Obama and Omar

One of the penalties of a three week blogging hiatus is that one misses stuff. For instance, I hadn’t realised Barack Obama’s favourite TV show was The Wire. The Las Vegas Sun reported:

Michael Kostroff, an actor who was in town to volunteer for Obama and had a chance to meet him, told the Sun that Obama’s favorite TV show is his own: HBO’s “The Wire,” which chronicles Baltimore’s violent drug culture and the police who quixotically try to stop it. Obama told the Sun his favorite character is Omar, a stick-up artist who steals from drug dealers and then gives the loot to poor people in the neighborhood. “That’s not an endorsement. He’s not my favorite person, but he’s a fascinating character.”

My pal Mike Crowley commented, astutely, that this is:

A small but telling example of why, on a superficial level, the media falls for Obama.