"You didn't endorse Obama? Find your own ride."
That was the message Obama had for reporters from three major newspapers who didn't give him their endorsement. Reporters from The Washington Times, The New York Post, and Dallas Morning News, some of whom have been traveling with the Obama campaign since 2007, were notified last night that they were no longer welcome on Obama's campaign plane. The Washington Times gave their endorsement to McCain just two days ago.
This is the sort of change we can expect from Obama. If you refuse to bow down before the ObaMessiah, there will be consequences.
Read the full story here, here, and here.
Go read this article: Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
Two of the best parts:
Isn't there a story here? Doesn't journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren't you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. "Housing-gate," no doubt. Or "Fannie-gate."
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled "Do Facts Matter?" ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com] ): "Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury."
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
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Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That's what you claim you do, when you accept people's money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that's what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don't like the probable consequences. That's what honesty means . That's how trust is earned.
Seriously, go read the article.
HT: Jeff Meyers
Yogi over at Red Planet Cartoons put into pictures what I said yesterday:
With the way The Media is, we won't see any real accountability on this one. It's W's fault, stupid. No reason to ask whether the policies of Big Government, aimed at helping the poor to buy houses in this case, actually worked. They *tried* to help, and that's the important thing. So what if Big Government now has to decide on whether a trillion dollar rescue strategy will save us all? These guys *care* about the poor, and they're happy to take your money from you to prove it.
Keep this in mind if, God forbid, Barry wins the election and then tries to tell you he can solve the nation's health care problems by putting Big Government in charge. If lenders were willing to make reckless decisions when they knew Big Brother had their back, what makes you think doctors and hospitals would be any different? Under that arrangement, "sub-prime" will likely mean ending up on the wrong side of the grass, if you catch my drift.
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They could have also done a parody of primary election coverage, but the "real" news networks seem to be doing a fine job of that themselves.
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