Osama Is Dead. Obama Worship Is Alive and Well in Hollywood

I honestly had zero intention of writing about the incredible great fortune Barack Obama enjoyed this past week, a week that started out badly with both his ratings and the American economy in the tank and Americans with less-yet-more-expensive gas in theirs.

If it were not for the nauseating salivations of Hollywood reporter Tim Moloy, you would have been spared having to read this. It’s a cautionary tale of what lies ahead for the next several weeks until someone in the legacy media notices the economy is still in big trouble.

First, before we get to Moloy’s article, I’d like to share the list I compiled earlier today on the chain of amazing (orchestrated?) events I have noted (and which several people will attest they received in an email from me). No explanations should be necessary.

1. O releases B/C

2. O gives UBL op green light on Friday

3. O does his WH Correspondents Dinner “I am an American” video presentation

4. JSOC takes out UBL

5. Flash mob of Obots show up at WH

6. O does victory laps

Now we have Moloy’s odious homage (hold your nose, you’ve been warned) — “Obama’s Balancing Act: Slay W.H. Correspondents, Then Osama.” My apologies in advance.

President Obama performed an astonishingly difficult balancing act between the release of his birth certificate and his announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death — and pulled it off dazzlingly.

Wednesday, he made light of claims that he was born outside the country and gently chastised his critics to grow up. Friday, he authorized the attack that killed the country’s most hated enemy since Hitler. Saturday, he honed his comic delivery to slay the audience at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Sunday, he announced bin Laden’s death, in a pitch-perfect speech he wrote himself.

You usually need to look to comic books to find someone moving so skillfully between roles: Bruce Wayne donning a tuxedo to charm Gotham society one night, Batman capturing his arch-enemy the next. It’s the kind of thing that doesn’t happen in real life.

But it did.

The balancing act began Wednesday, when Obama gave in to demands from prospective Republican presidential contender Donald Trump and others that he release his long-form birth certificate to prove, once again, that he was born in the U.S.

“We do not have time for this kind of silliness,” Obama said. “We’ve got better stuff to do.”

He wasn’t kidding. He already knew Wednesday that U.S. forces were closer than ever to closing in on the man they had hunted since even before Sept. 11, 2001.

On Sunday, they put a bullet through bin Laden’s head — acting, as Obama matter-of-factly noted, “at my direction.” But that was the extent to which he took the credit.

In a speech he must have dreamed for years of delivering — and fine-tuned up until the last minute — he praised U.S. troops who acted “with extraordinary courage and capability.” He aligned himself with President Bush by noting that both had made clear “that our war is not against Islam.” . . .

But nothing undercuts the claim you’re soft on terrorists like killing the world’s worst terrorist.

A speech POTUS “dreamed for years of delivering”? When? During which round of golf?

P.S. Concidence or not? When POTUS gave his tv address last night, the timing was all too obvious. Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” was cut short on the East Coast, depriving viewers of finding out who was fired.