The Issue: Whether the mainstream media has been too lenient on Barack Obama during his presidency.
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Another great column by Michael Goodwin (“Press Pussies Soft on O,” Aug. 22).
With all the bully and slime tactics coming from President Obama’s campaign advisers, you would think the press would at least ask the proper questions.
The “elite media” see America tanking, but never ask the hard or important questions. Democrats have accused Mitt Romney of being a felon and the cause of a woman’s death, and a spokesperson from Obama’s campaign has denied its involvement. We have come to a new low in history.
What happened to the days when we looked up to the White House because it stood for our constitutional rights and freedoms?
Americans might have liked the “hope” and “change” words, but have found out that they were just that — words, with a very bleak future. Sam King
Manhattan
The first doubts I had regarding Obama and the press came just a few months after his inauguration, when he sought out and warmly greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas.
Obama saw fit to not only shake his hand, but also to offer him a pat on the shoulder and broad smile. I remember marveling at this tasteless display, yet I don’t recall any media outside the conservative blogosphere that questioned Obama’s behavior, in light of Chavez’s contempt for the previous US president and the US in general.
This lack of critical media scrutiny has actually grown over the course of Obama’s presidency. Which is why — despite the litany of missteps, distortions and lies that have characterized Obama’s first term — we’re almost certainly headed for a second.
James Slater
Manhattan