OBAMA TO PRESS: YOU HAVE ‘RESPONSIBILITY’ ‘TO QUESTION,’ THANKS FOR WORKING ‘SIDE-BY-SIDE’ WITH ME.

Last night’s “Nerd Prom” marks the final days of, as former CBS executive Bernie Goldberg dubbed it in 2009, A Slobbering Love Affair between the media and Obama, which had begun in earnest the previous year:

Prom season means that graduation is soon to follow, and much like the bittersweet coda of American Graffiti, a very different relationship could be in store between the next president and, as Andrew Breitbart dubbed them “the Democrat-Media Complex,” which has chosen the form of its destructor. If so, a large swatch of the public won’t be very sympathetic to their plight; Andrew Klavan explores “The Media Corruption that Helped Spawn The Donald.”