Bad News for ObamaCare? Nah, Just a 'Hiccup' Say Big Three Nets

In the last couple of weeks ObamaCare has been dealt two serious setbacks: yet another delay in the employer mandate, and a devastating CBO report that claimed it will cost the equivalent of two million jobs. However, the reaction of Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network reporters to these latest ObamaCare failures has been to blow them off as just a little “hiccup.” When the White House…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 18th, 2014 9:04 AM

DNC Debbie Says GOP's 'Offensive' to Bring Up Bill Clinton's War on Wo

In 2012, DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz certainly felt it was fair game to make fun of a decades-old private issue of family business when she cracked jokes about Mitt Romney putting his dog on the roof of his car on a family vacation. But when asked about Bill Clinton putting Hillary Clinton in the grip of very public adultery? Dredging that up is “offensive,” and alienating to women…
Tim Graham
February 18th, 2014 7:13 AM

Rasmussen Column: Getting a Grip on the Realities of the Federal Budge

The big story about the federal budget this week was the Republican Party's struggle to deal with raising the debt ceiling. Last year's big budget story was President Barack Obama and the Democrats coming to grips with the so-called sequester, a policy gimmick that modestly slowed the growth of federal spending. Neither of these storylines came anywhere close to dealing with reality. The two…
Scott Rasmussen
February 18th, 2014 12:39 AM

Grieving AP Virtually Dares GOP to Create More Jobs in Tenn. After UAW

The folks at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, are really having a hard time processing the UAW's failure to gain the ability to represent Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee workers in an election held last week. AP journalists, who themselves are members of the News Media Guild, are exhibiting characterstics of still partially being in Stage 1 (Denial) but mostly Stage 2 (…
Tom Blumer
February 17th, 2014 11:41 PM

On Fox, MRC's Brent Bozell Reveals Dramatic Sunday Climate Change 'Tsu

MRC president Brent Bozell appeared on Monday afternoon's edition of "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on the Fox News Channel. Brent and guest host Eric Bolling discussed how the network Sunday shows all pushed "climate change" segments after Senate Democrats complained that the subject had been allegedly ignored over the last few years. Democrats haven't moved any "climate change" legislation…
NB Staff
February 17th, 2014 11:27 PM

Douglas Brinkley Calls Obama's Legacy 'Above-Average

Amidst President Obama's sliding approval ratings, liberal historian Douglas Brinkley stood up for his "above-average" legacy on Monday's Hardball. "I think he's an above-average president. I'd put him somewhere around what Bill Clinton was able to do," Brinkley insisted. He compared Obama's withdrawal from Iraq to Eisenhower getting the U.S. out of the Korean war, even though al Qaeda is…
Matt Hadro
February 17th, 2014 10:00 PM

WATCH: NewsBusted's Miller Skewers Lovelorn Chris Matthews, Invisible

"Researchers in Texas say they have developed an invisibility cloak," Jodi Miller dryly noted in the February 14 edition of NewsBusted.  Of course, "We already have an invisibility cloak. It's called having a show on MSNBC," she cracked. Other targets stung by Miller's arrow-sharp wit this Valentine's Day included New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), global warming alarmist Al Gore, and…
NB Staff
February 17th, 2014 7:25 PM

Better Than Liberal FDR, LBJ or JFK? You'll Never Guess Ed Schultz's F

  How much of a liberal cheerleader is MSNBC's Ed Schultz? On Monday's Ed Show, the host was asked this question by a viewer: "Who is your favorite President?" Rather than answer with liberal heroes like Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson or John F. Kennedy, Schultz immediately responded, "President Obama." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The cable anchor enthused, "I respect him…
Scott Whitlock
February 17th, 2014 6:04 PM

MSNBC.com Exploits Florida Shooting Verdict to Promote Repeal of 'Stan

"Dunn verdict renews call for gun reform" blares the teaser headline for the number one item in the lightbox at MSNBC.com. The corresponding story by Michele Richinick was front-loaded with calls from liberal activists to exploit the outcome of a murder trial to promote an effort to repeal Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which was not even invoked as a defense in the recently-concluded trial of…
Ken Shepherd
February 17th, 2014 5:40 PM

On PBS, David Brooks Mocks Ted Cruz As 'Our National Aphrodisiac

If it’s Friday on PBS, it’s time for “conservative” pundit David Brooks to bash the real conservatives. One of his favorite targets is Sen. Ted Cruz. On Valentine’s Day, PBS anchor Judy Woodruff announced “We watched this drama play out this week, David, in Congress, which ended up in the Senate with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas essentially hanging some of his fellow Republicans out to dry. What…
Tim Graham
February 17th, 2014 5:00 PM

OpenSecrets.org Shows Koch Campaign Money Dwarfed by Dozens of Other G

NOTE: Go to the end of this post to see my reaction to an email NB received from OpenSecrets.org.  The web site OpenSecrets.org has done a great deal of useful work. Especially helpful are its lists of high-dollar political campaign donor organizations. The web site's 1989-2014 and 2012-specific lists, to name just two, demonstrate that the hyperventilating on the left and in the…
Tom Blumer
February 17th, 2014 3:28 PM

NBC: Moscow's Subway System Is Stalin's 'Palace for the People

In a report aired on Monday's NBC Today from the Sochi Olympic games, correspondent Stephanie Gosk toured the Russian capital: "Moscow evokes powerful images. The Kremlin, Soviet leaders, the Red Army. But beyond the Cold War symbols, this city of 10 million people is a modern bustling metropolis..." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Later in the segment, Gosk described…
Kyle Drennen
February 17th, 2014 3:11 PM

NY Times Notes 'Conservative' Breitbart Expansion, But Glenn Greenwald

The “new media” is expanding in the digital realm, but one trend of liberal bias certainly isn’t new: While The New York Times repeated and repeated that expanding Breitbart News network is “conservative,” left-wing ventures by Glenn Greenwald and Ezra Klein were apparently non-ideological, and drew no ideological labels of any kind – liberal, leftist, progressive – at all. On the front of…
Tim Graham
February 17th, 2014 2:28 PM

MSNBC.com Pits 'Science Guy' Nye Against Republican Congresswoman

MSNBC.com has drawn a line in the sand regarding where it stands on the “consensus” of man-made climate change. Following Bill Nye’s appearance on Sunday’s Meet the Press, MSNBC.com’s Ned Resnikoff continued to peddle the liberal line on climate change and conveniently dismissed any skepticism of human involvement on the issue. Just yesterday, David Gregory, moderator of Meet the Press, used…
Jeffrey Meyer
February 17th, 2014 1:51 PM