Terry Moran

I don't look down on that kid in Ft Meyers who asked Obama if there was anything he could do to get the kid more benefits at his part time McDonald's job. Even Obama knew that this isn't the time to mandate benefits for part time workers. That pretty much would be a way to put more people out of work. And hey, he's just a kid, asking for goodies from the man who promised goodies.

But I'd expect a little more from someone who co-anchors Nightline. From Scott Whitlock:

"Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran on Tuesday interviewed Barack Obama and pressed him from the left, wondering why he didn't simply fire the executives who the journalist blamed for "wreck[ing] these banks in the first place." The two were discussing the stimulus bill and the current economic problems on Wall Street. As the MRC's Brent Baker already noted in a previous blog, Moran also seriously wondered, "Why not just nationalize the banks?"

Yeah, like nobody on the Obama team has thought about that yet. But again, even Obama knew not to go there. So Moran goes on:

"Why shouldn't you just fire the executives who wrecked these banks in the first place and tanked the world's financial system in the process?"

Uhhh, I dunno. Maybe because they're not federal employees? Great googily-moogily, what a stupid thing to suggest. I know, we could get executives from ACORN to run the banks! Then we could put on a play.

So, it's a toss up as to what is worse, the fact that "newsmen" feel it's important to give the President input, or the fact that their input shows the same grasp of the real world that the McDonald's kid had.