Tim Graham and Brent Bozell write in their July 2 column:
President Barack Obama treats the press like a spoiled child treats his parents. Despite the pampering, he just keeps complaining about them until he gets his way. As America tires of his inflated sense of self-importance while the economy limps and his foreign policy crumbles, Obama travels around the country complaining that the mean old media aren’t complimentary enough.
[…]He’s trying to intimidate the press — especially those who are now elbowing their colleagues to hold him accountable for his growing list of fiascoes. How far the spoiled child has fallen.
Bozell and Graham seem upset that Obama’s horning in on their territory. After all, intimidating the press and complaining that the mean old media aren’t complimentary enough to their agenda is the raison d’etre for the Media Research Center.
Apparently, only conservatives are allowed to criticize “the media.”