CNN's Chris Cuomo was in full ObamaCare-apologist mode on Friday's New Day , asking if the uproar over millions losing their insurance wasn't a "straw man" that Republicans were "distracting" the media with. "So it comes to are we being distracted in the media into this political play by opponents of President Obama and making this more than it is? " Cuomo said of the "five percent" who lost or were set to lose their insurance on the individual market before President Obama promised a "fix." Cuomo said that Obama "took the bait that five percent meant everything" and called... continue reading
Lee Harvey Oswald was far-left defector to the Soviet Union, but you’d never know that from Sunday’s ABC This Week which focused on Dallas as a cauldron of segregationist hate for President Kennedy without any mention of the political orientation of the actual assassin. Using Dan Rather as his expert, ex-CBS and current ABC reporter Byron Pitts perpetuated the myth that right-wing hate was somehow responsible for what occurred in Dallas: “Nowhere in Texas did the jagged edge of segregation cut deeper, anti-Kennedy sentiment spew any stronger. This flyer [“Wanted for Treason”] greeted the President when he arrived.” Rather had... continue reading
Major Garrett pointed out on Friday's CBS This Morning that the politician's Thursday "attempt to fix the problem of canceled insurance policies... fell flat ", as it failed to satisfy his Democratic allies in Congress, who are nervous about the next election. Garrett devoted much of his report on the morning newscast, as well on Thursday's CBS Evening News , to his hard-hitting questioning of the politician, where he hounded the politician over the ObamaCare debacle. The journalist also underscored that "many state insurance commissioners...[are] unlikely to enforce the President's new policy ". He also spotlighted an insurance industry expert's... continue reading
On Friday, NBC's Today tried to cast President Obama's Thursday press conference about the ObamaCare disaster in the most sympathetic light possible, with co-host Savannah leading off the show by proclaiming: "The humble president....President Obama does damage control on the botched health care rollout with his legacy hanging in the balance." [ Listen to the audio ] Introducing the segment moments later, Guthrie claimed the President was "falling on the sword over this health care rollout disaster." In the report that followed, White House correspondent Peter Alexander emphasized Obama's supposedly humility: "The President the first to admit that he has... continue reading
On the Thursday, November 14, PoliticsNation , MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor asserted that Republicans who are pushing Attorney General Eric Holder's impeachment are a "Bozo caucus" who are "fanning the flames of hatred and bigotry." Host Al Sharpton raised the possibility of "racial elements" as he posed the question: Is this obsession with Attorney General Holder based on the fact that he stands for laws that they want to see overturned and in many cases never wanted to see in the books? He stands for causes that they disagree with. And because to attack him is to attack President Obama... continue reading
Teasing an upcoming story on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News , anchor Brian Williams warned of "the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever" and promised "a jaw-dropping look at a way of life quickly disappearing." [ Listen to the audio ] In the report that followed minutes later, chief environmental correspondent Anne Thompson kept up the global warming alarmism: "This 10-month-old polar bear cub practices his ice-breaking skills on the tundra....But Dr. Steve Amstrup, chief scientist of Polar Bears International, says the greenhouse gases we are putting into the atmosphere threaten the cub's future." While Thompson... continue reading
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News , Nancy Cordes zeroed in on the three Republican congressmen who grilled top administration officials during a hearing on ObamaCare, ballyhooing that " none of them were really able to explain why this product they worked on for years was so flawed ". Cordes played extended clips from the hearing totaling 51 seconds – nearly twice the combined number of ABC's World News and NBC Nightly News , which each played 13 seconds from it. The correspondent played up one clip in particular from White House chief technology officer Todd Park, who gave indications that... continue reading
After President Obama's Thursday press conference on his ObamaCare "fix," CNN's John Berman declared the ObamaCare debate over and pushed Republicans to cooperate in fixing it. "That was the debate from 2010 and the plan passed. Now it's about implementing this plan. Good or bad, at this point, " he lectured GOP guest Rich Galen, who had criticized ObamaCare's "complex and top-down, top-heavy system." [Video below. Audio here .] Although he admonished Galen, Berman was asleep at the wheel when Democratic strategist Kiki McLean spun that "more Americans" are "covered" under the law. Galen had to jump in and play... continue reading
Appearing on Thursday's NBC Today , chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd matter-of-factly declared that ObamaCare was always going to be a bad deal for some Americans: "There are always winners and losers in any piece of legislation. There is a small number of losers in here, if you want to count losing as in having to pay more for your health insurance....That was always the intention, that was the only way you could make the law work..." [ Listen to the audio ] Todd acknowledged that was not the way President Obama sold the law, but avoided calling it... continue reading
The increasingly agitated Ed Schultz on Wednesday both justified lying to Americans about being able to keep their insurance and, at the same time, berated the very concept of "appeasing" the millions who have lost coverage. The Ed Show anchor opened the show by frantically screaming that ObamaCare is about "making the market better." He added, " It's not about appeasing people when they get upset, when they get a cancellation notice in the mail." [MP3 audio here .] Schultz slammed Bill Clinton for suggesting that the President allow Americans to keep their insurance. Seeming to okay lying, Schultz rationalized,... continue reading