With their reprehensible attacks on Sarah Palin, the mainstream media have further demonstrated their grim determination to get Barack Obama elected. Such overt bias is troubling enough, but there something worse: if Barack Obama does become president, how can we trust the same media to be watchdogs of his administration?
We can’t.
Unless “President” Obama did something so overtly, publicly, “unspinnably” wrong, is there any doubt the MSM would cover for him? He is STILL the least vetted presidential candidate in modern history. The unexamined holes in his biography, from his Columbia University years, his medical records and his Illinois State Senate schedule, to his largely unexplored associations with former terrorists, a racist preacher, and a convicted felon, are a testament to the media’s calculated and willful disinterest in providing ordinary Americans the truth about their anointed candidate.
With an Obama presidency, such machinations would not only continue, they would get worse.
Untold numbers of journalists are literally staking their reputations on Sen. Obama’s election. To that end they have utterly abandoned any pretense of objectivity, integrity or intellectual rigor. Barack Obama is an “investment,” one which must be promoted and protected at all costs. If he crashes and burns, so do they.
How hard would the MSM work to maintain a positive narrative of an Obama administration–irrespective of the truth? As hard as they’ve worked to maintain a negative one about George W. Bush for the past seven years. As hard as they’ve recently tried to destroy Sarah Palin and her family.
No president or his administration is above reproach. Anyone remotely familiar the First Amendment understands that a free press is the natural adversary of government and its potential to abuse power. But anyone watching the spectacle that the media has made of itself trying to get “their” candidate elected has to wonder to what levels they would stoop to keep him in office.
Does a four-year cocoon of media protection–irrespective of any harm it could do to our country–seem impossible?
atahlert@comcast.net
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