Obama Overload

By Sam Bakken in News on Dec 6, 2004 10:45PM

Okay Illinoisians, brace yourselves. Chicagoist is getting just a little sick of Barack Obama, or at least the media's portrayal of him. In fact that's it. We like Barack. We don't like the fellatio the media continues to pass as news. Did you see the cover of today's Red Eye (click quick, it won't be up next week)? For chrissakes, "The fabulous life of Obama"? And that fucking Tom Cruise shot. Can we get some fucking reporting on this guy?

"Oh, he's sooooooooooooo funny!" "Oh, he says he wants Denzel to play him in a movie!"

We voted for him and think he's great for the most part, so it's tough to be too hard on him (we've been Obama sluts ourselves). We especially appreciate the fact that he gets a little testy with reporters pushing the Obama-as-rockstar stories. We're just afraid such expectations for a freshman senator could kill him.

There's got to be SOMETHING not so stellar about the man. We've heard from people who know some of his former students at University of Chicago that he was kind of a dick. It's hearsay, but it could be an interesting story (Did you have him? What was he like? Let us know in the comments).

So...we're asking the media to close their eager mouths for a couple weeks and stop with the blow jobs until Obama actually does something new. Surely it won't be long.