On Monday's CBS This Morning , Cheesecake Factory CEO David Overton spotlighted the looming economic impact of Obamacare's implementation, especially on small enterprises: " For those businesses that don't cover their employees, they'll be in for a very expensive situation ." Overton also warned that the cost of the law would be passed on to customers. It's surprising that the liberal morning newscast would bring on a critic of ObamaCare. The decision could be explained by anchor Charlie Rose mentioning ex-Al Gore adviser Dr. Atul Gawande's compliment of The Cheesecake Factory in a recent article in The New Yorker ... continue reading
ABC News continued to hype the Democratic position on the fiscal cliff, Sunday. World News Reporter David Kerley touted the White House as " confident with the stronger hand in talks with House Republicans, demanding and believing tax rates for the wealthy are going up ." The reporter did play a clip of Boehner rejecting tax increases, but Kerley made sure to point out the Speaker "hasn't outlined possible cuts." In one of multiple clips of Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary lectured, "They have to come to us and tell us what they think they need. What we can't do... continue reading
Appearing on Monday's MSNBC Morning Joe , NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd shared some inside information: "So I threw the Lincoln analogy at a close aide to the President last week, and he said, 'You know, with this Republican – with the way politics of Washington are today, there'd still be slavery.' That Lincoln wouldn't have been able to navigate the polarization..." [ Listen to the audio ] Rather than dismiss such a nasty partisan attack, Todd observed: "It was an interesting and depressing observation from this very smart White House aide." [ Thanks to MRCTV's Cory Parks... continue reading
In a colorful demonstration of the Washington press corps’ disdain for Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge, on Sunday’s This Week , a flustered ABC News/NPR veteran Cokie Roberts blurted out: “It’s.. .politically smart to cut the knees out from under Grover Norquist . I mean this guy is, you know, who is he? He’s an unelected lobbyist.” She soon urged that “a certain amount of saying ‘the emperor has no clothes’” about Norquist is helpful. “To say that, I think is very useful.” Audio: MP3 clip Roberts took her shot at Norquist after agreeing with Republican Congressman Tom Cole... continue reading
Stephen Colbert channeled the mother and teacher from the classic "A Christmas Story" on Thursday's Colbert Report , as he made fun of a proposed dormitory for undergraduates with gun permits at the University of Colorado. The only thing missing from his left-wing stereotypes of gun owners as trigger-happy yahoos was the famous " you'll shoot your eye out " line. Colbert cracked that the move from the mountain state school would " forever ensur [ e ] that no one will think of it as a safety school ." After pointing out that not one student had signed up... continue reading
CNN's Ali Velshi on Friday afternoon labeled anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist a "dangerous man" for blocking a fiscal cliff compromise between Democrats and Republicans. "Hey, speaking of the fiscal cliff, there's been all this focus on one dangerous man who stands in the way of a deal that could avert it, Grover Norquist. He is neither elected, nor has he ever run for office, so why is Washington so scared of him?" Velshi introduced his segment on Norquist. [Video below. Audio here .] And CNN's financial guru quoted the lone GOP presidential candidate who did not sign Norquist's anti-tax hike... continue reading
In an attempt to dismiss Republican criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's misleading September 14 Sunday show statements about Benghazi, on Thursday's MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports , Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus asserted: "I don't think this is really about some comments that were basically right, that she made on Sunday talk shows." [ Listen to the audio ] Marcus was prompted to make the declaration after Mitchell tried to paint GOP critics as a combination of sexist and racist: "There have been issues raised as to whether she was being attacked, criticized because she's a woman, because she's African-American...... continue reading
Demonstrating once more how the NBC Nightly News has become the big audience outlet for MSNBC’s left-wing angst, Brian Williams couldn’t even keep such silliness out of what should have been a light-hearted story on Mitt Romney’s lunch with President Obama. ABC and CBS managed to do that. On NBC, however, reporter Kristen Welker charged “there was an awkward backdrop to this snap shot” of Romney and Obama shaking hands in the Oval Office. She cited “Romney saying President Obama won because he gave gifts to key constituencies” as well as Romney adviser Stuart Stevens daring to suggest Obama “was... continue reading
CBS's morning and evening newscasts conspicuously glossed over reporting on actor Angus T. Jones calling his own show, Two and Half Men - which airs on the network - " filth ." By contrast, ABC's Good Morning America covered the remark on Tuesday, and NBC's Today show aired a news brief on the story on Wednesday. Correspondent Teresa Garcia did file a report on the controversy on Wednesday, but only after Jones issued an apology to his employers and coworkers. Garcia's segment was also banished to CBSNews.com . The journalist noted that " Jones says he's sorry for the viral... continue reading
On Thursday's CBS This Morning , new White House correspondent and former Fox News journalist Major Garrett bucked the "militantly non-partisan" label he gave himself over a year ago when he hyped the President's supposed populist stand in the fiscal cliff negotiations with top leaders in Congress: " President Obama is adamant about protecting existing income tax rates for middle-income earners and raising them on the wealthy ." Garrett later spotlighted how Obama " warned Republicans not to ignore his calls to protect middle-income households from higher taxes ." The correspondent forwarded the White House's talking points on the negotiations... continue reading