Priorities: ABC Allows a Scant 21 Seconds for ObamaCare Grilling, Hype

November 7th, 2013 12:52 PM
  ABC on Wednesday and Thursday managed a mere 21 seconds total for the latest revelations about the botched ObamaCare rollout, minimizing the grilling that Kathleen Sebelius took before Congress and the resignation of one of the people behind the website. Instead, Good Morning America focused on deeply irrelevant topics such as promoting "Thor's leading lady," star Natalie Portman. In…

Surprise: CBS Notices De Blasio's 'Very Liberal Campaign'; ABC, NBC Ou

November 6th, 2013 5:07 PM
In a move as rare as finding a four-leaf clover, Norah O'Donnell actually disclosed on Wednesday's CBS This Morning that New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio ran a "very liberal campaign". Jeff Pegues also noted how the "52-year-old liberal" is a "proponent of...taxing the wealthy". The program was also the sole Big Three morning newscast to underline de Blasio's political ideology, and…

CBS Anchors Can't Bring Themselves to Say Obama Lied on 'You Will Keep

October 31st, 2013 5:42 PM
Charlie Rose twice couldn't bring himself to clearly state that President Obama made a false promise when he repeatedly claimed that "if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it". On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Rose underlined that "more than two million Americans are losing their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Jan Crawford uncovers new information on what could be a…

CBS: 2 Million Forced Out of Health Plans By ObamaCare 'Just The Tip o

October 29th, 2013 3:38 PM
Tuesday's CBS This Morning repeatedly played up how "more than two million Americans are losing their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare". Jan Crawford outlined that "this is just the tip of the iceberg. And the people who are opening these letters are shocked to learn they can't keep their current policies, despite the President's assurances to the contrary." Crawford…

CBS: Horror Story Discredits Obama's 'Reassuring Phrase' About Keeping

October 25th, 2013 6:54 PM
Thursday's CBS Evening News poured cold water on President Obama's now-infamous "if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it" promise. Scott Pelley noted how the President has "repeated one reassuring phrase" about the American people being able to hold onto their health insurance, and bluntly pointed out that, contrary to the Democrat's vow, "hundreds of thousands of Americans...are…

CBS Uncovers 'Serious', 'Incredibly Misleading' ObamaCare Website Pric

October 23rd, 2013 11:55 AM
President Obama likened HealthCare.gov to Kayak.com on the day the ObamaCare website went live, but the travel company wouldn't stay in business very long if it gave "incredibly misleading" price quotes, as Wednesday's CBS This Morning revealed about the federal health care website. Jan Crawford underlined how "in some cases, people could end up paying nearly double what they see on the website…

CBS Presses Krauthammer to Diagnose GOP: 'Do You Think The Party Needs

October 22nd, 2013 3:58 PM
Obama donor Gayle King and Charlie Rose strongly hinted that conservatives/Republicans needed psychiatric help during a segment with Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday's CBS This Morning. King asked the licensed psychiatrist, "You talk in your book about your medical training in psychiatry and about...how powerful denial can be. Do you think that the GOP – Tea Party Republicans are in denial?"…

NY Times' Baker on CBS: President Bush 'Felt That the Paper Had Not Be

October 22nd, 2013 10:49 AM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, the New York Times' Peter Baker didn't reveal anything shocking about George W. Bush's opinion about the liberal paper. Charlie Rose wondered about one detail concerning Baker's new book on Bush and Dick Cheney: "Why wouldn't President Bush talk to you?" He replied, "President Bush didn't believe that a book written by a New York Times reporter could be fair. He…

CBS's Dickerson: White House Risks 'Credibility Death Spiral' Over 'To

October 21st, 2013 11:04 AM
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…

On CBS, Top NYT Editor Jill Abramson Shocks the Hosts, Agrees Obama's

October 19th, 2013 4:11 PM
CBS This Morning brought on New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson on Friday with all the honors, with Charlie Rose lauding her for leading her paper to four Pulitzer Prizes this year as “the first female” in the top job, and asking her how she’d put an “Abramson imprint” on the paper. But the interesting part came later. Abramson agreed with her reporter David Sanger that the Obama…

CBS's Norah O'Donnell Heralds Obama as Shutdown's 'Grown-Up in the Roo

October 17th, 2013 12:21 PM
Norah "we shouldn't editorialize" O'Donnell boosted President Obama mere seconds after the liberal politician finished his Thursday presser about the end of the partial government shutdown. The CBS anchor claimed that Obama was trying to "be, sort of, the grown-up in the room, and to look forward and say, here are the three ways we can now work together. " O'Donnell later asserted that the…

CBS's Crawford: Launch of ObamaCare Website A 'Complete Disaster

October 16th, 2013 12:59 PM
On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Jan Crawford repeatedly underlined that the launch of HealthCare.gov has been a fiasco. After Norah O'Donnell noted the "rough start to ObamaCare", Crawford blunted stated that "'rough start' could be the understatement of the year. It has been a complete disaster." She pointed out that "we can't even find anyone who's enrolled. The Miami Herald is now calling…

Piers Morgan Stumbles Over Second Amendment; Hails 'Most Courageous' B

October 15th, 2013 1:05 PM
Piers Morgan still can't basic details about the gun rights debate right, even after his protracted involvement in the controversy, as he revealed on Tuesday's CBS This Morning. Morgan incorrectly claimed that the First Amendment – not the Second Amendment – protected the right to keep and bear arms: "I have no problem...with a family exercising their First Amendment (sic) right to defend their…

CBS News Blasts ObamaCare: 'The Website’s Launch Has Been Nothing Sh

October 9th, 2013 9:40 AM
The folks at CBS News are clearly unhappy with how ObamaCare is going. After reporting on a Dallas man that tried for a week to sign up without any success on Tuesday's Evening News, CBS This Morning Wednesday featured a segment tearing the program apart with Jan Crawford saying "the website’s launch has been nothing short of disastrous" (video follows with transcript and commentary):