meetings.
Giddy and giggling
March 23, 2009 - 10:17 ET by iveseenitallA reporter asked Barry on national t.v. , "Are you punch drunk?" Giggling about serious matters often points to drug use. Hummm....
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Right on
March 23, 2009 - 10:27 ET by iveseenitallGalvanic:
"Garden clubs and PTA meetings". You've hit it on the head. That's all the MSM is good for these days. Most of the "news" our citizens get is simply backyard gossip-- opinion presented as fact. "Jounalism" is dead in America.
NEVER,NEVER trust a"liberal"
Very low
March 23, 2009 - 08:37 ET by cvgbuckeyeNina (or is it Ninny) you, as well as the rest of the MSM, have a very low threshold of glee when it comes to Chairman Obama.
The bar has been lowered so far for this man that I don't know how he can manage to get under it but he has.
Masterful ?
March 23, 2009 - 08:40 ET by MillerTimeWarpShe probably gets excited when she gets her complimentary tote bag from NPR every year. Its Masterfully crafted.
Freak
Indeed,
March 23, 2009 - 08:52 ET by FormerMarineOfficershould it not be Nina Totemberg? Nice hair though Nina, how many CFC's were released into the atmosphere to construct that meringue? Don't you know there is a whole the size of Texas in the upper atmosphere? Should you not be required to purchase Carbon Credits in perpetuity to prove yourself penitent? Call Algore, his need to justify his existence is yet unassuaged.
Sorry Nina, I missed the false one, doing so at every opportunity. Verklept no longer, calmed by the Chairman's words, good on you Nina.
Here's a more efficacious tonic, be a volunteer at a Special Olympics event, that will make you feel even better and it will be genuine.
Obama is a bungling anal sphincter
March 23, 2009 - 08:54 ET by Lord ErondWith Obama, you have this immensely historic candidacy wasted on this classless, uncouth, rude, ignorant jackass. He insults our closest ally, he insults the special olympics. You have to be a grade A A--hole to make the blunders he's made. And then this fishy smelling ho covers up for him, earning her presidential kneepads? I can't wait till 2010 when I can vote out EVERYONE with a (D) by their name. This moron needs some opposition.
"To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men" -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
→ Erond
March 23, 2009 - 08:56 ET by Cool ArrowOr as Hugo Chavez would say, "He's an Ignoranus"
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Insults an Ally
March 23, 2009 - 09:01 ET by allanfSometimes I get the feeling that Obama is more concerned about sidling up to our enemies than keeping the friends we have.
He also insults the black community . . .
March 23, 2009 - 11:38 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . .of which he's so desperately tried to be a part.
His manipulation of them and disdain for the common members is outrageous.
As is his support for abortion, which kills black babies at a much higher rate than babies of other colors.
He and his puppeteers have ensured that another black man or woman likely will not be president for a long time.
And that's truly a shame.
Not the Antichrist
March 23, 2009 - 08:58 ET by slickwillie2001Read on a blog somewhere: 'What a relief; this means Obama can't be the Antichrist, -the Antichrist is not supposed to be an incompetent'.
OUCH
March 23, 2009 - 09:01 ET by MillerTimeWarpbut appropriate
Can't find that in the Bible, but, still, your comment's ...
March 23, 2009 - 11:34 ET by CKA in Red State USA...an Ouch for the secular messiah.
How disappointed he will be if he reads your comment.
I think--
March 23, 2009 - 09:29 ET by misterbillhe was mastUr-ful-- fill in the spaces any way you want.
PS I put up with Leno's constant insults to the previous Prez for years--now--(I did not watch)-- after what I am sure was a virtual "Lewinsky" performance by him--I shall not watch his show again.
Re Leno
March 23, 2009 - 10:50 ET by slickwillie2001The a-hole Leno is still insulting President Bush; he has a regular feature where he 'visits' the President on his retirement on the ranch doing some goofy crap, usually using Steve Bridges. Let's hope Leno is retired asap.
NB's Jack Bauer decided to
March 23, 2009 - 09:39 ET by Jack BauerNB's Jack Bauer decided to watch Nina Totenberg on NPR's Inside Obama Show “and she prozack me down. She was a presidential groupie. I thought it was just a slavish performance.”
