Mainstream Media Ignore Obama’s Radical Abortion Record

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Barack Obama abortion graphic The liberal news media has subjected Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to intense scrutiny concerning her overall pro-life view on abortion, among other issues. On the other hand, they have been all but silent on Barack Obama’s intensely liberal record on abortion issue, particularly his support of partial-birth abortion and his opposition to legislation that would have protected infant abortion survivors from dying of neglect.

In MRC’s October 9 Media Reality Check, "Media Silence on Abortion Aids Radical Obama," Rich Noyes and I outlined how the news media have been out to lunch on examining Barack Obama’s radical pro-abortion stance during the Democratic campaign for the presidential nomination. The report found that the network evening newscasts "barely mentioned Obama’s pro-abortion stance during the primaries — from the launch of his candidacy in January 2007 through the end of the primaries in June 2008, just six out of 1,289 network evening news stories about Obama (0.46%) mentioned his position on abortion; none discussed it in any detail." The media as a whole also punted on Obama’s August 16, 2008 attack on pro-lifers, who in his view, were "lying" about his record as an Illinois state senator of opposing legislation, identical to a federal law, which would have protected infant survivors of abortion. Only a day later, Obama’s own campaign backtracked and admitted that he had indeed voted against this legislation.

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The Media Reality Check described how "Obama’s stance protecting partial birth abortions puts him to the left of many liberal Democrats — 17 out of 47 Democratic Senators, including Obama’s running-mate Joe Biden, voted to outlaw such abortions in 2003, a position backed by 75% of the public, according to a 2007 Pew survey." Only three network evening news stories mentioned how Obama supports such procedures, "including an April 21, 2007 CBS Evening News story briefly noting Obama’s condemnation of the Supreme Court for upholding the federal law banning such abortions."

During the August 16, 2008 interview with CBN’s David Brody, Obama went on the offensive against pro-life critics who, for many months, had been decrying his opposition to the Illinois Born-Alive Infant Protection Act during his tenure as an Illinois state statue: "I hate to say that people are lying, but here’s a situation where folks are lying. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely, fully in support of the federal bill. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level."

But the now-U.S. senator had indeed opposed the state legislation repeatedly. The Infant Protection Act, proposed by Republican state senator Patrick O’Malley in 2001, aimed to grant legal protections to premature infants who had survived abortions. Obama first voted against the Act that year when it came before the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, and later voted "present" when the full Senate voted on it. In 2002, he voted no when it came before the Judiciary Committee again, and instead of voting "present" when the full Senate voted on it for a second time, he voted against it.

During the floor debate over the bill in 2001, Obama stated the legislation was "probably not going to survive constitutional scrutiny." In response to this line of criticism, Senator O’Malley amended his bill that year to include language that would make it identical to the federal act which had been unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate in 2002 (Obama’s running mate Joe Biden was a member of the Senate at the time). By this point, Obama had become the chair of the Health & Human Services Committee. Obama voted initially to approve this amendment, but then voted against the amended version of the Act. So much for the "constitutional scrutiny" argument [for detailed information on Obama's four votes on the Infant Protection act, see the outline on Jill Stanek's website].

The day after Obama’s "lying" statement about pro-lifers, the now-defunct New York Sun reported that the Illinois senator’s campaign finally told the truth about his votes against the Infant Protection Act: "His campaign yesterday [August 17, 2008] acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law." However, as the Reality Check recounted, the media still ran to Obama’s defense, even after his own campaign had backtracked: "A CNN ‘fact check’ on that day’s [August 20, 2008] Situation Room refused to conclude that Obama had unfairly attacked his critics as liars. 'Looking at the bills, the language is similar, but the Obama camp says...there were concerns about undermining Illinois abortion law,' reporter Mary Snow delicately suggested."

If Obama becomes the next president, passing state-level legislation related to abortion won’t matter much anyway, since, during a speech to Planned Parenthood in 2007, he said that the "the first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," which would overturn most, if not all federal, state, and local laws which regulate abortions. That is the true extent of Obama’s support for abortion, and as they have done in the past, there has been little to no coverage of this radical abortion stance from the mainstream news media.

