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AP Apes Obama Talking Points In Luncheon Introduction

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04/04/2012 IBD Editorial [full short post]

Media Bias: The charade ended long ago in regard to the dominant media's "objectivity." Tuesday's love letter to President Obama from the chairman of the Associated Press just confirms the obvious.

The only thing separating AP Chairman and newspaper mogul Dean Singleton's gushing introduction of President Obama to an Associated Press luncheon in a fancy Washington hotel from an Obama 2012 campaign rally was the absence of the line, "and now the next president of the United States."

You would never imagine Singleton was describing a president who in just over three years has added nearly $5 trillion to the national debt — more than twice that of the Bush administration's eight years.

Obama "inherited the head winds of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression," according to Singleton. Translation: Blame Bush for Obama's 8.3% unemployment and debt nearing $16 trillion.

"He pushed through Congress the biggest economic recovery plan in history," Singleton said — not "he spent more than any president in history" on a "recovery plan" that failed to bring recovery.

Obama "led a government reorganization of two of the Big Three American automakers to save them from oblivion," Singleton said — not a government takeover that rewarded Big Labor for wrecking a once-great U.S. industry.

He signed into law "the most comprehensive health care legislation in history," according to Singleton — not "via legislative trickery he became the first president who tried to force Americans to purchase a commercial product, with the Supreme Court now poised to rule it unconstitutional."

"The 1% and the 99% are at each other's throats," Singleton said. "Campaigns are now funded by secretive, multimillion-dollar super-PACs."

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And this president, who touted himself as a uniter during his 2008 campaign, gets no blame for that polarization? The coiner of the wholly artificial 1%/99% image? (Hollywood, for instance, is full of Obama-loving one-percenters.)

This president who broke his promise not to use super-PAC money? And who has exploited the Trayvon Martin killing to fan the flames of racial discord?

Hard to imagine a Republican president with Obama's record getting such a warm, uncritical reception. As we face national bankruptcy and big government infringing on our liberties, the major media have again proved that what they do is distort, not report.