Over at Commentary, the estimable Jennifer Rubin notices that even standard-issue, rank-and-file media apparatchiks like the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut finally seem to be figuring out that they’ve been had — something the rest of us have known since at least the summer of 2008:

The mainstream media is slowly waking up to the fact that Obama is a bore. No, really. He’s long since stopped saying anything new or interesting, and he talks constantly, at great length. So when he went into a mind-numbing filibuster to a perfectly reasonable question from a woman at a Q&A session in Charlotte as to whether it was smart to throw a load of new taxes into health-care “reform,” not even the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut could conceal her — and the audience’s — disdain for the Condescender in Chief.

Here’s the spellbinding, electrifying, conspiracy-mongering, commissar-channeling Orator-in-Chief at his finest:


His rhetoric (which to the amazement of many conservatives – who noticed he was largely talking New Age gibberish during the campaign – transfixed a great number of people for a very long time) is now seen for what it is — a smokescreen for bad ideas and an exercise in misdirection. Unfortunately for Obama, he may discover that once the president has lost the interest and trust of the voters, it’s hard to get these precious commodities back.

Your thoughts and comments welcome here.