OK, narcissist yes, but virtually nothing would have made you think he would opt for the bunker mentality now on display. I know I thought his passing up the FoxNews primary debate in Las Vegas was more pandering to the paranoid masses rather than an indicator of his own paranoia of FoxNews, which now as festered into something pathological.

Apparently, that story of the auto czar invoking the “Madman theory of the Presidency” on the Chrysler bond holders wasn’t just the auto czar talking talking through his hat, but in fact was the real truth.

Obama Meets With Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow

October 21, 2009 – 19:45 ET

A day after key White House officials declared the Fox News Channel wasn’t a news organization, President Obama met with MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/21/obama-meets-msnbcs-olbermann-maddowsource

You are looking at a cultural thing here. The Media to the Left of Fox News really does not get it.

The Left provides the super-majority of Media, Academia and non-government agency ‘Activists’ but the Right provides the majority (possibly super-majority) of Private small business, Military and Law Enforcement.

That is why you see reporters noting racial overtones where there aren’t any — like the recent Rush Limbaugh libel — and saying that an opponent of the president’s plan, and their plan, are racist, because in most cases they really believe that.

They really believe that conservatives are just ‘confused’ about the president’s health plan.

They really believe that the townhall opposition to public option is fomented by a vast (and rich) right-wing conspiracy.

They really believe that criminalizing guns will reduce the death rate in inner cities and anyone who opposes gun control simply wants the wars to continue.

Sometimes they are simply cynically using these charges as tactics to destroy debate. But many of them, in the media and government, believe it.

They are as unconnected to reality as flat-earthers.

Given that they run 20% of the American public, and a similar number of conservatives have issues as well, this is a major issue for free and open debate.

And when debate gets so clogged you can’t talk…

Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.

They actually do believe in “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” but don’t understand these things.

Tapper will be the next to feel the bite as Gibbs channel Baghdad Bob.

Yeah real stories have to be contained to keep from infecting the rest of the MSM.

Can’t puncture that bubble that the message control freaks need to keep in place.