"We had tremendous crowds everywhere. From 6:30 in the morning until midnight the turnout was phenomenal. The news jerks didn't know what to make of it--so they just lied about it!" - Harry S Truman, about his whistlestop tour in 1948.
If he had twitter he probably would have live tweeted the whole thing, especially considering the way he ran his closed "press conferences" that almost always required him to order things he just said off the record or have his office issue a clarification contradicting him immediately after.
You shouldn't take the class' desperate obsession with the President's every single utterance as an accurate depiction of his use-value or singular relevance.
This is their world:
