Consider this your meta-meta-post for the day: Obama took a jab at beltway media culture last night in a speech he gave at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, and by all accounts, he knows what he’s up against. But unfortunately he can’t seem to get away from it.
I know that in Washington sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day cable chatter, and be distracted by the petty and the trivial, and everybody is keeping score — are they up, are they down? You know, one day I’m a genius; one day I’m a bum. Every day there’s a new winner, a new loser.
Sounds right. And knowing the deaf and recursive world of D.C. media so well, he shouldn’t be too surprised that Politico’s Alexander Burns was there to turn an aside in a speech about the economy into a blog post about Obama taking aim at political Washington. And he shouldn’t be too surprised either that Mike Allen cited the post in his daily playbook of news-driving events–that now his critique of the daily winners and losers chatter will be used by the people he was critiquing to determine if he won or lost the day.
Obama’s made this point before, and to the same effect (or lack there of). Just as in months past, everyone’s writing about it and nobody’s taken Obama’s critique to heart and if he speaks up and makes the same argument again, we’ll all go down the rabbit hole once more.
