Clueless Joe: Time Hack Says Obama 'Completely in Control' With 'No Gaffes'

Clueless Joe

If you ever needed a textbook example of a biased media hack with his head stuck either up his own ass or girded firmly between Barack Obama's loins, look no further than fawning ferret face Joe Klein. Here we have a dispatch 20 minutes into President-in-Training Barack Obama's inaugural press conference today:

--His answers were crisp and brief. The most expansive was his response to the puppy question. This presages a cool, businesslike presidency. And I should add: His self-identification as a "mutt" was just delightful.

First of all, I just reviewed what Klein watched live. I counted approximately 472 "uhhhhs" from President-in-Training Obama. Didn't exactly come across as crisp and brief.

--No gaffes. Unlike Bill Clinton, who opened the door to the "gays in the military" question in his first press conference, Obama said nothing controversial, so far as I can tell.

Uhhh, really, Joe? Then why did President-in-Training Obama call Nancy Reagan and apologize for a monster gaffe which the entire world, but apparently not you, saw?

--Unlike his immediate predecessor, he seemed completely in control.

So, compared with his predecessor, how did mumbling through a "press conference" with slobbering media hacks like yourself, Joe, make Obama seem completely in control?

You just knew when we got questions about puppies it was all downhill from there. And a groveling, sycophantic press corps didn't let you down. That you have a senior member of the media from Time magazine oblivious to the slur against Nancy Reagan today, not even able to detect the possibility some folks might be offended, says all you need to know about the journalistic reputation of Joe Klein. He was busy laughing along with the assembled elites.

But to Clueless Joe, Barack Obama was crisp, completely in control and made no gaffes.

And people pay any attention to Joe Klein why?