Flyover Country

Has ABC now ditched all pretense of being unbiased?  If this doesn’t frighten every freedom loving American, nothing will:

From the Drudge Report:

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The media has been biased for a long time, but if this is true as reported then the media has stepped over the line from bias to complete alliance with the left.  This is insane!  Every American should be outraged that our free press has so completely turned their collective backs on ethical journalism.

From Reuters via Yahoo News:

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination as President Barack Obama’s health secretary on Tuesday, saying he did not want to be a distraction after tax errors forced him to pay $140,000 in back taxes.

“This morning, Tom Daschle asked me to withdraw his nomination for secretary of health and human services,” Obama said in a statement. “I accept his decision with sadness and regret.”

If Obama were a Republican, these nominations would be attacked on every front page, on every lead story, and on the lips of every liberal political pundit – probably with a label like “Nominationgate” or something ending in “gate”.

Here’s my reaction to the John Edwards situation:

I couldn’t care less.

Really.

I mean, what have we learned about the former Democrat senator that we didn’t already know?  We already know he will say anything to either further his career or his agenda (or his hair).  This is the same man who supposedly channeled a child dying in the womb while addressing a jury during trial while he was still an ambulance chaser.  This is the same man who charges $55,000 for giving a speach on poverty.  This is the same man who spoke of two Americas and was probably referring to his $6 million mansion.

We also know he uses his slick tounge to get what he wants.  Apparently this woman is waiting for him to come and sweep her off her feet and head off into the sunset.  Who knows what he has said to her to swoon her or maybe she seduced him.  Who knows, and who cares.

So now it’s finally all over the news about this affair after he admitted it in a statement, talking heads are squawking about it on TV, radio folks are blabbing about it, and newspapers are printing it.  Most conservatives are up in arms about the lack of coverage up to this point.  Most of those are comparing the John McCain non-story to the John Edwards situation.  But again, what have we learned that was new here?  Of course the established media ignored this story until it was impossible to do so.  Is anyone really surprised?

It upsets me more that a man who is so hypocritical, so obviously fake, is taken so seriously.  It frightens me greatly that a slick tongue and an expensive haircut can come so close to being President of the United States.  To even think of mentioning the name “John Edwards” in the same list as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Ronald Reagan makes me ill.  Bill Clinton was bad enough, but at least he had some substance to him.  I didn’t like his overall policy positions, and I especially didn’t like his ahem escapades, but compared to Edwards’s shallowness, Clinton is the Grand Canyon.

If this is where politicians are headed, we are in deep trouble.  It’s makes McCain’s comparison of Obama to Paris and Brittany make sense on a must deeper level.