Obama: iPods, iPads, Xbox, Playstations are messing with his ability to Rule
May 9, 2010 2 Comments
HAMPTON, Virginia — US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.
Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political horse race coverage rather than serious issues, told a class of graduating university students that education was the key to progress.
“You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter,” Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.
“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation,” Obama said.
He bemoaned the fact that “some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,” in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.
“All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy.”
He does not know how to work any of them, yet, he is an expert on the evil they are doing to him. Go figure..
Well, damn! In that case I guess we better get a Czar and blue-panel Commission to limit all of that unofficial and probably untrue information. I’d feel a whole lot better if everything I heard and read was first vetted by the White House and its cadre of knowledge-meisters. They’re so much smarter than me, and as government workers are surely committed to honesty and independency.
Oh my, yes. That sounds really good to me! Doesn’t it send chills up and down your leg, too?
Cross-posted to my blog, with additional commentary,…