ABC + NBC = Zero Integrity

Integrity or the lack thereof is an inside job.

For years conservatives in this country have been complaining about the unashamed liberal partisanship on full display at the big three “major” networks. Under the guise of the rights of a free press the news departments at ABC, NBC and CBS have repeatedly gone to great and sometimes dangerous lengths to prop up the political views and goals of the liberal left while intentionally demeaning and or slandering the character of conservatives and their message.

Any time a network like Fox News or a truly independent media watchdog group would bring to light specific instances of partisanship these supposed defenders of the public’s right to know would trot out a report created by some recently created media front group, funded by some left wing core constituency, to countermand the original report in a further subversion of the truth.

It almost became a game for these well established networks in which the ultimate losers were their trusting viewing audience. They intentionally played free and loose with the truth while they hid behind their carefully crafted public persona so as to at least appear to comply with their manufactured image as bastions of apodictic trustworthiness, as laughably ersatz as it was.

But no more.

ABC and NBC have decided to, as they say in the world of No Limit Texas Hold Em’ Poker, go all in for Barack Obama and his misguided socialist nationalization of the country’s healthcare and health insurance system. ABC and NBC have taken the unprecedented move of refusing to sell airtime for commercials presenting opposing viewpoints to the President’s less than truthful or accurate rhetoric.

CBS, either because of some semblance of fairness (he wrote with a sarcastic grin) or because their commercial cash flow has been so deteriorated by their liberal missteps in the past (can you say Dan Rather), has decided so far not to join in this manifest embargo on truth.

The President himself has called for an honest debate on the nation’s healthcare system. But it has become blatantly apparent to even a casual observer that what the President and these two lapdog networks consider an honest debate is nothing short of strong-arm suppression of anything even remotely resembling an open exchange of the facts or ideas.

During the Bush administration the press constantly beat the drum of his supposed repression of rights. Yet these two major networks along with their Chicago politics President have now decided to engage in what can only be described as a complete abandoning of human rights not to mention Constitutional protections.

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers".

It cannot be any plainer than that.

NBC has decided to take the doubletalking position that they did not reject the ad but rather have simply told the media agency looking to run it that it will have to edit out what the network considers non-factual claims. Basically what this means is if they change the ad to agree with NBC’s partisan position they will run it, if they don’t they won’t. If that’s not a refusal I don’t know what one is.

ABC stated their network “has long-standing policy that we do not sell time for advertising that presents a partisan position on a controversial issue”. I guess that explains why they didn’t charge the DNC for the multi-hour infomercial they ran in favor of ObamaCare, complete with the President himself hawking its benefits like the Sham-Wow guy.

Anybody with even a modicum of integrity will view this overt attempt to silence free speech with bone chilling fear as to just how far these networks and this administration will go. The resolution to this may end up in civil court or it may even have to go before the UN Council on Human Rights, but it cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.

This just in; Constitutional protections abandoned. More on this along with sports and the weather when we return.