NYT Report: Obama Eats Tuna Melt, Doesn’t Walk On Water To Greet Dolphins

OK.  I get it.  The media loves Barack Obama and he can do no wrong in their eyes.  But at what point doest the adulation go beyond a mere political bias and move into what Newsweek’s Evan Thomas referred to as a “creepy” cult of personality?  The media’s Obama crush has been under way for several months now, and any sense of objectivity and journalistic integrity have long since been jettisoned.  But the fawning and mindless sycophantic behavior by the mainstream media is really pathetic.  Let them report on his plans for nationalizing our health care system and editorialize that you agree with the plan.  File an in-depth story on how he selected his Cabinet or tell me how he developed his attitudes towards the Middle East or the Iraq War.  The economy’s in shambles we’re told, and only Dear Leader Obama and his band of redistributionists can fix it.  So the Washington Post gives us garbage like this:

Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.

And in some idiotic journalism, the NYT reports that the Obama family managed to avoid a pool of reporters on his Hawaiian vacation:

The pool got to the park at 1:10 p.m. so it had to take on faith the staff’s word that Mr. Obama had arrived there exactly an hour earlier. “Your pool was not allowed inside the park,” Mr. Rucker then reported. He did see the Obama group leave the interactive dolphin area, saying, “It is unclear whether the Obamas swam with dolphins, and Obama’s clothing did not appear wet.”

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The next stop was the Koko Marina Center, where he ordered a tuna melt for himself — on 12-grain bread with cheddar cheese, tomatoes and no mayonnaise (details thanks to the pool report) — and shave ice treats for the children.

Does anyone really care that Obama had a tuna melt?  If you do, you have other issues to worry about.  And is it just me, or is it insulting that the media has reduced the Presidency to something you would read in a trashy romance novel, or watch on an MTV reality show?  The Times and Post cover the “story” like Britney Spears had just been released from another mental hospital.  But who am I kidding, really?  This nonsense won’t end anytime soon.  (H/T: Jammie Wearing Fool)

(UPDATE)

I’m glad I’m not the only one creeped out by all of this.  The Anchoress and Michelle Malkin are equally disturbed and annoyed by the media adulation of President Chesty McCheesecake.

(UPDATE II)

More on Obama’s Paparazzi Presidency (via Politico)

(UPDATE III)

Sister Toldjah shares our concerns:

Does any hope exist whatsoever than any of these outlets will ever seriously scrutinze the next leader of the free world even remotely as much as they did the evil Bush “regime”? If there is, someone – anyone -please convince me, because I have very little that it will.