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CNN Pushes Massachusetts 'Model' for Health Reform But Admits 'Rising
CNN went searching for an example of health care reform without a public option on Aug. 20. Correspondent Jim Acosta found such a “model” in Massachusetts, but downplayed the state program’s flaws. “What do you get when you take the public option out of health care reform? Well, according to some experts you get Romney Care,” Acosta said. “Three years after enacting its own version of…
ABC's Gibson on Cindy Sheehan's War Protest: 'Enough Already
When George W. Bush was President, ABC and Charles Gibson, like most media members, couldn't get enough of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan.Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, the host of "World News Tonight" is no longer interested in Sheehan, even telling WLS radio in Chicago, "Enough already." I guess she served her purpose as reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York Thursday:
If ObamaCare Goes Down in Flames, Will Calls for the Fairness Doctrine
As each day passes and President Barack Obama's health care proposal faces more and more opposition, some of the talking heads that appear on the cable news networks are looking for a "boogeyman" to blame for allegedly ginning up backlash. And that "boogeyman" has been conservative talk radio. However, if recent history is any indication, there could be an effort to take silence conservative…
'Today' Misses Partisan Aspect of Ted Kennedy's 'Poignant' Succession
Lost in Thursday's "Today" coverage of Senator Ted Kennedy's letter requesting a succession plan, should the Massachusetts senator be unable to serve due to health reasons, was how nakedly partisan the act was. While NBC's Matt Lauer noted, at the top of the show, that Kennedy sent a "poignant letter to lawmakers," asking for a succession plan, he nor any other NBC correspondent, mentioned that…
Media Didn't Care About Protest Signs Threatening Bush
In recent weeks, the media have focused a lot of attention on anti-Obama signs showing up at town hall meetings and Tea Parties from coast to coast.
Without a doubt, some of them cross the line of decency.
However, the press's outrage is quite different than what happened when protesters carried offensive signs threatening former President George W. Bush.
To refresh the memory of the…
Ed Schultz Hated Sen. DeMint's 'Waterloo' Comment in July, Now Singing
All of weeks ago, Ed Schultz reacted with disgust on his radio show to news that Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., told other Republicans that Obama's attempt to enact massive health reform could be the president's "Waterloo."Here's Schultz on July 21, responding to DeMint's remark while interviewing Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. (click here for audio) --SCHULTZ: So, Jim DeMint basically is showing where the…
Even in Highlighting Modesty Marie Claire Can't Resist Slamming Religi
Program teaches being lady-like goes beyond dressing the part.
Nets Use Nazi Comparison to Tar Obama Opponents, Delight in Barney Fra
ABC, CBS and NBC on Wednesday night all showcased liberal Democratic Congressman Barney Frank's rejoinder -- “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” -- to a woman's question: “Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy as Obama has expressly supported this policy?” As if the premise were coming from a typical anti-ObamaCare conservative, ABC's Charles Gibson set up the exchange by…
Another Global Warming Movie Flop
Note to Val Kilmer: avoid playing roles in global warming movies because they are doomed to fail. Kilmer acted in one global warming movie, "The Thaw," which was chronicled by your humble correspondent in both NewsBusters and in the Wall Street Journal which is scheduled to go straight to DVD in October without even a quick pit stop in movie theaters. This time around, Kilmer was a bit luckier.…
CNN's Sanchez to 'Progressive' Pastor: Right Wing Media Spreading Lies
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez accused anti-ObamaCare activists of forwarding “misrepresentations, and flat out lies in some cases” during a segment with “progressive” pastor and Obama apologist Jim Wallis on Wednesday’s Newsroom program. Sanchez placed the blame on the protesters relying “exclusively [on] right-wing media and right-wing television channels.” The anchor brought on Reverend Wallis, the…
TV Morning Shows Give Short Shrift to Novak’s Passing
The network morning news shows could not have cared less about the passing of conservative columnist Robert Novak. While ABC, CBS and NBC all ran obituaries during their August 18 evening news shows, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS’s The Early Show completely skipped over Novak this morning, not once mentioning his death.Over on NBC’s Today, fill-in news anchor Hoda Kotb squeezed in a brief…
Karl Marx Is 'Back in Vogue,' NYT Book Reviewer Enthuses
New York Times book critic Dwight Garner on Wednesday enthused over a new biography of Friedrich Engels, cooing that Marxism is "back in vogue" and adding that the founding communist comes across as a "jovial man of outsize appetites" in Tristram Hunt’s new biography "Marx’s General." Garner opened the review by insisting that decrying capitalism is now hip again: "Thanks to globalism’s…