This was Weingarten’s jokey thesis:
So why does Obama get a pass? One theory is that he is almost untouchable because much of the media, and all humor venues, are controlled by liberals, and liberals are in the tank for the guy. My editor, Tom the Butcher, and I think this is a shameful reflection on our profession. And so, today, I am going to be the first in the liberal mainstream media to viciously take on Obama as an object of ridicule.
The worst paragraph was the one on Iraq:
Obama's Plan for Iraq: Everyone knows that if virtually all American troops leave Iraq in the 16 months Obama has promised, the country will explode like a McDonald's ketchup packet under a hobnailed boot. Although it is true that the Iraqis themselves seem to favor this timetable, sometimes a superpower just knows best what's right for the country it is occupying, the way Hitler did when he annexed the Sudetenland and...
This was intended to be funny, because his editor "Tom the Butcher" has to keep interrupting Weingarten because he keeps getting carried away by his love for Obama. But you clearly get the sense that Weingarten is having fun with conservatives, basically suggesting that they need to get over the fact that the media are in the tank for Obama.
[Image from comicsreporter.com on the cartoonist, Richard Thompson.]
