"Great Presidents"
So NPR's All Things Considered ran a puff-piece this afternoon on some guy who's put out about "great Presidents."
His amazing historical insight has led him to the unique and unprecedented observation that the three "great Presidents" are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln & Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This really opened my eyes, because who would ever have chosen these three? Clearly this is a man of profound insight.
He also named five "not quite great Presidents:" Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, & Harry Truman. Again, it's obvious that we're dealing with a deep thinker.
Robert Siegel then helpfully asked if Obama would qualify as a great President, to which the esteemed author gave an unvarnished "no."
This is in large measure due to the amount of bullshit that Obama had to deal with soon after his inauguration, so you'd think that Siegel might have asked about Bush Jr., but no.
Interestingly, within a few minutes of that puff piece, Mara Liason helpfully rattled off a laundry list of Obama's failures showcasing his lack of foresight and his tendency to get blind-sided: ISIS, ebola, the immigrant children, the secret service scandals, etc.
Again, I don't recall NPR pointing its astute investigative journalism at Bush Jr. while he was in office. At best, they would offer a tepid statement about some policy or other, and then they'd yield the floor to some Republican spokesman for a ten minute, unchallenged rebuttal.
That's some Liberal Media, I can tell you that much.