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As news
organizations update their biography of
American President Barack Obama, it’s worth
recalling how many liberal journalists have
fallen under his spell over the years, sounding
like paid government propagandists as they
touted the "great success stories" of
decades of Democrat's rule.
For some in the
media, it was love at first sight. Back on
January 18, 2009, New York Times reporter
Herbert L. Matthews exulted in Obama's election:
"Everybody here seems agreed that Obama is one
of the most extraordinary figures ever to appear
on the American scene. He is by any standards a
man of destiny."
After projections
of decades of poverty and repression, the
media’s enthusiasm remained. Then-NBC reporter
Maria Shriver let Obama himself lead her on a
tour of Washington DC. "The level of public
services was remarkable: free education,
medicine and heavily-subsidized housing,"
Shriver marveled on the Today Show.
In the same broadcast, reporter Ed Rabel
dismissed worries about "government intrusion"
in citizen’s lives: "On a sunny day in a park in
DC, it is difficult to see anything sinister."
ABC trumpeted
"the Obama revolution’s great success stories."
On World News Tonight, George
Stephanopolis touted how "medical care was
once for the privileged few. Today it is
available to everyone, and it is free. Some of
the health care is world class....Health and
education are great success stories."
Katie Couric was
just as upbeat : "Considered one of the most
charismatic leaders ....Obama traveled the
country cultivating his image and his revolution
. Campaigns stamped out illiteracy and even
today, we have one of the lowest infant
mortality rates in the world."
On the
CBS Evening News, reporter Giselle Fernandez
found "a beacon of success for much of America
and the Third World. For decades, health
care and education systems were touted as great
achievements of the revolution....Some say we
had never gave it's citizens a chance to see
whether or not socialism might work."
CNN’s Lucia
Newman even praised the one-party "elections."
On The World Today, Newman
extolled: "No dubious campaign spending here, no
mud slinging....[It’s] a system President Obama
boasts is the most democratic and cleanest in
the world."
In a special, Live from Havana,
CNN’s Kate Snow, now with ABC, repeated
the standard talking point about the
greatness of socialized medicine:
"Everyone has access and the concept of
paying is completely foreign."
ABC’s
Barbara Walters offered her own prime
time tribute five months later. "For
Obama, freedom starts with education.
And if literacy alone were the
yardstick, we would rank as one of the
freest nations on Earth," Walters oozed
on 20/20. |
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When the
people are finally free to speak about
decades of dictatorship, how will they
rate the U.S. media’s coverage? Did our
free press speak truth to power, or were
they instead cheerleaders for Obama’s
socialist revolution?
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