Anybody else get more than a little creeped out by the mass hysteria and worship yesterday? And even more disappointed in the media? Which created a little shame spiral, because you had told yourself you weren't going to let them in again? You weren't going to listen? Well, Melanie Phillips at the Daily Mail Online will totally talk you down:

The coverage is so gushing we might all drown. Of course it’s a great thing that America, with its history of slavery and segregation still a shockingly recent memory, now has a black President; the palpable joy of African-Americans is entirely understandable and deeply touching. And there’s no doubt that Obama is a highly charismatic and attractive personality.

But what’s more than a wee bit troubling is that the swooning hysteria reflects the fact that people appear to believe that as of today the world will be saved. Swords will be beaten into ploughshares, peace will be brought to the Middle East, Iran will be pacified, every American will have health insurance, poverty will be eliminated and utopia will have arrived.

She forgot the part about how we'll all be receiving unicorns, but otherwise, yeah, exactly! She goes on to connect his rhetoric and actions to this point to Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals. It's a great read, even if just to prove that not all major journalists are fanboys in the throes of new-issue ecstasy.