(h/t: Ace)

Journalism Is Dead: Part 1,749,212.

The Associated Press must have wandered too far outside of its Obama Comfort Zone last week when it attempted an open act of journalism after the president’s health care speech.

Not to worry, their lips are dutifully crowding the executive derriere once more.

Assessing the ever-dimming prospects for the Democrats in 2010, AP reporter Beth Fouhy (my guess: registered Independent but has never even looked at a Republican’s name on a ballot) creates the illusion of doing her job objectively but maintains her Obama cred with the use of a few craftily employed words and phrases. It’s a nostalgic sort of media bias, hearkening to the days when they at least wanted to feign fairness.

From New Hampshire to Nevada, House Democrats also will be forced to defend votes on Obama’s $787 billion economic recovery package and on energy legislation viewed by many as a job killer in an already weak economy.

To be fair, cap and trade is only viewed as a job killer by those who have seen what it’s done elsewhere and are being honest about it now.

Add to that the absence of Obama from the top of the ticket, which could reduce turnout among blacks, liberals and young people, and the likelihood of a highly motivated GOP base confused by the president’s proposed health care plan and angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt.

There’s enough crap in this one sentence to fertilize American farmland for a decade.

The subtle racism about the reduced turnout must be OK if it’s done by a left-leaning news organization. And if “liberals and young people” don’t show up to the polls Democrats might not get a hundred votes nationwide. The fortunes of every Democrat running will be left up to ACORN’s ability to fabricate registrations.

So the party’s chances are still good.

Ms. Fouhy keeps herself in good stead with the White House in the last half of her Joycean spinning of Democratic fortunes.

Clearly unable to process how anyone could disagree with each beatific thought emanating from her savior’s head, Fouhy attributes the motivation of those opposed to his version of health care reform to confusion, pure and simple.

I’m confused about women and the enduring popularity of watching people play poker on TV, not about why I don’t like the president’s vision of health care reform. In fact, it may be one of the few things I’m clear on these days.

Our intrepid Hope and Change publicist finishes the sentence with a bit of denial that would make any therapist salivate when considering how much therapy is needed to cure it.

Once more:

angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt

The italics are mine.

You see, kids? Two things that are measured mathematically can be defined solely by our imaginations! It’s only out of control if you are a highly motivated and confused winger nutjob, not because the numbers are, um, HUGE.

“Pay no attention to that president behind the curtain…”