The Gadfly is in a seasonal good tidings frame of mind, so he will mercifully refrain from tearing in to Greta Van Susteren like a monkey on a cupcake, even though she is wholly deserving of it for this unadulterated horseshit:
Greta Van Susteren said on Sunday that President Barack Obama's end-of-the-year press conference Friday provided further evidence of why his approval ratings have dropped so low and how the media are not helping.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," the Fox News anchor criticized reporters' treatment of the president and the questions they asked at the press conference.
"The media beat up on him," Van Susteren said. "The media had bad questions. They kept punching him."
At Friday's press conference, Obama was asked several times to reflect on what some are calling the worst year of his presidency. Most notable were the questions from Fox News' Ed Henry on the NSA scandal and the question from NBC's Chuck Todd regarding the failures of the Obamacare website.
Van Susteren said that Obama's presence on Friday was "depressing" and "pathetic," concluding that the president has lost his greatest strength: "his ability to inspire."
"He sucked the oxygen out of the room," she said. "He ends the year where you just want to slit your throat almost because it was so depressing."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/22/greta-van-susteren-obama-questions_n_4489403.html
The Gadfly will, however, address Greta's points just so it is clear to you dear readers that The Gadfly remains committed to one of the core tenets of this shitty little blog, namely that of afflicting the comfortable.
On the first point -- there are several contributing factors Greta for Obama's year-end lower approval ratings (just under 50%). Obviously a lot of that has to do with the botched rollout of the ACA health care exchanges, which although that problem appears to have been adequately addressed, it still caused enough initial anguish and frustration with people, along with bad press (most of it deserved), that the negative ramifications of it all are bound to carry over for an extended period of time. Secondly, just about every president goes through a roller coaster of high and low approval ratings in their second term. Just keep in mind that George W. Bush left office with the lowest ever approval rating of any President in the history of polling at 22%. Even if Obama ends up losing another 15 points by the end of this term, he will still have gone out more popular a President than Bush.
On your second point Greta. The Gadfly agrees with you -- that press conference was indeed "depressing" and "pathetic." It was mostly that way thanks in large part to an equally depressing and pathetic Washington press corps. You yourself Greta noted that the media had "bad questions" and kept "punching" Obama and that they insisted on repeatedly asking the same fucking question of Obama as to his personal reflections on how bad of a year his presidency had experienced. While there is plenty to criticize in Obama's policies, the fact that the Washington press behaves like arrogant, snot-nosed pricks and would rather snipe at the President rather than ask any questions of substance and which are important to the American people, should not reflect in any way on Obama himself. The Gadfly would feel a bit depressed as well if he had to face those two-faced, sniveling ankle biters while trying to get out the door to spend Christmas with his family.
And lastly Greta -- you say you felt the urge to just "slit your throat" while watching Obama's press conference because it depressed you so deeply.
Welcome to The Gadfly's world lady -- because that is precisely how The Gadfly feels nearly every day as he is confronted with the seemingly bottomless pit of lies and bullshit that are constantly being spewed forth from the conservative media propaganda outfit that employs you.
But right now Greta, it's Christmas - and The Gadfly is in a hospitable mood - so let us just leave this bit of nonsense as it is. There will be plenty of time in the coming new year for you to spread your misinformation on Fox "News" and for which The Gadfly will be more than delighted to summarily debunk and expose you and your network for the frauds that you are.
----TFG
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