On July 14, 2010, Cybercast News Service (CNS) reported that the health care reform legislation Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010 will soon employ tax-payer funds to pay for abortions in Pennsylvania. According to CNS, the “Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.”

And in addition to the $160 million going to Pennsylvania, the federal government is also dispersing $12.5 billion for “community health centers” which can then, in turn, “fund abortions.”

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In other words: When Obama issued an Executive Order barring the use of federal monies for abortion, it meant nothing. (Yes, it meant Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) was gullible, but other than that it meant absolutely nothing.)

Not only is Obama’s administration doing what he promised it wouldn’t do, but it’s trying to cover its tracks while doing it. Thus, instead of sending money directly to abortion providers, monies go to “community health centers” which then pay for abortions as needed. Or, in the case of Pennsylvania, tax-payer monies are placed at the discretion of state administrators for high risk insurance pools who then distribute the funds to abortion clinics.

While the administration may believe this provides them with some degree of plausible deniability, because it’s ostensibly a state official who signs the check that pays the abortionist, they’re not fooling anyone. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) made that much clear on July 13, 2010 when he said, “The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable.”

Yet amid these lies and broken promises, where is the media outrage?

Outside of CNS, where is Keith Olbermann, the Huffington Post, and others who run with every rumor against Republicans, but are silent with it comes to holding Obama’s feet to the fire concerning this deception over tax-payer funded abortion?

How many times did Olbermann feign genuine concern for our nation’s good when he referred to President George W. Bush as liar? For example, it was in his “Special Comment About Lying,” October 6, 2006, that Olbermann not only accused Bush of lying about our enemies in the War on Terror but of “[throwing] this country’s principles away [through his] lies.”

And how many times did the Huffington Post run articles based on raw, unfounded allegations against Sarah Palin in 2008, like when they ran with the National Enquirer’s story alleging an affair between Palin and her husband’s business partner?

It appears that the commentators who were eager to prove Bush a liar over things that weren’t lies and the newspapers that were chomping at the bit to accuse a high profile Republican of something unfounded have remained altogether quiet when it comes to reporting the facts about Obama’s lies.

When liberal pundits like Olbermann justify their criticism of Bush’s alleged “lies” based on a love of this “country’s principles,” they need to remember that they undercut those very principles by turning a blind eye to the actual lies of Democrats who ought to be held to the same standard as Republicans.

And this is particularly true when the lying Democrat is in the White House, and when the ramifications of his actions entail the use of tax-payer funds to pay for abortions.