Chopping down the media evergreen, “Is Obama's overexposed?”

Wonkette and CJR do the honors this time around.

From Wonkette:

We don't really know what to make of this David Carr column about the White House going overboard with the YouTubes and Flickrs and Facebooks and iTunes and, probably, Twitters and Wii. Yes, it's a bit much, sometimes, even though we require a steady stream of Obamaporn to feed the carnal-political hope-desires of you, our loyal reader.

But it's impossible to look at the Obama Presidency's “social media” bullshit in a bubble. EVERYBODY does this stuff, now, all the time, and Sarah Palin is only the most visible “opposition” example. Does she even exist, outside of Facebook?

And from CJR:

It's hard to tell whether the greatest irony of the “Is Obama Overexposed?” question is that it's asked, straight-faced, by the same media who perpetrate the alleged overexposure—or that it's asked by the same media who, in the next breath, might accuse Obama of not being transparent enough about his messaging—or that it is, as a topic, itself flagrantly overexposed. Regardless, “IOO?” is a cyclical, back-pocket, evergreen-in-a-moldy-kind-of-way question that pops up from its dormant depths every once in a while, like so many gophers or specialty sandwiches or raging cases of athlete's foot.

Amen and amen.