DEAR LEADER HATES WHAT HE CAN'T CONTROL

Noel Sheppard points out a statement made by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press: "The rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff - he hates it."

CHUCK TODD: What I wonder how many people realized at the end [of Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner] when he did his, you know, there's always this part at the end where they get serious for a minute. And it’s usually the part where presidents say, "You know, I think the press has a good job to do and I understand what they have to do." He didn't say that. He wasn't very complimentary of the press. You know, we all can do better.

It did seem, I thought his pot shots joke wise and then the serious stuff about the internet, the rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff - he hates it. Okay? He hates this part of the media. He really thinks that the sort of buzzification - this isn't just about Buzzfeed or Politico and all this stuff - he thinks that sort of coverage of political media has hurt political discourse. He hates it. And I think he was trying to make that clear last night.

But does he really hate it?  Or does he simply hate the fact that he can't control it the way he does the Establishment Media?  What he really hates is that new media, social media, the blogosphere, etc. allows groups and even individuals (including your humble blogger) the opportunity to disrupt The Narrative.

But as Ed Driscoll points out, Obama loves new media when it's his own supporters who are waging war.

While the JournoList was busy defending Obama from attacks, it was a member of Obama's campaign in 2007 who mashed up the viral video that launched Obama’s presidential bid via social media, by accusing Hillary Clinton of being the reincarnation of Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1984.

The terrorist attack on Benghazi on September 11th 2012, and the eventual feckless "What difference does it make?" response to the Senate by Obama's Secretary of State — the same Hillary Clinton his election campaign repeatedly denigrated would eventually turn the message of Obama's earlier Orwell-inspired video in on itself. Not the least of which because the man responsible for the piece of social media that the Obama administration initially tried to pin the attack on, during their initial modified limited hangout, is still rotting in jail.

So yes, we know "the rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff — [President Obama] hates it. Okay? He hates this part of the media." Every day that YouTube user Nakoula Basseley Nakoula remains incarcerated is proof enough.