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Although it has not yet been passed, the Obamanation Health-Care plan has caused the death of its first victim.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to mourn the death of a free and open press. It was not a sudden demise by any means. We have been forced to stand by helplessly and watch as the slow decline of openness and balance has given way to the ravages of left wing partisanship for some time.

The senseless beheading of Richard Nixon in the now infamous Watergate non-event was at least offset slightly by the less than friendly coverage of Jimmy Carter and his dysfunctional hillbilly family, as well as his failures at anything even remotely presidential. Repeated efforts to thwart Ronald Reagan and the ravenous exploitation of the Iran-Contra hearings were in the end a failure, but success was celebrated in every newsroom around the country with the false economic forecasts that tipped the scales in favor of Bill Clinton over his predecessor George H.W. Bush. Clinton lived the dream for a while having ardent press support until a blue dress forced them to turn on the hand that had fed them and expose the hypocrisy.

George W Bush garnered support after the tragedy of 9-11 but that soon faded when the Democrat playbook called for rewriting history and the need to convince Americans that it was our own fault that we were being killed. Try as many of them did, there was still just enough balance and honesty by a rare few to foil John Kerry’s grandstand play allowing Bush a second term, even in the midst of an unpopular but ultimately necessary war.

But with the election of the Anointed One we can now lay to rest any hope of recovery for the ailing bastions of truth and fairness. The once free press has gleefully handed over their investigatory reins to this say anything administration and is no longer even the slightest bit concerned about faking an attempt to appear fair or balanced.

During the Bush administration Democrats thought it would be useful to punish the Fox News Channel by boycotting appearances on the network. The plan failed miserably as Fox maintained their ratings dominance over all the other news outlets, so during the last presidential campaign Democrats lined the halls of Fox News to get some national face time. Fox accepted them back like prodigal sons and allowed each their say.

But now ABC (the All Barack Channel) has successfully staged a coup by being named the sole news outlet to broadcast from inside the White House what they are claiming to be an open question and answer format town hall meeting with the president regarding his new health-care plan. The only drawback to this “open” discussion is that Republicans are being banned from attending.

The Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay sent a strong protest to ABC stating that the RNC was “deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC’s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue…” McKay went on to say “Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party’s views to those of the President’s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party’s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.”

McKay also suggested that without any opposition allowed in the room this will likely be nothing but a “glorified infomercial” in which case the DNC should pay for the airtime.

The response from ABC’s Senior VP Kerry Smith would be almost laughable if it weren’t so tragic. He said “ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers — of all political persuasions — even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.

“ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.”

So let me get this straight, you are hand-picking the audience allowed to attend and taking complete control over the questions to be asked, and you have the balls to describe yourselves as journalists? You’re not reporting the news, you are writing a screenplay.

If ABC is looking for a moderator for this debacle maybe they can get the Sham Wow guy.