Oh, why won't Obama fiddle while the U.S. burns?! Where are our bread and circuses?!

They found intelligent, logical answers on topics of major importance boring. If they cannot understand rational discourse, perhaps their employeers should fire them and hire competent people.

Sounds like the kids in class who sleep through the lectures, then wonder why they got a D on their test scores.

Question: Am I "really" supposed to give a roadkilled-rat's-rump about what a pathetic handful of unpatriotic, anti-American, Constitution-hating conservative bloggers think?

Andrew Malcolm- I slept through my college classes...

Color me shocked that a right-winger was bored to unconsciousness by higher education.

Steve W.: Yes, you should, when those thoughts spill into mainstream discourse and are obsessed over by million-dollar columnists and cable news hosts, becoming standard Village-think.

Not surprising to see that conservative bloggers exhibit the core conservative defects: laziness, aversion to reason and reality, and unwillingness to listen (except to themselves).

Maybe he should have done a little soft shoe like George.

Shorter Village/GOP: "How dare the President talk about substantive, complex issues as if we're adults!"

Even shorter Village/GOP: "Thinking hard! Me no like!"

Idiots. Just ... clinical fucking idiots. The whole lot of them.

Media Matters neatly responded to one member of the "Obama was so boring" crowd:

http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903250010

I didn't know it was in Obama's job description to entertain the clowns.

Ask any psychiatrist, they will tell you-- boredom is repressed hostility. So, I believe the wingers when they say they were bored. And, by the way, angry.

I happen to agree with all of them. That press conference would have been much more entertaining with a few questions from Michelle Bachman.

Perhaps they miss the entertainment that GWB provided at every press conference. It's so much harder to make up a drinking game this time around.

Interesting that NYT sounds so much like rightie bloggers. As I noted about Fournier: I remember hearing ca. early 80s of conservatives wanting to infiltrate the media personally, and buy it up too - they apparently succeeded rather well, far beyond Faux.

I happen to think that part of Obama's appeal and good influence at a time like this is his cool, reserved demeanor and studious intellectuality. But the media clowns still indulge their primitive itch for the grinning, sweaty, faux-populist, glad-handling Marlboro man we can have a beer with (even though we know how badly that just turned out.)

The Times is having a hissy fit because Obama did not call on them.

Keep in mind that Obama also spoke in complete paragraphs and did not talk down to the American people as if they were little children. For those with a "bumper sticker" mentality, it went completely over their head. I thought Major Garrett's (Fox News) question regarding a "global currency" was completely in character for that bunch, but Ed Henry's (CNN) question regarding "why hasn't the administration asked the American public to make a sacrifice?" was totally ridiculous. I guess lost jobs, lost healthcare benefits, lost homes isn't enough. Idiot alert!

Sorry, folks, if you're waiting for Bush-like stumbling and gaffes from this president, you're in for a long wait. Personally, I'd rather have a "boring" president than one who can't string together more than two coherent sentences in a row.

Holy shit. After his stunning debut on the assholeosphere over the past few weeks, I assumed Andrew Malcolm was a callow 28-year old trying to ooze his way into the graces of the Village -- he looks like Wilfred Brimley.

Steve W.: Yes, you should, when those thoughts spill into mainstream discourse and are obsessed over by million-dollar columnists and cable news hosts, becoming standard Village-think.
Posted by: Matt

Matt, the "obsessors"---the million-dollar columnists and cable news hosts, as those who are numbered amongst the tribe employing Village-think---are mindless camp-followers to "the pathetic handful of unpatriotic, anti-American, Constitution-hating conservative bloggers" earlier mentioned.

Wasn't it GWB who offered the little comment about "aiding the terrorists equating to being the terrorists?" If so; if the Right wishes to terrorize the nation, its government, and its People, then perhaps it's time to raise the volume of the discourse, and suggest the possible need to wage war upon them....

Yes, he talked like an adult, beyond a twenty-second "Twitter" or whatever else the short-term attention deficit crowd eats up these days. Jesus, "boring?"

Todd Gitlin at TPMCafe, on the NYT coverage: "In one Baker-Nagourney sentence, even a compliment is only a prologue to a dig that, come to think of it, might help explain why they're so petulant: 'He showed his usual comfort with a wide array of subjects, even as he excluded the nation's big newspapers from the questioning in favor of a more eclectic mix.'"

I think I espy another reason the big Media outlets want to say Obama's talk was dull: he didn't call on enough of the big shot Villagers, and instead gave fora to some little people:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/25/712745/-The-Buzz-From-The-Press-Conference
Well, good for him!

Jonah Goldberg, Andrew Malcolm, Rove, Hannity, and O’Reilly, Hugh Hewitt -- unlike Obama, they don't feel any need to know what they're talking about before they speak.

BHO sucked last night. I liked GWB's scripted, stuttering, monosyllabic, content-free, sloganeering press conferences a LOT better.

And how come BHO doesn't have his own Jeff Gannon? Any nominations?

Haha, it's a good thing that real people ignore the self-obsessed cluelessness of the MSM in forming their collective judgment of the President.

It's pretty clear that Obama will give the media the respect it deserves, and when it earns some, it will get some.

The press conference was indeed boring - whenever the press was asking inane questions...

The only thought-provoking question came from Ebony. Come on, step it up white people!

Hannity thought Obama was "unconvincing without a teleprompter"!! WTF? The man is so obviously in command of any and all subjects. I remarked to my husband that it's so nice to have a president who can talk and think at the same time. Can you imagine if this crisis had happened a year earlier and we'd had to listen to Bush fumble his way through it?

Tammy Bruce: He's black -- couldn't he tap dance or something?

Jonah Goldberg: I was hoping he'd distract me from the damp monotony that is my mom's basement.

O'Reilly: Why didn't he hit on--um, I mean call on--any cute babes?

Rove: You'd think he'd have been more entertaining, what with all the cool stuff his minders were probably whispering into his earpiece. Oh, I forgot--he doesn't wear one.

Come on, step it up white people!

Step it up? Don't be ridiculous. We hire people who "step it up" for us!

Now keep your distance. I'm late for the club.

The game these Republicans are playing is painfully obvious, and I think Americans are seeing through the game. Namely, EVERYTHING the president does is wrong...it could be two opposite stances on a subject, and they'd claim he'd still be wrong. The subject matter is unimportant to them. What's important to them is to keep hammering a message to the world that Obama is wrong.

They erroneously believe that this is how Bush was portrayed by the media, and thus they think it will work on Obama. Sorry Republicans...but we have facts on our side.