ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on Tuesday both picked up the Wall Street Journal's Monday revelation about the HealthCare.gov website – that "fewer than 50,000 people had successfully navigated the troubled federal health-care website and enrolled in private insurance plans as of last week." CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell zeroed in on the " newest blow to ObamaCare – how the White House enrollment expectations could be off by 80 percent ." On GMA , Jonathan Karl underlined that this figure is " far short " of the Obama administration's target of 500,000 enrollees. However, NBC's Today ignored... continue reading
Liberal MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz on Tuesday seriously proclaimed, " The mainstream media, I believe, wants ObamaCare to fail. They look for every negative number they can find." [MP3 audio here .] The Ed Show anchor railed against actual criticism appearing. of the health care law's botched rollout. Schultz reasoned, "They're afraid to do a positive story, because they're afraid that somebody might not watch." The angry host sputtered, "Why is it that people in the media have a fascination with failure? They will take a number and they will make a negative story out of it." Schultz's comments come... continue reading
On his Monday show, CNN's Piers Morgan let liberal journalist Mark Hertsgaard bully fellow guest Roy Spencer for being skeptical of how much human activity is to blame for global warming. " I don't think that we should be talking to climate deniers about climate stories. That is journalistically irresponsible ," Hertsgaard insisted of Spencer, a former NASA climate studies senior scientist. Spencer hadn't denied global warming; he was skeptical of how much of it was manmade. [Video below.] "The earth is a little warmer right now. We're not exactly sure whether it's 100 percent due to mankind or 50... continue reading
On Monday's NBC Today , weatherman Al Roker continued his campaign to get Vice President Joe Biden to co-host the morning show: "I mean, we love the VP, just because he's fun and he would fit in perfectly here." Roker was happy to gain support from The Huffington Post, touting an article published on the liberal blog entitled "Dear Joe Biden: Please Co-Host Today!!!" [ Listen to the audio ] Yet again, Roker made an impassioned plea for Biden to join the show for a day: "Again, Mr. Vice President, this is where you belong. We want you here. Spend... continue reading
The "Let Me Finish" segment on Hardball is usually devoted to condemning conservatives as hateful bigots . Over the last six weeks, however, Chris Matthews has turned his program into an infomercial, obsessively exhorting his viewers to purchase Tip and the Gipper . The MSNBC anchor praised his own book as though he was blurbing someone else: " Tip and The Gipper: When Politics Worked , a perfect book, a perfect gift this season for the true Hardball fan." [MP3 audio here .] From the book's release on September 30 through November 11, Matthews used 19 "Let Me Finish" closing... continue reading
On the Monday, November 11, All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, host Hayes fretted about CBS News correspondent Lara Logan being biased in favor of military action against terrorists. He also theorized that her retraction for using a dishonest source "would be a huge story" if a conservative was being criticized, as he alluded to Dan Rather's story about former President George W. Bush and the National Guard. Hayes began: So here's where I think the parallel is in terms of the Rather story, the National Guard story we talked about at the top of the program and this... continue reading
Sharyl Attkisson revealed on Monday's CBS Evening News that the Obama administration had prior knowledge of HealthCare.gov's numerous security flaws, but went ahead anyway with its October 1, 2013 launch. Attkisson spotlighted a government memo that outlined "important security risks discovered in the insurance system....The memo said, ' The threat and risk potential to the system is limitless '." The correspondent also obtained a partial transcript of a closed-door congressional hearing, where HealthCare.gov's project manager claimed that he was unaware of this memo, and that he " testified he'd been told the opposite " about the website's security risks. [MP3... continue reading
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today to hawk his new book, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough – whose own radio show was cancelled after a brief run in 2010 – proceeded to slam conservative talk radio hosts: "They make millions and millions of dollars....they start pushing their world view on Republicans across the country and start saying, 'You either have to run up to the barricades and fight to the death every single time or you're not sufficiently conservative' and you actually have politicians listening to that and not understanding that's a profit motive." [ Listen to the audio ] He added:... continue reading
Chris Matthews worked himself into a frenzy on Monday night, ranting that the "so-called independent media" are just too soft on all the "racist" elements within the Republican Party. Talking to his fellow liberals David Corn and Ed Rendell, the Hardball host balked, " I look at the free ride the media has been giving the Republican Party ." [MP3 audio here .] According to Matthews, it's conservative media bias that causes most journalists to ignore the "40 million people [Republicans] want to commit to the emergency room!" Conservatives "don't want to lift a finger for them!" Yet, "the so-called... continue reading
Speaking to Meet the Press moderator David Gregory for NBC's web-based program Press Pass on Sunday, usually liberal actor Rob Lowe expressed a more conservative political perspective: "Just my own world view is that the individual needs to be more responsible for their own lives and that's not the conversation we're having right now, for whatever reason." [ Listen to the audio ] Lowe was discussing his role as President Kennedy in the new documentary Killing Kennedy and used JFK to make his point: "Kennedy's 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for... continue reading