Barrel Strength

The astonishing video of President Obama abasing himself before Saudi wealth only has the power to influence opinion if people see it.   A check of Google News indicates that it received scant attention in the mainstream.  On Youtube, there are at least a dozen versions of the President demonstrating, with unmistakable and sickening clarity, his own estimate of his worth relative to that of Abdullah.  Like the anti-tax Tea Parties that are growing in the United States, this incident has been ignored by conventional news outlets.  As I so tediously insist to my intimates, it is all one war.  These media episodes are instructive skirmishes.  Should the number of Youtube views of such embarrassments as Obama bending the knee to a self-styled monarch approach the audience of a network TV hour, will that network TV hour begin to alter its news judgment?  News from the front, my friends.  From municipal social housing policies to Predator strikes in the tribal areas, this is all one war.