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Brian Williams: In Lieu of Flowers for Ted, Pass Health Care Reform
NBC's Brian Williams, during NBC News' live coverage of the President's remarks about the passing of Ted Kennedy on Wednesday, cited what sounded like a spam e-mail rallying support for health care reform, as a way to remember the Democratic Senator. Quoting from his in-box Williams suggested: "In lieu of flowers, pass health care reform." Responding to a question from "Today" co-host Ann Curry…
Chris Matthews Designates Obama as a Kennedy: 'Barack Is Now the Last
MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared three times on Wednesday’s Today show to lionize Sen. Ted Kennedy, and twice he promoted Barack Obama as the "last brother" of the Kennedy political tradition. He tried to clarify a little in his appearance in the 10 am hour: "I don’t mean that in an ethnic sense or a black sense. I mean a brother of the Kennedy tradition. And I think he’s the new brother, not…
Newsweek Editor Plays Psychiatrist – Says Health Care Opponents Suff
Don't like ObamaCare? Well, more than likely - you're suffering from some sort of psychological delusion according to Newsweek Senior Editor and self-declared psychiatrist Sharon Begley. Begley, in a piece posted on Newsweek's Web site on Aug. 25, theorized that the widespread opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform is from any legitimate reason, but instead it exists mostly…
Newsweek Editor Plays Psychiatrist -- Links Health Care Opponents to S
Magazine's Sharon Begley rationalizes a large part of opposition to ObamaCare is from a distortion of 'mental processes.'
Shuster: Kennedy 'Didn't Dabble In Small Personal Attacks
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit in segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of million of…
Media Ignore Reid, Baucus' Co-op Comparisons to Public Option, Exclude
The threat of a government-run public option plan in health care legislation was frightening enough to spur thousands of people to attend town hall meetings across the country and voice their dissent, sometimes angrily. Now legislators and the national media are talking about a possible "compromise" that could replace the public option with health care co-ops. Conservatives are concerned that…
Health Care Co-ops: Just another Public Option
National media ignore Reid, Baucus' co-op comparisons to government plan and similarities to HillaryCare.
Newsweek's Evan Thomas Lionizes Kennedy As Liberal Who Always 'Kept th
"Edward Kennedy, perhaps more than any United States senator in the past half century, cared about the poor and dispossessed. Though he was relentlessly mocked by the right as a tax-and-spend liberal, he kept the faith." Thus wrote Newsweek's Evan Thomas of the late Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy today in an obituary that acknowledged and in places excused the late senator's sins even as it remembered…
AP, LA Times Headlines Lionize Ted Kennedy
The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times trumpeted the legacy of Ted Kennedy on Wednesday by running headlines which used quotes from notables about the deceased senator without quotation marks. The AP’s report by Glen Johnson and Philip Elliott heralded the President’s superlative about Kennedy without stating it was Mr. Obama’s words: “Obama mourns Kennedy, greatest senator of our time.”…
NYT's Ted Kennedy Obit Avoids the Jesse Helms Treatment
News of Sen. Ted Kennedy's death late Tuesday night didn't make the Wednesday print edition of the New York Times, but a 6,000-word obituary by John Broder was posted on nytimes.com this morning: "Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies." Broder's obituary left room for the lowlights of Kennedy's career, including Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick and Kennedy's ruthless personal attack on…
ABC’s Terry Moran: ‘Happy Warrior’ Kennedy Brought ‘Joy’; Ig
ABC’s Terry Moran on Wednesday spun Ted Kennedy’s political career as one of a "happy warrior" who should be looked to for direction in "these bitter times." However, it’s hard to square this description of Kennedy with the vitriolic speech the Senator made in 1987 condemning Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Reporting on Kennedy’s death soon after it was announced, Moran noted that…
MRC's Seton Motley On Glenn Beck TV Show Tonight
Speaking of the Palin-boosted Glenn Beck show, complete with a Rush Limbaugh interview: MRC's own Seton Motley will be on Beck's show on the Fox News Channel this evening to continue their discussion about Mark Lloyd, the former fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress who's now the "chief diversity officer" at the FCC. His interview is scheduled for around 5:20 pm Eastern time.
CBS Historian Douglas Brinkley: Ted Kennedy A ‘Martyr’ for ObamaCa
During the 2:00AM ET hour of CBS’s Up to the Minute on Wednesday, shortly after news broke of Senator Ted Kenney’s death, historian Douglas Brinkley exclaimed the Massachusetts Democrat was: "...going to be a – a martyr because of all that he’s done and he very well might help, in death, Obama get his health care plan."Fill-in anchor Michelle Gielan discussed Kennedy’s legacy with Brinkley, soon…
Sarah Palin Asks All Her Friends To Watch Glenn Beck Tonight
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin issued an invitation that should please Fox News's Glenn Beck as well as his fans.Of course, it won't make Obama lovers and Palin haters in the media very happy.That's probably just an ancillary benefit to her Wednesday morning posting on Facebook (h/t NBer philipjames):