LA Times Health Blog: Twinkie Taxes = Tough Love for Fatsos
Don't think of it as another tax. Think of it as tough love from Uncle Sam.That's how Melissa Healy tried to sell Los Angeles Times readers on the notion of junk food sin taxes in her July 27 entry -- "Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare" -- at the paper's Booster Shots blog:When historians look back to identify the pivotal moments in the nation's struggle against…
Bill Maher Pushes For ObamaCare; Bashes ‘Stupid’ U.S
[Update, 2:15 pm Eastern: Audio and video clips from the segment added.] HBO’s Bill Maher, after being asked during a segment on Monday’s Situation Room on CNN to explain his recent “soulless vampire bastards” moniker of the current health care system, pushed for President Obama’s “reform” plan, paraphrasing the Democrat’s own words: “We can’t do nothing- doing nothing is actually worse.” He also…
CBS: Jesse Jackson Claims ‘Racial Profiling’ In Gates Case
Appearing on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, Reverend Jesse Jackson continued to promote the idea that Harvard Professor Henry Gates was a victim of racial profiling, despite new evidence to the contrary: "This issue of Dr. Gates being a victim of excessive force and bad judgment is a much bigger subject...This one case could open up the issue of the pervasiveness of race profiling."Co-host Harry Smith…
Another Bad Sign for Obama: Apologist Ed Schultz Wonders if Obama Will
First it was Jon Stewart going wobbly. Now this.Ominous enough for Obama that a left-wing propagandist like Stewart should turn on him, as Stewart did in skewering Obama's initial response to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.All of a day later, on Friday, liberal radio and MSNBC host Ed Schultz said this on his radio show about Obama's lackluster performance at his July 22…
ABC Devotes Yet Another Segment to Graceful, ‘Idealistic’ JFK Jr
Eleven days after mourning the tenth anniversary of the death of "the prince of Camelot," John F. Kennedy Jr., Monday’s Good Morning America took yet another look back at the "grace" and "equilibrium" of the late presidential offspring. ABC’s Chris Cuomo touted JFK Jr.'s "gift for leadership" and recounted how "America watched him grow from young son, to idealistic lawyer, to loving husband." The…
CNN's Malveaux: Senator McConnell's 'Bipartisan' Remark 'Snippy
CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux made an apparent Freudian slip in response to a sound bite on health care reform from Senator Mitch McConnell on Monday’s American Morning. Malveaux initially labeled McConnell’s remark, in which the Senate Minority Leader cracked that the “only thing bipartisan about the measures so far is the opposition to them,” as a “snippy little phrase there” [audio clip…
Bernstein: Palin 'Ignorant Demagogue, Flake
Generations past and present of the Washington Post heaped abuse on Sarah Palin today. Appearing on Morning Joe, Carl Bernstein called Palin "ignorant," a "demagogue" and a "flake." Current WaPo editorialist Jonathan Capehart chimed in to second Bernstein's emotion "100%."Pat Buchanan stepped in to explain Palin's appeal.
CBS Early Show Finally Tells Other Side of the Story in Gates Case
After portraying Professor Henry Gates as a victim of racial profiling on Thursday, on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith reported: "We are learning more about the arresting officer...this is the guy hand-picked to help teach recruits how not to racially profile. This is a guy who helped try to save the life of [late Boston Celtics basketball player] Reggie Lewis."A report by…
Juan Williams: Obama 'Has Gone Way, Way Too Far' in Gates Arrest
NPR’s Juan Williams criticized President Obama’s “the police acted stupidly” response to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates during a segment on Friday’s Good Morning America: “The president has gone way, way too far without having looked at the police report, without knowing the facts of the case.” He later recommended that the president “walk it back and say, you know what- I spoke out of turn…
CBS’s Smith to Daughter of Henry Gates: ‘Was His Heart Broken
While interviewing the daughter of arrested Harvard Professor Henry Gates on Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith wondered: "Is there something in this that says, ‘I'm not going to take this’?...In speaking with your father, was he hurt by this?...Was his heart broken by it?" [audio available here]Elizabeth Gates, a writer for the DailyBeast.com, declared that: "I think for anybody, you…
Stephanopoulos: ObamaCare 'Closer' After Presser; Gushes Obama 'Knows
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos giddily appraised President Obama during Thursday’s Good Morning America: “It’s clear, listening to the President last night, that he knows his stuff. He knows health care policy.” He also predicted that the passage of the Democrat’s health care “reform” plan was “closer” after the presser, despite his later admission that it had been delayed until after August.The…
CNN's Blitzer Surprised Giuliani Thinks Obama 'Much Worse' Than He Tho
[Update, 8:24 pm Eastern: Audio and video clips from the interview added.]CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was a bit surprised by Rudy Giuliani’s answer during Wednesday’s Situation Room, after asking the former mayor to reassess his prediction last year about “on-the-job training” for a President Obama. Blitzer inquired whether his “worst fears [had] come true.” Giuliani answered, “In many respects, it’s much…
Shocker: PBS/US News's Erbe Calls for Flat Tax, Bashes Surcharge on Ri
Reliably liberal journalist Bonnie Erbe almost caused a few heads to explode here at Media Research Center headquarters today when yours truly passed along her July 21 blog post entitled, "Democrats' Meaningless "Tax the Rich" Proposals Will Lead to Class Warfare."The PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News & World Report contributing editor slammed the idea floating in Congress of adding a…
CBS Early Show Uses Obama Volunteer to Promote Health Care Reform
While reporting on President Obama’s efforts to pass health care reform legislation on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez cited one person who would benefit from the plan: "Debby Smith from Virginia...lost her job back in 2006, and lost her health care benefits, and says that she can't afford the $700 a month that it would cost take to pay for her own insurance."What Rodriguez…