For one more example of the media’s bias on this issue, see the August 14, 2008 CyberAlert, "CNN's One-Sided Take on SD Abortion Bill, Avoids Obama's Votes."

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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If they can only hold there breath for a few more weeks

they will have "The One" right where they want him.

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Obama: the most repugnant candidate

"The cold fact that Barack Obama voted four separate times in the
Illinois state Legislature to deny care to a baby born alive after a
botched abortion makes him the most repugnant candidate
..."

Nat Hentoff, noted liberal, refers to Obama as repugnant.
Sadly, Hentoff will still vote for Obama. So much for being principled.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

It's OUR FAULT

It's OUR FAULT conservatives! For far too long we have been unwilling to call a spade a spade! Jesus had no such problem. When the Lord met people who CLAIMED to worship God, but whose every action and thought was instead against God, he had no problem calling that spade, a spade. When liars who had NOTHING to do with God tried to insist that they too were "God's Children", Jesus knew how to deal with them. And most importantly, HE knew who their FATHER really was!

John 8:39-47

39"Abraham is our father," they answered.

   "If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would[d] do the things Abraham did. 40As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41You are doing the things your own father does."
      "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."

The Children of the Devil

 42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. 43Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? 47He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."

 

For too long we have allowed those who are LIARS to claim either fellowship with us as people of "faith" or worse to claim some kinship with Christ without calling them what they are....LIARS.

 

Ever wonder why the press had no problem with people like Jimmy Carter and Bill and Hill Clinton claiming to be Christians, while railing at John Ashcrofts "Pentecostal extremism"? Ever wonder why there's no outcry when some blood fanged abortion lover like Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, try to use "scripture" to bolster their redistributionist rhetoric? It's because the press  knows that they DON'T REALLY MEAN IT. The press knows that out of the same mouth they will espouse fellowship with Christ and turn around and support the very abominations that Christ came to deliver His people from! We would be well served to pay attention to how Jesus addressed and dealt with people whose goals are diametrically opposed to His! He named them as Children of the Devil and he was SERIOUS. 

 

The first time some baby killing freak turned up on a Supreme Court somewhere advocating the "right" to kill babies...there should have been a revolt.

 

The first time some nutjob with stuck on breasts and a castrated penis showed up with his crooked wig on and insisted that he was NOW a "woman" and that he wanted to retain his job as A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER...there should have been a riot. 

 

BUt we were too busy getting fat and happy on wall street to care about the war we were losing over the moral lives of our children. As left wing groups sent their minions into the school system (Anenberg foundation, anyone?) with the goal of SUBVERTING every SINGLE THING that is GOOD about America and replacing it with Marxist filth about how "bad" we are, we were silent in the face of this encroachment. As satan's minions occupied places of honor on courts around the country and began to overturn moral laws and to begin their assault on traditional morality, most of us were largely content that the DOW was reaching heretofore unheard of heights!

 

Now we have a VILLAIN a LIAR, a child of SATAN who has LIED ON JESUS CHRIST on multiple occasions! And for those who doubt this I would beg you to read the following where Obama somehow finds Christs' acceptance of homosexual relationships IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT! http://www.newsmax.c... Read as he DISMISSES all those scriptures in ROmans1  which specifically condemn homosexuality, as "obscure scriptures"! READ as this alleged Christian, I say alleged because this unregenerated LIAR is NOT a Christian and for the nancy-boys among us who will now call me "judgemental" or something YES it is indeed OUR jobs to call someone on their LIES about JESUS CHRIST! This filthy LIAR had made himself a minister of SATAN by preaching to the world that Jesus Christ is NOT the only way to heaven! You CANNOT be a Christian and believe that. Period. And Yes it IS for "me" to SAY! http://www.audacityo...

 

It is time for us to REPENT of our malaise. It is time for us to call this filthy child of satan EXACTLY what he is. Or are we now so lukewarm, that someone who is actually working AGAINST Jesus Christ will be able to lie effectively because of our silence?

 

Bless you all.  

Abortion vs Christianity

"Jeremiah 1:5 ­ "Before I formed you in the womb I [God] knew
you; before you were born I
[God] sanctified you…

Obama is a Christian, right?

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

Well...

