The central assumption animating Obama's whole approach to governing is that the media will allow him to say whatever he wants to say, get away with whatever he desires to get away with and spin whatever narrative he chooses to spin So that he may impose his extreme left wing ideological preferences on the American people regardless of whether or not they like or agree with those preferences. Given this assumption and the enabling facts that the media very clearly is willing to comply with it and the liberal elite is very clearly of the opinion that democracy is a ruse designed to keep the unenlightened under thumb Obama does not need to trouble himself with caring about what Republicans think nor with what people who vote for Republicans think. This is what a liberal autocracy looks like and this is what happens when an ostensibly free media and press in essence give up their right to free speech in order to subvert objective critical analysis and debate by championing the beliefs and causes of a chosen side.