Fareed Zakaria Thinks The Media Has “All Gone Crazy” Over BP Coverage

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by Steve Krakauer | 12:47 pm, June 14th, 2010

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In a response, of sorts, to James Carville wanting to hit him with a “football bat,” Fareed Zakaria, the CNN host doubled down on his initial comments criticizing Pres. Barack Obama‘s reaction (for being too strong) to the BP oil disaster.

The media, he thinks, has gone crazy.

“I didn’t have that much of value to add. But watching the cover of it recently I think I have something to say,” he said Sunday on his GPS show. And then:

Have we all gone crazy? I don’t mean you, I mean us, the media. In dealing with the serious problem involving technical breakdown, engineering malfunctions, environmental fallout, regulatory mishaps, the media has decided to hone in on one central issue above all others: presidential emotion.

He followed this statement up by playing a HuffPost video compilation of anchors and reporters talking about the “emotion” of Pres. Obama. Emotion that Zakaria feels is sorely unwarranted. “What exactly is the point of all this?” he asked. “What purpose would be served by having the president scream or cry or whatever it is he’s supposed to do to show emotion? Would it plug the hole?”

The entire episode, says Zakaria serves to “trivialize the political discussion” and leads to “lots of pointless meetings and press conferences,” among other useless things that, you know, may help solve the problem.

There seems to be a major disconnect between what Zakaria thinks Pres. Obama is doing and what he looks like he’s doing. Maybe, just maybe, it looks like Pres. Obama is taking the spill more seriously because he actually is. Anyway, here’s Zakaria’s monologue aimed at the “crazy” media:

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

They are! because they talk about the pelican being soaked in oil than the 11 deceased.
badr

he’s a bilderburger, council on foreign relations member, why would he care.
The Real Royal King

Did Zakaria take Colonel Sanders’ place?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMS6tGOACo
stoogedudes

badr says:
June 14, 2010 at 12:55 pm

I think perhaps the reason why he is piping up on this is because he feels more needs to be focused on the events going on around the world instead of the media worrying about how emotional Obama is on this. Just my take on it.

I think that more needs to be focused on how to contain this spill and fix the problem and not on Obama’s emotions.
lonestar77

I think fareed is coming out of third base on this one. I mean, to contain the spill is no touchdown but Obama definitely isn’t batting a slam dunk. Obama needs to show some leadership like that baseball manager of the New York Knicks.
timzank

Real life and Teh President don’t mix well. All the scripted teleprompter driven platitudes and faked anger won’t ease the pain or solve the problem.

The Emperor has no clothes.
JohnSimpson

BHO deserves every bit of this. It’s his lib media that uses words like “optics” and “atmosphere.”
The Real Royal King

It is as if we can handle only one matter at a time. In a sense, this is much like Katrina. We can’t deal with other important issues.

John: You’ve missed the entire point. Again. This is not about blaming or exonerating. It is a critique of coverage,
roxsteady

And Zakaria is spot on! The media is useless and better suited for Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight! Complete idiots.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Did anyone check Zakaria’s papers? We should also check rox and RRK for papers. We need to the rox transcripts from ForDumb. I have seen RRK’s degree from Romper Room.
The Real Royal King

Blower: On what channel and on what date and at what time might I be able to view the Gordon Blower Show?
TfT

I wonder how his ratings are on his new Sunday morning time slot. Zakaria thinks Obama should get a pass and then Zakaria goes about doing Obama’s bidness for him and he blames Bush for everything. Typical CNNer.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

RRK on what channel are you going to quit hiding behind a phony name?