Turn them off!

If you didn't already have enough reasons to turn off network "news" and leave it off ...

News Tuesday that Tom Daschle withdrew as Health and Human Services Secretary nominee genuinely crushed the network anchors. Obama PR agents Katie Couric and Brian Williams, along with MSNBC's Liberal mouthpiece Andrea Mitchell, were beside themselves over Daschle's tax evasion problems serving as an obstacle to his joining Obama's cabinet.

Couric (in a question to Obama): "You campaigned to change the culture in Washington, to change the politics as usual culture here. Are you frustrated? Do you think it is much, much harder to do that than you ever anticipated?"

Williams: "You lost two nominees, two appointments today. Did that make you angry, I imagine? How do you prevent the lesson from being that, no matter how lofty the goals of the new guy coming in, Washington wins, in the end?"

Mitchell, in an interview with Republican Senator Jim DeMint, chided him by saying "I
just got off the phone with Tom Daschle. And it was an emotional conversation. He was clearly, it sounded as though he were tearful, overwrought. This reads to the public as though the Republicans went after this man, someone that the President very much wanted, and brought him down."

So here's the message the media is delivering to the public: Those mean, nasty, vindictive Republicans are resorting to the lowest of lows to stop our beloved president from doing what this country needs!

Instead of: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

C'mon people! I realize many consider Couric a bad joke and wouldn't trust Williams to give them the time of day, but do you realize how many people in this country have their opinions shaped by what they see and hear on the networks every evening?

Daschle was just one in a stream of Obama nominees and appointees who has been cheating on their taxes. In a number of ways. To the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of them, Timothy Geithner, managed to become confirmed and now heads the IRS as Secretary of the Treasury.

Could there be a more twisted irony?

The tingly-leg media that drools at the mere thought of Obama doesn't see it that way, though. Their message is and always has been that Democrats can do no wrong. Everybody cheats on their taxes, right? Daschle and Obama are victims, casualties of dirty tactics perpetrated by mean 0l' Republicans.

This, of course, is nothing new. The mainstream media's fawning over everything Obama for the last 18 months has been deafening in its bias.

The sad thing is, an awful lot of Americans either can't or won't see it for what it is.

(Imported from Feb. 4, 2009)