"... when it comes to the terrible swift sword, you can simply forget it. This God doesn't do swords, much less battles. This is a modern God, a media God, a God for Whole Foods, and the Politics & Prose bookstore on upper Connecticut Avenue, a God who is into recycling.
There is the God of the Old Testament, and the God of the New Testament, but this is the God of the Newsroom. Religious tradition tells us that God created man in His image, but the press has created this God in its image - diverse, multilateral, and nonconfrontational. He is cool, hip, urbane, and extremely un-Texan. He is all that the Fourth Estate values in life... He is all it holds dear."
This photo by Damon Winter of the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize.
Newsweek Managing Editor Jon Meacham in print:
.... Abruptly but gracefully, the president broke toward the spectators; gathered journalists and security scurried to follow his lead. He shook every outstretched hand and, reaching the end of the line, deftly avoided eye contact with the gaggle of reporters. As he turned to make the walk back to Air Force One, a breeze blew—and everyone scurried anew, to keep up with him.
It was that kind of day—and it has been that kind of presidency: Barack Obama, moving as he wishes to move, and the world bending itself to him.
More of the same - with commentary - at The Jewish Press Blog: From Messiah to Deity.
In case you missed it, Evan Thomas, an editor at the new, deracinated version of Newsweek, remarked earlier this month that "Obama's standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of God."
Really scarey, huh? For detox, see Lazer Beams.
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