While TPM, dKos, and more recently others have been hitting back, I've mostly kept my mouth shut on Politico's new and ridiculous gotcha style they've put up since inauguration. But this just takes the cake:The Obama Cabinet is a CEO black hole
By EAMON JAVERS
In President Barack Obama's Cabinet, there is a Nobel Prize winner, a former mayor, and a veteran CIA agent. Surrounding him in the White House West Wing are a former four-star general, one of the nation's most eminent economists, and a handful of this generation's most talented political operatives. This constellation of talent, however, has something of a black hole. There is virtually no one on Obama's team with outsized achievements or a high-profile reputation earned in the world of business.
There are no former CEOs in the Obama Cabinet. And among the people who make up his daily inner circle, there is only a dollop or two of top-level private sector experience.
This is a notable absence, particularly for an administration whose domestic reputation will hinge on whether it can reverse one of the steepest economic downturns in decades. Let's leave aside how monumentally stoopid this is for a moment - that we should people a government tasked with fixing the economy with the same category of morons who broke it!.
The problem here is much deeper than the issue in that article.
The "John Smith doesn't own a TeeVee in his home, and maybe this makes him a terrorist" meme is not reporting. It doesn't even make good blogging. It's suggestive for no purpose other than to throw smoke onto a subject where there's no fire and to get the reader reading Politico.
Give me the cartoon monsters on FOX or RW hate radio anyday over this insidious, poisonous, spawn-of-David Brooks trend. |
