Amid ObamaCare Disaster, NBC's Todd Insists GOP 'Has No Interest in Go

While discussing the numerous ObamaCare failures on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd felt it necessary to gratuitously bash Republicans: "And suddenly you have the picture of two parties, a Democratic Party led by the President that apparently doesn't know how to govern, has a competency issue when it comes to this health care website, juxtaposed next to a…
Kyle Drennen
October 30th, 2013 6:10 PM

CNN's Gupta on ObamaCare Dropping Millions From Health Plans: 'It Hasn

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta – who was once considered for President Obama's surgeon general – gave cover to President Obama Wednesday in explaining his broken promise that Americans could keep their insurance. "It hasn't been explained very well," Gupta said of millions who will be dropped from their health plans and who must buy insurance in the ObamaCare marketplaces. He also failed to note that…
Matt Hadro
October 30th, 2013 6:04 PM

Ex-Obama Flack: It's 'Difficult to Get Anything Done Inside Government

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, Samuel Johnson famously observed, much as truth is a last resort to liberals. Hardly a day passes without yet more novel excuses for the ongoing trainwreck known as Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, a legislative title well en route to becoming a punch line. But there amid the torrent of lame apologia came a brief moment of candor from a…
Jack Coleman
October 30th, 2013 5:50 PM

NBCUniversal’s Insurance Premiums to Rise Due to Obamacare

CNBC’s morning anchors were troubled by the news that their own insurance plans will become more costly under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On Oct. 30’s “Squawk Box,” CNBC Senior Correspondent Scott Cohn revealed details of NBC’s open enrollment, brandishing an official fact book outlining the process. He quoted the document, revealing that the ACA would increase employee premiums.
Sean Long
October 30th, 2013 5:22 PM

Chris Matthews Compares Ted Cruz to Cinematic Child Murderer 'Freddy K

  Apparently, a lot of conservatives remind Chris Matthews of the scarred and burned child murderer from the Nightmare on Elm Street films. On Tuesday, the Hardball anchor linked Republican Ted Cruz to the cinematic killer. He opened the program by spewing, "Is Ted Cruz the Republican Freddy Krueger?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.] According to Matthews, the Texas senator is a "…
Scott Whitlock
October 30th, 2013 4:32 PM

Obama Heckled By Environmentalists at ObamaCare Rally

Early in his speech to promote ObamaCare in Boston Tuesday, the President was interrupted by hecklers asking him to not support the XL Pipeline. “Mr. President, protect me from XL,” they said. “Stop punishing. For our generation, stop the pipeline.”
Noel Sheppard
October 30th, 2013 4:27 PM

Dickerson: 'HealthCare.gov Launched With The...Success Of A North Kore

John Dickerson didn't mince words about the "bad launch" of ObamaCare in his Tuesday item for Slate.com. The CBS News political director invoked one of deceased tyrant Kim Jong il's most infamous saber-rattling tactics: "Healthcare.gov launched with the fanfare and success of a North Korean missile." Dickerson also rephrased his recent contention that "the administration could get into, sort…
Matthew Balan
October 30th, 2013 4:16 PM

CNN’s Jake Tapper Attends ‘Book of Jezebel’ Party

The world of the elite liberal media is a small one. Witness Jezebel founder Anna Holmes and CNN’s Jake Tapper.  The Washington Post’s Megan McDonough covered Holmes’ newly published “The Book of Jezebel,” on the Style section’s front page via her piece: “A compilation of lady things, A to Jezebel.” In the Oct. 30 article, McDonough noted the presence of CNN’s “The Lead” Host Jake Tapper at a…
Katie Yoder
October 30th, 2013 3:56 PM

WaPo's Kessler Gives Obama's 'You Can Keep Your Plan' Promise 'Four Pi

43 months after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, another national establishment press outlet has called President Barack Obama's serially made promise that "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health plan" a lie. Specifically, Washington Post designated fact-checker Glenn Kessler has given it "four Pinocchios," the lowest possible rating on his scale reserved for "…
Tom Blumer
October 30th, 2013 3:39 PM

Berkeley Climate Scientist: IPCC Predictions ‘Getting Worse

While climate alarmists and the media continue to link everything, including storms like Hurricane Sandy, to climate change, one scientist recently admitted to HuffPost Live that accuracy of forecasts is deteriorating. Jane Long, Berkeley researcher and associate director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, cast doubt on climate change forecasts in an Oct. 29 HuffPost Live segment…
Sean Long
October 30th, 2013 3:09 PM

MSNBC.com Spins: Obama's 'You Can Keep It' Lie Merely a Passing 'Polit

President Obama's lie that folks who like their insurance plans could keep them is merely a "political mess," MSNBC.com's Geoffrey Cowley is insisting. After all, "consumers still stand to benefit from the new rules" governing the health care industry." [see screen capture following page break] "For a president who has spent five years fighting for health care reform, this should be a…
Ken Shepherd
October 30th, 2013 1:30 PM

Charlie Rose to Cheney: Would You Have Seen Iraq Differently If You Ha

On Tuesday's Charlie Rose Show, former Vice President Dick Cheney came on to promote his new book about surviving heart disease and was treated to a nasty swipe from the host about his Iraq war decision making. When Cheney told the PBS host and co-anchor of CBS’s This Morning that he had wished he had gotten his heart transplant done sooner, Rose took a swing, meant as a joke: “Might you have…
Geoffrey Dickens
October 30th, 2013 1:00 PM

Leno Tougher on How President 'Lied' About ObamaCare Than NBC Reporter

On Tuesday's NBC Tonight Show, host Jay Leno provided harsher criticism of President Obama falsely claiming that Americans could keep their current health insurance plans under ObamaCare than any of the network's reporters. Leno told the audience: "Well, it's being reported that the President has known for three years that people would lose their coverage. The press is now saying the President…
Kyle Drennen
October 30th, 2013 12:51 PM

ABC Wakes Up to ObamaCare 'Lie,' But Knocks Americans' 'Cheap, Underpe

 The journalists at Good Morning America on Wednesday conceded that Barack Obama may have "misled the public" on the health care law, that "some call it a lie." But at the same time, reporter Jim Avila helpfully told viewers that Americans would be only be losing "cheap, underperforming insurance." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Anchor George Stephanopoulos introduced the story on Kathleen…
Scott Whitlock
October 30th, 2013 12:32 PM