Drugs??
March 23, 2009 - 10:22 ET by iveseenitallBarry is in over his head. Now he's turned to giggling and laughing. It's a sign of something. ...Hummm
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal'
yeah, very Presidential
March 23, 2009 - 10:29 ET by SickofLibsWe'll have to make sure we include The Improv and The Comedy Store when we go shopping for our next president.
We already did what you suggested. It's just that . ..
March 23, 2009 - 11:33 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . . the advocacy/adversary media's entertainment reporters didn't understand what they were seeing.
They still don't, because it appears that Obama is still on those stages, making fun of everything he is not and seems never will be or is reluctant to learn about becoming: moral, informed, intellectual, hard-working, pro-American, pro-life, pro-the-Christian-faith-he-claims-to-have, pro-national-security, etc.
Places to shop for our next Prez
March 23, 2009 - 12:28 ET by ekslibSickofLibs wrote: "We'll have to make sure we include The Improv and The Comedy Store when we go shopping for our next president."
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Great idea.
Meanwhile, back at the
March 23, 2009 - 10:34 ET by SickofLibsMeanwhile, back at the ranch, Ma'Belle plants a garden and utilizes a bunch of those seedy public school kids as day laborers.
While we still have papers
March 23, 2009 - 11:03 ET by StarAZI read about these performances, not subject myself to them. I heard he was pretty giddy, though. That is disturbing.
I am so relieved that Totenberg is "calmed." Now I can ...
March 23, 2009 - 11:28 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . . sleep better at night, knowing that this overpaid NPR personality, this liberal if not leftist, saw Obama was "presidential."
Silly me, I thought that he tarnished the Office of the Presidency and looked as if he didn't understand that the campaign is over and he, regrettably, won.
I guess my embarrassment at seeing Barack "I won and I'm acting like Nero, fiddling while Rome burns" Obama on late-night TV, in Tinsel Town, clouded my perception.
But, alas, Totenberg has brought reality.
NOT.
Nina Totenberg...I saw this show...
March 23, 2009 - 11:42 ET by PrairieSkyover the weekend, and it was almost painful to watch. Charles Krauthammer was also on the program, and the comparison between his comments and analysis and Ms. Totenberg's was just sad...If she is as stupid as she seems, I'm amazed that she actually manages to keep her job. She clearly has a major-league Obama crush, and it colors everything that she thinks about him and what he does as president.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
to borrow a bad joke from
March 23, 2009 - 11:55 ET by seaniepto borrow a bad joke from obama - when I observe him, I do feel like I am watching the special olympics . . .
but, do we have an honest MSM again?
March 23, 2009 - 12:01 ET by katainkentno? ok jus' checkin.
I thought it was just a
March 23, 2009 - 13:24 ET by allamericangirlI thought it was just a masterful performance. I thought it was a great speech.
So what's new, he is a great performer that gives good "leg tingle" speeches. That seems to be all it takes to make a liberal swoon.
I seem to remember Obama using the phrase "silly season" quite often to describe anyone who dared criticize him or his ideas. Perhaps Obama's giddy giggling is just the new hope and change version of silly season.
"Liberalism is a mental disorder" -Michael Savage
Tottenberg
March 23, 2009 - 13:35 ET by ndulikCan you imagine Nina Tottenberg and Christine Romer on the same panel? The chirpiness of their voices would send one into apoplexy. The Hammer would have to leave the table
Dumb and ugly in DC
March 23, 2009 - 18:14 ET by Joe BlogsEver since Nina Totenberg admitted to doing poorly on the SAT, I've ignored her.
JOE B... LOL... I've
March 23, 2009 - 18:18 ET by bigtimerJOE B...
LOL...
I've ignored her for years and years...with or without knowing or caring what her SAT score was.
That was a good zinger you got in there...I'm still chucklin'.
Anita Hill
March 23, 2009 - 19:05 ET by slickwillie2001Let's not forget, it is the odious Totenberg that leaked confidential allegations made against Clarence Thomas, that led to the reopening of his confirmation hearings and the whole Anita Hill scam. She got a journalism award for her leaks.