If there was any doubt left about the credibility of Mainstream Media, let this be a final nail in the coffin. Rest in peace, journalistic integrity.

See how the Jeremiah Wright story was spiked by mainstream media during the 2008 election cycle.

The MSM seems to be having a hard time finding “people of color” at Tea Party rallies… Really? Well, let us help you out.

The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the MSM, in their infinite left-wing bias, is willfully ignoring the facts on the ground to continue their meme that the Tea Party rallies are nothing more than KKK rallies sans hoods and burning crosses… or they completely suck at gathering the news.

Either way, it would explain why most of them are going belly up.

…on the golf course, that is.

A massive volcanic plume covering most of Europe forced President Obama to cancel a Sunday trip to Poland to attend the funeral of the nation’s president. But the last-minute change left an opening in his schedule, so the president headed to the links for a round of golf instead.

On a cool but sun-drenched Sunday, the president and three golfing companions went to Andrews Air Force Base to play 18 holes. It is the 32nd time Mr. Obama has played golf since taking office Jan. 20, 2009, according to CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller.

Thirty-two rounds of golf in 15 months. Remember when President Bush caught so much grief for all the time he spent playing golf instead of leading the country? And yet…

Mr. Bush played just 24 times. His last time as president was Oct. 13, 2003.

Good thing the MSM has different priorities, or this could become an issue for our community organizer in chief while he oversees the “illegal war” in Iraq and another in Afghanistan.

Priorities, baby… priorities.

First, there was Obama’s accidental moment of honesty with Joe the Plumber… now comes this accidental moment of honesty from Democrat Congressman Phil Hare of Illinois:

After just 3 minutes of watching this guy dance and stumble around questions, I question the intellect of the constituents in the 17th District that sent this guy to Washington. He doesn’t even seem qualified to run the french fry station at McDonalds. Just take a few minutes to watch this video of a United States Congressman and you’ll have a complete and full understanding of why this country is currently in the state that it’s in.

Speaking of burger-flipping jobs, I hope he’s polishing his resume…

Sorry, Al Gore, but your scam has been exposed. For those of you who haven’t been following the story, it appears some scientists involved in building the Global Warming movement have admitted to fudging the data to bolster their claims… and to weed out data that would contradict the very premise of the Global Warming religious movement.

Here’s some background on the unfolding scandal…

And here’s a nice video that puts Al Gore’s “hockey stick” into historical perspective:

Dan Rather would probably call it “Fake, but settled science“…

UPDATE: Algore got caught making up some statistics of his own in Copenhagen…

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast. “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

…how inconvenient.

The headline:

CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan

The lede:

Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people who tuned into Obama’s address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.

At this point, most people stop reading and move on to the next article. But for those who stick around to see the details behind the claim see this:

The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican.

A 27-point gap between party affiliations and only a 14-point gain. Seems like a potentially different claim than “double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan”.

In fact, CNN even admits, although buried in the last line of the article, that they oversampled Democrats by a double-digit margin:

Our best estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates that the sample is about 8-10 points more Democratic than the population as a whole.

Rinse, repeat.

UPDATE: Upon further evaluation, the details of the recent poll show an even worse trend for Obama.

Question 1. What was your overall reaction to President Obama’s speech tonight – very positive, somewhat positive, somewhat negative or very negative?

Somewhat or very positive: 77%
Somewhat or very negative: 21%

But…. they offer a comparison of the results from Obama’s State of the Union in February.

Somewhat or very positive: 92%
Somewhat or very negative: 8%

The takeaway from this comparison is that despite oversampling Democrats by a double-digit margin in last night’s poll, there was a 15% decline in those who reacted positively and a 13% increase in those who reacted negatively to Obama’s speech.

Question 2. Do you think the policies being proposed by Barack Obama will move the country in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Pre-speech
Right Direction: 60%
Wrong Direction: 35%

Post-speech
Right Direction: 70%
Wrong Direction: 27%

A 10% increase in “right direction” responses in a pool that CNN admits is “is about 8-10 points more Democratic than the population as a whole” isn’t all that stellar. But look what story emerges when comparing these results with those of his prior address to Congress…

Pre-speech
Right Direction: 71%
Wrong Direction: 26%

Post-speech
Right Direction: 88%
Wrong Direction: 11%

After his State of the Union, the 88% of respondents thought Obama’s policies will move the country in the right direction, but that support had dropped 28% to 60% just before last night’s speech… and only bounced back to 70% afterward… even when CNN oversampled Democrats by 27 points. A little different story than what CNN touts in the headlines and lede paragraph.

To add another dimension to Obama’s dismal performance, compare his numbers (even with the flawed sampling) with those of Bill Clinton’s in 1993 just before HillaryCare laid the foundation for the Republican Revolution:

Obama’s Healthcare Reform Plan (2009):
Support - 67%
Oppose - 29%

Clinton’s Healthcare Reform Plan (1993):
Support - 67%
Oppose - 17%

The support appears to remain stagnant (though the numbers are still questionable in light of other polling on the subject)… but the opposition is almost 60% higher this time around.

