Apparently its spelled ABC... ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE ABC promises Republicans health care coverage won't be Obama 'infomercial' By Richard Huff DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR Updated Wednesday, June 17th 2009, 7:31 AM ABC News officials Tuesday defended a planned White House-set special on health-care reform from charges by the Republican National Committee that it would be nothing more than a "glorified infomercial" to promote a Democratic agenda. "Poppycock" is what ABC officials said, though in more official terms. The dustup began when officials at the Republican National Committee got wind that ABC News would devote extensive coverage to the topic, including an interview with President Obama and the First Lady on "Good Morning America," a White House-set telecast of "World News" and a one-hour prime-time town-hall type discussion with the President on health care on June 24. "I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue," RNC Chief of Staff Ken McKay wrote in a letter to ABC News President David Westin. The letter received prominent play Tuesday on the Drudge Report. Not so fast, said ABC officials, who maintain all sides of the argument will be represented. "In the end, no one watching, listening to, or reading ABC News will lack for an understanding of all sides of these important questions," ABC News Senior Vice President Kerry Smith said in a letter to the RNC. ABC responded after it was suggested on the Drudge Web site that it had turned over control of the program to the Obama administration. The audience and questions for the prime-time special will be selected by ABC and only ABC, according to a spokesman, and the goal is to have a balanced broadcast with various views. "Our starting and ending point is to be informative and fair, thoughtful and thought-provoking," said an ABC News spokesman. "We will be picking the audience for the conversation. And the goal in picking an audience is not to come up with a roomful of people who agree with one another." In his letter to McKay, the ABC exec said the RNC had set up "a number of false premises." The RNC had no further statement, according to a spokeswoman. The RNC's attack appears to be an example of how the party intends to fight the camera-friendly Obama administration, which just recently got two hours of prime-time coverage on NBC with Brian Williams, is now letting ABC into the White House, and is on television virtually every day with a presidential appearance. Moreover, coverage of the First Lady as a style icon has all but reached the play-by-play level. "I think it's pretty obvious politics," said Jay DeDapper, a veteran political reporter for WABC/Ch. 7 and WNBC/Ch. 4. "When NBC essentially did a version of [MTV's] 'Cribs' in the White House a few weeks back under the guise of news, the GOP said nothing, leaving it to Jon Stewart to point out the obvious - there was no news value at all - it was a promotional stunt by NBC News accommodated by a White House happy to use the network to advance the administration's political goals. "In this case," DeDapper said, "the RNC is finally doing what it should, from the political point of view, have done then."
Poor Republican babies! Whaaaaaaaaaa. They are broadcasting from inside the White House! They like OBama! Whaaaaa! It's not fair!!! Whaaaaa! They aren't representing us? Oh wait, they are? Whaaaaaaaa!
No whining here, I don't watch much television; especially not that channel. But there are a lot of people who will be watching this biased news coverage of a proposed plan that is neither fiscally responsible nor constitutionally allowed.
What specific clause in the Constitution forbids gov't health care? Is Medicare and Medicade illegal as well? Why not challenge these in court and get them ruled unconstitutional?
You need to brush up on your reading and comprehension skills my friend... Its the national health care that is unconstitutional. Go read the tenth amendment, which has been conveniently ignored since the the horror days of FDR. Amentment X (1791): The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constituion, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people. But since you brought it up, the press is supposed to report the news as an unbiased mouth piece otherwise it just becomes an op-ed.
Again - why not sue and get it declared so? Or why hasn't anyone else done so? The Constitution specifies a very clear process for determining what is or isn't unconstitutional.
Do you think that the Constitution is clearly followed? Judges are allowed to bend the Constitution thru interpretation, and the government has shown in the past that they can go right by it. The biggest problem with the Constitution is that it written over 200 years ago. The world has changed moreso than the document over that time frame.
Yes. And that's specifically allowed by the Constitution. Examples? Which is why the Constitution included a Judicial branch that was allowed the power of interpretation as needed. The Constitution ultimately specifies that the Supreme Court is the arbiter of what is or isn't Constitutional. So if the SC says it is, then it is Constitutional by definition. That doesn't mean its fair or wanted or good - but it's Constitutional. If OddsOn really believes that health care is unconstitutional, there is a system in place to detemine that.
If you do your history this all stems back to the days of the original "progressives" a.k.a. "communists in the USA" who took full advantage of the great depression by stacking the supreme court and strong arming droves of government programs into place under the guise of being better for the country. Well history has shown that its was not better for the country, it didn't help get us out of the depression, it put the country further into debt, created unavoidable class envy that has been repeatedly exploited by politicians, and set a terrible precedent for the last 80 years that has allowed the federal government to stick its nose into every aspect of our lives.
To all but a few discredited historians the FDR's programs definitely helped us get out of the depression and lessened the severity of it along the way.
In referencing the extremists he used the term "we" , so I asked if he was associating himself with the recent murderers on purpose. He didn't reply.
Um.... technically this isn't correct. The Constitution never setup the right of the Supreme Court to interpret the document, nor did it establish Judicial Review. Those were precedent set later
Patriot Act to me clearly violates the Constitution. I'm sorry that you don't believe the Constitution has been raped for decades. I think the Contitution is dated.
