Columnist: Obama campaign 'sheer deception'

Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell can't believe the mainstream media is perpetuating the manufactured outrage from the Obama camp every time John McCain or Sarah Palin bring up Barack Obama's checkered past.

Sowell, who is black, says the cries of "racism" whenever Obama's links to domestic terrorist William Ayers or anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright or the far-left voter fraud group ACORN, are brought up is ludicrous.

He doesn't fault Obama as much as he points a finger on the Obama media.

From Sowell's column:

Those in the media who deplore "negative advertising" regard it as unseemly to dig up ugly facts instead of sticking to the beautiful rhetoric of an election year. The oft-repeated mantra is that we should stick to the "real issues." What are called "real issues" are election-year talking points, while the actual track record of the candidates is treated as a distraction — and somehow an unworthy distraction.

Does anyone in real life put more faith in what people say than in what they do? A few gullible people do — and they often get deceived and defrauded big-time.

Obama has carried election-year makeovers to a new high, presenting himself as a uniter who reaches across the partisan and racial divides — after decades of promoting polarization in each of his successive roles and each of his choices of political allies.

Yet the media treat exposing a fraudulent election-year image as far worse than letting someone acquire the powers of the highest office in the land through sheer deception.

Read the full column, "Media Help Obama Cover A Suspect Past," on the Investor's Business Daily Web site.