RIGHT STRING, WRONG YO-YO: After the incident of the wannabe reality TV stars crashing the Obama’s first state dinner, Jim Geraghty wondered whether or not it would be a good opportunity for President Obama to start talking about our national culture and the destructive impact of this widespread, obsessive, reckless, narcisstic pursuit of fame. So he asked, and Mary Matalin and Peggy Noonan responded.

Mary Matalin contends Obama no longer has cultural authority to speak on our national values, if he ever had it:

I think a 21st century cultural arbiter is a good concept to explore, but not in the same breath as Barack Obama. As we say in Louisiana, “you got the right string, baby, but the wrong yoyo.”

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan also questions whether Obama is the right man for this message:

People won't mind if a president of some years, experience and hard won perspective — an Eisenhower, a Reagan — weighs in on some aspect of our national character, which is what we're talking about. But a new president who is young and still not fully understood by the American people? That might be... complicated.

My feeling is harsher: I think Obama sees himself as the winner of the world's greatest reality show.