Is this, sadly, going to be the second campaign in a
row where the so-called mainstream media will make
a fetish of fact-checking the Republican candidates
while ignoring the misstatements and gaffes of the
Democratic candidates of which there is now just
one, President Barack Obama?
Last week, as both Newsbusters and the MRC
documented, the New York Times (Kevin Sack)
published a lengthy piece on how the White
House declined to challenge a new book by
ex-Times reporter Janny Scott that documents
how Obama mischaracterized a central anecdote
about his mothers deathbed dispute with her
insurance company.
The broadcast networks throughout the 2008
campaign and the Presidents push for ObamaCare
repeatedly conveyed Obamas claim that while
his mother, Ann Dunham, was sick with terminal
cancer, she had to fight with insurance companies
to pay for her treatment.
I will never forget my own mother, as she fought
cancer in her final months, having to worry about
whether her insurance would refuse to pay for her
treatment, Obama told an August 11, 2009 town
hall meeting in New Hampshire.
But ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to mention Scotts
now-undisputed account, drawn from a review of
Ms. Dunhams correspondence with the insurance
company: Anns compensation for her job in Jakarta
had included health insurance, which covered most
of the costs of her medical treatment.
Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her
insurance company directly, leaving Ann only to pay
the deductible ..........
