Maureen Dowd is the quintessential New York Times writer, and thus a perfect example of what ails the mainstream media. Her piece in yesterday’s Times at first seems to reflect a growing liberal disenchantment toward Obama, but it actually fits the mainstream media’s basic narrative of the Obama presidency, a narrative concocted by Obama himself: that any failures have been caused by shortcomings in the ability to communicate the wonderfulness of all things Obama-administration to the general public, and this failure is to be blamed,…

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