PBS Whitewashes Obama's Radical Past, Dissing Romney
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Media: PBS' documentary last week "presenting the definitive portraits of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney" was so partial to Obama it fortifies Romney's case to end PBS subsidies.
The two-hour, "in-depth" documentary — "The Choice 2012" — was purported to get at what makes the presidential candidates tick. But it spent more time focusing on how Romney developed his political ideology, which allegedly centers around money and "privilege."
Obama, on the other hand, has no ideology other than an indefatigable concern for "the poor," according to the "Frontline" special, which was heavily promoted by the Obama propaganda network, MSNBC.
The show takes viewers back to Obama's teen years in Hawaii, where he grew up under the care of his white middle-class grandparents. They raised him after his father, and later his mother, abandoned him. It leaves viewers to believe Obama lived in a fairly normal environment where he was allowed to establish his identity on his own without any radical influences.
Except PBS left out the salient fact that his "Gramps" was best pals with Frank Marshall Davis, a black communist who fled Chicago for Honolulu after the FBI investigated him for un-American activities. The feds opened a file on harmless old Gramps, as well.
Late grandfather Stanley Dunham introduced Obama to Davis, and through regular indoctrinations at his Waikiki bungalow, Davis brainwashed him to believe capitalism was evil and America racist. During high school, Obama sat at Davis' knee, drinking in Marxist poetry around shots of whiskey. Davis was like a second father to him, yet PBS neglected to mention him at all.
And Obama's real father never really left the scene. Barack Hussein Obama Sr. visited his son for weeks at a time in Honolulu, and wrote him letters throughout his college years. PBS glosses over his influence for the same reason it ignores Davis' influence: Obama's father also was a communist.
There's yet another communist we don't hear about in PBS' profile of Obama, though he also helped shape his politics. His name is Bill Ayers, the unrepentant Pentagon bomber who launched Obama's political career from his living room and ghost-wrote Obama's memoir.
In the documentary, we do hear from two radical activists who hired Obama to agitate against corporations on behalf of poor blacks in South Side Chicago. But Jerry Kellman and Mike Kruglik are identified simply as "community organizers." In fact, they are disciples of Chicago communist Saul Alinsky.
Instead of focusing on Obama's radical past, PBS zeroes in on Romney's Mormon faith. His early Mormon chums are interviewed, along with Mormon church officials and Mormon experts, who speculate how his spiritual beliefs informed his politics.
Obama's faith? It warrants no airtime, though Black Liberation Theology and its Marxist underpinnings have influenced the president's politics enormously.
PBS aired no remarks by his radical America-bashing preacher, though PBS has interviewed the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the past. It conducted no interviews with fellow Trinity United Church of Christ parishioners, though Obama spent 20 years in that militantly Afro-centric congregation.
PBS recycled much of its footage involving Obama from its 2008 documentary featuring him and John McCain.
Nothing has changed in four years except the opponent. PBS is still glossing over Obama's radical warts. Taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize such one-sided journalism.