Here’s the best sentence I’ve read so far today. It’s from a piece by Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal on the press coverage of the PPACA:
The press stinks at covering abstractions, which the health-care debate was until a law was enacted and put into effect.
The word ‘stinks’ says it all. I used it when describing Benghazi, the other day. The application with the Press’s coverage of the PPACA is appropriate as well.
It’s really amazing, though, how complicit the press has been in all matters dealing with Obama. This morning I was recalling how Candy Crowley interjected herself in the debate with Obama/Romney, totally validating the misinformation Obama was attempting to pass on about Benghazi, giving him steam to then artificially rail against Romney, which then changed the tone of the moment, and IMO perhaps the trajectory that those debates were headed.
I think that’s unfair. The press doesn’t just stink at abstractions, they also stink at specifics.