ABC’s biased “Prescription for America” will be giving Obama a free platform to promote his health care reform plan. However, no opposing viewpoints will be presented, as the station is not featuring any Republicans on the program to balance the president’s proposals. ABC’s Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer are to ‘moderate’ the nationally televised infomercial. In an interesting ‘coincidence’, former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass is now the Director of Communications for the Obama White House Office of Health Reform. The mainstream media is working hard for the Democrats America.

Even more disturbing is that ABC will not allow any advertisements that offer a differing point of view. Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients Rights, submitted an ad to ABC that offers a free-market alternative to President Obama’s $1 trillion plus health care reform plan, but the ad was rejected. A spokesperson for ABC said the ad was rejected because the network does not accept “advocacy advertising.” This is absurd, as ABC is itself advocating state-run health care.

ABC claims “those in the audience” will ask questions of the president. But without allowing a Republican rebuttal, or even a simple 60-second commercial, I have to wonder how many of  “those in the audience” will ask a difficult question, or point out the problems with government-run health care in other countries.

Keith Appell, a spokesman for Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, responded: “Given the importance and the scope of health-care reform, how can ABC allow just one side to be presented in a news format? When Bill Clinton pitched his health-care plan in a speech before Congress, ABC aired the Republican response. Now ABC won’t even air a paid alternative viewpoint.” Unfortunately, most television news stations have devolved into nothing more than wholly owned subsidiaries of the Democratic Party.