Video: Hannity, Bozell Review Media’s Love of ‘Rock Star’ Obama

In the 2008 campaign, “[t]he media were awestruck, embarrassingly so,” over Barack Obama and failed to vet him thoroughly, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted on last night’s edition of Hannity. “In the primaries in 2008, we counted 29 different times when the networks either called him a rising star, an emerging star, a rock star, or a superstar. Twenty-nine different times,” but they never, of course, affixed such a label to his GOP opponent John McCain.

Shortly after that, Hannity played a montage of liberal journalists gushing over President Obama — treating him like awestruck groupies — since he’s taken office. “This is embarrassing, this is journalism today,” Bozell, the founder of the Media Research Center observed. [MP3 audio here; watch the full segment below the page break]

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