I reluctantly posted a link to Nico Pitney live blogging Iran at Huffington Post and now I have yet another reason to regret it, since reading this evening that Obama used Pitney to plant a question for his Iran news conference today. It just affirms my opinion that the folks at Huffpo are just a bunch of duplicitous ass kissers just like the folks at ABC that I ranted about the other day. They all have zero integrity when it comes to reporting anything objective about Obama. Huffpo's Pitney is just another example of the demise of journalism. I didn't like planted questions when Bush did it and I don't like is now.
http://tinyurl.com/lb3x4v http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090623/D990LNJG0.html When government controls the message and the press in nothing more than a tool for propaganda, it is the antithesis of freedom. In message #222130 dorx wrote, "Authoritarian control of information is the antithesis of freedomÂ…" When it comes to discussing a relatively small matter like MUM's censorship, dorx is all about it, but if Obama controls of the media, it doesn't matter. There's no hypocrisy there, right? In Message #222115 I wrote "FOX is a Republican propaganda station and MSNBC is a propaganda station for Obama. At least they put up a front of "fair and balanced." ABC doesn't have to pretend a front any longer. We all knew Obama and ABC were playing footsie under the table anyway. So now that their illicit affair is out in the open and we're already used to them as a couple, they can sleep together in the White House and no one will care." I must have been prescient because at the TV and Radio Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday Obama joked, "I have to admit, though, it wasn't easy coming up with fresh material for this dinner. A few nights ago, I was up tossing and turning, trying to figure out exactly what to say. Finally, when I couldn't get back to sleep, I rolled over and asked [ABC anchor] Brian Williams what he thought." Williams got some criticism for "bowing" to Obama after an exclusive interview with Obama, and Obama sees fit to humiliate him in public? Arrogant much, Mr. President?
