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| Drudge: ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE |
| 2009-06-16 |
| 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 Director of Communications at the White House Office of Health Reform is Linda Douglass, who worked as a reporter for ABC News from 1998-2006. Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS: Link will change. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #14 AC; I hadn't heard it put that way before but it rings true. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-06-16 22:47 |
| #13 Time to move to the next level of understanding: It is not "state-run media," it is a media-run state. Many on the right are fond of claiming that the mainstream media are the propaganda arm of the political left. It is really the other way 'round: the "left" as we know it today is the political arm of the Media-Industrial Complex. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-06-16 21:58 |
| #12 We all knew the MSM was in bed with the communists. Now it is just the last chapter before the final act. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-06-16 21:20 |
| #11 I really don't need to read nirther nonsense here. U.S. Republicans better get their shit together, find a real leader and a real agenda. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-06-16 20:02 |
| #10 ABC will be Obama's 'Pravda' on steroids. More like TASS. The Noo Yawk Slimes is their "Pravda". |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-06-16 19:58 |
| #9 Agenda Before Credibility |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-06-16 19:42 |
| #8 Our constitution is written for free press as if the big government was going to crush free speech, a sound philosophy. I bet the authors of the constitution never dreamed the press would conspire control the government like this. This is more dangerous than a dictator!! Pan But you guys elected a Kenyan dictator. What the hell did you expect? Bishop Ron McRae: Amen. I am so thankful. Could I ask her (Sarah Obama, Barak's paternal Grandmother), uh, about this, uh, his actual birthplace? I would like to see his actual birthplace when I come to Kenya in December. Uh, was she present when he was, when he was born in Kenya? Kweli Shububia: He is asking her, he wants to know something was she present when he was born? Translator: Yes. She says, “Yes she was! She was present when Obama was born.” Bishop Ron McRae: Okay. |
| Posted by: Gomez Clomble9826 2009-06-16 19:38 |
| #7 Time to stop calling it MSM, call it what it is: State-run Media. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-06-16 19:25 |
| #6 I'd love to see the RNC buy time on another network to make their own "equal time". At the end, the trunks could remind their audience that Obama got a big contribution from ABC of free air time, but the Republicans pay their own way. Let's have the dualing infomercials. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-06-16 19:08 |
| #5 Already they are being called ABC-DNC, and the irony is that they don't care. Indifferent to their lack of credibility, their only concern is that the FEC doesn't declare that they are in violation of election laws by providing free advertisement to one party and not the other. Clearly, when the Republicans are back in power, one of their first acts should be busting up the major media cabal with antitrust law. If the market hasn't put them out of business already. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-06-16 19:06 |
| #4 Our constitution is written for free press as if the big government was going to crush free speech, a sound philosophy. I bet the authors of the constitution never dreamed the press would conspire control the government like this. This is more dangerous than a dictator!! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-06-16 18:58 |
| #3 Just playing catch-up with MSNBC. Clinton had Monica, Obama has the mainstream media. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-06-16 18:43 |
| #2 Disgusting! Note that ABC isn't even pretending to be fair and balanced anymore. All questions will be screened by ABC (and the Obama Administration) for content before being asked. No opposing questions or points will be made. When the GOP protested ABC answered basically: "Too bad". You can bet that each and every 'question' will simply be a prop for Zero (and the TOTUS) to go on a 10-miniute speech about a subject making all sort of vague promises. ABC will be Obama's 'Pravda' on steroids. And Charles Gibson probably won't even bother to wipe off his mouth afterwards. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-06-16 18:20 |
| #1 Time to boycott ABC advertising. I haven't listened to ABC in years anyway. Time to Recall O as well. Like Europe a power change is in order for many reasons too numerous to mention. |
| Posted by: Dale 2009-06-16 18:13 |