Obama says he is a Christian yet votes against the IBA Act.  He says he's a Christian yet sits in a hate-preaching church for 20 years.  He says he's a Christian but associates with terrorists who hate this country.  He says he's a Christian but calls Jesus a liar by saying Jesus is not the only way to Heaven  when Jesus says He is.
Scripture tells us we will know them by their fruits.  As a fruit inspector, I'd say Obama is rotten to the core.

I can call myself a rocket scientist but it doesnt make it so.

Exactly right

What has always fried me is that liberals get off pretending to be Christians in order to ramrod their agenda down our throats. How can Barack Obama be a Christian when he sat in Wright's so-called "church" for 20 years? How can he be a Christian when he supports the wanton destruction of human life known as abortion? When he supports infanticide?

How can Nancy Pelosi be a Catholic with her support for abortion, going to the point as to lie and blantantly misrepresent the Church's position on abortion? When she allows for these gay pride parades in San Francisco? 

Can someone answer this one? 

Despicable!

Won't be long before these fools start registering the murdered unborn victims to vote.

despicable

good one, young_school. ACORN will fill out necessary forms.

What is McCain

What is McCain doing?

He's letting the MSM control his attacks on Obama. I just watched CNN and they are finding the "Trooper Firing" in Alaska a HUGE story. Wolf Blitzer was harping about the "disturbing rage" at McCain-Palin rallies and pretty much quoted McCain as saying "Obama's a nice guy and let's have a nice campaign...".

My God! What on earth is he thinking? If McCain thinks playing nice and letting the chips fall where they may will work then he's certifiable! 

The MSM quotes Palin every time she opens her mouth. Why is she not bringing up the right to bear arms issue? This is a  WINNING ISSUE for Republicans. States like MI, VA, TN OH, can be won if McCain starts to act more like Teddy Roosevelt than Bob Dole. I mean, come on!

Abortion, Guns, Ayers. If he sits on these issues, it's over already. I am more than frustrated. I am beyond scared. I am seething with anger. I cannot believe McCain is Bob Doling his campaign into the ground. He's got Palin and he's keeping her on the bench whilst he fiddles and diddles his opportunity away.

I keep waiting for McCain to show the huge differences between his and an Obama admin with regards to guns. Schumer, Pelosi, et al will wet their pants with glee if Obama gets in with a Dem majority. 

Am I missing something? Am I the only feeling this way? Is anyone else as upset as I am? It's like watching a toilet flush in slow motion. People, there goes the USA and McCain is boxing with nerf gloves on! 

Aaarrrggghhh!

 

You're not the only one

You're not the only one feeling that way - I share your frustration too.

I'v supported conservative republican candidates since  I registered to vote in 71, and what has it gotten me or this country?  Not much, I'd say.

Scientific FACT - life begins at conception

We don't need religion to prove that life begins at conception.  It is a scientific fact.  More than that it is a matter of simple logic and common sense.  Its also in our Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness." 

"Pro Choice" is a LIE!  The unborn have no choice.  The "woman's right to choose" ends when she chooses to take a chance on getting pregnant.  I have no doubt that I am absolutely right about this.  You are an idiot if you try to argue the "Pro Choice" position.  I guess that makes Obubba AN IDIOT with a 100% pro-death abortion rating.

Obama will sign FOCA first,

Obama will sign FOCA first, to be followed closely by the announcement of his new multi-billion-dollar Eugenics Project.  His plan will include rosy projections about how, after a 10-year intensive program, national health care costs will be cut in half and we won't have a need for nursing homes anymore.

The Eugenics Project will include discovery (by Rev. J. Wright) of a metaphysical plane known as "Sanctuary".  All citizens will be required to report for "renewal"on their 30th birthday--a process which involves intense chanting and the removal of the citizen, dressed in ceremonial robes, to an inner chamber where--hopefully--they will find mystical passage to Sanctuary in the searing flames of the renewal chamber.

 

The "Freedom of Choice" Edict of Obama

"the first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act"

Scary, like out of a bad science fiction movie.  Welcome to the brave new world.  May we all take heed -- the underlying principle behind such an obomination [sic] is that we are all disposable.  The radical abortion-on-demand position held by Obama stands in stark contrast to that of the Republican ticket.

