All Barack Channel wasn’t the first to pimp socialized medicine
Tim Graham at Newsbusters reminds us that ABC (The All Barack Channel) wasn’t the first left-wing TV network to host a government infomercial pushing government-run healthcare. NBC became Nothing But Clinton in 1994 — commercial-free and subsidized by the far Left Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to boot. Flashback July 1994:
NBC raised a lot of eyebrows by accepting $3.5 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its two-hour, commercial-free June 21 health care special, To Your Health. Five foundation fellows served on Hillary Clinton’s secret task force, and when that secrecy became an issue, the foundation spent $500,000 for four town meetings featuring the First Lady.
In 1991, foundation president Dr. Steven Schroeder told The Chronicle of Philanthropy: “We are very conscious that fundamental change [in health] is not going to happen without government…Many of our recent grants have been predicated on the idea that we would get government involved.”
On CNBC’s Tim Russert May 9, Tom Brokaw said: “I can assure you that I wouldn’t be involved with that program in any fashion if it were being directed or if it were being engineered by a special interest group.”
Several conservatives (including MediaWatch publisher L. Brent Bozell) wrote to NBC President Robert Wright charging the grant “constitutes an appearance of partisanship.” In a phone conversation, David Bohrman, the show’s Executive Producer, gave Bozell his word the show would be balanced and pursue all aspects of the debate. But NBC earned the Janet Cooke Award.
The special, a series of pre-taped segments followed by discussions with on-stage panels and an audience at Washington’s Warner Theater, tilted in favor of pro-government spokesmen and failed to explore conservative policy options. Hillary Clinton was the sole guest for the first half-hour, referring to NBC’s anecdotes as proof of the need for the Clinton plan. On-stage panelists leaned two-to-one in favor of the Clinton plan or single-payer. Speakers from the audience also leaned to the liberal side by two to one.
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Its so nice to have a media that tells me what to think. I have to burn less calaries trying to do things like research and that pesky thinking for myself thing.
Well, I guess you have to look at it this way. All that effort, all that money, and in the end, nationalized healthcare didn’t happen.
And are we like sheep? Like lambs being led to the slaughter? There may come a time, it may well be soon, that the good Christian folk take a stand a say, “No more!” Then we must not be bluffing.
The Left like nothing better than giving bad ideas 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chances. They live to consume like bloated ticks on the bewtocks of society. “Ah, the mewling spawn, how I despise them.”
Ooooooh! Be careful Michelle! Using the words pimp and obama in the same sentence can be construed as racist! We can’t have that, now can we?
Saw a snippet of the interview on Fox last night and thought there was symbiotic collusion in how Obama just happened to arrive at giving his defaming statement.
I split the sheet with all 3 networks after their appalling behaviour during the Bush/Gore election in 2000.
Peter Jennings sticks in my mind as the worst.
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=ABC%20News%20Specials
I don’t watch ANY programs on nbc, cbs, or abc and have not for years. Not going to start now. I am so thankful for Fox news.
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A pimp’s a pimp. Just because this one has a different name doesn’t mean anything.
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It’s one thing for Barbara Walters to ride around in a jeep with President Reagan at the wheel and for Diane Sawyer to give us a “loving-couple” look at George and Barbara Bush in the WH shortly before they left office – after all, these types of “warm-and-fuzzy” interviews offer a human look at our elected leaders and are all-but expected of a network at some point in any administration.
However, it’s another thing entirely for a network to advocate policy on behalf of an administration. That’s not warm and fuzzy; that’s propaganda, and ABC and Linda Douglas know it!
I just sent the following email to my local All Barrack Channel affiliate here in the Dallas area. I will be following up with their advertisers as well.
So they’re openly and unashamedly kissing Duh One’s feet, but they criticize Fox News as a tool of the Republicans.
I think I must have been transported to a parallel universe or something.
We have officially moved from simply bias to outright Obama leg humping by the media.
They can’t even do their jobs anymore. And they wonder why people aren’t buying their lies (or their papers) anymore.
You won’t be missed.
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
REAL news persons and REAL journalists most certainly have their hands wrapped around the TOILET BOWL, and are PUKING their guts up… How any AMERICAN can say they get their news from the MSM is beyond me… Unless you are among the ranks of the SHEEPLE, you should feel sick to the soles of you shoes…
Why am I not surprised Clinton was “pimped” by a wood Johnson. Wasn’t that the whole purpose of his time in office?
Haven’t watched the alphabet channels in years. It says volumnes about Obama that he is afraid of Fox News because they hit on him too hard. The man needs to grow a pair, suck it up, and do the job he was elected to do…& that includes giving interviews to all major journalists and media outlets, no just those that agree with you. If he had any substance he could take on the best of them and make his point. The fact he can’t says it all.
It’s that now politically incorrect cliche of the pot calling the kettle black.
And I don’t recall ever hearing about Fox News doing reports from the White House during the Bush Administration.
George Staphylcoccus is ABC’s head political reporter. Boy George worked for the Clintons, and takes part in regular Demonratic Party strategy teleconfereces with Begala and Rahm-bo.
Should we be surprised? NBC let pMSNBC’s cheif psychotic, Keith Overbite, chair convention coverage.
The media liked liberalism decades ago, but now they are in bed with statist socialists, getting tingles up their thighs.
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If only they could have gotten Karl Rove hired as head political correspondant the way the Demonrats did with Boy George.
I can spell “chief”, I just can’t always type it right.
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