Calling it an "all-day home field advantage play for Obama and his position on health care," MRC's Seton Motley noted on the June 17 Fox News Channel program "America's Newsroom" that an upcoming ABC network special hosted at the White House will fail to include the other side of the complex policy argument. [audio available here]
Although there will also be a question and answer section with participants picked by ABC News, the planned special will not include a response from Republicans or government-run health care critics.
ABC "has a history of going as far left as possible with these specials and yielding time to Democrats when they won't yield to Republicans," Motley argued. The MRC Director of Communications pointed out that Linda Douglass, White House Director of Communications, served as an ABC News correspondent from 1998 to 2006.
Noting that Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer are hosting the planned health care program, Motley reminded viewers that Gibson hosted a similarly biased, one-sided special on gun control back in 1999. What's more, Dr. Timothy Johnson, ABC's in-house medical expert, has a long history of promoting government-managed universal health care.
To watch the full segment, click on the embedded video at the right.
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I Watched It
June 17, 2009 - 16:35 ET by JDWImagine nothing but Fox media interviewing and then describe news media bias.
JDW
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When people fear their government there is tyranny.
When government fears the people there is liberty.
JDW... I did too...and
June 17, 2009 - 16:51 ET by bigtimerJDW...
I did too...and mentioned it somewhere on one of the threads this morning.
I'm sure O is whining about this too behind the scenes...how dare Fox, MRC, NBs or anybody else that let conservatives express their view points...why we're supposed to be silent, or silenced one way or the other by this administration and dem controlled congress...mimicking Chavez.
It was a thorough job well done by Seton...I really enjoyed it all.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
News Media Only
June 17, 2009 - 16:56 ET by JDWI listed Fox in light of Obama's complaints regarding it.
JDW
DAILY WAVE
When people fear their government there is tyranny.
When government fears the people there is liberty.
HEALTHCARE: INCREDIBLE LIES
June 17, 2009 - 17:34 ET by reelman46HEALTHCARE: INCREDIBLE LIES
Sen. McCain: $1 Trillion for Kennedy Health Bill? From Where?
June 17, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Senate took its first stab Wednesday at overhauling
the nation’s healthcare system in the Obama era, with Republicans
demanding specific cost totals amid eye-popping estimates of $1
trillion-plus and Democrats determined to press ahead.
“This is about as historic as it gets for all of us,” said Sen.
Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who is overseeing the proceedings in place
of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who is battling brain cancer.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee began
work on a bill encompassing President Barack Obama’s legislative
priority. The effort marked the first time since President Bill
Clinton’s administration that Congress has tackled such a broad
overhaul.
High costs, uneven healthcare, and the fact that nearly 50 million
Americans are uninsured have created the strongest political momentum
for remaking the system in decades.
CRAWFISH NOTE: Here we go again…the secular
socialists plunged us about $9+ trillion in debt and they are pushing
another trillion of debt on our children! This from a man who “worries
about the deficits”…what a liar (again)…Here we go again, its another
HISTORIC thing…WW2 was historic too…insane spending is historic. Teddy
K already has a legacy…and she was buried young.
Its not an overhaul and there are not 50 million (the figure grows
as needed to impress) uninsured who are legal citizens and want it but
are too poor for any at all. Its like the number of homeless…make up a
number…then double it…repeat with passion as needed. This is needed
because they cannot show us a single country where national single
payer healthcare is better than what we have now. Why not get the
gov-meant off the insurers and medical folks backs? How about a
volunteer national group akin to the Grace Commision to present free or
nearly free reforms? Do those word “free” or “nearly free” stick in the
socialist throat?
What is “uneven” healthcare? Is that like what congress has that you
never will? Is that it? Is it thousands of leeches that run up your
premiums by numerous ER visits for a sore throat? What is “uneven”
healthcare…really? Its a term to impress the broke voters of a broke
nation to go deeper into debt and gov-meant control.
This is the same gov-meant that ALWAYS is 300% off on any big program
estimate…be it Medicaid or other ‘Social Services”…the Big Dig was 900%
off. You gonna believe those lying snakes in congress again…suckas? The
snakes are coming for a big dip into your wallet next year to pay for
some of this socialism.
What is “historic and uneven” here is the nerve of the Dufus and his
fellow socialists thinking we all dropped out of 8th grade. P-lease! We
are beyond broke and its past time to reduce gov-meant and cut our
taxes…which would really really be historic for a democrat
administration.
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He is not “worries about the deficits”
June 18, 2009 - 05:01 ET by DragonsbreathHe is worried it is not the highest it can possibly go
“Less 1984 — More 1776"
Historic?
June 18, 2009 - 08:13 ET by Agnostichistoric?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo Montoya - perhaps you mean Histrionic
A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections
it wasn't that long ago
June 17, 2009 - 16:46 ET by MidAmericait wasn't that long ago that Hugo Chavez's government was seen as an affront to a free press but now the situation is pretty similar in the US. Time Magazine wrote in 2007 about the Venezuelan media:
In this extremely polarized society, media outlets have been known to behave more as political actors than objective observers. Still, other leading privately owned networks such as Venevision have allayed their criticism of the government. Local journalists say that a media law that increases penalties for slander has encouraged self-censorship. And even media owners soft on Chavez admit that the constant pro-government trailers and late-night slandering of the opposition on the main state-run channel, Venezolana de Television, is little more than propaganda. The international response hasn't been favorable either, as the European Union and the U.S. Senate have expressed concern.
I see what's happening and
June 17, 2009 - 16:58 ET by motherbeltI see what's happening and I honestly don't even know what to say any more.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
ABC's total whitewash
June 17, 2009 - 18:07 ET by Dan DiegoUPDATE: ABC REFUSES OPPOSITION ADS DURING WHITE HOUSE SPECIAL...
Dear Leader will not allow opposing views to interfere with his message.
Positively
June 17, 2009 - 18:11 ET by motherbeltPositively disgusting.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Hillary Care Will Remain Dead
June 17, 2009 - 21:28 ET by rammingspeedA bald faced, full on press - pun intended. The MSM is never going to change their biased coverage, nor will they ever admit their bias. They are a strong force against the will of the majority of the people. Their propaganda must be countered as ferociously as it is presented.
I have confidence that people will react against unfair propositions on health care. The Left still believes they have an ideological mandate, and that they can simply indoctrinate through their dog and pony shows. After all, it worked on the likes of Obama himself when he attended Harvard. But evidence is growing that the '08 election was a rejection of Republicans, not the embrace Democratic ideals that Democrats believe it was. Health care will be the same watershed moment for Obama that it was for Clinton in '94.
Thank goodness for alternative media like NB and all the rest. This will go viral and Obama will be whining once again how his opponents in the news media (it's a whole lot bigger than just Fox News, Barry) are stifling him.