We're starting to see the occasional disillusioned mainstream media reporter coming out of the closet. A writer in the Sunday New York Times, for example, attempts to compare Obama to Mandela, and closes his column with a damning comparison:
The writer is scornful of Time magazine's Managing Editor, Rick Stengel, who "could not resist comparing his hero [Mandela] to another tall, serene, hope-bearing son of Africa: Barack Obama"; Stengel wrote: "Whatever Mandela may or may not think of the new American president, Obama is in many ways his true successor on the world stage."
Mandela, above all, had a clear sense of his core principles... But tell me, do you have a clear sense of what moral purpose drives our president?Ouch!
The writer is scornful of Time magazine's Managing Editor, Rick Stengel, who "could not resist comparing his hero [Mandela] to another tall, serene, hope-bearing son of Africa: Barack Obama"; Stengel wrote: "Whatever Mandela may or may not think of the new American president, Obama is in many ways his true successor on the world stage."
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