ABC Wakes Up to 'Massive Technical Glitches' on ObamaCare Website: 'It

  The journalists at Good Morning America on Monday woke up to the "massive technical glitches" "plaguing millions" of Americans trying to use the ObamaCare website. The morning show, which has largely minimized the troubled debut of HealthCare.gov, featured reporter Rebecca Jarvis to lament, "It was supposed to be an easy way for Americans to sign up for health care online. But this morning…
Scott Whitlock
October 21st, 2013 11:59 AM

CBS's Dickerson: White House Risks 'Credibility Death Spiral' Over 'To

John Dickerson could not have been more blunt on Monday's CBS This Morning about the political damage HealthCare.gov's well-established technical difficulties is already causing President Obama: "It's been far worse than a glitch. It's been a total fiasco, as Senator McCain said. And the problem here is that the administration could get into, sort of, a credibility death spiral." The liberal…
Matthew Balan
October 21st, 2013 11:04 AM

Open Thread Monday

Discuss the news of the day or anything else you'd like...
NB Staff
October 21st, 2013 10:05 AM

Morning Joe: In Off-Record Briefing, White House Was 'Extraordinarily

So, were they lying, or merely clueless?   On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough disclosed that in off-the-record briefings prior to the rollout of the Obamacare website, Obama administration officials were "extraordinarily confident" of success.  They displayed a site that Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said looked "great," "very user friendly" and "very simple." View the video after the…
Mark Finkelstein
October 21st, 2013 8:25 AM

Geraldo Rivera Wants to Send Ted Cruz a Bill for $23 Billion for Shutd

Like many a liberal blowhard, Fox’s Geraldo Rivera grabbed estimates from financial analysts that the government shutdown cost the economy billions of dollars. On his radio show Thursday, Geraldo decided he wanted to send the entire bill to Sen. Ted Cruz. Geraldo also hosted CNN anchor Don Lemon who claimed to disavow “any political affiliation,” and then trashed the Republicans for holding…
Tim Graham
October 21st, 2013 8:00 AM

Friends on CBS’s ‘Good Wife’ Appalled by Man Who Supports Palin

Some more bashing of Sarah Palin on Sunday night’s episode of CBS’s The Good Wife, but the scene also managed to deliver an illustrative dramatization of liberals in a bubble displaying arrogant condescension toward those who dare stray from liberal orthodoxy – and how they learn to despise the Fox News Channel via Jon Stewart. A couple who are old college friends of liberal lawyer “Diane…
Brent Baker
October 21st, 2013 2:58 AM

Newspaper Cartoon Compares Washington Redskins to Nazis, Confederates

Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes a political cartoon in the New York Daily News attempting to change the name of a National Football League team that's not even in their city. The illustration posted on Thursday featured three flags, the first containing the swastika symbol of the Nazis, then the star-filled banner of the Confederates from the Civil War, and finally the…
Randy Hall
October 20th, 2013 10:34 PM

Obama Tells Congress to Ignore 'Talking Heads on Radio' -- Again

Remember the saying that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”? It appears the president had it in mind on Thursday morning, when Barack Obama held a press conference in which he said: “All of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists, and the bloggers, and the talking heads on radio.” It's interesting to note that back on Jan. 23, 2009, the new Democratic occupant of the…
Randy Hall
October 20th, 2013 10:31 PM

Abandoning All Pretense: Axelrod's Tweet Appears to Foreshadow MSNBC's

Former Barack Obama campaign manager and current MSNBC senior political analyst David Axelrod today immaturely taunted those who disagree with him on Obamacare by tweeting the following question: "Isn't it ironic that the most ardent opponents of the Affordable Care Act are now complaining that people can't sign up fast enough?" At first blush, it would appear that Axelrod's tweet might be…
Tom Blumer
October 20th, 2013 7:56 PM

How Oprah Winfrey Flustered the 'Friendly Atheist

The Washington Post was showing its soft spot for atheists again in Saturday’s Metro section. Blogger Hemant Mehta (“The Friendly Atheist”) wanted to chew out Oprah Winfrey. Mr. Friendly was flustered when Oprah told distance swimmer Diana Nyad that she couldn’t be an atheist if she found joy and mystery in nature. He then lectured Oprah that she wouldn’t dismiss bisexuals or moderate…
Tim Graham
October 20th, 2013 7:18 PM

Juan Williams Slams MSNBC: ‘I Don't Think They Even Have Any Pretens

“MSNBC, I don't think they even have any pretense of balance at this point. I mean, goodness gracious.” So marvelously said Juan Williams on Fox News’s MediaBuzz Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 20th, 2013 6:34 PM

Lisa Mascaro at the LA Times: Nation's Budget Problems Are 'Substantia

A recurring theme at the Los Angeles Times during the past several days has been that the nation's economic and fiscal circumstances really aren't all that bad, and they're getting better under Dear Leader Obama. (Oh, and throw in a healthy dose of "It's Bush's fault" for good measure.) Lisa Mascaro, with the help of Brian Bennett, David Lauter and Michael A. Memoli, added to that effort late…
Tom Blumer
October 20th, 2013 5:43 PM

Daily Beast Contributor Jokes About Cruz and McCain Settling Feud in a

I'm fully aware that Daily Beast contributor Dean Obeidallah is a comedian, but would the following comment he made on Twitter Sunday be funny if made by a conservative comic about Democrats? "Anyone else hoping Ted Cruz and John McCain settle their feud in an Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton style duel? Id [sic] be rooting for John McCain":
Noel Sheppard
October 20th, 2013 4:49 PM

Andrea Mitchell: 'Jim DeMint and Heritage Have Been Completely Discred

Liberal media members sure do hate conservative think tanks. Take NBC's Andrea Mitchell who on Sunday's Meet the Press said, "Jim DeMint and Heritage have been completely discredited among Republicans, among conservative Republicans" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 20th, 2013 2:39 PM