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I think the cognitive dissonance here is based on the fact that some folks consider Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to be journalists.
I fully support Obama being vocal and visible to the public sector, but I think it would be a huge mistake (both politically and - to my mind - in the much wider sense of our society's very legitimacy) to validate these morons by giving them the President of the US to yammer on with. To do so will be a capitulation to crass vulgarism that makes me sick to think of.
I also don't like the sense of people being proud of our president because he can 'talk good.' All of the presidents I know of up to GW did indeed 'talk good' to an acceptable extent - some better than others. GW was an aberration and it does the office a disservice to measure its literacy against the presidential equivalent of the dodo bird.
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