OH, HE'S DONE IT AGAIN - AT 8:30 A.M. ET:  Nobel peace laureate and newly minted black belter Barack Hussein Obama has apparently shown once again what a sophisticated international traveler he is.  R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. caught the moment in The American Spectator:

WASHINGTON -- What would the mainstream media's response be if former governor Sarah Palin described China's economic growth to an audience of students in Shanghai as "an accomplishment unparalleled in human history"? That is what the most inexperienced president in modern American history said in Shanghai this week. I wonder if any of the assembled journalists choked. President Barack Obama makes such unhinged pronouncements with the kind of frequency that if he were anyone else he would be set down by the media as a boobie. I take that back. Vice President Joe Biden is equally gaffable, yet no one in the mainstream press makes him out to be a boobie. When he was tapped to be Senator Obama's running mate he was widely acknowledged -- from ABC to NBC and with all the like-minded newspapers in between -- as a foreign policy colossus.

QUOTE:  But we're sure that the Chinese equivalent of Chris Matthews got a tingle up his leg when the president praised Chinese economic growth. 

Tyrrell goes on to demonstrate the double standard.  Obama makes a gaffe like that and no one in the MSM points it out.  Sarah Palin makes the perfectly reasonable statement that Alaska is close to Russia geographically, and the media howls.

It's our nation, though, that will eventually pay the price for the immaturity flooding through the gates today.

November 19, 2009