Disrespecting the President

          I confess a good deal of ambivalence about the photograph of Governor Jan Brewer pointing a finger at President Obama.  I admire our governor, but the image illustrated a profound disrespect for the office of the presidency

          Then I watched the ire of the pundits, and I regained my equilibrium.  Outrage! Brian Williams said, “Who have you ever seen talking to a president like this?” Well, Mr. Williams, you for one. 

          I don’t remember the date, but I clearly remember many of his hostile interviews with President Bush.  Williams was “in his face” the whole time.  I am quite certain that if those tapes were replayed you see fingers almost up our president’s nose.  Williams berated him for his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina suggesting he was so out of it he couldn’t even understand the mishandling of his mishandling.  He laughed at Bush’s reference to Albert Camus, clearly suggesting that Bush hadn’t the grey matter necessary to understand the French philosopher.

          Remember when the Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at our president?  The press corps was delighted.  They played the scene over and over giggling it up, roaring with laughter.  They called the Iraqi a hero. No one was outraged.  One reporter female journalist said, "This is your goodbye kiss, you dog.”

          Remember how Obama supporters booed President Bush at Obama’s inauguration?  Now that was unprecedented. And at the 2004 State of the Union, Democrats roared with boos and catcalls, heckling President Bush when he talked of the Patriot Act and again when he talked about the crisis in Social Security.

President Bush was called a dunce and an idiot and a liar.  Harry Reid called him both a liar and a loser.     One Democrat said that young men were dying In Iraq for the amusement of the idiot in the Whitehouse. 

          I still don’t like the picture of Governor Brewer’s finger at President Obama’s nose, but I wish the press corps would be more even handed about when they “get their undies in a bundle.”  Thank you Sarah Palin.