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Network news fails to examine high cost and proven failures of government-run health care

New Washington insider wisdom: If you have the courage of your convictions and support those who do likewise, then you’re not to be taken seriously. At an event at the Ronald Reagan Building hosted by Roll Call/CQ in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4, Roll Call Executive Editor Mort Kondracke, also a Fox News contributor took a few shots at the political leadership of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and…

Network news fails to examine high cost and proven failures of government-run health care

MSNBC's "Jansing & Co." ran the headline "Sore Losers?" during the 11 a.m. EDT hour, featuring concession speeches of three GOP candidates in the election. The anchor, Chris Jansing, asked "Where's the civility?" but made no specific mention of Democrat "sore losers." "Whatever happened to the gracious concession speech, and whatever happened to that phone call to your opponent?"…

A round-up of New York Times post-election bias: Thursday's Times ran a special four-page analysis of the election results from all 50 states. There were seven mentions of “conservative” Republicans, a surprising six mentions of conservative Democrats, two mentions of fiscally conservative Democrats, and six mentions of conservative or right-wing locations, including two states, Utah and…

Bill Press says what most liberals in the media will only shroud in cryptic code: the voters who swept Democrats out of power in the House are stupid. During the first hour of his eponymous radio program today, Press wished more liberal politicians would just say what they really think about the constituents they ostensibly serve: "Just once – probably never get reelected if you ever said it…

The news may actually be getting worse for soon-to-be former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) as according to Roll Call, she may be challenged for her minority leadership roll when the next Congress convenes:

Mountain of legislation awaits Congress; taxes, unemployment, Medicare and more may be addressed.

Keith Olbermann has become very upset lately at people who claim MSNBC and Fox News are two sides of the same coin - ideological cable news counterparts. Olbermann is right to object to that characterization, but not for the reason he thinks. Unlike his 8 pm Fox News competitor Bill O'Reilly, Olbermann prefers not to have dissenting voices on his show. According to Philadelphia Daily News…

There seems to be a schism between two of the media giants that lefties hold in high regard – the entire MSNBC network and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart. After Stewart took a few jabs at MSNBC during his Oct. 30 Washington, D.C. rally, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann took umbrage at the equivalency Stewart drew between his network and the Fox News Channel. In Olbermann’s view…

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a liberal journalist returns to his talking points. In a November 4 Swampland blog post, Time magazine's Joe Klein laid a fair share of blame for Democrats losing the House of Representatives on "conservative" Blue Dogs and their alleged reticence to spend taxpayer dollars:

In the wee hours of Election Night came this Twitter burst from Arianna Huffington, the one who loaded buses to rally with Jon Stewart for "sanity" and calm and taking the rhetoric down a notch: On nightline set matthew dowd on sen elect rubio surrounded by flags looking like a central american dictator What? Dowd didn't say that, as the tweet might suggest. Arianna didn't say it on ABC,…

On Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith saw Republican goals to limit government spending as antithetical to improving the economy: "How do you unleash the economy and not spend any money, oh, by the way, because that's the other mandate, is don't increase the deficit and don't – don't – 'I don't want one more cent of tax on me.'" Smith put the question to Time magazine Washington…

Conservatives have only one choice: to win they must fight with everything they have.