For reasons only the Great Cthulhu can answer, I'm watching CNN and I'm slowly growing frustrated with its reporters' obsession with the concept of government transparency, as they interpret it.
To quote Inigo Montoya,
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
So Anderson Cooper, that smugly smirking sack of sycophant, is reporting on how President Obama took a mulligan on his Presidential Oath away from network cameras.
"How ironic," declares Cooper, "on a day in which the president moves to make his administration more transparent."
"It is ironic!" Ed Henry interjects, brows furrowed with what is either gravitas or profound confusion. "And look at all these other things the supposedly transparent new administration did behind our backs!"
And he goes on to list a closed-door meeting held by the economic team, as well as a number of closed-door meetings scheduled for tomorrow. POWERFUL EVIDENCE INDEED THAT OBAMA IS A LIAR.
Are you freaking serious? The new president offers an inch - an inch demanded by the people, an inch that the previous administration wouldn't have considered offering in their wildest coke-addled dreams - and the press cries out in outrage because they aren't given the full fucking mile.
I can imagine them demanding not only to be allowed into the closed-door meetings, but to be allowed to pester the people who are actually trying to get shit done with such pressing questions as:
Hey Rahm. You just made a face. Why did you make that face? The American people deserve to know why you made that face.
Psst. Hillary. You haven't spoken in a while. Does this mean you're trying to sabotage President Obama and help your 2012 run?
Where was this inquisitiveness over the past eight years? Why no demands to be taken to the undisclosed location, to view the contents of the man-sized safe?
I swear, watching the MSM dig for angles is like watching a particularly stupid dog play with a particularly attractive ball. Xenu love 'em, they just put their heads down and chase that ball, oblivious to their surroundings, until the people once amused by their antics find something better to do than keep watching.
Speaking of which, The Daily Show is on.