"The new President has been bruised along the way as poll numbers
are falling and he has seen his message hijacked as town meetings have
exploded with wild and false rumors of 'death panels' deciding when a
human life should end," Brian Williams declared at the top of
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, in adopting as fact the liberal
presumption that conservatives, not liberals, are guilty of the
misrepresentations.
In advance of President Obama's prime time speech before Congress to
push his health care agenda, Williams began his September 9 newscast
for the Eastern and Central time zones:
President Obama is asking Congress to reform health care - and while we are just 233 days into the Obama presidency - the new President has been bruised along the way as poll numbers are falling and he has seen his message hijacked as town meetings have exploded with wild and false rumors of 'death panels' deciding when a human life should end. So tonight, beneath the Capitol dome, the stakes are high...
- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center