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36
Transcript: “How is the World Reacting to President Obama’s Speech to the Muslim World?” MSNBC,
Hardball
, June 5, 2009; available at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31173133/ns/msnbc_tvhardball_with_chris_matthews/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

37
Peter Wehner, “Joe Klein’s
Almost
Pathological Love Affairs,”
Commentary Magazine
, February 2, 2010; available at:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/229776
[accessed June 28, 2010].

38
Fouad Ajami, “The Obama Spell is Broken,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 31, 2010; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029110104772360.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

39
“MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Says the West Wing of the White House is a ‘Shrine’ to Obama—Audio,”
FreedomsLighthouse.com
, February 4, 2010; available at:
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2010_02_04_archive.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

40
“Narcissist Alert! Obama Clutching the Obama GQ Magazine with his face on the cover!”
rashmanly.wordpress.com
, November 25, 2009; available at:
http://rashmanly.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/narcissist-alert-obama-clutching-the-obama-gq-magizine-with-his-face-on-the-cover/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

41
“Obama Has Name Stitched to Suit Jacket,”
Real Clear Politics
Video, March 25, 2010; available at:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/25/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

42
Mark Knoller, “Obama’s First Year: By the Numbers,” CBSNews. com, January 20, 2010; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6119525-503544.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

43
Brent Baker, “‘Paging Dr. Obama’ Makes it Seven Time Mag Covers Since Election for Obama,”
Newsbusters.org
, July 31, 2009; available at:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/07/31/paging-dr-obama-makes-it-seven-time-mag-covers-election-obama
[accessed June 28, 2010].

44
Domenico Montanaro, “Obama Appeared on Half of Time Covers,” MSNBC,
First Read
, December 17, 2008; available at:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2008/12/17/4432215-obama-appeared-on-half-of-time-covers
[accessed June 28, 2010].

45
Howard Kurtz, “The Media Elites Secret Dinners,”
Washington Post
, April 27, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042700891.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

46
Mail Foreign Service, “Obamamania or Overkill? President marks his first 100 days in office with three hundred photos . . . all of him,”
Dailymail.co.uk
, April 30, 2009; available at:
http://www.daily-mail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1174828/Obamamania-overkill-President-marks-100-days-office-THREE-HUNDRED-photos—him.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

47
Matthew Sheffield, “Primetime Obama Costing Network Millions,”
Washington Examiner
, April 24, 2009.

48
Don Irvine, “Obama Breaking Media Appearance Records,” Accuracy in Media, July 30, 2009; available at:
http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/obama-breaking-media-appearance-records/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

49
Mark Leibovich, “Obama the Omnipresent,”
New York Times
, September 17, 2009; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/politics/18memo.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

50
“Obama To Appear on America’s Most Wanted’s 1000th Episode,” TV
Shark.com
, March 4, 2010; available at:
http://www.tvshark.com/read/?art=arc4842
[accessed June 28, 2010].

51
Mark Leibovich, “Obama the Omnipresent,”
op. cit
.

52
Howard Kurtz, “If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Obama,”
Washington Post
, September 17, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091701077.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

53
Ibid.

54
James Poniewozik, “Obama to Appear on Everything, Everywhere. Except FOX,”
Time.com
, September 15, 2009; available at:
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/09/15/obama-to-appear-on-everything-everywhere-except-fox/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftunedin+%28
TIME%3A+Tuned+In%29 [accessed June 28, 2010].

55
“Obama: Regrets of Year One,”
ABCNews.com
, January 20, 2010; available at:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2010/01/obama-regrets-of-year-one.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

56
David Zurawik, “He’s baaack: TV Obama is everywhere—again,”
The Baltimore Sun
, February 3, 2010; available at:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/02/barack_obama_tv_president_mich.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

57
David A. Patten, “New York Times Buries Bad Poll for Obama,”
Newmax.com
, July 30, 2009; available at:
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/obama-poll-times-health/2009/07/30/id/331970
[accessed June 28, 2010].

58
Allahpundit, “Revealed: Who Else Was At that Secret Obama Briefing with Olby and Maddow?”
HotAir.com
, October 21, 2009; available at:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/21/revealed-who-else-was-at-that-secret-obama-briefing-with-olby-and-maddow/
[accessed June 28, 2010]; see also, “Obama meets with McChrystal in Denmark,”
Washington Times
, October 2, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/02/obama-meets-mcchrystal-copenhagen
[accessed June 28, 2010].

