The media pick their darlings and their enemies. We just have to be cognizant of that fact. They lie or speak the truth to their own agendas.
I suppose it's the shitty zeitgeist of this current moment in the United States that President Obama gets attacked equally by the scum of both fringes for doing the right thing by mercilessly tracking down and exterminating the bastards from the group behind Sept 11 2001. Hopefully he completely ignores the politicized trash from both extremes and continues this policy in full effect for the duration of his presidency. When his time his done he can then at least say "I was the supposed "wimp" on terrorism, but I destroyed Al-Qaeda, something the "tough guys" in the GOP never even came close to doing. And fuck you if you don't like it".