For a while there last night, I thought the entire White House press corps had been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with mechanical pressbots who went through the motions of asking questions of the president, teeing up one softball after another that the president still couldn't get more than a solid single in his trips to the plate.Then I realized; no, it's just our usual gaggle of Obama worshipers who happen to have jobs working for major media outlets.From liberal Walter Shapiro writing at The New Republic: Through most of his inaugural primetime press conference, Barack Obama seemed like he was channeling a particularly loquacious combination of Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and the ghost of Hubert Humphrey. The president's response to the first question from the Associated Press about the risks of sounding too apocalyptic about the economy ran (or, to be more accurate, crawled) for nearly 1,200 words--and ended with Obama saying "Okay" with an implicit question mark...(Read Full Post)