How the Media is Contributing to Obama's Demise

They sold him as "The One", the Obamessiah, and now the expectations that were built up are leading to his demise.  From Bernard Goldberg:

So how could so much fawning coverage be bad for the president? Well, when the sun came up the morning after Election Day, while most of the media were still swooning from the night before, Joe Scarborough, on his MSNBC show Morning Joe, threw a bucket of cold water all over the mainstream media.

“I’ll tell you my biggest fear for Barack Obama: He has been sainted. He is Saint Barack. The same mainstream media that tried so desperately to get him elected has engaged in hyperbole, engaged in exaggeration. They have deified this man while destroying everybody that got in his path.”

He was right about that, of course, and he was right when he went on to say this: “And what they have done for Barack Obama” was that “they have set up such unrealistic expectations, that no politician could meet those expectations. I just hope that all of the people who got involved in this election do not become disillusioned when he doesn’t reach those lofty heights. … Americans will find he doesn’t walk on water and I’m concerned for him when that happens.”

Well, it happened this year. The mid-term election was a referendum on President Obama and the voters concluded that when he tried to walk on water he got wet. They discovered that he wasn’t a messiah, but simply a politician. And that’s when the disillusionment set in – more than it would have if the media had portrayed him in a more down-to-earth, realistic way.

Read the whole thing. Bernie's right.