to be a Democrat, and have the press always covering for you.  I mean, Bush’s poll numbers were in the toilet after literally years of day-in, day-out pounding for the war, Katrina, etc.  Can you imagine what Obama’s poll numbers would be like if the press came after him even half as hard?

Anyway, I was reminded yet again of the butt-covering the press will do for their favored class, Democrat politicians when I saw this article in the Galesburg Register Mail.  One quote:

The campaign for the fall elections has already turned nasty on a number of occasions. Hare believes he was unfairly ambushed by supporters of Schilling at an event in Quincy this year. The supporters taped an argument with Hare about health care reform in which he said, “I don’t worry about the constitution.”

But the quote was taken out of context. Hare meant that he didn’t think the health care reforms he ardently supported were unconstitutional.

How do you like that?  The quote was simply “taken out of context,” nothing to see here, move along.  The paper simply accepts as fact — and reports as fact — the claim that Hare was taken out of context.  But is it a “fact” that Hare was taken out of context?

At the time, I noted the exchange:

When questioned where in the Constitution he is granted authority to mandate health care, Hare responded: 

“I don’t worry about the Constitution on this to be honest.” 

Hare then tries to recover and quotes the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” phrase and when corrected that those words come from the Declaration of Independence, says “It doesn’t matter to me.”

Then, when clearly asked again where the Constitution grants authority for mandated Health Care, Hare admits “I don’t know, I don’t know.” 

Hare was asked where the Constitution grants him authority to implement and mandate health insurance, to which he replied he did not “worry about the Constitution on this…”  Nothing provably out of context.  And yet the press is reporting as fact that Hare was taken out of context, and adds helpfully that “Hare meant that he didn’t think the health care reforms he ardently supported were unconstitutional.”  How do they know what he meant when he spoke?  He did not say that, so how do they know?  Simply repeating talking points is not reporting.

Like I said, it must be nice.  What a joke the press in America has become.  Don’t they have any shame?  Did the R-M ever bother to ask Hare about his premeditated and deliberate slander of a constituent?  Nah…. once again, nothing to see here, please move along.

But people are voting with their wallets, one reason newspapers are dying.  And if Americans vote with their wallets this November, the Democrat control of the House will be dead, as well.