Deafening Silence

The recent success stories regarding the economy, foreign policy and life in general have seemingly been ignored by Faux News and the right wing media machine.   It's like they can't even be bothered to search out the compliant pundit to denigrate the downfall of Putin's Russia or the sure fire first hand account of a botched Obamacare story.  The news, aside from the death of two NY cops at the hands of a deranged attacker has been a triumphant march for Obama's policies, and that doesn't fit it with the Fox News narrative.  A case in point is the Ebola story.  If an alien had landed in the US a couple of weeks before election day, he would have to have assumed Ebola was a huge threat to America and the government was powerless to prevent the imminent death of thousands if not millions of Americans.  As it turned out, not a single American died, mostly thanks to the calm professionalism of the doctors at the Centers for Disease Control.  By implementing commonsense precautions, they snuffed out the minor outbreak caused by one Texas hospital's missteps.  From trumpeting this as evidence of government ineptitude, we now hear the sound of crickets from the right wing.  Similarly, the 5% economic growth during the last quarter is evident only by the absence of coverage.  Granted, the President gets far to much blame when things go wrong, but conversely, he should be getting far more credit than he is for the recent good news.  Instead, there will be stories of how much golf he is playing in Hawaii.  So it goes...