How To Embarrass Yourself and Your Employer

During an hour-long press conference with Obama, during which only 13 questions were allowed, here’s the question that the New York Times came up with:

Quoting Jeff Zeleny, New York Times:

During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, enchanted you the most about serving in this office, humbled you the most and troubled you the most?

Is this a press conference, or a third-grade field trip to meet the president?

There was a time when this would have been surprising, but not anymore.  Now it’s just embarrassing and sad.  It’s hard to believe there was a day when the New York Times -- now bankrupt in more ways than one -- actually mattered.