There’s your story, CNN. I dare you to report the facts.

The chutzpah is unbelievable on the Left. They don’t even try to hide their bias anymore.

ABC and NBC are refusing to air an ad by the League of American Voters featuring a neurosurgeon who is critical of the Obamacare fiasco. And the best part of the story? The networks’ reasoning behind the decision…

“The ABC Television Network has a long-standing policy that we do not sell time for advertising that presents a partisan position on a controversial public issue,” spokeswoman Susan Sewell said in a written statement. “Just to be clear, this is a policy for the entire network, not just ABC News.”

I think I’ve heard that excuse before. Oh yeah, back in June when ABC rejected another ad that offered a free-market alternative to President Obama’s $1 trillion plus health care reform plan submitted by a group called Conservatives for Patients Rights…

“The ABC Television network has a long-standing policy that we do not accept advocacy advertising. It’s just something that has been in place forever,” Emily Lenzner, spokesperson for ABC News.

CPR, incidentally, had requested that ad be aired during a little 2-hour ABC primetime special promoting Obama’s healthcare plan.

President Obama’s health care push will continue next week with a primetime event at the White House, with ABC’s Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer set to moderate a nationally televised event called “Questions for the President: Prescription for America.”

The special edition of “Primetime” will air from the White House on Wednesday, June 24, at 10 pm ET. “Good Morning America,” “World News,” “Nightline,” and ABCNews.com’s “Top Line” will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.

Apparently “advertising” means “doesn’t support our liberal agenda”…

What bias?

And so it begins.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” the statement read.

Democrats are already tap-dancing on his grave, exploiting his death as an opportunity to pimp their healthcare legislation. It’s about as surprising as Michael Moore ordering dessert. Prepare yourself, because you’re about to experience the joys of combining an adoring media who gave us a weeklong pukefest of coverage for a moonwalking pedophile with the audacity of shameless liberal politics that turned Paul Wellstone’s memorial into Lollapalooza.

And Senator Byrd is calling for the healthcare legislation to be named for Kennedy…

In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.

As Bob says, “So the Dems want to change the current bill to the Ted Kennedy Memorial Bill. Does that mean they are going to do what he did with Mary Jo Kopechne… Do nothing and watch it die??”

Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

It’s as if they’ve finally decided, “What the hell, why hide our bias anymore?”

Gibson, Sawyer Hosting Special ‘Primetime’ On Obama’s Health Care Reform

ABC News Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer will co-anchor a special edition of newsmagazine Primetime that let’s viewers pose the questions about President Obama’s health care reform proposals.

Questions for the President: Prescription for America will air June 24 at 10 p.m. The program will be taped earlier in the evening. ABC News is taking viewer questions on the topic at ABCNews.com/Politics beginning June 16. Gibson and Sawyer will pose the most popular online questions according to social networking news aggregator Digg.com.

ABC News also invited users to weigh in with questions when Gibson interviewed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin last year.

The primetime special will originate from the East Room of the White House where an audience selected by ABC News will also be invited to pose questions in person. ABC News medical editor Dr. Timothy Johnson will also be on hand to take part in the discussion.

I wonder if Obama is getting tips from Kim Jong Il on state-run media etiquette.

UPDATE: Never fear, looks like there is a very clear explanation.

White House Health Reform Communications Director is Former ABC News Correspondent

• It turns out the Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform, since last month, is former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass, who left journalism last year to join the Obama campaign.

This is how media bias works, folks. Search for MSM stories on the ethics charges leveled against Sarah Palin and you’ll find an endless number of articles from CNN, ABC, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post and more, using the trumped-up charges to trash her reputation and, more importantly, her political viability. And it worked. They didn’t care about the lack of evidence supporting the charges… just that charges had been leveled. The damage was done. The MSM had tarred and feathered Governor Palin by reporting that the “ethics charges” were evidence to question her integrity and claim abuse of power by the self-described “Maverick”.

But two things have now happened rendering the story of Governor Palin’s “ethics charges” of no interest to the mainstream media. The election is over… and she has been cleared of wrongdoing on all counts.

The accusations made news, but with another dismissal of an ethics charge last week against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee has quietly been cleared of every ethics complaint filed since the torrent of allegations began in 2008.

Mrs. Palin, who became a target of such complaints after being named Sen. John McCain’s running mate, is 14-for-14 in fighting off the complaints.

Quietly is the key word. Search online for stories of Palin being cleared of all ethics charges and the most you’ll find is an article in the UK’s Guardian, one in a Newsweek blog and another in the conservative-friendly Washington Times.

With the election over, the damage is done. With Palin being cleared, the story is done.

What bias?