Where is the outrage?

Seriously, where is the media outrage? Anyone that does not think there is a serious left wing bias to media reporting is delusional. Remember a month or so back when the Federal Government threatened California with losing federal money if they did not cave in to the Service union demands? The State was trying to save money by cutting services; unfortunately, they dared to cut a program that employed union workers. Union workers that happen to belong to a union whose leader happens to be in really tight with President Obama. A Chicago Tribune article this week outlines an ongoing relationship between the White House and Andy Stern, who leads the Service Employees International Union. It seems that Mr Stern visits the White House at least weekly, and according to Stern, "We get heard".

Why would a union leader get such intimate access to the President? Just follow the money.

The Obama-Stern relationship has emerged as among the more curious within the young administration.

The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama, according to the union. Stern says the group deployed 100,000 volunteers during the campaign, including 3,000 who worked on the election full-time, and made 15 million phone calls. Chicago Tribune

More, this is not a new relationship:

But Stern notes that SEIU's political loyalties are solid, reaching back to the 2004 race for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, when Obama was a long shot but earned the union's endorsement. "Our relationship was built in an earlier era," Stern said. CT

So, what happens when you spend $60+ million to get a Senator elected and then get that Senator into the White House? Perks! Favors! Benefits! You can threaten the state of California and be backed by the President; you can be instrumental in forming public policy on health care and immigration (big time issues for the unions); and jobs for the cronies!

Stern, for his part, can boast that union officials are scattered in jobs throughout the Obama administration. White House political director Patrick Gaspard is a former executive at an SEIU local based in New York. No other union has placed anyone at such a high level in the White House. Anna Burger, secretary-treasurer of SEIU, was appointed to Obama's economic recovery board. And union associate counsel John Sullivan was named to the six-member Federal Election Commission. CT

Imagine, just for a minute, if President Bush had appointed employees of Haliburton and Exxon to positions of power and influence over energy policy. The media firestorm would have been off the charts! We would not have heard the end of it until those people were removed from their positions.

I am starting to think that there is not anything that the mainstream media will not give Obama a pass on. After all, they probably helped get him elected more than the unions did; can't make him look bad now.