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"The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course"

Freddie Mercury

This week a new show premiered on TV. It was a good thing too, as many of the shows that I like to watch went into hiatus. The new show is called The Following. It is the story of a serial killer, who is very smart, and very charismatic. People would blindly follow him - some to the extent of committing mass murder or others even killing themselves. Even though this is a fictional show, it shows the power of people whose personalities have this rare trait of being so magnetic, people will follow no matter what.

For some reason after seeing this show, I thought about how the press acts with our President. He has his own following of people who many times are blind to facts, and only follow the personality. There are reasons why the press today is called by many "lap dogs". They treat this President as if he was a rock star instead of a servant of the people. In the past, the media has treated the occupant of the Oval Office like crap instead of the President. That is, only if he was from the other party.

Press conferences have the best example of the following. Many tough, thoughtful questions are asked of this President. Questions like "Mr. President, what type of music do you have in your iPod?". Or "Mr. President, how do you like your wife's bangs?". The nation is craving answers on Benghazi, the debt, jobs and so on. But who cares? Our press loves this man and would never put him in a position where he might look bad.

As much fawning as the media does during pressers, what happened during the inauguration took the cake. It was a bigger love fest than Woodstock. I was actually embarrassed for some of them. The worst of the worst was Al Roker. He got so hyper, so out of the box excited, I thought he was going to poop in his pants (sorry). Chris Mathews received more "tingles up his leg" as he thought Obama's inauguration speech was "Lincoln like". The fact the speech addressed none of the countries most pressing problems and introduced such dead letters as "cap and trade" mattered to none. He was articulate and had a nice crease in his pants. In the media wagon, women swooned, guys had a man crush, and that is all that mattered to this pillar of history.

It has been a while since I stopped grieving over the death of media in our country. It was fun to try and figure out which side of the political divide members of the media came down on. No more. They proudly wear their unbridled bias on their sleeves. They don't care. They are as shameless as they are ineffective. They no longer matter. They are useless. They make me sick.