59
Scott Rasmussen, “Daily Presidential Tracking Poll,” Rasmussen Reports, December 14, 2009; available at:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_ presidential_tracking_poll
[accessed June 28, 2010].

60
Sean Hannity, Bob Beckel, “Obama Grades Himself,” FOX News Network,
Hannity
, December 14, 2009; available at:
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1759271
[accessed June 28, 2010].

61
Gabriel Sherman, “End of the Affair, Barack Obama and the press break up,”
New Republic
, August 13, 2008; available at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/25/end-of-the-affair-press-b_n_114925.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

62
Ibid.

63
Helene Cooper, “We’re Not Keeping Score, but . . .”
New York Times
, April 1, 2009; available at:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/were-not-keeping-score-but/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

64
Gabriel Sherman, “End of the Affair, Barack Obama and the press break up,”
op. cit
.

65
Dana Milbank, “President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour,”
Washington Post
, July 30, 2008; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/ AR2008072902068.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

66
Jim Hoft, “After Obama Tells America ‘Everyone Must Sacrifice,’ the White House Throws 1 Party Every 3 Days in First Year,” First Things Blog, January 13, 2010; available at:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/01/after-first-family-tells-america-everyone-must-sacrifice-they-hold-white-house-party-every-3rd-day-in-first-year/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

67
Dee Dee Myers, “Memo to Obama: Get Back in Touch,”
Politico
, March 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34280.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

68
Ibid.

69
Robert A. George, “Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting, A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama,” NBC News Chicago, January 20, 2010; available at:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

70
Toby Harnden, “Bloodless President Barack Obama Makes Americans Wistful for George W. Bush,”
Telegraph.co.uk
, November 7, 2009; available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6520286/Bloodless-President-Barack-Obama-makes-Americans-wistful-for-George-W-Bush.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

71
Bill Sammon, “George W. Bush Secretly Visits Fort Hood Victims,”
FOXNews.com
, November 7, 2009; available at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/07/george-w-bush-secretly-visits-fort-hood-victims/
[accessed June 28, 2010]; see also, Andrew Malcolm, “George W. Bush Makes Secret Visit to Mourning Families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too,”
Los Angeles Times
Blogs, November 7, 2009; available at:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/george-w-bush-laura-bush-fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

72
Jim Hoft, “Sick. Obama Says Daniel Pearl’s Beheading ‘Captured the World’s Imagination,’” Gateway Pundit, May 18, 2010; available at:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/sick-obama-says-daniel-pearls-beheading-captured-the-worlds-imagination-video/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

73
Sarah Palin, “Mr. President: Please Try, ‘I’m Listening, People,’ Instead of ‘Listen Up, People!’” Facebook, January 25, 2010; available at:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=267042703434
[accessed June 28, 2010].

74
Ernest Istook, “Obama Fails to Listen,” The Foundry, January 27, 2010; available at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/27/sotu-a-view-from-inside-the-chamber/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

75
Joseph Curl, “At Summit, Obama Mostly Hears Obama,”
Washington Times
, February 26, 2010; available at:
http://www.washington-times.com/news/2010/feb/26/obama-listens-at-health-summit-but-mostly-hears-fr/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

76
Ibid.

77
Barack Obama, “President Obama on Health Care’s Passage,”
Real Clear Politics
, March 21, 2010; available at:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/21/barack_obama_transcript_health_ care_passage_104866.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

78
Jennifer Rubin, “Trying to Reinvent Obama,” Commentary, Contentions Blog, March 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/255411
[accessed June 28, 2010].

79
Byron York, “Obama: ‘She insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt,’”
Washington Examiner
, February 2, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-She-insisted-shes-going-to-be-buried-in-an-Obama-t-shirt-83645132.html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

80
Anne Reynolds, “Sobbing Kindergarteners Snubbed for Steelers?” NBC Washington, May 22, 2009; available at:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Kindergarteners-Snubbed-for-Steelers. html
[accessed June 28, 2010].

81
Katarina Andersson, “Obama Snubs the King,”
The Daily Beast
, December 9, 2009; available at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-09/obamas-oslo-snub/full/
[accessed June 28, 2010].

82
Eric Werner, “Senator Says Obama ‘Got Nerve’ to Push Lawmakers,”
Breitbart.com
, June 7, 2009; available at:
http://topics.breitbart.com/Chuck+Grassley/
[accessed June 28, 2010].