Pathetic: Moaner-in-Chief Uses Commencement to Whine About Blogs and Talk Radio

Way to inspire the graduates. Piss and moan about your critics. This guy is the biggest baby to ever occupy the White House.

US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.

Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political horse race coverage rather than serious issues, told a class of graduating university students that education was the key to progress.

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.

"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

So according to the community organizer, freedom of opinion and diversity of thought is a threat to democracy.

Ironically, last week he urged graduates to read the Huffington Post, as if they don't ever have crazy claims or rank that high on the truth meter.

Obama and his media lackeys control probably 98% of the "news" we get but that's just not enough. Without 100% control of the "information" we get this whiny pissant just cannot be happy.

Thanks to AoS and Instapundit for the links.