The Media

WTF?

I think MSNBC just compared President and Mrs. Obama's visit with second graders yesterday to My Pet Goat and 9/11. But I'm not 100 percent certain. At around 9:20 a.m. eastern, Tamron Hall threw to Contessa Brewer who said:

CONTESSA BREWER: Tamron, this was something of a flashback for many of us. As his nominee for Health Secretary was going down, the first couple paid a surprise visit to a DC charter school to read a book to children. It was a trip that was planned, but not announced. After the book, the president took questions from boys and girls who are the same age as his daughter, seven-year-old Sasha.

You make the call, but I'm pretty sure Brewer compared the event yesterday to My Pet Goat.

UPDATE: Maureen Dowd did it too. Eric Boehlert quotes Dowd:

On 9/11, President Bush learned of disaster while reading “The Pet Goat” to grade-school kids. On Tuesday, President Obama escaped from disaster by reading “The Moon Over Star” to grade-school kids.

Sweet merciful crap. So Tom Daschle withdrawing his nomination for HHS is like a terrorist attack in which 3,000 people were killed. And President Obama reading to school children while Daschle withdraws is just like Bush's frozen state of torpor while Americans were dying in New York.

Very serious! I'm so glad the New York Times and MSNBC are in the tank for Obama.