New numbers from a report on ObamaCare estimate that only just over a third of enrollees were previously uninsured, and that 5.2 million have lost their health coverage since it began. Although Fox News has covered the report, the networks have ignored it so far.
"A report by the RAND corporation this week said 5.2 million people have lost health coverage since ObamaCare started," said Fox News host Bret Baier on Thursday's Special Report. Fox Business host Neil Cavuto reported the night before that "RAND estimates that most of those who did join newly established exchanges were not insured before."
Bret Baier
By Matt Hadro | April 11, 2014 | 4:32 PM EDT
Hayes and Krauthammer Scoff at Media Claim of ‘Austerity’ Under Obama: ‘An Assault on the Dictionary’
By Brent Baker | February 22, 2014 | 11:42 PM EST
Steve Hayes and Charles Krauthammer, on Friday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, scoffed at the Washington Post’s front page characterization that President Barack Obama’s expected budget proposal “will call for an end to the era of austerity that has dogged much of his presidency.”
Hayes marveled: “This is one of the funny things about reading mainstream newspapers and watching mainstream media report on this President, is they somehow are operating under the illusion we’re living in this age of austerity.” Krauthammer proposed, “we have talked about Obama’s assaulting the Constitution. This is an assault on the dictionary. This is a guy who ran $4 trillion of deficit in three years...”
Kirsten Powers on Benghazi: ‘I Don't Understand Why the Administration Can't Just Tell the Truth About This’
By Jeffrey Meyer | February 4, 2014 | 9:24 AM EST Liberal columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers was apparently shocked that the Obama Administration would be stonewalling the public on what happened in Benghazi in 2012.
Appearing on Special Report w/ Bret Baier on Monday February 3, The Daily Beast columnist seemed perplexed as to “why the administration can't just tell the truth about this.” [See video below.]
By Noel Sheppard | December 6, 2013 | 7:12 PM EST
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer had some harsh words for Barack Obama Friday.
Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Krauthammer said, “It's as if this guy discovers everything late, as if he wandered into the White House on a White House tour and discovered himself in the Oval Office as president.”
By Noel Sheppard | November 26, 2013 | 11:28 AM EST
On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, you would have thought people would have been clamoring for the liberal views espoused by CNN and MSNBC.
Such wasn't the case, for last Friday, Fox News clobbered its competition from the moment the sun rose till the time most people went to bed.
By Noel Sheppard | November 19, 2013 | 7:24 PM EST
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer had some harsh words for the President’s recent excuses regarding the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare.
Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Krauthammer said, “This is not a cover up of corrupt misconduct. This is a cover up of cosmic incompetence.”
By Noel Sheppard | November 13, 2013 | 4:01 PM EST
Fox News's left of center contributor Kirsten Powers went on a bit of a mini-rant about ObamaCare on Tuesday's Special Report that media members across the fruited plain she sit up and take notice.
"I have talked about how I am losing my health insurance," she said. "If I want to keep the same health insurance, it's going to cost twice as much. There's nothing substandard about my plan... All of the things they say that are not in my plan are in my plan, all of the things they have listed. There's no explanation for the doubling of my premiums other than the fact that it's subsidizing other people" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Juan Williams Explains It All: 'Massive Opposition' From Republicans Forced Rushed HealthCare.gov Rollout
By Tom Blumer | October 23, 2013 | 1:24 PM EDT Last night on Fox News's Special Report, Juan Williams singlehandedly raised the bar for what qualifies as world-class failure in blame-shifting. Williams excused the mind-boggling incompetence of the Obama administration's HealthCare.gov implementation by claiming that "massive opposition (to Obamacare) from the Republicans" caused fearful system architects to "roll it out and see how it works for now." Gosh, the only thing that remains is for President Obama to say that these poor programmers were "held hostage" by GOP press releases and speeches.
Video and a transcript of the relevant segment follow the jump (HT Twitchy via Hot Air; bolds are mine). Especially note the priceless look on the face of Fox panel member Stephen Hayes at the 1:12 mark of the two-minute vid:
By Noel Sheppard | October 21, 2013 | 7:14 PM EDT
The winner for the best line of the day concerning President Obama's Rose Garden press conference Monday goes to National Review's Jonah Goldberg.
Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Goldberg said Obama looked like Chauncey Gardner promoting "the worst IT disaster in American history" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
By Noel Sheppard | October 15, 2013 | 7:34 PM EDT
George Will made a statement Tuesday that I sincerely wish every American on both sides of the aisle would pay attention to - especially members of the media.
Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Will accurately said, “Default is a choice.”
By Noel Sheppard | October 4, 2013 | 7:06 PM EDT
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, George Will has joined Fox News.
In his first comments on the network, Will said on Friday's Special Report, "The President’s rather enjoying this [shutdown], and if the emblematic statement of the first Obama term was 'A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,' this term defined after just nine months is 'A crisis is a beautiful thing to create'” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
By Noel Sheppard | September 30, 2013 | 6:55 PM EDT
"One reason people think Republicans are to blame for government shutdowns is that so much of the media keep telling them that that's the case."
So marvelously stated Brit Hume on Fox News's Special Report Monday (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):