What?! I normally don't write this, but that made me laugh out loud (or as those dorks write, LOL).
Has the media turned the American father image into something else? There's at least three assumptions in that one sentence that have to be excepted as truth before you can even begin to comment on its veracity.
Was the proud King an accurate or worthwhile image to have, assuming it was true in the first place? Then again, does it matter if he has become the family bafoon too? Every family needs some comic relief.