Barack Obama Rock Center: President Describes The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden As The 'Most Important' Day Of His Presidency

NBC News’ top hagiographer -- The role of Brian Williams is to glorify political and military leaders, but he really outdid himself last night:

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This bin Laden show — “Inside the Situation Room” — was hagiography in its purest, most propagandistic, and most subservient form. This is typically the role Williams plays — he cleanses and glorifies American government actions, especially military actions, with his reverent, soothing, self-important baritone — but he really outdid himself here.

From the start, Williams proudly displayed his child-like excitement over his special access: “television cameras are inside the Situation Room for the very first time,” he gushed. As he stood outside of the sacred room, holding the now-iconic photograph of Obama officials watching the raid, he intoned: “We are one floor below the West Wing of the White House and we are about to take television news cameras inside the White House Situation Room for the first time in its history.” (Do people like Williams, or Peter Bergen and David Ignatius, ever wonder why they are chosen to receive such official honors and how that reflects on whether they engage in actual adversarial journalism, or do they just avoid looking these royal court gift horses in the mouth?) For his first inquiry, Williams, holding his spectacles in his hand, noted that he was standing behind the very same chair where the President sat that night, and — as he showed Obama the photo — unleashed his first question, one of the most challenging ones he posed that night: “there you are — that’s an intense look on your face, and everyone is intently watching that screen.”

In essence, the entire show was devoted to uncritical veneration of our national political and military leaders. It was as vapid as it was propagandistic; as Josh Gerstein wrote: “Much of the program was devoted to the thoughts and feelings of the senior officials involved and to such details as Biden clutching his Rosary ring as the raid unfolded and the sourcing of the food consumed by officials on that fateful day.”

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