The former mainstream media’s enchantment with Barack Obama can only be described as puppy love, that desperate, deeply hormonal, urgent, irrational feeling made famous by Paul Anka and legitimized by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews who felt a “tingle running up his leg” when he heard Obama speak. David Brooks, the New York Times’ alleged token conservative has even lauded Obama for his flip-flops. In a June 20th op-ed column penned by Brooks, he praised Obama for being an opportunist.
