THE MESS – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:45 A.M. ET:  There is a building backlash against Obama's ridiculous Mideast policies, policies that reward our enemies and condemn our friends.  The American Interest is one of the best publications chronicling our times, and this quote on what is occurring pretty much tells the story: 

...even the President’s ideological fellow travelers can no longer mount a cogent defense of his Middle East policy. The MSM will still do all it can to avoid connecting the dots or drawing attention to the stark isolation in which the White House now finds itself as ally after ally drops away. It still doesn’t want to admit that the “smart diplomacy” crowd has been about as effective at making a foreign policy as the famous emperor’s smooth-talking tailors were at making a new suit of clothes. But it’s getting harder and harder to find anybody willing to gush about how snazzy the President looks in the sharp foreign policy outfit that he’s sporting around town. The shocked silence of the foreign policy establishment, the absence of any statements of support from European or Asian allies about our Middle East course, the evidence that the President and the “senior officials” whom he trusts continue to be blindsided by major developments they didn’t expect and haven’t provided for: all of this tells us that our Middle East policy is indeed in free fall.

COMMENT:  Read the whole piece.  It's worth it.  We're now starting to get some backlash against Obama from parts of the mainstream media, although it's very limited.  The would-be Titanic captains at The New York Times continue to cling to the Obama myth.  Despite extensive coverage of the Mideast, CNN hasn't laid a glove on Obama himself.  And Christiane Amanpour, one of the worst journalists on television, regularly spouts her pro-Iranian nonsense. 

A Washington Post columnist today reported that Obama will continue his anti-Israel policies because he sees them as connected to his "legacy."  In my view, Obama wants to serve Islam and serve socialism.  That's clear from his background, but the press lords who put him in power will never admit it.

March 30,  2015