By Dave Andrusko

I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, but with pro-abortion Democrats no longer controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency, pro-life Republican attempts in the House of Representatives to rollback some of the damage done these pass two years will be met with stiff resistance. That resistance, unfortunately, will be supplemented by news accounts that treat the very laws Republicans are trying to repeal (and replace) as if they are carved in stone.

Newsbusters is a very useful site on many accounts, but particularly helpful to pro-lifers who do not have the time to ferret out all the many instances of media bias. Recently it produced an excellent overview of how the Associated Press has been treating GOP promises to repeal ObamaCare (www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/01/04/ap-lingo-republicans-hack-away-derisively-obamas-landmark-health-care-ac)

In a word ObamaCare is treated reverentially—it’s historic,” a “landmark reform.” Newsbusters quotes from one AP story: “Full repeal of the health care law is still a long shot. The House vote would be just the first, easiest step. But House Republicans vow they will follow up with dozens of attempts to hack away at what they derisively call ‘Obamacare.’"

“Hack away at”? If the AP wants to quote Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi to that effect, fine. But to pronounce it as if it is given is not acceptable—at least outside the editorial and opinion pages.

The best part of the Newsbusters’ analysis is when Tim Graham explores how the AP comes to the conclusion that ObamaCare is, in some sense, popular.

The AP cherry picked a couple of provisions that virtually everyone agreed with but ignores “its own poll of November 3-8 that showed 38 percent approved of the “landmark” Obama law, while 47 percent disapproved,” Graham writes.

Moreover, “AP ignored its own poll of November 17-21 that found 57 percent of respondents felt ObamaCare would add to the deficit, and only 14 percent believed White House claims that it would reduce the deficit,” Graham writes. “When asked if an increased deficit would be worth it for the benefits of ObamaCare, 25 percent said ‘worth it’ and 72 percent said ‘not worth it.’”

We’re only a couple of days into Republican control of the House and a determined offensive to repeal and replace ObamaCare. We will read and hear many more misleading stories. Forewarned is forearmed.

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