ARE YOU BELIEVING THIS? - AT 3:13 P.M. ET:   From NewsBusters:

The Magazine Publishers of America's American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.

ASME represents about 850 magazine editors nationwide. According to its website, the organization "works to preserve editorial independence." How they manage to maintain this air of objectivity while devoting an entire awards section to such a polarizing figure is a mystery.

COMMENT:  Wait.  We haven't seen the petitions to put him on Mount Rushmore - next week - in anticipation of expected greatness and divinity.

Reverence by the press gets into dangerous territory.  it also reflects what these "journalists" were taught in school and by the "mentors" of their profession, who were shaped by the sixties. 

Ronald Reagan brought the Cold War to a successful close, without firing a shot.  I don't recall similar reverence, and, unlike red darling Gorbachev, he never received the Nobel Peace Prize.  Who said it's a fair world?

October 15, 2009