Perhaps the White House told Ed Schultz to compare the administration to a powerhouse football team? On Monday's MSNBC program, the liberal host offered a tortured analogy: Barack Obama is just like the University of Auburn's football team and the Republicans are the defeated Alabama. Schultz even replayed Saturday's exciting final play, swapping out player Chris Davis for the President: " Holy smokes, we've got a return by ObamaCare! This is Chris Davis. He's a believer! He's got all those Obama blockers out there !" [MP3 audio here .] Screaming as he narrated the game's final seconds, Schultz continued with... continue reading
On CNN Sunday evening, liberal ESPN columnist LZ Granderson justified the President's repeated lie about ObamaCare, claiming that Americans knew he did it for their own good. "And, time and time again, Americans have said we can deal with the lies that President Obama tells us because we believe in his heart, he has the best interest for the American people ," Granderson insisted. He also accused Peggy Noonan of whitewashing the "atrocities" of the Reagan administration. [Video below. Audio here .] "Peggy Noonan has made a living scrubbing clean President Reagan's administration and all the atrocities that it's committed,"... continue reading
Sharyl Attkisson touted 'Fast and Furious' whistleblower John Dodson as " a rare example, especially amid the Obama administration's war on leaks " during a segment on Monday's CBS This Morning . Attkisson, whose reporting on the arms trafficking scandal won CBS a Edward R. Murrow Award, spotlighted the ATF senior agent's new book on "the inside story of why he went public to expose the government's false denials about its gunwalking secrets ." The correspondent also pointed out how "there's still a court battle over the 'Fast and Furious' documents that President Obama is withholding from Congress under executive... continue reading
ABC announced on Monday that weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion will be leaving the network for the Weather Channel. Champion has developed a long history of the most hyperbolic predictions about climate change. Additionally, the ABC personality has promoted bizarre environmentalists such as No Impact Man, an activist who shunned toilet paper. On February 8, 2008, Champion ridiculously asked Good Morning America viewers, " Could global warming one day force us into space to live? " On June 25, 2007, the weatherman promoted Colin Beavan, the anti-toilet paper No Impact Man. When his ABC colleagues expressed skepticism, Champion... continue reading
On Wednesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, during a discussion of Republican Mike Murphy's suggestion that the next GOP convention should be in Detroit, host Al Sharpton and Karen Finney blamed Republicans for Detroit's problems, with Sharpton referring to the solidly Democratic city as "the same Detroit that was destroyed by the Bush recession." A bit later, guest and Oprah Winfrey Network talk show host Wes Moore suggested that Barack Obama is doing the country a favor by being President, asserting that it was "unfortunate" that conservatives criticize Obama because he "does not have to be doing this," and that there is... continue reading
On Sunday's Meet the Press , as Republican Congressman Mike Rogers denounced ObamaCare's "unprecedented confiscation of people's health care," moderator David Gregory interrupted to parrot White House talking points defending the disastrous policy: "...you talk about confiscation, the reality is there's also a lot of people who are going to have the potential to get insurance who never had insurance. And you have a small piece of the market where people may lose plans. Many of those will get better plans in the individual market." [ Listen to the audio ] Rogers attempted to push back against Gregory's assertions: "But... continue reading
George Will marveled in his column late last week over how “a CNN anchor wondered if an asteroid that passed by Earth on Feb. 15 was ‘an effect of, perhaps, global warming.’” That quote, however, isn’t new to you if you’ve been reading BiasAlerts or attended the MRC’s 2013 “DisHonors Awards” where that was a runner-up in the “ Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis .” My February BiasAlert post, “ Parody or Does She Believe It? CNN Anchor Blames Asteroid on Global Warming ,” relayed: CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an approaching asteroid, which... continue reading
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank reacted to GOP complaints about President Obama's Iran deal by cracking that Republicans "would have reflexively disapproved" even if Obama made a "deal to promote motherhood, baseball and apple pie." But later, Milbank still predicted that the Iranian government "probably are not for real," as he recommended making the effort at a six-month deal anyway. Host Al Sharpton surpisingly also seemed to think it more likely than not that Iran would cheat as he asserted that "it's likely they may not live up to it." After Sharpton introduced the segment... continue reading
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation , MSNBC.com Executive Editor Richard Wolffe described Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan as having put together a budget that was "harsh" and "showing absolutely no compassion" as he appeared as a guest on the MSNBC show. Wolffe: You know, it was harsh. He was being encouraged to be bold and to break the deadlock, but you don't break the deadlock by showing absolutely no compassion. We're talking about extremely low levels of income to qualify for Medicaid at all. A bit earlier, Wolffe also found an excuse to praise former President George W. Bush for once as... continue reading
CNN's Chris Cuomo called the legal challenge to ObamaCare's birth control mandate a "growing distraction from dealing with the problems of ObamaCare" on Wednesday's New Day . " It also raises the question at what point do you stop challenging the law? At what point do you accept that this was passed, it was tested by the Supreme Court? " he asked. "To me, it's a growing distraction from dealing with the problems of Obamacare. " [Video below. Audio here .] Opponents of the mandate insist the case is about matters of religious liberty and conscience, but Cuomo argued ObamaCare... continue reading