Steve Benen notes that the outrage of the morning is that President Obama is a little gigglypants.
“You’re sitting here. And you’re—you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with—I mean: explain…” Kroft asked at one point.
“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft said.
“No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama said, with a laugh.
Tom Frank has also been asking Obama to speak to our great national mission, because what will stop a multibillion dollar company from being run into the ground is a pep talk. A lot of the appeal of Obama for the press wasn’t what he said or did during the campaign, but instead the idea that they were covering the man who could be the first black President. The novelty has since passed, and so now they want what they always want from a President in times of news: someone from a movie who does fun and entertaining and wonderful things that make them feel like they’re standing astride the cusp of history, putting poetry to progress.
This is because most news organizations require you to capture their Pokemon in order to work for them, apparently.
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Sometimes you have to laugh when the person talking to you says incredibly stupid things. Especially when you have to talk to people who consider it their job not to listen to you or to contribute to a conversation, but to look for a gotcha moment.
Seems to me W laughed all the time. His stupid “he he he” at the most inappropriate times. Joking about getting drunk in the old days in New Orleans during Katrina. “Looking” for hidden WMDs in a hilarious video for the Press Corps.