The last week or so has seen some pretty amazing events, but the reaction to the events is almost as interesting as the events themselves.
We had two young people with a hidden camera film ACORN employees at multiple locations helping them set up a brothel, import young Salvadoran girls, and try to evade taxes. The indignation in the media has been aimed at the two young people who exposed ACORN.
When confronted with the ACORN story, ABC news anchor Charlie Gibson claimed to have not heard of it, despite the fact that it was everywhere on the internet.
President Obama appeared before a joint session of congress and before the American people, lied through his teeth, and claimed that anyone criticizing his health plan was lying. One congressman lost his cool and called the president a liar, which is exactly what Obama is. Rather than explain to the public what Congressman Wilson was referring to, the mainstream media has beat up the congressman and made the issue about "decorum," something that was notably absent in the halls of congress from 2001 through 2008.
Unable to effectively rebut the charge of Obama being a liar, the administration set about to call everyone who objected to his health care plan "racists," including people who voted for him.
Washington saw one of the largest public demonstrations in our history but, according to the media, it didn't happen.
We saw Obama appoint to a high position a man who was clearly a racist, and who believed that the US government conspired to cause the 9/11 attacks. Yet it was the president's critics who were covered with the media's mud when the truth about Jones came to light.
I think even Orwell would be shocked.
