His media obligation is to provide information for the public.

But in an interview segment on MSNBC, David Shuster asked a question of Democrat Rep. Jim Moran that if raised in a courtroom would be stuck down for speculation, irrelevance, and assuming facts not in evidence.

Before asking Moran a question, Shuster primed the mental pump of the viewing public with this, “We know that threats to President Obama are up by like something 400 percent compared to the Bush administration.”

Shuster was not so subtly spreading the idea that criticism of Obama’s healthcare plan places the president in peril, because the next words out of his mouth were, “Is this [town hall protests] putting our president in some sort of danger because of some wacko that will see this stuff and say, ‘oh, yes, it’s fascism and the way we dealt with Adolf Hitler was to try to kill him, so therefore, let’s do this with our president?'”

Moran grabbed the brainwashing baton and ran with it, saying, “Well, you know, it only took — takes one person. It took one person to shoot Ronald Reagan, Jack Kennedy, and so on. But I think the Secret Service can be trusted to protect the president. But it does discredit those people who are using such extreme measures to achieve an objective, which is really corporate profit.”

How does the sincerely concerned citizen fight back against this kind of manipulation?

Spread the truth and support authentic conservatives on the front lines in radio, TV, and print.