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Erbe's Attack on Palin Turns into Attack on Life and Religion
Religiosity can “cloud” one’s thinking and human beings on life support are the “living dead,” according to Bonnie Erbe, contributing editor to U.S. News and World Report. Her August 11 blog post, “Sarah Palin's Lies About Obamacare Are Based on Religion,” attempted to rebut former Governor Sarah Palin’s controversial remarks about health care, and ended up insulting people of faith. It all…
Former Majority Leader Daschle Says Health Care Backlash Legitimate
Obama's first choice for HHS secretary and Bloomberg contributor says contentious town halls part of democracy, but knocks 'extraordinary hyperbolic predictions.'
Stratfor's Friedman: 'Probability of Bernanke Being Reappointed to the
Ben Bernanke's able use of monetary policy to steer the economy during the current financial crisis sometimes makes it easy to forget that Bernanke helped steer the ship into that crisis early in his term as Federal Reserve Chairman and a member of the Fed's Board of Governors. That's a point Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) founder and CEO George Friedman made when asked the likelihood of…
CNN Bans Talk Radio Show Hosts
Has CNN banned talk radio show hosts from its on air programming?Such was reported by TVNewser a few hours ago (h/t Steve Malzberg):
ChiTrib Finds Illegal Immigrants Laughing at Idea of Returning Home to
While liberal Democrats pressed on the issue insist proposals before Congress for health care reform will not cover illegal immigrants, today's Chicago Tribune lamented that "Illegal immigrants face life-and-death decisions without health insurance."Tribune reporter Antonio Olivo served up a 36-paragraph story focused particularly on the plight of illegal immigrants in need of organ transplants.…
Can't Make It Up: Dem Rep Who Opposes Photo ID To Vote Requiring Photo
This is Congressman Eugene Green (HT to an e-mailer), Democrat from Texas, telling the world that if you're not from his District, you're not welcome at his future town hall meetings -- oh, and how he'll enforce his new rule (bold is his): This is how Gene Green has voted on laws relating to requiring photo identification to vote (from the web site "On the Issues"):
CBS’s Harry Smith: A Profile in Bias
From time to time, our analysts at the Media Research Center have compiled in one location the research we have in our files on a major news celebrity. By pulling all of the worst quotes and video clips into a single Web page, we hope that these “Profiles in Bias” can be a useful resource for anyone looking into the topic of media bias or looking for background on a network news personality.This…
ABC’s Kate Snow Shifts Course; Notes GOP Opposition in Story on End
ABC’s Kate Snow, who early on Monday couldn’t find time to show any Republican opposition to a controversial provision in the health care plan relating to end-of-life care, reversed course on World News and briefly highlighted a GOP voice. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter appeared and asserted, "And there should never be any doubt as to whether your end-of-life decisions are influenced by its effect…
Lauer Warns Robert Gibbs: Obama Town Hall Could Be 'Super Bowl for Sho
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's "Today" show, invited on Robert Gibbs to preview Barack Obama's town hall meeting on health care and warned the White House press secretary that it could become a "Super Bowl for shouters." In a segment headlined: "Town Hall Tensions, Obama Battles Health Care Outrage," Lauer, given all the "tension" at the meetings, worried about the President of the United States…
CNN's Jim Acosta Misrepresents Limbaugh's Swastika/ObamaCare Logo Comp
CNN’s Jim Acosta claimed that Rush Limbaugh’s website “compares the [ObamaCare] reform supporters to Nazis” during a report on Tuesday’s American Morning. The website actually draws a comparison between the DNC’s “Organizing for Health Care” logo and the Nazis’ Parteiadler (Party Eagle) symbol. Acosta also claimed that conservatives “falsely compared” ObamaCare to the Canadian health system.…
Pelosi and Hoyer Were For Drowning Out Opposing Views Before They Were
In an op-ed published Monday by USA Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Mary.) wrote:Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.As NewsBusters reported Monday, a liberal advocacy group called Health Care for America Now published a playbook last Tuesday with the following…
'Most In Media Think They're Right Down The Middle
On today's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough was shocked to hear from Mark Halperin of Time and co-host Mika Brzezinski that most people in the MSM don't admit that the press is biased, and to the contrary most in the MSM see themselves as "right down the middle."JOE SCARBOROUGH: So you're saying that most people in the mainstream media don't admit that the press is biased?MARK HALPERIN: I don't…