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ABC’s June 24 White House broadcast: More press prostitution from network that gave us Sawyer’s bias
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Call it a reporter’s revulsion, call it confirmation that a major network has sold out to the Obama administration (as if further evidence was necessary after the way the networks treated Barack Obama during last year’s campaign), call it anything you want. You will probably be correct.
The plan by ABC News to broadcast what Republicans say amounts to an “infomercial” pushing the Obama government-run health care program is an outrage. ABC, according to my younger adult son, may as well change it’s logo to “OBC” for “Obama Broadcast Network.” ABC is transforming itself into a state-run news agency, and its reporters into whores.
This is a despicable act of press prostitution for the administration because ABC is reportedly selling out its viewers to push the Obama health care plan with no rebuttal, no balance at all according to a nasty letter sent to the head of ABC News by Ken McKay, chief of staff for the Republican National Committee.
McKay is right to criticize this abandonment of all principle, all sense of balance by ABC.
Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. - Ken McKay, Republican National Committee chief of staff
But wait a minute. Where was McKay’s outrage in April, when ABC broadcast that infamous Diane Sawyer hit piece against self-defense and personal protection that usurped the 20/20 broadcast under the title “If I Only Had a Gun?” Where was the Republican National Committee – which every two or four years panders to the nation’s gun owners that they are the party of gun rights – when Sawyer was dismissing and essentially demonizing the notion that armed citizens could defend themselves and others in case of a violent attack?
That was the April 10 broadcast that was so biased the National Shooting Sports Foundation – realizing in advance it was a set-up hit piece – would have nothing to do with it. It was the hour-long diatribe from which the balance of 20/20 reporter John Stossel was noticeably absent.
Stossel is the award-winning reporter who did the expose “Myths, Lies and Straight Talk,” and the author of Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity. He was a keynoter at the National Rifle Association’s annual banquet last month in Phoenix, AZ. Naturally, ABC didn’t want him anywhere near Sawyer’s one-sided broadcast screed.
Sawyer’s piece was so repulsive it drew this sneer from Debbie Schlussel, the widely-published political commentator and film critic. Yet it drew nary a peep from the Republican camp.
Gun owners are, of course, taxpayers, and they are certainly interested in more than gun rights, especially if something promises to bankrupt their grandchildren, as many fear Obama’s government-run health care fiasco could certainly do.
It is because of perceived network bias that the firearms community has turned its back on the big three networks. This disclosure about ABC’s plans for its June 24 news broadcast only reinforces that perception.
Nickels will take gun control issue to White House
As expected, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels plans to use his new position as the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors to push his anti-gun agenda during a visit to the White House, possibly later this month.
The Seattle Times is reporting that Nickels will be heading to the White House to press an agenda that includes “federal stimulus aid, gun control and the 2010 census.”
Among the topics on the mayors' meeting agenda were federal stimulus aid, gun control and the 2010 census.
Nickels, a far-Left Democrat, has yet to issue his threatened executive order banning legally-carried firearms from all city property. Instead, he has required that groups obtaining permit leases for activities at the Seattle Center take measures themselves to prohibit guns on city property as part of their agreement. Such requirements are unenforceable, as private groups have no authority to prohibit the exercise of a constitutionally-protected civil right on public property, and Nickels knows it.
He also knows that he will be sued immediately if he issues that executive order. The Second Amendment Foundation, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and National Rifle Association are lining up with some individual citizens to challenge Nickels in court.
A founding member of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns,” Nickels will meet later this summer at the White House. He has long been closely allied with Washington CeaseFire, the Pacific Northwest’s most active gun prohibitionist organization.
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