OBAMARAMA

The good old “liberal media” is proving once again how utterly inaccurate that appellation is with its coverage of Sen. Obama.

We all remember GOP hack Ed Rogers unleashing Sen. Obama’s middle name as a weapon on Hardball. In its weekly media analysis, Media Matters for America notes that Rogers was not the first to do so, however — nor has he been the last, as the media has adroitly picked up this non-issue and run with it.

CNN’s Jeff Greenfield went above and beyond the call of duty when he not only invoked Sen. Obama’s middle name as a liability, but actually compared his clothing to that of the president of Iran, since both frequently opt to go tie-less. Greenfield, displaying a deeply unimpressive talent for wordsmithery, referred to this “fact” as “a sartorial time bomb,” then combined these two pointless observations into what could be the most asinine question of the political year: “Now, it is one thing to have a last name that sounds like Osama and a middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than helpful. But an outfit that reminds people of a charter member of the Axis of Evil?”

Thanks so much for the insight, Jeff. This is what passes for news analysis these days?