The ABCs of the Health Care Debate Bias

Guinevere Nell / August 28, 2009

ABC and NBC have so far refused to run a 33 second advertisement by the League of American Voters that questions the Obama health care plan. ABC has argued that the ad is partisan – yet ABC did not think that giving a megaphone to the Obama administration to make the Democrat’s case on health care was partisan. Fox News reports:

[Dick] Morris, a onetime advisor to former President Bill Clinton, said he was particularly troubled by ABC’s decision not to air the spot.

“It’s the ultimate act of chutzpah because ABC is the network that turned itself over completely to Obama for a daylong propaganda fest about health care reform,” he said. “For them to be pious and say they will not accept advertising on health care shuts their viewers out from any possible understanding of both sides of this issue.”

Obviously Obama would only present objective facts, right? Not everyone thinks so. And, during the Obama propagandathon, ABC also refused to air opposition ads. Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients Rights said at the time: (more…)