The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

This administration has zero credibility. Any rational argument regarding any aspect of Obama's policies only confirms this. Unfortunately, critical thinking has become a lost art in our nation and has been replaced in some quarters by an arguably more primitive form of 'hero worship'. As long as the object of worship still moves and talks, no one is allowed to question even his own individual circumstance. (This form of worship goes back to even before the stone idol (which marks the very first departure into the religious abstract.)

Obama has literally become America's national religion along with a full array of religious paraphernalia: ceremony, sacrifice, music, sin, excommunication and deliverance. We can not yet determine whether or not Obama is a perpetually angry god or a kind god. We do not know if he is vengeful or forgiving. We don't even know if he's competent.

This is where faith enters in. Faith as pertains to religion is generally seen as unshakable. In some religions a breach of faith is punishable by death.

For clues as to the state of our nation, we watch what happens to the media’s angels. They are closest to the sacred perimeter that gives our president his magical shield, designed to both dazzle and protect (his vulnerability inside).

No doubt, the MSM has been taken hostage. They can collectively be compared to Jean-Dominique Bauby, a real-life Frenchman, who lost all voluntary motor function due to a stroke, save for being able to blink the left eye. The 2007 French film, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” dramatizes his almost superhuman effort to complete the writing of a book (with help from three heartbreakingly beautiful women who acted as translator scribes).

Similarly, the MSM appears dead; totally in the tank for Obama, grotesquely twisting some stories in his favor while withholding others altogether. Obama, Democrats and the media appear to be in total lockstep; so tight, daylight is impossible to penetrate. They’d surely win the gold in Olympic synchronized swimming were they to compete in Rio come 2016… all except for the media’s one blinking eye.

It’s a small but significant gesture – like the shiver running through a Kerala Kathakali dance figure: It’s those approval numbers that continue to slide. Rasmussen’s (and all the others’) poll results are regularly and dutifully reported. It puts the lie to all the other spin that tells of how well our president is doing.

I, for one, don’t believe the press is collectively that stupid or even unduly mesmerized by the White House celebrity glitz parade. I think they’re afraid and trying to survive – like the rest of us – in this somehow fascinating dictatorship we ourselves let slip in place. It’s a small miracle that anyone is still willing and able to report on the president’s crashing poll numbers; all of which is meant to tell us, “Don’t pull the plug just yet! We’re still alive and we know what’s going on.”