Yesterday 43 Catholic
institutions, including Notre Dame, sued the Obama Administration for violating
their freedom of religion via the Obamacare birth control mandate. Whoever one stands with on this matter
(And you know where I stand.), one would, I hope, agree that this is rather
newsworthy.
Yet last night’s evening news
shows from ABC and NBC ignored the lawsuit. And CBS did not do much better, grudging only 19 seconds to
this news.
I have to agree with Brent Bozell on this one:
They
are now withholding news from the American people if it is harmful to the re-election
of Barack Obama.
This
is not a mistake, nor is it an editorial oversight by the broadcast networks.
This is a deliberate and insidious withholding of national news to protect the
‘Chosen One’ who ABC, CBS and NBC have worked so hard to elect and are now
abusing their journalistic influence to reelect Obama. And when a network like
CBS mentions the suit ever-so-briefly, they deliberately distort the issue by
framing it as a contraception lawsuit instead of what they know it to be: a
religious freedom issue. It’s bogus, dishonest – a flat out lie.
The
fact is that the Catholic Church has unleashed legal Armageddon on the
administration, promising ‘we will not comply’ with a health law that strips
Catholics of their religious liberty. If this isn't 'news' then there's no such
thing as news. This should be leading newscasts and the subject of special,
in-depth reports. Instead, these networks are sending a clear message to all
Americans that the networks will go to any lengths – even censoring from the
public an event of this historic magnitude – to prevent the release of any
information that will hurt Obama’s chances of re-election.
The
so-called 'news' media have sunk to a new low. This is despicable.
Well, I’m sure the “Mainstream” “News” Media has
sunk lower than this before. Dan
Rather’s attempted pre-election hit on W with a bogus story comes to mind. Let us not underestimate the Fourth
Estate!
But otherwise, I’d say Mr. Bozell has it
about right.
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