For the last couple of days, in the midst of North Korea’s serious provocations, I have been reading reports on how the President was able to kill a fly. They reported how the organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) reacted to the fly-swatting incident. Then I read a report that Abraham Lincoln also swatted a fly in his day, yet another “similarity” between Obama and the great emancipator. In fact, I am sure that every president, like most human beings not living in Antarctica, have had encounters with flies… the question is: should the media be wasting the public’s time with insignificant stories like this one?

The mainstream media has had a very public love-affair with the Obama administration. Recently, the editor of Newsweek Evan Thomas compared Obama to God, topping the list of ways that the media has been genuflecting in front of the Celebrity-in-Chief. The fact that those in the media do not even pretend to conceal their bias shows the public that the mainstream media does not even try to uphold standards of objectivity. Here’s the clip describing Obama as God:

Thinking about it yesterday, stories like the fly-swatting one only serve one purpose: they distract us from what the president is really doing. Think about it, Obama has inserted the government in the free markets, he has angered the gay community which is one of his most important voting bloc, he has asked for talks with Iran and that has resulted in the re-election of Ahmadinejad and giving more time for Iran to develop nuclear weapons, he has allowed North Korea to detonate another nuclear weapon and launch missiles, and the stimulus has yet to do anything noteworthy. While the media has reported these items, they have done so with kid gloves. For example, when Hezbollah failed to overwhelmingly win the Lebanese elections, the media immediately pointed to Obama as a main reason that the pro-western political coalition won (see this article). On the other hand, when discussing the “Obama effect” on the Iranian elections, the media seems to point to the demonstrations as the only sign of it. What the media does not do is address the fact that Ahmadinejad was leading in the polls before the election, regardless of Obama or maybe due to Obama, and if it is true that the vote was rigged, it shows that the ruling clique of Iran is not worried about being flagrantly dictatorial. Where’s the “Obama effect” here? Of course, even with the Lebanese elections, the media distorts the “Obama effect” when they do not report that despite Hezbollah’s loss, they actually won 55% of the popular vote (see the end of this article). This means that in spite of Obama’s rhetoric, the considerable majority of the Lebanese people believes that Hezbollah and their political allies were the better choice, not the pro-western, Obama-backed parties. It looks like the “Obama effect” has actually not done anything to weaken Iran nor Hezbollah, a fact that the mainstream media will ignore completely.

The media is giving the president a pass on his myriad of failures and promoting him as the world’s “savior” at a time when the enemies of America are re-arming, re-grouping, and challenging our place in the world. Imagine the raucous laughter emanating from Bin Laden’s cave when this cowardly terrorist hears that the American public is more interested in Obama’s fly-swatting adventures than the re-emergence on the Taliban. Seriously, more people have heard about the fly-swat-heard-round-the-world than about the near constant terrorist attacks in nuclear-armed Pakistan… how many terrorist attacks have there been you ask? Well, in descending order, there was the bombing of three schools today, the bombing of a market in the city of Dera Islamil Khan that killed 8 on Sunday, the killing of an anti-Taliban cleric and the suicide bombing of a mosque on June 13th, the suicide truck bomb of a hotel in Peshawar that killed 15 on June 9th, and the list goes on. I guess the mainstream media does not regard the possible implosion of a nuclear state to be newsworthy.

The Anti-American Axis of terrorists and tyrants, fundamentalist and atheist, is not resting. Instead of informing and alerting the American public, the mainstream media is comparing Obama to God, talking about his dog, and swooning over his wife. Our enemies are more than happy to see the American public so thoroughly distracted so that they can work in peace. It is the duty of all Americans interested in the preservation of this great nation to stay informed and form independent opinions. What the mainstream media is spoon-feeding us is tainted by their adoration of this false prophet, we must not allow them to tell us what to think… this is yet another way that the preachers of conformity and complacency are turning America away from our spirit of independence. We must resist!

-AG