Now that today's American media outsources fact checking to 3rd parties and uses clearly misleading information to create TMZ style conflict and he said/she said reporting, we find ourselves in a situation where the MSM is the enabler by not challenging the GOP or their conservative messengers. No push back AT ALL except by Jon Stewart and evening hosts of MSNBC. That's it.

Media Matters for America has some very good postings on this today including this one that highlights some of this nonsense perpetrated by Politico here.

Bottom line for the MSM is this: they simply allow the GOP and their conservative allies to push clearly misleading and false information and pose their nonsense back to the general public and Dems, thereby giving it credence and the "possibility" of being true.

Add to that, the fear that the MSM has at debunking conservative talking points because of the bullying tactics of Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, et. al. and they now end up outsourcing correcting these myths to PoliticiFact or FactCheck.org. What, the press does not have fact checkers or reporters that can think for themselves any longer?

Look, the hatred of Obama in right-wing circles (militias, if you will) started back at the Palin rallies in 2008 with shouts of "terrorist", "kill him", "Hitler", "soclialist", etc. And they are the same people waving the exact same banners against healthcare.

These people do not understand the actual debate because our media does not know how to handle a complex issue without focusing on simple drama and conflict.

No matter what the issue or the law being discussed, these same tea baggers will come out with YouTube and Fox News clips with the same anti-Obama message and signs.

It is the responsibility of the media to understand this and call it out.