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QAHCAA: Senate Health Bill Acronym Doomed to Become Subject of Blogosp
Is there a Democrat senator or staffer secretly opposed to the new health care bill introduced by the Senate? One has to wonder because the new Senate health bill is named, "Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All Americans." The acronym for this bill is the absolutely hilarious QAHCAA. Yes, say it out loud and it is pronounced exactly the way you suspect as in "This health bill is a bunch of…
Dear LA Times: Foreign Aid Holds Developing Nations Back
Why do you assume such aid is necessary for poor African countries?
NYT Decries ‘Partisan Divide’ in Healthcare, Never Mentions Democr
Here’s another one of those wonderful examples of how the Old Media will use a headline that makes a stark claim about how rotten Republicans are for opposing a Democratic plan while at the same time conveniently ignoring the opposition to the same idea among Democrats.
This time it is the “partisan divide” in the healthcare debate. The Times tsks Republicans for solidly lining up to oppose…
Butt-insky: Snyderman Wants To Snatch Smokes From Soldiers
You might say smoke was coming out of my ears . . . There was NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman this morning, arguing that the Pentagon should prohibit soldiers in combat zones from smoking.Snyderman was a guest on Morning Joe for purposes of reporting on her interview of Pres. Obama yesterday on his health care plans. But along the way, she weighed in on the proposal that had been floated, then quickly…
CBS and NBC Push Obama's Health Agenda, Empathize with His Challenge
The White House's decision to offer interviews with the President to the medical doctors who are correspondents for ABC, CBS and NBC paid off Wednesday night with stories that embraced the assumption health care must be reformed; and interviews on CBS and NBC which put Obama's efforts in the best light. Ironically, ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson, a long-time advocate for government-directed universal…
Pre-Marital Sex: Everybody's Doing It According to CBS' Rodriguez
'The Early Show' showed astonishment at the high divorce rates of couples who had taken part in pre-marital sex
Walters Warns Parents Against Bruno Despite Behar's Glowing Review
Barbara Walters calls out Sacha Baron Cohen's movie for what it is.
Aspiring Kommissar Ed Schultz Pushing for Show Trials if Obama Doesn't
Among those most overwrought about alleged illegality by the Bush White House in not informing Congress of a covert CIA effort to kill al Qaeda operatives is liberal radio host and MSNBC pundit Ed Schultz.The implications of such rank criminality are profound, Schultz told his radio listeners on Tuesday (click here for audio) --SCHULTZ: I was absolutely astounded today listening to Liz Cheney on…
Schultz: Make Rich Guys Like Cheney Pay For Our Health Care
Support nationalized health care! Ain't gonna cost you nuthin. We'll stick rich guys like Dick Cheney with the bill!That was Ed Schultz's brazen appeal to something-for-nothing class warfare, made on his MSNBC show this evening. Schultz's make-Cheney-pay plea was the subject of his "Op Ed."View video here.
CNN's Toobin: 'Preposterous' to Believe in 2nd Amend. Right Back at Ha
During CNN’s coverage of the Sotomayor hearings on Wednesday, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin implied that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to uphold the Second Amendment was revolutionary: “When I was in law school...the idea that you had a Second Amendment right to a gun was considered preposterous....But the Supreme Court [in Heller]...said that...individuals have a personal right to bear arms.”…
Matthews Commemorates 'Prophet' Jimmy Carter's 'Malaise' Speech
Leave it to Chris Matthews, a former speechwriter to Jimmy Carter, to actually commemorate the 30th anniversary of the former president's infamous "malaise" speech. On Wednesday's "Hardball," Matthews invited on his former bosses from the Carter White House, former speechwriter and now New Yorker senior editor Hendrick Hertzberg and former aide Gerald Rafshoon to mark the event and claim that…
CBS Early Show Hosts Discuss Obama’s ‘Wicked Sinker’ Pitch
On Wednesday’s CBS Early Show co-host Russ Mitchell described President Obama’s lackluster first pitch at Tuesday night’s All-Star game in St. Louis: "And it appears President Obama has a wicked sinker." Mitchell referred to his colleagues in studio: "Somebody’s laughing over there, I’m not going to mention any names."At the top of the show, even Obama fan co-host Harry Smith acknowledged the…
Krugman on Colbert: Bushies Were Stupid, and They Were Crazy
On Monday’s edition of The Colbert Report, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman pitched his case for a much more massive "stimulus" of government spending. He said "Things are getting worse more slowly. We were losing, you know, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. We’re probably now at this point going to be losing 300,000 a jobs a month." When Colbert challenged him to say something more…