Krauthammer: Insurance Companies Ruined By ObamaCare Will Need a Bailo

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer made a dire prediction Sunday. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Krauthammer said that all the exemptions the President has given to ObamaCare will ruin insurance companies thereby necessitating the White House to ask for a huge government bailout of these companies next year that Republicans in Congress should prevent (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
December 22nd, 2013 12:00 PM

Sharpton Holds Chicago 'Town Hall' on Gun Violence, 'Tea Party' Rhetor

Attempting to build his national profile, Al Sharpton "took up residence on the West Side (of Chicago) in November and began hosting ... (weekly) town halls as part of an effort to find solutions to the city’s outsize homicide rate among young black males." Rebel Pundit at Breitbart News reports that a Thursday meeting in the city's Hyde Park area not far from President Obama's Chicago home…
Tom Blumer
December 22nd, 2013 10:48 AM

Year-End Awards: The ‘MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chri

Last week, the Media Research Center announced our “Best Notable Quotables of 2013,” reviewing the worst media bias of the year, as selected by our panel of 42 judges, who generously reviewed dozens of quotes gathered throughout the year by MRC’s news analysts. As regular NewsBusters’ readers know, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews has become notorious for his frequent, savage verbal…
Rich Noyes
December 22nd, 2013 9:26 AM

Will David Gregory Be Bumped from 'Meet the Press'? Replaced by Joe an

The New York Post reports that NBC News boss Deborah Turness is eyeing more job cuts, and is causing the most distress for the NBC Washington bureau, since News Lite doesn’t need a lot of D.C. talent. Even David Gregory could get his gig canceled. “Turness has been trying to figure out the future for David Gregory's Meet the Press, with options including bringing in MSNBC's Morning Joe team…
Tim Graham
December 22nd, 2013 8:51 AM

Katie Couric's Oprah Try Fails, Kathy Griffin Back on CNN for New Year

As expected, ABC has cancelled Katie Couric's failed attempt to replace Oprah Winfrey as queen of the afternoon chat show, which comes after her failed attempt to replace Dan Rather in the CBS anchor chair. ABC delicately announced Couric “mutually agreed that there will not be a third season of the show.” Staffers learned just hours before their “holiday party,” and as “a consolation, staffers…
Tim Graham
December 22nd, 2013 7:16 AM

Years Late, NYT Discovers Obamacare Premiums Are Whacking the Upper-Mi

In January 2010, Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation studied the draft language in what ultimately turned into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or what came to be known as Obamacare. His two most important findings: 1) Obamacare would encourage divorce while discouraging marriage; 2) Individuals and couples earning what most would consider to be nice but certainly not…
Tom Blumer
December 21st, 2013 9:32 PM

People Magazine Puff Obamas In Interview, As Obama Blames His Problems

People magazine scored one of those year-end interviews, and they didn’t seem interested in breaking any news. Their own “news” headline on their website: “President Obama: 'I've Got 3 Opinionated, Strong, Tall Women'” – his wife and daughters. People managing editor Larry Hackett and reporter Sandra Sobieraj Westfall began by citing “NSA spying, healthcare.gov, and the shutdown,” only to…
Tim Graham
December 21st, 2013 7:58 PM

Exxon Mobil-Hater Rachel Maddow Now Sponsored By...Exxon Mobil

It is quite possible that no American company has received more criticism from MSNBC's Rachel Maddow than Exxon Mobil. Despite this, at the beginning of a commercial break of her program Wednesday, an unidentified announcer said, "The Rachel Maddow Show is brought to you by Exxon Mobil" (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 21st, 2013 4:56 PM

Chris Matthews: Ann Coulter 'Doesn't Have a Job

UPDATE AT END OF POST: COULTER RESPONDS! Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist and a New York Times Best Selling author. Despite this, on Friday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said, "[S]he doesn't have a job" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 21st, 2013 3:23 PM

WaPo’s Colby King Predicts Paul Ryan Will Be Elected President in

On the final installment of PBS’s Inside Washington Friday, host Gordon Peterson asked his panelists who they thought would be elected president in 2016. Rather surprisingly, the Washington Post’s Colby King said, “Paul Ryan because the Democratic nominee will never be able to replicate what Barack Obama has done, never bring out that base” (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 21st, 2013 2:12 PM

Krauthammer to Inside Washington Host: I Stand By Every Time I Savagel

Sadly, an era came to an end Friday when after 25 years on the air, PBS broadcast the final installment of the marvelous Inside Washington. To honor the event, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer deliciously told host Gordon Peterson, “[A]ll those times that I savagely attacked you for bias and twisting the news, I stand by every single one of them” (video follows with transcript and…
Noel Sheppard
December 21st, 2013 1:41 PM

Harris-Perry Show Displays 'Pope' Variation on Obama 'Hope' Poster

Today's Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, with Joy Reid guest-hosting, displayed a "Pope" poster of Pope Francis in the style of Shepard Fairey's "Hope" poster of Barack Obama made famous in 2008. The show featured a long segment analyzing the Pope's critique of capitalism.  What's the message of the poster and of MSNBC's decision to display it? That Pope Francis and Barack Obama share a…
Mark Finkelstein
December 21st, 2013 1:19 PM

Daily Beast's Tomasky: Obama's Done? No, This Year Was Just a 'Really

Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast is still carrying a blazing torch for the president, defending him against all pessimists, in “The Obama Political Obituaries Are Way Premature.” He claims Obama just has “a really, really bad first inning.” Are we ignoring the first term now? Tomasky insisted everyone should ignore the current conventional wisdom, “that a presidency that is already all but…
Tim Graham
December 21st, 2013 12:22 PM

Charlie Daniels to Piers Morgan: 'You Wouldn't Last Five Minutes' in t

NewsBusters guest contributor Charlie Daniels has had enough of CNN's Piers Morgan attacking Americans he doesn't agree with. After Morgan said about Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson via Twitter Thursday, "[T]he 1st Amendment shouldn't protect vile bigots," Daniels scolded the arrogant Brit Friday with a series of tweets that began, "Piers Morgan why don't you go back to England and straighten…
Noel Sheppard
December 21st, 2013 11:07 AM