Liberal Media Bemoan the Departure of Their Beloved President Barack Obama

During his two terms as president, Barack Obama received boundless adulatory coverage from the liberal media. They adored him. They covered for him. They spun bad news in his favor, or refused to report that news and they never really asked him hard-hitting questions in their “exclusive” interviews.

A typical sycophant is ABC’s Terry Moran who, one month into Obama’s presidency, declared, “In some ways, Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office.”

Another Obama-idolater is Esquire’s Stephen Marche who asked, “Can we just enjoy Obama for a moment … to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer?”

Let’s look at some of the leftist media’s more obsequious examples of praise for the departing Obama.

In the final months of 2016, the New York Times’s Frank Bruni confessed, “It’s hard, frankly, to stop quoting from [Obama]…. We’re going to miss this man, America. Time and again, he’s been our national poet.”

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell cooed that Obama “invoked the audacity of hope, all of the spirit, all of the creativity of his own brilliant speech writing…. I don’t think we’ve ever had a president, save Lincoln, who is as great a speechwriter as this man.” Newsweek queried, “Really, has there been any president cooler than Obama?”

GQ Editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson, apparently sober, swooned, “We’ll look back at history, hopefully when we’re zooming down the Barack Obama Hyperloop Transport System, and think: That man was rare. And we were damn lucky to have him.”

MSNBC’s drama queen Rachel Maddow, given Obama’s Iran deal, predicted that people will “look back at this president and they’ll say, ‘Oh, of course they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course they did.’”

Maddow’s equally dramatic colleague Lawrence O’Donnell told his viewers, “President Obama is the most noble man who has ever lived in the White House.”

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