Those “cannibals” who recently turned up in Miami aren’t the only people eating their own. Following President Obama’s 54-minute snoozer of a speech in Ohio last week, even his “friends” are beginning to feed on him.

In 2008, David Brooks of the New York Times played the sycophant when he admired the crease in Obama’s pants and concluded that it was a sign he would be “a very good president.” Last Thursday, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote a scathing column, the headline of which suggests the media worm may have begun to turn: “Skip the falsehoods, Mr. President, and give us a plan.”