To the Editor:

Being an avid viewer of the political scene at all levels, I am appalled at the obvious media bias toward Barack Obama by our national news media, particularly cable news outlets. CNN in particular has a very obvious bias toward the Obama campaign. Their journalists Jack Cafferty should come clean and disclose his clear preference for Obama over Clinton. He misses no opportunity to make one snide comment after another concerning Hillary Clinton. Every statement she makes is held to tight scrutiny, but when Obama continues to embrace a racist pastor, that’s apparently all right.

I am not a Clinton fan either and might just not vote this fall. However, I do believe our news media has some obligation toward fairness. To any reasonable observer it’s obvious our national news media has a real contempt for the Clintons.

A year ago I wouldn’t have been saying any of this, but the attempt to get Hillary to quit the race before all primary and caucus votes are cast is truly unprecedented in our nation’s history. The national news media has clearly appointed our next president. Clinton doesn’t stand a chance, nor does John McCain doesn’t either. The media elites are doing everything possible to insure Obama is our next president.

What’s irritating about this is that Obama gets a majority of his support from “elitist liberals.” He has managed to cobble together a coalition of the urban poor, and the affluent college-educated. Women, working class white people, rural poor and those generally not fitting into the “politically correct” category are left to support Clinton or McCain.

I believe Sen. Obama is a decent man, well educated and highly intelligent. He is a great campaigner and inspirational speaker. It is not the man I oppose. Nor many of his policies. It’s what he represents: the forces in our society who are using him as a symbol of racial diversity.

I have nothing against racial diversity. I have a lot against affirmative action. It has come to represent equality of result over equality of opportunity; the denigration of qualification over diversity. It now takes precedence over talent, qualification and merit. Hard work alone is not sufficient; many liberals desire diversity to the exclusion of a functioning society.

We have no greater example of this than the Obama phenomenon. Four years ago Obama was a state senator in the Illinois Legislature where most of the time he voted “present” on most issues. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and within three years decides to run for president, given a free pass by national media elites. Now he’s the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.

This is an example of affirmative action. To raise these issues inevitably subjects the critic to accusations of racism. It is time that this “reverse bias” stop. Obama, regardless of his ability to inspire, is simply not qualified to be president. If he were a white male, he wouldn’t have gone beyond the Iowa caucus.

I never thought that media bias in this campaign would pull me into the Clinton camp, but it has. She’s gotten a raw deal from our national press and punditry.

It’s time good people put a stop to this.

Brian R. Morgan

Livingston Twp.

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