In a remarkable bit of investigative research by journalists at the good CNSNews.com, they tracked down another rather glaring example of the abject perfidy of today’s liberal news media. They caught three of the most major liberal papers in America deleting tawdry bits of Obama’s government health-care sales speech, presumably in order to protect their man Obama from ridicule, and to help him sell his government plan.
This is another example of the egregious abandonment of journalistic integrity that we’re witnessing today. That story—that abandonment of objectivity in the news media—is, in and of itself, one of the biggest news stories of our time: it’s the perfidy of the news media who has abandoned objectivity in favor of a left-wing political agenda. (The newspaper (or any mainstream media) that decides to re-set its course and embrace honesty and cover that story, will be the beloved media outlet of the century, mark my words. Oh wait: Fox News Channel is already number one by a country mile.)
And the interesting bit for Canadians, who suffer from a North Korean-style health care system not unlike what Obama is foisting on Americans at a cost of 1.6 TRILLION additional taxpayer dollars, is that the bit of speech that has been hidden from readers is the sentence, “I’ll be honest, there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well.”
Even the liberal media know that to be a ridiculous thing to say. So what do they do? They erase it from history! Voila!
Major Newspapers Expunge Obama’s Comment That ‘Single-Payer System Works Pretty Well’
Major Papers Expunge Obama’s Comment: ‘I’ll Be Honest, There Are Countries Where a Single-Payer System Works Pretty Well’Tuesday, June 16, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama told the American Medical Association yesterday that he believes single-payer health care systems have worked “pretty well” in some countries, but no major U.S. newspaper available in the Nexis database reported the president’s comment in their news stories about the speech.
However, three of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers—the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times—did publish quotes from the president’s speech that artfully took language from both immediately before and after the president’s statement that single-payer systems work.
“I’ll be honest,” Obama said in his speech to the AMA, “there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well.”
A search of the the terms “Obama,” “single-payer,” and “pretty well” in the “Major Newspapers” file of Nexis turned up no hits as of 3:00 PM on Tuesday, June 16.
The full context of the president’s comment about the efficacy of single-payer health-care plans is available in the official transcript of the speech posted on the White House website.
One paragraph of the White House transcript reads as follows:
“Let me also say that—let me also address a illegitimate concern that’s being put forward by those who are claiming a public option is somehow a Trojan Horse for a single-payer system. I’ll be honest; there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well. But I believe—and I’ve taken some flak from members of my own party for this belief—that it’s important for our efforts to build on our traditions here in the United States. So when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They’re not telling the truth.”
The president’s statement that “I’ll be honest; there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well” did appear in transcripts of the speech available on Nexis database, but not in articles in major newspapers. For example, it was transcribed in a CNN newscast that carried the president’s speech live, and also on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” which used that portion of the president’s speech as a soundbite.
But in the stories about the speech in the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times, words from both before and after the president’s statement about a single-payer system working pretty well appeared, while the statement itself did not. (These stories were also searchable and available on the Nexis “Major Newspapers” database.)
The Post reported on Obama’s speech to the AMA in a page 2 story. The story quoted the passage in the speech that included Obama’s claim that single-payer systems have worked well in some countries, but excised the sentence where he said it, using ellipses to mark its removal.
The relevant paragraph of the Post story reads as follows:
“In his speech, Obama said, ‘Let me also address an illegitimate concern that’s being put forward by those who are claiming that a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system. … When you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They’re not telling the truth.” …
I love the CNSNews’ last paragraph:
Apparently, the editors of the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times did not think their readers would be interested in knowing that President Obama believes “there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well.”
EXTRA EXTRA:
The Obama-loving National Post, while quoting the President often in their Reuters-based story covering the speech, also fails to include those words “I’ll be honest, there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well.”
The Obama-loving CTV in their AP-based story also artfully failed to report the sentence, “I’ll be honest, there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well,” but did include the sentence that followed, which was “When you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They are not telling the truth,” Obama said.
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