Look, I suck. I get that.

[JohnnyRingo]

103. Is this the shiny object of the week?

"Accentuate the negative" could be the unofficial motto at Fox News. There's little to brag about among GOP pols, so Fox scours the headlines looking for anything at all that can shed unfavorable light on this president. Then, they script the story into language that appeals to the base that faithfully tunes in, and use it to reinforce the already discontented audience to the message that the wrong president is in the White House.

Last week you were boiling mad about Obama and the NSA, and this week you apparently found the only thing that Matt Tabaii ever said that conveniently drove you to rage. I've read Tabaii for years in Rolling Stone, and love his writing, but I don't recall ever seeing a post from you citing the damning evidence of republican interest in campaign finance fraud he's written about in detail, or how the GOP colludes with insurance companies to fix rates and diminish coverage.

Instead, you search the news of the week for a problem that may appeal to the liberal base here, carefully weave Obama's name deep into the issue, and word it in such a way as to repeatedly bash this president over the head. You get your accolades from the disillusioned and discontents, but your patented style of manufactured and keenly focused outrage is one that would make Roger Ailes proud. It seems to me that you're both working frenzied opposite ends of the political spectrum toward the same common goal. In this case, you slyly reinforce the Fox News accusations of "cooked books" on the ACA enrollment figure.

I'm hardly an Obama cheerleader here in DU, he's far from the liberal wet dream caricature that Fox News painted him as years ago, but I'm also not the polar opposite of one. You have that covered nicely.

I'm also not about to tell you or anyone else here to STFU, but it'll be interesting to read what new item gets under your skin next week, and how that can be crafted into a brief and undetailed Obama drive-by hit piece.