As Rick Moran pointed out here yesterday, in an interview with the adoring  Matthew Yglesias, President Barack Obama (D) believes the media overstates the threat of terrorism because of that media adage, "if it bleeds, it leads" rather than concentrate on less gory, but much more important, issues such as poverty (which he claims to have lowered) or climate change (which isn't happening). Look, the point is this: my first job is to protect the American people. It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris. We devote enormous resources to that, and it is right and appropriate for us to be vigilant and aggressive in trying to deal with that — the same way a big city mayor's got to cut the crime rate down if he wants that city to thrive. But we also have to attend to a lot of other issues, and...(Read Full Post)