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When I read the Fairbanks post, I thought she was criticizing it for the same reasons that GG is criticizing it, namely that something ridiculous like a haircut shows up on CNN's top headlines. Perhaps Fairbanks deserves a slap on the wrist for her cluelessness in perpetuating the "some people seem to think," but that seems a 2nd or 3rd order offense compared to the Drudge/MSM garbage.
And the Choitner post is countered 1.5 hours later by Brad Plumer who doesn't see anything wrong with Obama's speech. Choitner's primary offense seems to be citing the blurbs from Politico, as opposed to the actual speech. Then again, perhaps Choitner honestly didn't like the speech even in it's entirety and felt the Politico blurb captured his dislike. I found his post less offensive than Kaus', who extrapolates from the few lines in the Politico to deductions about Obama's "mindset."
