“In fact, the cable news instant punditry and constant 24-hour nonsense, in which people assess Pres. Obama after three minutes, and after eight minutes — ‘Has he failed? Has he succeeded?’ — the lunacy of that kind of opinionating is clear to most Americans but hasn’t actually dawned on the people putting this stuff out…The media have 24 hours a day to fill. They have to have a new psycho-drama every ten minutes.”

— Andrew Sullivan (1963 – ), author and blogger