Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Advocating Barack’s Con

Is that what ABC stands for? According to Drudge, ABC News will deliver its nightly World News report from the Blue Room of the White House, and present a primetime special called – without a trace of irony – “Prescription for America”. Opposition opinions to Obama’s plan will be excluded. A request from the Republican National Committee to have its own views heard was rejected. Oh, and the talking head for the World News report, of course, will be none other than Charlie Gibson, who is probably best remembered (by conservatives, in any event) for his interview with Sarah Palin (No doubt you will recall that Gibson played the role of a stern schoolmarm, looking down his nose with scorn at Governor Palin, rather as if she had been a slow-witted student explaining that a moose had eaten her homework). The proposed “Townhall” format – pitting the well-oiled propaganda machine of the Administration against… what, perhaps one or two not particularly well-informed critics in the audience? – is a mockery of fairness and objectivity.

Go back, in your mind, to January of 2003, on the eve of the Second Gulf War. Try to picture some kind of alternative universe in which ABC News would have delivered its evening report from the Blue Room, and then essentially handed over its broadcasting to the Bush Administration so that it could lay out its rationale for the war, excluding opposition voices in general, and Democrats in particular. Kind of hard to picture, isn’t it?

Whether or not ABC News would be interested in hearing what we have to say about this in-the-tank, full-body emersion in Obamaganda, I think it’s our duty to make the effort. Here’s the ABC News contact site.

More from the Other McCain and NTCNews.

Update: Ah, that explains it!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Re the Update, so that's what this administration means by transparency.

Retread

JeffS said...

I'm thinking of mailing ABC 30 pieces of silver. Well, dimes....the rats can pretend they're silver.

richard mcenroe said...

Suddenly I feel better about not updating my TV to digital.

And I remember Gibson for his paid position on the board of the nonprofit that laundered $800k from Bari al-Taqqiyah to ACORN...

bruce said...

Years ago we had a state premier (like your governors) called Bjelke Petersen, and the big debate about his govt style was about 'separation of powers', of which there was not enough.

Eventually we realised that such 'separation' - between eg the Executive and the Legislative - was really an American doctrine. We were looking to you guys as an example of incorruptibility and checks and balances which were not there in the Westminster system. Now I dunno...

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,..."

SwampWoman said...

So ABC is so broke they're doing infomercials, hunh?

RebeccaH said...

Thanks for the link to ABC, Paco. I emailed my polite but scathing complaint, in which I informed them I will henceforth refer to ABC as the All Barack Channel (I saw it in a thread at another blog, whose name escapes me at the moment). It's a meme worth spreading.

richard mcenroe said...

Here's the link for filing a complaint with the FCC...

richard mcenroe said...

Here's the link for filing a complaint with the FCC...

richard mcenroe said...

I routed that post through the Department of Redundancy Department...