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?

CNN reporter Susan Roesgen displays downright indignation toward a protestor yesterday who was carrying a sign depicting Barack Obama looking like Hitler.

Roesgen: (pointing to a sign with Obama compare to Hitler) What is this supposed to mean? What do you mean by that?

Protestor: Well, I mean… He’s a fascist. The pirates…

Roesgen: Wait. Why do you say he’s a fascist? He’s the President of the United States.

Protestor: He’s a fascist.

Roesgen: Do you realize how offensive that is?

Protestor: I think he’s a fascist.
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Roesgen: Why be so hard on the President of the United States, though, with such an offensive message?

Her indignation might carry some weight if it were true that she took offense to comparing “the President of the United States” to Hitler… but alas, this outrage apparently only applies to one type of President… the one with the (D) next to his name.

Flashback to 2006 and the same Susan Roesgen reacting to a protestor wearing a George W. Bush mask made to look like Hitler (and Satan):

Roesgen: “City officials aren’t the only ones wondering when federal money will materialize. Catholic school girls marched on Jackson Square. They and their teachers say more money is needed to fix the levees, and they hoped the President would stop by after his meeting with business leaders. But while a look-alike showed up with a wad of cash, Mr. Bush did not.”

Really? A look-alike? Color me confused, but I don’t remember Bush having devil horns or a Hitler mustache. Apparently adding the horns to the depiction of the U.S. President as Hitler is enough to overcome the “offensiveness” of the gesture.

What media bias?

UPDATE: Protestors respond to Roesgen with some schooling.

UPDATE 2: More from the Roesgen Hearts Obama vault:

Along with all the sexual innuendo from Olbermann, Cooper, et al., it’s clear these liberal spokesmen have decided to toss journalistic ethics aside in favor of biased, blatant partisanship. Probably explains why they’re getting their asses handed to them in the ratings every night.

The good news: Barack Obama has solved all the nation’s problems and has extra time on his hands to do the celebrity talk show circuit.

The bad news: This is what happens they let the Community Organizer in Chief loose without a teleprompter…

From ABC:

The first appearance by a sitting president on “The Tonight Show” may well end up being the last.

President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he’s gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley. He bowled a 129, the president said.

“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.

It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.

And how did the oft-offended, sensitive, liberal media respond? Exactly as you’d expect… when it’s a Democrat involved.

Fortunately for Obama, as evidenced by the clip of Keith “Waterboy” Olberman, most of the media’s going to help him skim over this insulting comment. Note Olberman’s “what are we going to do about this” question… as if he’s already in a cabinet strategy session trying to plan how best to control this story before it becomes a problem. If this had been a Republican, Olberman would’ve produced a special 2-hour breaking news show on the Worst Person in the History of Mankind. Instead, get ready for the “move along, nothing to see here” routine.

And what’s the official White House response so far?

“The president made an off-hand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics,” White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said.

Say what? He admits he was “making fun” of his bowling ability - by comparing it to an event for mentally and physically disabled people. That’s exactly what disparaging means, idiots. He might as well have just said, “You’ve seen me bowl Jay, I look like a retard.”

“He thinks the Special Olympics is a wonderful program that gives an opportunity for people with disabilities from around the world.”

Oh, well in that case, it’s ok to joke about it. Sorry to have bothered you. Move along, nothing to see here.

Thank goodness for the hard-hitting, investigative journalism provided by American mainstream media. With America and the world facing unprecedented issues, it’s nice to know that the mainstream media is holding our leaders accountable and asking the tough questions…

Nope, no media bias here. Move along.

UPDATE: But wait! There’s more… CNN has an article of historical significance… a piece that’s sure to change the geopolitical, geothermal and intergalactic landscape for generations to come…

Who says they don’t tackle the difficult issues?

UPDATE 2: Not to be outdone, here come the vigilant journalists at the New York Times with this scoop of the century….

WASHINGTON — Well, that didn’t take long. Just 44 days into the job, and President Obama is going gray.
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Mr. Obama’s graying is still of the flecked variety, and appears to wax and wane depending on when he gets his hair cut, which he does about every two weeks. His barber, who goes by only one name, Zariff, takes umbrage with bloggers who alternately claim Mr. Obama, 47, is dyeing his hair gray (to appear more distinguished) or dyeing it black (to appear younger). “I can tell you that his hair is 100 percent natural,” Zariff said. “He wouldn’t get it colored.”

Whew, glad that conspiracy has been debunked. Could’ve been an international crisis.

And right on cue, another member of the established left-wing media serves up a puff piece on The One.

