Slanted Times

I feel so good tonight
Who cares about tomorrow
So baby, you'd better believe
--Kiss

Drivel like this demonstrates why the NYT consistently places among the most biased of media outlets. The article seeks to paint a Georgetown prof, who has long argued the unconstitutionality of various federal laws, as an isolated opponent of Obamacare. And that, somehow, he has 'helped drive the question of the health care law's constitutionality from the fringes of academia into the mainstream American legal debate and right onto the agenda of the United States Supreme Court.'

Fringes of academia? The question of Obamacare's constitutionality is apparent to anyone who has read the Constitution and understands the principle of limited government. Challenges to the constitutionality of Obamacare were being organized while the legislation was being jammed thru Congress in late 2009.

It does not take long before the reader of this piece can confidently surmise that the authors are hostile to the notion of the unconstitutionality of Obamacare.

The article employs tactics so frequently seen by left slanted media. Isolate an issue and wrap it up in a person (target). Make that target seem out step and perhaps a bit eccentric. Cite other sources/precedents that add to the sense that this target must be 'wrong'--making the issue itself seem wrong. Never deep dive into an investigation of the validity of the target's argument/claims.

Exit, slant left. Goebbels would nodding approve.