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CNN's Jim Acosta Spotlights Criticism of ObamaCare - From the Left
Dr. David Scheiner doesn't think the president's health care plan will work, but not for the reasons you might think. CNN's Jim Acosta devoted a three-minute segment to the Scheiner's left-wing criticism of the president's health care plan, but excluded any other voices, even after the doctor took a shot at the insurance industry. "Chicago doctor David Scheiner has taken a hard look at Obama's…
MA Zoo-Funding Battle Hints At PC Zoo-Management Infection
The zoo I'm referring to is the Franklin Park Zoo (FPZ), not the Massachusetts state legislature, although the slang version of the word's meaning likely applies there as well.As reported in a July 10 Boston Globe story, in reaction to Patrick's line-item veto of $4 million of the FPZ's $6.5 million annual subsidy, Zoo New England, which runs the FPZ's two zoo sites, ".... in a written statement…
CNN Spotlights Criticism of ObamaCare -- From the Left
Jim Acosta interviews Obama's former doctor who says health care plan 'doesn't go far enough,' ignores other voices.
Roseanne Barr Dressed as Hitler Bakes Burnt 'Jew Cookies
As NewsBusters has chronicled over the years, Roseanne Barr has a history of doing and saying some truly disgraceful things, but this one really takes the cake...or the cookie in this case.Her most-recent tailspin into the gutter involved a photo shoot with Heeb magazine wherein she is seen wearing an Adolf Hitler moustache and swastika as she takes burnt gingerbread "Jew Cookies" out of an oven…
New ABC Health Correspondent Is an Obama Donor
ABC’s newly hired senior medical editor is also an Obama donor, having contributed $400 to the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. TV Newser reported on Thursday that Dr. Richard Besser, the director of the Centers for Disease Control, would assume the position in September. A search on the website Open Secrets finds two donations by Dr. Besser on August 22, 2008.As senior health…
NPR Explores How Rapper Jay-Z Is the USA, and He Can't Get Bogged Down
Last Wednesday, NPR's Morning Edition ran a strange story picking up on how George Washington University professor Mark Lynch blogged for Foreign Policy magazine on how rapper "beefs" are a metaphor for foreign policy. Jay-Z, on top of the rapper heap, is the U.S., whereby a challenging rapper like The Game could be Iran. It prompted this funny letter, read on the air the next day: LINDA…
Did Rock And Roll Save America From Communism
I bet you thought rock and rollers in the '60s were all left-wing radicals advocating the violent takeover of America in order to replace our style of government with communism.According to Ralph Benko, a conservative human rights advocate, you couldn't be more wrong:[T]he evidence is that the greatest musicians of the golden age of Rock (to whose work we’re all still listening since nothing…
Newsweek, ABC Cheer End of Recession, But Economists, Politicians Rema
Even President Obama caught off guard by magazine claim.
FNC's O'Reilly Cites MRC Study on Media's Pro-ObamaCare Coverage
On Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, host Bill O'Reilly cited the Business and Media Institute's recent study finding that broadcast network evening and morning news shows have slanted their coverage of President Obama's health care proposals heavily in the Democratic President's favor, as O'Reilly introduced a segment with FNC analyst and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg. O'…
Iowa Woman Selling Her TVs - Reason: 'Obama On Every Channel and Stati
A Buyers' Market It is a bit of an understatement to say that when it comes to dominating the media, President Barack Obama is perhaps unequalled by any politician ever. Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, Obama the King of Pols.The Publisher of NewsBusters.org, Brent Bozell, wrote his syndicated column about the media's full-court Obama press just…
Way Too Early Williams Jokes: 'A Bit of Meth' To Get Going
Overcompensation: (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite.Today brings a prime example of the phenomenon in the person of Brian Williams, overcompensating for his image as a pampered straight arrow by joking about having a vast staff of servants, looking forward to the prospect of watching some nude male swimming, and,…