And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. -- Ezekiel 39:23

 

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

OBAMA RADICAL ABORTION STAND AND HIS FORMER DISTRICT

PLEASE WATCH THESE VIDEOS AND LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SEE HOW OBAMA DESTROYED HIS DISTRICT JUST WATCH AND HIS TRIP TO KENYA TO CAMPAIGN FOR COUSIN ODINGA ON TAXPAYERS

I KEEP ASKING BUT GETTING NO ANSWER WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT OBAMA'S FORMER DISTICT?

WHAT BETTER WAY TO SEE WHAT HE IS ABOUT THAN TO LOOK AT HIS FORMER DISTRICT AND WHAT HE DID OR DID NOT FOR THEM

TO ME AYERS IS A DEAD HORSE. WE HAVE HEARD ENOUGH. PEOPLE NEED TO SEE WHAT OBAMA REALLY DOES FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE OF ALL THE PROMISES HE HAS MADE THIS WILL SPEAK LOUDER THAT WORDS. I AM A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT WHO FOUND OUT THE TRUTH AND HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT OBAMA AND WHAT HE BELIEVES. ABORTION IS ONE WHEN I TALK ABOUT HIS FORMER DISTRICT AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR MINDS ABOUT OBAMA AND ARE NOW VOTING FOR MCCAIN. SO AYERS HE SHOULD MOVE ON. ACORN WELL THEY ARE AND OBAMA HAS MADE PROMISES TO THEM ON 12/07/08. I FOUND A VIDEO TAPE OF HIM AT A MEETING AND MAKING PROMISES

BELOW WATCH AND HEAR WHAT I AM SAYING. I HAVE CALLED AND EMAILED IF YOU WANT HIM TO WIN AND I BEING OUT HERE ON MAIN STREET AM TELLING YOU WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR

Obama's forgotten people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-YoB5mnZs

What Obama Left Behind in Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6Z807cRFI

Obama's forgotten people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-YoB5mnZs

Obama's Former Chicago District in ruins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBofMELuSMA

Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW12_OscRZg

Obama's Record - Low Income Housing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYMVHwmPQSM

Rezko & Obama, Two Of A Kind?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WD_0rDXCwk

 

 

Hells Bells Barack Obama and Raila Odinga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCXCdXKpt8

Obama and Odinga Campaign in Kenya IT SHOWS OBAMA GETTING OFF THE PLANE IN KENYA AND ODINGA MEETING HIM. YOU HAVE TO SEE  WHY IS THIS NOT BEING REPORTED WHILE SENATOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eVVVKFHu0

Barack Obama & Raila Odinga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

Obama to Odinga "Let's share a Dream!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYg6i7VfuE

Obama Odinga 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxmJOQuDBY

Incriminating Obama Emails Link Him w/Odinga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZvifzgzFeY

The Obama and Odinga Connection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvLV3d1Eq4

Barack Obama & Raila Odinga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

obama impact on kenya politics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-xYVy_S57A

Obama & Odinga: Cousins of The Kenyan Luo Tribe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiC4IO7jluc

Obama Odinga 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPeK3P44UpY

Odinga and obama in Harlem,ACORN,McCain,Palin,VP,Stern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6UoLEEB2E4

Raila Odinga - Obama wanna be YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS CHANGE MANTRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xeRqBGP-VM

obama-odinga cousins?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBJouPhws1M

House Of Lies: How Congress Failed To Protect Our Economy SEE WHO IS TO FAULT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5z9lD4C2Io

Barack Obama Promises to Sign FOCA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0XIRZSTt8

Obama & Abortion / The Freedom of Choice Act

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOs5rwPR7bc WATCH WHAT HE IS SAYING HE WILL DO

Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDwNpgIUQc

Obama's Twisted Mind - Obama's sick voting record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlS0_rArks

Obama VOTED Partial Baby Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM6_itwHOY

Explosive Audio Unearthed: After the Sub Prime Crisis already started in 2007 Obama says Sub Prime Mortgages that gave houses to people WHO COULDN'T AFFORD THEM was a GOOD IDEA!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewmvkaTXHU

EVIDENCE FOUND!!! Clinton administration's "BANK AFFIRMATIVE ACTION" They forced banks to make BAD LOANS and ACORN and Obama's tie to all of it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64

OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU