Drudge reports that ABC is giving the president a primetime special to push his health care plan:
On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
Highlights on the agenda:
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, [which will] exclude opposing voices on the debate.
(Via the Corner.)
ABC News responds that, although the president will be the only one responding to questions, they will make sure the program is fair. To suggest otherwise is “quite unfair.” Well, that’s a relief.
Seriously though, there is one way they could persuade me that this will be fair, and that would be to put John Stossel in charge of the program. I won’t be holding my breath.
POSTSCRIPT: It used to be that I had a fair amount of respect for ABC News (although even then, not enough to give this travesty a pass). But they never corrected Charles Gibson’s outright lie in his Sarah Palin interview last year, so not any more.
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