Obama’s Other Gray Matter

Forty-five days to a grayer you!

Are times so stressful — a plummeting economy and two wars — that our young president is going grayer a mere six weeks into the job?

Maybe 754 days is more like it. That’s how long it’s been, if you can believe it, since a baby-faced senator stood in the winter chill in Springfield, Ill., to declare his candidacy for president. With each debate, after every primary fight, it seems Barack Obama’s tightly clipped hair became just a dash saltier.

“The gray, it’s not a whole lot, but he has a few strands,” explained Zariff, the president’s Chicago barber for 17 years, who goes by a single name. “It’s quite normal for his age group.”

I’m glad the big boys are spending so much time interviewing Zariff the barber. Would hate for them to waste their time on issues like the socialist policies driving our economy into the toilet or the administration’s knack for appointing tax cheats.

I can’t wait to see what happens when they finally get a damn dog.

You can usually tell just how much Democrats are actually to blame for something… by how much blame the New York Times casts on President Bush.

The White House on Sunday issued a blistering 500-word response to a scathing 5,000-word article on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times that says President Bush and his style and philosophy of governing played a direct role in the mortgage meltdown that’s crippling the nation’s economy.

The response accused the nation’s largest Sunday paper of “gross negligence.”

“The Times’ ‘reporting’ in this story amounted to finding selected quotes to support a story the reporters fully intended to write from the onset, while disregarding anything that didn’t fit their point of view,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said in an e-mailed statement.

Of course, we already know who is really to blame. But that story wouldn’t fit the agenda of the liberals at the New York Times.

And they wonder why their stock has lost over 70% of its value. (It’s ironic that when I went to get the link to their stock page, their current stock price was $6.66)

Dana Perino summed it up best:

“Most people can accept that a news story recounting recent events will be reliant on ‘20-20 hindsight’. Today’s front-page New York Times story relies on hindsight with blinders on and one eye closed.

We shouldn’t be surprised, it’s their standard approach to “journalism”.

The Obama campaign and their friends in the mainstream media want you to believe it’s all over. Don’t believe it. It’s part of their psychological operations designed to depress McCain/Palin voters so they’ll stay home on Election Day.

In a country that fundamentally rejects their socialist policies, it’s their only hope to win. Show up and vote… and enjoy all the “shocked” and “surprised” stories in the MSM on November 5th.

Shameful and disgusting.

John McCain’s presidential campaign Tuesday accused the Los Angeles Times of “intentionally suppressing” a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where then-state Sen. Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian scholar and activist.

Apparently it was newsworthy enough to spawn an article in the paper, so we have to wonder what’s on the tape that is so newsworthy the paper (who has endorsed Barack Obama) does not want the world seeing before the election.

Maybe because the man Obama was heaping praise upon was a spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization and served on the PLO “guidance committee”…

Mr. Khalidi was at that time “a director of the Palestinian press agency.” That would be Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastinija, or WAFA, the PLO press agency, where Mr. Khalidi’s wife, Mona, was chief English-language editor in 1976-82. Mr. Friedman quotes Mr. Khalidi in his official capacity saying that the Israelis are out to “crush the P.L.O.” … he served on the PLO “guidance committee” at the Madrid conference, along with such figures as Faisal Husseini, Hanan Ashrawi and Sari Nusseibeh.

And yet the L.A. Times has a video of Obama praising Khalidi and refuses to release it. Makes you wonder just what they’re trying to hide for their endorsed candidate.

Contact them today and demand they release the video:

Los Angeles Times
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 237-5000
Fax: (213) 237-7679
Email

On a side note, notice how Obama tried to explain his friendship with Khalidi when the article first came out…

“He is not one of my advisors”
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“He is a respected scholar”
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“His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well”
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“To pluck out one person who I know and who I’ve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I’m not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take. So we gotta be careful about guilt by association.”

Sounds eerily familiar to the excuses he gave in trying to distance himself from his friend, Bill Ayers:

“He is a guy who lives in my neighborhood”
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“He is a professor of English in Chicago”
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“He is not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis”
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“And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense, George.”

…and the excuses he gave in trying to distance himself from his pastor of 20 years:

“He has never been my political advisor”
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“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation”
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“I believe that Americans will judge me not on the basis of what someone else said, but on the basis of who I am and what I believe in”

UPDATE: Doug Ross seems to know exactly why the L.A. Times won’t release the tape… and it’s what we all expected:

Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”

It would be really controversial if it got out. Tha’s why they will not even let a transcript get out.

UPDATE 2: Debbie Schlussel may know who the source of the video is.