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CNN: 'This May Well Be The Best Week' of Obama's Second Term

By Matthew Balan | June 25, 2015, 11:31 PM EDT

Thursday's CNN Newsroom hyped the Supreme Court's decision that again upheld ObamaCare as a " huge win for the President of the United States," as Wolf Blitzer put it. Gloria Borger and John King tied the Court decision to Congress pas ...

Networks Skip Gruber, ObamaCare, Bad Obama Poll Numbers, Hong Kong in Year in Review Roundups

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2014, 12:29 PM EST

Each of the network morning shows devoted some time on Wednesday to looking back at the biggest news stories of year and, while they certainly could not have included every story in the allotted time, they all failed to spend even a few seconds on topics ...

Networks Skip Former HHS Secretary Sebelius Suggesting ‘Financial Literacy’ of Americans Is ‘Very Low’

By Curtis Houck | December 5, 2014, 12:21 AM EST

In an interview with USA Today published on its website Tuesday, former Obama administration Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to distance herself from the numerous comments by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber, but still ...

Column: Kathleen Sebelius, Scapegoat

By Cal Thomas | April 18, 2014, 1:36 PM EDT

Dictionary.com offers two definitions for scapegoat: "1. A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place; 2. Chiefly biblical. A goat let loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur after the high priest symbolically laid th ...

NewsBusted: The Dubious 'Reverend' Al, FBI Snitch

By NB Staff | April 15, 2014, 11:07 PM EDT

"Al Sharpton is now denying he was an FBI informant, saying it's a dubious assertion. You know, just like Sharpton’s dubious assertion that he's a reverend." Watch our very own Jodi Miller zing Sharpton as well as exiting HHS Secretary ...

Univisión y Telemundo, en contraste con ABC, CBS y NBC, incluyen críticos en la cobertura de la renuncia de Sebelius

By Ken Oliver-Méndez | August 13, 2015, 3:52 PM EDT

Univisión y Telemundo se apuntaron una a su favor en la batalla por el periodismo honesto. En contraste marcado con los noticieros estelares de habla inglesa de las cadenas ABC, CBS y NBC, el pasado viernes tanto Noticiero Univisión como Noticiero Telemun ...

Unlike Big Three, Univision, Telemundo Featured Conservative Critics of Departing Sebelius

By Ken Oliver-Méndez | August 13, 2015, 3:52 PM EDT

In the battle for balanced news, score one each for Univision and Telemundo. Unlike the CBS, NBC and ABC evening news, both Noticiero Univision and Noticiero Telemundo on Friday night included soundbites from conservative leaders on the resignation of Pre ...

Andrea Mitchell Fails to Ask Kathleen Sebelius Obvious (HuffPost) Question About 'Resignation'

By P.J. Gladnick | April 13, 2014, 7:14 PM EDT

Andrea Mitchell needs to turn in her journalism  card...now! She completely blew the opportunity to ask outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a question that would have shed light on whether she voluntarily resigned or, as many ha ...

PBS Analyst Mark Shields Says Sebelius 'Stepped Up Manfully' to Take Obamacare Blame; David Brooks Says She's No 'Dynamo'

By Tim Graham | April 12, 2014, 9:13 AM EDT

While HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius was getting a polite shove out the door, PBS NewsHour analyst Mark Shields offered a note of disclosure: “Well, first of all, let me just admit up front, Kathleen Sebelius has been a personal friend. For 46 years, I h ...

Jay Carney Sneers at Reporter's Question About Obama's Treatment of Sebelius

By Tim Graham | April 12, 2014, 7:35 AM EDT

White House spokesman Jay Carney was sneering at reporters again Friday. The Washington Free Beacon reports that Jared Rizzi, a reporter with Sirius XM Radio, was accused of being “pretty lame” by Carney in questioning how resigning HHS Secretary Kathleen ...

Networks: Kathleen Sebelius Exits on a 'Relatively High Note,' 'Decision to Leave Was Hers'

By Scott Whitlock | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

All three network morning shows on Friday highlighted the departure of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  Good Morning America 's Jon Karl insisted that the exit was a "chance for her to leave on a relatively high note." ...

WashPost, NYT Uncritically Hail ObamaCare Delay, Omit Sebelius's Pledge Deadline Wouldn't Shift

By Ken Shepherd | March 26, 2014, 4:23 PM EDT

"More time for health sign-up" cheered the Washington Post front-page headline for Amy Goldstein's March 26 story on the administration's latest ObamaCare delay, this time for the individual mandate which requires Americans to be insur ...

Supremes Let Little Sisters Have Their Way During Appeal; AP Ridiculously Calls That Result a 'Compromise'

By Tom Blumer | January 25, 2014, 12:56 PM EST

On Friday, the Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph order in Little Sisters of the Poor et al v. Sebeluis et al. It told the Sisters that for the case to continue with no enforcement of the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, they need only ...

HealthCare.gov's Lack of Security Is Still a Disgrace, As Is the Press's Failure to Recognize It

By Tom Blumer | January 19, 2014, 4:46 PM EST

On Thursday, Stephanie Condon at CBS News reported ("Security chief: HealthCare.gov has passed security testing") that Teresa Fryer, who had recommended against allowing HealthCare.gov going live before its October launch but was overruled, &quo ...

Jimmy Kimmel Savages ObamaCare and Uninformed Young People Who Support It

By Noel Sheppard | January 15, 2014, 11:30 AM EST

As NewsBusters has been reporting for months, late night comics have been tearing the atrocious rollout of ObamaCare apart. Conceivably the best job done to date was by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel who during his opening monologue Tuesday evening absolutely savaged ...