Is demonstrated in a post that also exemplifies his aversion to editing.
An adversarial press vis-à-vis Republicans, forcing Giuliani’s third wife to admit she was herself married three times, something she admitted after interrogation last week. Only after steadily asking for as many biographical details as are available for other presidential candidates when reporters asked where Obama’s Kansas-born white mother was, we learned that she had died twelve years ago. Case closed. Some adulators implied her death was a private matter–nobody’s business; others defended the close-to-the-vest information policy, asserting, “we knew all the time she was dead.” The point was: Few knew or asked more than what the campaign office chose to release.
Let me offer a line from Obama’s DNC Convention speech:
They are both passed away now.
Only after asking for biographical details…
Uh huh.
Perhaps Tom should remember that at the same time they were discussing Mitt Romney’s great grandfather, the press also reported that Obama had a slave owning ancestor as well.
But more to the point, one cannot tell why the press should be concerned with the death of his mother. A woman died of cancer. That’s it.
We learned that while the senior Stanley Dunham is dead, his wife Madelyn is alive at 84 but that there is an embargo on her being interviewed. Although she was a bright and successful bank executive during Obama’s Punahou days, her receptivity is a closed book. We know that in the words of his half-sister “those were robust years full of energy and cacophony and she loved all of it.” Why is she kept away from the media? Well, we’re not privileged to know that-yet. Perhaps never. Is she incapacitated or unwilling to be interviewed? We don’t know that, either. Big media shush: It is not good form to ask.
You know some people get older and know they aren’t as sharp as they once were. This might lead them to not drive anymore or say not comment in the press. Sometimes the family has to take the keys away. Perhaps given the repeated and egregious errors Roeser has made, it’s time for the family to take the keys to the blog and radio show away.