In His Hands
During his recent appearance on MSNBC's Hardball, Evan Thomas, who is Newsweek's assistant managing editor, engaged in a spirited praise-the-dear-leader contest with tingly-legged host Chris Mathews. Thomas' chances weren't looking good at the outset because defending champion Mathews, speaking right before him, set what appeared to be an impossibly high bar:
The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world; if he can, he will be honouring what happened on D-day 65 years ago tomorrow, he will be delivering the world, once again, from evil.
In a stunning upset, Evans cleared the bar with ease, and soared to new heights:
Reagan was all about America...Obama is 'we are above that now.' We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial, we stand for something. I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of god, he's going to bring all different sides together.
Noemie Emery, in the Weekly Standard: "There is the God of the Old Testament, and the God of the New Testament, but this is the God of the Newsroom. Religious tradition tells us that God created man in His image, but the press has created this God in its image--diverse, multilateral, and nonconfrontational..."
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