What the Last Four Years Have Revealed

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Front Page Magazine:

Whoever wins today’s election, the Obama presidency and his presidential campaign have exposed troubling political and social dysfunctions that bode ill for our future.

 

 

The Final Corruption of the Mainstream Media

 

Since Watergate and Vietnam, it has been obvious that the media are ideologically liberal. But professional ethics and careerist self-interest still kept at least some reporters willing to pursue the truth no matter whose partisan ox was gored. The last four years have marked a transition from ideological preferences tempered by professional integrity, to rank partisanship and eager collusion with the political needs of the Democrats.

 

 

The media’s failure in 2008 to vet Senator Obama with the same intensity and thoroughness that modern presidential candidates are routinely subjected to was just the beginning. The indifference to Obama’s unsavory connections to his racist pastor Jeremiah Wright, the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, and the sleazy operator Tony Rezko; the failure to demand the full medical records and the college transcripts of an alleged genius; the shrugging away of the numerous fabrications and distortions in Obama’s two memoirs––all would have been meticulously excavated by the media in the case of any other candidate for the highest office in the land. This dereliction on the part of self-styled “watchdogs” helped put into office one of the least-known and most unexamined presidents in U.S. history.