Tiger Woods was one of the most admired athletes in the world. We knew he was a great golfer and based on media reports, he looked like a great person. We should have known better. It is now clear that there was a major cover-up. Unfortunately, for Tiger, when his wife beat up his car after she learned about his out-of-control sex life, the protective shield around his private life was breached. All of a sudden we learned a lot about the private Tiger Woods, and it was mostly bad. He has never recovered.
Barack Obama had media treatment very similar to Tiger Woods. He was consistently portrayed as calm, cool and collected. He was presented as a brilliant leader and a great family man. The media went to great lengths to avoid even discussing his private life. Anyone who dared criticize Obama was dismissed as a racist. That is why, in spite of pathetic job performance, his likeable ratings were still very high. Just like with Tiger Woods, most people saw only the carefully crafted imagine, they never saw the man behind the façade. That all changed with his campaign’s decision to run a commercial praising Obama for daring to authorize the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. More damage was done by Obama flying to Afghanistan to brag some more about it. Suddenly, the truth became impossible to ignore. Obama is a self-centered narcissist who simultaneously blames all problems on someone else and takes all glory for himself. This was so obvious that even Arianna Huffington noticed.
The media coverage has changed remarkably. During a recent White House briefing reporters demanded Obama take a position on gay marriage. Press Secretary Carney was beyond flustered. Obama’s protective shield has been pierced and it can never be replaced. His number one asset, personal likeability, is evaporating faster than it did for Tiger Woods. Late night comedians no longer hesitate to skewer Obama. Ed Rendell, the former democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, told Obama to “man up” on gay marriage during an MSNBC interview.
http://townhall.com/video/ed-rendell-obama-should-man-up–say-position-on-gay-marriage
Rendell is very close to the Clintons, so it is unlikely that they didn’t know about this. CNN ran very negative reports about the unemployment rate and just dismissed the Obama administration’s claim that things are improving. Now they are pummeling Obama with regard to gay marriage. Of course CNN wants Obama to “come out” in favor of gay marriage, but that would be a political disaster. The bottom line is that Obama has fallen, and he can’t get up. Instead of getting the loud sustained standing ovation he expected for making the obvious decision to off Osama bin Laden, he is under a withering assault. When the shield around Tiger Woods was finally pierced, his public image was permanently shattered. We are going to learn a lot more about Obama, and my hunch is this is going to get really ugly.
Note: Obama did come out in support of gay marriage, but equivocated by saying that while he personally believed in gay marriage, he apparently had no plans to do anything to make it legal. Basically he punted to the states.
TDM