Obama Implements Fairness Doctrine Early

Guess what happens when you don't endorse The One?  You get kicked off the plane.  That's right.  The New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, and the Washington Times dared to endorse John McCain for the election, and their reporters were kicked off the plane.

Now, to be fair, Joe Klein and Maureen Dowd both lost their seats on the McCain plane earlier this year.  But  Joe-K and Mo-Dowd are opinion columnists, not reporters. There is a big difference.  And McCain isn't part of a capo regime planning to re-invoke the highly unconstitutional Fairness Doctrine.

It's not enough to tear into an average white guy YOU ask a question of. It's not enough to do an illegal search using government resources of that white guy.  No, now you want to kick news reporters off the plane because their editorial boards chose to make an endorsement that displeases the candidate.

Actually, I think this is instructive as to how the left views news reporting.  The left in this country sees no fundamental distinction between news reporting and opinion pages.  None at all. For evidence, see The Baltimore Sun.  And the mass media goes right along with this worldview.  They regularly mix the difference between news reporting and opinion/commentary.  In fact, in major organs like The New York Times, Pinch Sulzberger has done a fine job in turning the former "paper of record" into one large lefist editorial page.

One wonders what will happen in January if The One wins.  I'll bet the press room will be a lot emptier.