Politico: 'For Obama, Hipness Is What It Is'

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Politico today reveals what those in the fawning mainstream media have known all along: "For Obama, hipness is what it is."  It begins:

During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper — in substance and style — than the color of his skin.

Barack Hussein Obama is the nation’s first hip president.

This, of course, is subject to debate. But watch him walk. Listen to him talk. See the body language, the expressions, the clothes. He’s got attitude, rhythm, a sense of humor, contemporary tastes.

To buttress his assertion of Obama's hipness, the author quotes John Leland of The New York Times, longtime Democratic operative Roger Wilkins, and Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics.  Wilkins and Tannen are themselves apparently hip, both having contributed money to Obama's campaign.  That hip fact didn't merit reporting.

The Politico piece has been picked up by Yahoo News as well as by the NBC affiliates in Los Angeles, Miami, and Dallas Fort Worth.  No doubt it will be reported as "news" by many other outlets.

It's gonna be a very long four years.