Remember how the Left complained for 8 years that President Bush was diminishing the status and reputation of the U.S.? Remember how American media picked up on the campaign and trotted out story after story about how the U.S. was hated and mocked around the world, usually based on some terrorist-supporting country’s complaints that we were playing too rough in the war against terrorism.

Yet, the same American media is now eerily silent about two gaffes of the Obama administration this weekend that’s actually got a superpower mocking us and our biggest ally hating us.

Imagine the amount of coverage Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Chris Matthews would’ve given to these two stories had they occured a year ago.