NBC's Snyderman: 'I Was Rooting for the President to Hit a Home Run

NBC's medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, was “rooting” for President Barack Obama to do well in selling his health care takeover during his Wednesday night press conference: “As a physician, you know, I felt like I understood the complexity of the problem. As an American citizen, I was rooting for the President to hit a home run.” On the 10 PM EDT Hardball an hour after Obama wrapped up…
Brent Baker

NYT Shocker: 'Experts Dispute Some Points in Obama Health Care Talk

Shortly after Barack Obama finished his healthcare press conference Wednesday evening, the New York Times posted an article at its website refuting some of the President's arguments.Not only that, the Times chastized Obama for "claiming credit for not spending money that, under the policy he inherited from Mr. Bush, would never have been spent in the first place." Entitled "Experts Dispute Some…
Noel Sheppard

Sen. DeMint Fires Back at Obama: 'President Obama has Lowered the Disc

President uses primetime press conference to complain about 'Waterloo' comments much cited by media.
Jeff Poor

NBC Wades Into 'Spreading Lies about President Obama's...U.S. Citizens

Daring to go where only cable has gone so far, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News waded into the rampant claims that President Barack Obama -- though he was born in a U.S. state and to a mother who was a U.S. citizen, so even if he were born in Kenya he'd still be a U.S. citizen -- is somehow really not one. Anchor Brian Williams didn't hide his disdain, teasing the newscast: “Spreading lies about…
Brent Baker

Live Blog: President Obama's July 22 Primetime Press Conference

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NB Staff

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…
Matthew Balan

Reuters Has Problem with Counting Uninsured

Zoe Ortiz

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…
Ken Shepherd

BMI Special Report: UnCritical Condition Finds Proponents of ObamaCare

Julia A. Seymour

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…
Kyle Drennen

Wednesday Funnies: How to Talk a Liberal Out of Obamacare

From the good folks at Let Freedom Ring comes a fabulous video perfectly depicting what healthcare in America will look like if the current administration gets its way (h/t Cal Thomas):
Noel Sheppard

In CBS Interview Obama Claims Unemployment ‘Exceeded Everybody's Exp

During an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday, President Obama defended the administration’s handling of the economy: "nobody...anticipated that in the first three months, we would lose 700,000 jobs per month...the severity and the depth of the recession was something that, you know, really exceeded everybody's expectations."However, on the February 6 Evening News,…
Kyle Drennen

In '89, NBC Marked Chappaquiddick Anniversary With Gooey Story on How

Tim Graham

'Fox and Friends' Expose Obama Hypocrisy

President Obama and other liberals have frequently criticized the previous administration for a lack of transparency. But now it seems the Obama White House is practicing the same things liberals criticized President Bush and Vice President Cheney for.  So on the July 22 edition of “Fox and Friends,” anchor Brian Kilmeade brought to viewer’s attention the Obama administration’s hypocrisy on their…
Sam Theodosopoulos