The Media's Bias: McCain vs. Obama's Church

The Media’s Bias: McCain vs. Obama’s Church

First, does anybody know where McCain goes to church—if he goes at all?

Second, has the news media sent reporters to camp out at McCain’s church, if he has one?

Yet, the media has sent television reporters to “camp out” at Trinity Church of Christ every Sunday to film whatever preacher is preaching his or her sermons. Has the media sent television crews to Hillary’s church, if she has one?

Senator Obama has rejected and renounced his minister of long standing. The white priest that dissed Senator Clinton is not the pastor of Senator Obama. He merely preached a sermon at Obama’s church. Now, what is the media doing encroaching upon the private sanctuary of one candidate’s church? More to the point is why is the media encroaching on the private sanctuary of one’s candidate’s church while at the same time totally ignoring the others? Reverend Wright is no longer the pastor of Obama’s church and Obama has rejected and renounced him. There is absolutely no further justification for the media to violate the sanctity of church, except to try to tag Senator Obama with any and all future sermons preached at the church. Furthermore, the Senator was not attending church on the Sunday of the sermon by this white priest.

The news media, particularly Fox News, has set forth its private mission to film and distribute each and every sermon of Trinity Church of Christ. It might be time for churches to bar the media from its sanctuary. After all, McCain bars the media from his private fund-raising efforts and the church is at least as private as a fund-raising for a political office. This extreme scrunity is going to drive Obama out of that Church in violation of the First Amendment--the right to assembly and worship.

My recommendation is that all news media in the future be barred from all candidates’ churches since they are not attending for moral and spiritual guidance and uplifting, e.g. the purpose of attending the church.

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©All Rights Reserved.Reproduction is permitted provided credit is given.Lenton Aikins, Ph.D., J.D.Dr. Aikins has traveled widely, lived abroad in Europe and Latin America, recently spending three years in Costa Rica as Director of a Spanish Language school. He holds a Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, a Juris Doctor in Law from Western State University, College of Law. He is the author of many articles and of While African Americans Slept: Leadership by Parasites, now available at: http://lentonaikins.com, and available in all bookstores July 1,
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