You Gotta Serve Somebody

The media coverage of the Inauguration gave a preview of how they might cover the Second Coming. It was total worship. No doubts were expressed; no questions about his ability to do anything -- from healing the economy to bringing peace to the Middle East. The media have at last found a god in whom they can believe. They are worshipping at the altar of the church of Barack Obama. Journalists and some of their ideological cable TV allies have so much invested in Obama's success that they will be hard-pressed to criticize him for anything and can probably be counted on to explain and justify any mistakes he makes, at least in the first two years. --Cal Thomas,“Obama’s Inaugural Address”.

Aye, and we’ll see a new brand of rigid media Fundamentalism that will make Bob Jones, Jr. seem like Fr. Mulcahy.

CAIR and Woe

Speaking of CAIR, Frank Gaffney Jr. at NRO has a few points to make about how bad things are going for that bunch right now:

The allegations about CAIR’s conduct in the Days’ affair and the guilty verdict rendered against its co-conspirators in the Holy Land case point up a central reality: In the words of a wise lawyer, shady organizations, even stealth ones, invariably engage in culpable conduct no matter how sophisticated they are because there are too many loose ends and you cannot control all of them. It appears that that is what happened with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood’s stealth jihad operatives at CAIR.

Read the rest of it here.