Obama is now ready pay back the newspapers which adore him

Obama taking "enchanted" question

On Monday, President Obama told editors of both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade, that he was interested in a bailout for this country‘s faltering newspapers.

Apparently, Obama is worried that without the print division of the Democratic Party, the left‘s talking points will not reach a wide enough audience, with only network television left to spread their propaganda.

Obama said: “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding.”

“What I hope is that people start understanding if you’re getting your newspaper over the Internet, that’s not free and there’s got to be a way to find a business model that supports that.” he said.

Obama went on to say that he “would be happy to look at” any legislation which would give newspapers tax-breaks, in exchange for them becoming non-profit, educational corporations.

Obama will not have to look far. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) has already introduced a bill known as “The Newspaper Revitalization Act.”

Let’s take a look at the kind of “serious” journalism Obama really favors.

On October 30, 2008, the Obama campaign decided to dismiss three newspapers from their plane. The editors of the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, and the Washington Times were all informed that all of their respective staffs would no longer be allowed on the plane.

Of course, it was no coincidence that the editorial boards of all three newspapers endorsed John McCain for President.

On Feb. 21, 2008, Jim Rutenberg, Marilyn W. Thompson, David D. Kirkpatrick and Stephen Labaton, reporting for the New York Times, wrote: "A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fundraisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself - instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.“

A little over two weeks later, the paper followed-up on that aforementioned bit of tabloid journalism with an article on McCain’s cancer scars.

The article by Lawrence Altman appeared in the New York Times on March 9, 2008, and begins:

“Along with his signature bright white hair, the most striking aspects of Senator John McCain’s physical appearance are his puffy left cheek and the scar that runs down the back of his neck.”

“The marks are cosmetic reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has “more scars than Frankenstein.”

The article featured two pictures of John McCain, one of which highlights the long scar on McCain’s face, while the other was a 2002 photo which showed McCain with a heavily bandaged nose shortly after surgery to remove skin cancer.

What kind of hard-hitting coverage has Obama received from the New York Times?

On April 29, 2009, during his press conference to commemorate his frist 100 days in office, Times reporter Jeff Zelaney really put Obama on the spot when he asked: “What has enchanted you the most about serving in this office?”
 
How’s that for “fact-checking?’

It was 25-year-old filmmaker James O’Keefe and internet news icon Andrew Breitbart who recently broke ever-growing ACORN corruption scandal.

The network which Obama whines about on an almost daily basis, Fox News, is the only major news agency which has devoted any time to the ACORN story. The other networks refuse to get involved in the coverage. In a laughable moment, ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson recently said din not know anything about it.

The great piece of investigative reporting (the kind that used to come from The New York Times and ABC News), has precipitated Congress to de-fund ACORN.

Of course, ACORN alumni, Obama has been silent on this issue so far. Perhaps, he is too busy with his Major League baseball analysis duties.

Recently, NBC’s David Gregory interviewed Obama and asked the hard-hitting question “Who’s going to win the World Series?”

It is little wonder that the majority U.S. newspapers are going bankrupt, nor is it an mystery why the ratings of Fox News regularly eclipse those of all the other networks. The American people are fed up with having their news filtered by the left-wing subversives, and have embraced a long-awaited alternative.

I recently spoke to one of the editors of my hometown newspaper, The Virginia-Pilot, which as most papers, has a definite leftist slant. We were talking about the huge number of layoffs, not only at the Pilot, but at papers throughout the country. She cited the obvious reason of declining ad revenues.

When I cited the popularity of conservative talk radio and the internet, she just stared at me as if I had just grown horns. When I suggested that her paper is dying because people are tired of reading AP stories and leftist commentary, she politely excused herself.

Her reaction spoke volumes as to why the American people have turned their collective back on the mainstream press, the same way they turned their back on us.

It is obvious that Obama now believes the only function of the press is to promote his own political agenda, and to actually even cover-up his many failings. For now, the press is happy to comply with this arrangement. After all, they both share a common left-wing agenda for the United States.

It is apparent that Obama agrees with Freedom of the Press, only when that Press is offering him praises.