ABC Employees Contributed $160,000 To President Obama
June 18, 2009 / 11:00 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierABC employees contributed $5,000 to John McCain in contrast to the $160,000 contributed to then candidate Barack Obama. Now, ABC gets to broadcast out of the White House about President Obama’s health plan.
Hmmm…….PDF file on the details at Conservatives for Patients Rights
7 Responses to “ABC Employees Contributed $160,000 To President Obama”
June 18 2009 / 11:50 am
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What a crock. Since there’s absolutely no reason to carp about the president being on-air, now you want to try carping about which station.
Do you want to try to say that ABC and ABC employees shouldn’t have the same political rights as the rest of the citizenry?
Should conservative office-holders be barred from conservative news outlets?
There’s not a tiny bit of intelligence in this. Exactly what fraction of the money spent in the last campaign would $160,000 come out to be?
June 19 2009 / 12:27 pm
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Fuster (6/18/09 11:50 am)-
The issue is not whether ABC’s employees have political rights. The issue is: can ABC (or any other broadcast news media whose members overwhelmingly support one party and point of view; whose members are thus overwhelmingly partisan) be trusted to report the facts without slant? Can we expect they will fairly research and report on the activities and policies of their favored group as well as the opposition group?
The essence of my concern is whether our nation’s media can be trusted to remain independent, objective and unbiased. We need an unbiased press to scrutinize and hold accountable ALL office-holders of BOTH major parties. We need the press to provide us enough objective commentary and historical background to judge for ourselves whether legislators’ proposed policies are likely to be effective.
We need a fair and critical press. I’m not sure we’ve got one.
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(Personal gripe)
As far as “there’s absolutely no reason to carp about the president being on-air” — I would like to go a week without hearing this administration announcing how we absolutely MUST spend another few hundred billion dollars on some program or another that is absolutely CRITICAL to life-as-we-know-it. The President and Congress don’t seem to understand that the money they’re spending has ONLY ONE SOURCE: working Americans. Our government has committed TRILLIONS of dollars we don’t have to projects our congressmen have uncritically approved (in some cases without even reading the bill they were voting on!) I want the “We’ve gotta spend-spend-spend and we’ve gotta do it NOW” rhetoric to stop. I’m admittedly just one lone taxpayer, but I’ve had enough.
To the President and Congress:
STOP.
You do not have to spend every possible dollar our grandkids could ever earn.
Just
STOP.
June 19 2009 / 2:08 pm
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A Nonny Mouse. I would hope that you don’t place the whole of your trust in ANY single source of news. I would think that most mainstream news sources attempt to be fair in the “news” sections, but that all have points of. view.
Our freedom of the press rests on access by the press to the news and on our having access to multiple reports from multiple news outlets.
I would doubt the idea that our nation’s press has ever been free from bias as much as I would doubt that the people of the country have ever been without opinion. These days, however we have a plethora of news sources and an abundance of critical voices that will critique political and/or governmental messages from left, right and weird POVs.
I can’t much imagine that it was ever as easy for people to engage in discussion and criticism as it is now.
June 21 2009 / 6:03 pm
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So I understand “fuster” is clarifying that it’s OK for ABC to be in-the-tank for Obama and to parrot the Current Administration’s party line, since there are so many other news organizations out there? If we’re looking for “balanced reporting” we can just find another news source, s/he claims.
I gather from this response that our media have no responsibility to be objective. They get to promote their biases and we-the-people get to shop for news around the internet until we find someone whose biases match ours, then we can call ourselves “informed citizens”.
Dandy.
June 21 2009 / 7:17 pm
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No, TT, you gather incorrectly. I don’t approve of “tanking”. I also don’t approve of the sloppiness inherent in saying that supporting Obama’s candidacy necessitates that ABC and it’s employees are not qualified to present a program featuring Obama.
The shallowness of the argument rests on the assumption that people can’t be expected to do their jobs in a professional and unbiased manner.
This is flat dumb as every day Americans disprove it by example.
Our legal, political and military establishments would not have endured.
Clouthier disserves herself and her readers by mistaking things suggestive with things conclusive.
June 22 2009 / 11:02 am
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Holy cow Fuster – have you even been paying attention to what the MSM have been reporting since the 70’s??? It’s clear who you’re in the tank for and are jumping through Mobius Loops to try and “prove” your point. It’s NOT an “assumption” as you put it. It’s been proven for decades that they cannot in any way or form present an “unbiased” report or story, period. But yet all of the sudden we’re suppose to “trust” them?
June 22 2009 / 12:49 pm
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Dave, go to the really left-wing blogs and you’ll get to see the MSM called tools of the right.
Sometimes the bias is in the eye of the beholder.
Sometimes it isn’t, but contending that the media is biased doesn’t say anything about ABC. I don’t know if they are or aren’t. Show something as proof that their work is slanted and I’ll listen, but assertion isn’t fact.