In an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday's NBC Today , co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed a "civil war" in the Republican Party and persistently urged him to blame it on the Tea Party. Instead, Cheney began the exchange by explaining: "I think the most radical operator in Washington today is the President. I think he's trying to take the country in a direction that is fundamentally different than anything we've seen before." [ Listen to the audio ] Guthrie was undeterred and continued to stoke GOP division: "And you would think that might be a unifying moment... continue reading
The journalists at Good Morning America on Monday woke up to the "massive technical glitches" "plaguing millions" of Americans trying to use the ObamaCare website. The morning show, which has largely minimized the troubled debut of HealthCare.gov, featured reporter Rebecca Jarvis to lament, "It was supposed to be an easy way for Americans to sign up for health care online. But this morning, the Department of Health and Human Services, which spent $500 million to build the site, is admitting it's a bust." Jarvis attempted to navigate the web page, but offered this perplexed assessment: " But even when we... continue reading
John Dickerson could not have been more blunt on Monday's CBS This Morning about the political damage HealthCare.gov's well-established technical difficulties is already causing President Obama: " It's been far worse than a glitch. It's been a total fiasco , as Senator McCain said. And the problem here is that the administration could get into, sort of, a credibility death spiral ." The liberal political director, who is usually an Obama apologist , also surprisingly acknowledged that conservatives were right in their longstanding criticisms of ObamaCare: [MP3 audio available here ; video below ] JOHN DICKERSON: There has always been... continue reading
Some more bashing of Sarah Palin on Sunday night’s episode of CBS’s The Good Wife , but the scene also managed to deliver an illustrative dramatization of liberals in a bubble displaying arrogant condescension toward those who dare stray from liberal orthodoxy – and how they learn to despise the Fox News Channel via Jon Stewart. A couple who are old college friends of liberal lawyer “Diane Lockhart” visit and meet her fiancé, Gary Cole as Sarah Palin supporter, gun owner and ballistics expert “Kurt McVeigh.” An appalled “Francesca” despairs: “But his views, Diane. All his views. He supports Sarah... continue reading
Continuing to hammer home the Democratic talking point that the Republican Party is to blame for the government shutdown, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams gloated: "Politically, it's widely agreed to have been a big loss and self-inflicted wound mostly for the Republican Party." [ Listen to the audio ] In a later report, Capitol Hill correspondent Kelly O'Donnell asserted: "For many Republicans, they're now at that acceptance phase after a bruising defeat. Many, are admitting mistakes, assessing some responsibility." She then noted how "one of the most visible and divisive figures in this whole episode," Texas Senator... continue reading
Friday's CBS This Morning zeroed in on a HealthCare.gov glitch that is jeopardizing the privacy of millions of Americans. Jan Crawford noted how the " glitches have, in fact, made the website unusable for most ," but also pointed out that "the problems go beyond the enrollment process. Most troubling ...insurance companies report receiving duplicate sign-up...and records of people enrolling, un-enrolling, and then, re-enrolling. Those forms contain highly personal information ." Crawford also underlined that these "duplicate and incomplete enrollment forms" are indications that the " problems are pervasive " with the ObamaCare website. [MP3 audio available here ; video... continue reading
ABC on Thursday night took a victory lap in its effort to blame congressional Republicans for the government shutdown. World News reporter Jeff Zeleny and other journalists at the network phoned all the House and Senate GOP members who opposed the deal to reopen the federal government. These reporters demanded to know if the lawmakers would give back the salary they earned during the 16-day shutdown. Zeleny justified, " Since it was Congress that shut the government down, one of the top questions you asked us, should they get paid?" [MP3 audio here .] The journalist made no mention of... continue reading
Hours after President Obama lectured Republicans about governing, CNN boosted his agenda by ordering conservatives and the Tea Party to "lighten up" on Thursday's The Situation Room . "So while the President is calling for a change in behavior and tone here in Washington, listen to this from CNN's Fareed Zakaria writing in today's Washington Post . He takes direct aim at what he calls the extreme rhetoric of the right ," noted The Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer. Zakaria explained his withering indictment of conservatism and smacked the "extreme" Tea Party. Zakaria's column is a liberal broadside against the... continue reading
In an interview with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on his Thursday night show, CNN's Piers Morgan sounded just like a Democratic strategist. Morgan told the Democrat that "you sound eminently reasonable" and accused Sen. Ted Cruz of being the problem in Washington. "[H]e thinks that getting the shutdown was good business for Ted Cruz, Incorporated. What are you going to do about this young renegade who doesn't really care about being reasonable?" Morgan asked Manchin. [Video below the break. Audio here .] If Morgan wasn't being enough of a liberal hack already, he pressed the Democrats to go on the... continue reading
Good Morning America 's Jon Karl on Friday continued his efforts to assign blame for what he called the "Ted Cruz shutdown." This prompted the Texas senator to shoot back: "A lot of the media did" that. [MP3 audio here .] GMA co-host George Stephanopoulos touted the Republican's appearance as a "contentious and defiant interview." Karl attacked, " People hated this shutdown. They hated this impasse. And this was seen as the Ted Cruz shutdown." He blamed, "You more than any single individual were seen as the one that triggered this crisis to begin with." Cruz attempted to explain how... continue reading