NBC's Today Touts 'Barack Star: Obama on Cover of Rolling Stone'

(Media Research Center) - Rolling Stone is a left-wing magazine which puts liberal politicians on its cover and this year has already featured a cover story on Barack Obama, yet despite the seeming lack of any newsworthiness in a second Obama cover story, on Wednesday morning NBC's Today show devoted a full story to it. Matt Lauer marveled: "On the cover not a musician but a politician, Barack Obama. It's the second time he's been featured there but this time there will be no cover lines, just that photo. The magazine usually does that for the likes only of people like John Lennon. So what is the fascination with the Illinois Senator?" Lee Cowan described the author as "an unabashed Obama supporter. So not surprisingly today's six-page spread offers no hard questions," as if that's any different than the rest of the media. Cowan recited Obama's answers, starting with how "he describes his iPod as a mix of everything from Stevie Wonder to Jay-Z," before tossing in his own adulation: "Donatella Versace debuted a clothing line she says was inspired by the Senator." Cowan concluded with a portrait of a humble Obama just trying to do good in the face of unwanted publicity: "Despite it all Obama says he no longer takes great satisfaction in being the center of attention. In fact he tells the magazine that feeding his vanity is not what's important, but doing good work is. The problem: with one, comes the other."