Great song by Dire Straits, except it was MTV. Not that it matters, because MTV is no longer Music Television and it looks like Drive-By TV just got driven over by the Obama Network bus.

Not the first time they experienced the sensual delight of unexpected sodomy - courtesy of the “most ethical and transparent administration” American history - and it certainly won’t be the last.

You’d have thought they’d have figured it out when the White House excluded them from that black-folks only soiree the President hosted not too long ago. Then again, these aren’t the brightest bulbs in the chandelier (does anyone honestly believe Perky Katie Couric has an IQ over 100?) and the ones whose heads aren’t still buried in the Obamic crotch are still woozy from Bambi Kool-Aid or tripped out on Hopium.

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “media blackout.” Ordinarily, I’d enjoy the schadenfreude, but the implications of this story are too chilling and I wonder how long Jake Tapper will last at ABC before they hand him the pink slip and he hoofs it over to FOX to beg for a job.

On April 27, President Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut Lady Huskies, who had just won the NCAA women’s basketball championship.

After the event, President Obama went to the White House basketball court to shoot hoop with the Lady Huskies. The White House press corps was not allowed to attend.

Reads the print pool report from that day: “After shaking hands with the team’s parents and members of Congress who showed up, the president walked the team over to his basketball court and shot hoops. The pool was held back from the stroll down the drive and around the corner, and couldn’t see the court. Poolers could hear periodic cheering coming from the other side of the bushes.”

Read the TV pool report: “Your Pool was not allowed to go over and shoot POTUS with the team shooting hoops.  We protested loudly.”

Now we know why: Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who’s speaking.

Also, just like a network, they have their own little logo!

Cute!

It’s perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events — but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game).

It looks a lot like 1984, Jake. And I don’t mean the year - I mean the novel. Apparently you took a pass on the Kool-Aid and Hopium. Too bad the rest of your media friends are still too drunk and too high to realize what’s happening to them. I’m reminded of that horrifying scene in the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal where Dr. Lector removes a portion of the fully conscious but totally drugged up Agent Krendler’s brain and sautees it with butter and shallots - right in front of him. Krendler remarks that it smells delicious and then eats his own sauteed brains.

Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn’t flattering enough?

They know it’s flattering, Jake. But they also know that people like you have a habit of asking tough questions. Since they can’t place you in “preventive detention” just yet (Congress and SCOTUS still have to rubber stamp the new law) it looks like they’ll have to do the next best thing.

Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they’re told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?

Do you want your OTV? (I’ll bet there are a few takers out there.)

Yes and yes. How’s that Hope and Change working out for ya, Jake? Now start cleaning out your desk and place a few calls to FOX.