Meacham, Kearns Goodwin smash media's full plate meme

The NBC hack says:

"And yet critics would say that one of the things he [President Obama] has done in a hundred days already is expand the role of Government, the size of Government, the level of activism of Government, to a point that has put this country on a very dangerous heading, particularly financially, for the longer term."

And the NBC hack then follows up his vague detail-free unspecific invocation of the "dangerous heading" this country is on, by pointing to a poll (in a surprised even puzzled voice) a poll that shows an extraordinary public approval of the heading this country is on. 

In these past hundred days or so, there's no way that so many of the American People would be presently registering so much support for President Obama, and presently registering so much approval of the heading their country is on, if they thought their country was on a "dangerous heading" as the NBC hack called it. 

That NBC hack must conclude that the American People are blind and stupid and not paying attention or otherwise distracted and disinterested and blissfully unaware of the heading their country is on, if he thinks that heading is "dangerous" (and don't give me any bull about how he said "critics say", because what he said he said in his own voice, with an almost dramatic sense of concern I might add), if he thinks our country's heading is "dangerous", while the American People disagree... the NBC hack, he has no other conclusion he can make for such a difference of opinion, than to conclude the American People are idiots, right? 

You know, were this NBC hack to cite even a single particular of this "dangerous heading" the country is on (and three particulars should be required at least, but what difference does that make, if the NBC hack doesn't cite even one), if he was particular about this "danger", then wouldn't that be the beginning to setting us dopes straight, and informing the idiotic American People about the "dangerous heading" their country is on? 

I mean, I can see us all coming to the table as idiots, idiots who are all wrong about how and what we're going to be served... but once we've had the particulars spelled out for us, and seen the items on the menu, wouldn't we then be straightened out and informed, and then wake up (after a hundred days) wake up and say "wow you're right, we are on a dangerous heading!" 

The point here that I make, is that all this "dangerous heading" type of talk, absent of any particulars, is having no effect at all on us, and for good reason: because any danger to us must have it's details and specifics (just as fear itself must always have it's object, or thing to be feared), and without those specifics and details, this "dangerous heading" talk of the NBC hack, is just the sound of a general alarm, from someone we don't trust in the least, for having either not sounding the alarm in past crises, or otherwise sounding it wrong. 

The general alarm is being sounded?  Then be specific about the danger, gives us the details, tell us exactly what it is that threatens us, and exactly how we're being threatened... 

Otherwise it's just the same old noise we've been tuning out, in great numbers and all on the same page the American People have been tuning it out, this noise about "socialism" and "fascism" and "totalitarianism" and "dictatorships" etc.: it's all of it completely absent of specifics and details, because were there any specifics to the supposed "dangerous heading" the country is on, then we wouldn't be registering so much approval of the heading our country is on... 

I mean, that makes sense, right? 

Or are maybe we so stupid, we're don't even know we're stupid...  I guess that's the conclusion the NBC hack must reach in this matter: the American People are too stupid to even know they're stupid. 

There is an umseemly racial undertow to this suggestion that other presidents could take on big challenges but Obama can only handle a few things at a time.

The way that the press hyperventilates every time he meets a new foreign leader (gifts to Brown & QoE, greetings to King of SA, Chavez, etc.) also has this ugly racial tone to it.

Kind of like, "what is the black gonna give the Queen for a gift?" sort of thing.

Gregory: "And yet critics would say that..."

Critics like Gregory's dancing partner Karl Rove would say that. I guess if you can't find critics with any credibility, you can always resort to "some say" concern trolling about "very dangerous headings."  

It's not like the President is doing all the work. A President leads with themes and a political philosophy. He makes grand overview decisions, and he doesn't make the daily grind kind of decisions.

As such, it's out of line to suggest he can't do all this stuff. The Congress passes million dollar budgets every year plus all kinds of other things because they have their staffs and their colleagues to help out. Businesses do the same - CEO's don't make all the decisions. To suggest that Obama has too much on his plate is a fallacious argument, and is typical of the kind of strawman argument David Gregory has done for years.