NBC Presents All-Positive Story on ‘Shared Medical Appointments

It appears that NBC is trying to prepare us for the future of health care scarcity that ObamaCare is likely to bring. On Saturday’s Today, chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman presented a story on a new phenomenon that has popped up in some hospitals and clinics around the country: shared medical appointments. The idea is to put as many as 15 people with similar health problems in the same…
Paul Bremmer
December 2nd, 2013 6:10 PM

Tortured Football Analogy: Ed Schultz Compares Obama to Auburn; Republ

  Perhaps the White House told Ed Schultz to compare the administration to a powerhouse football team? On Monday's MSNBC program, the liberal host offered a tortured analogy: Barack Obama is just like the University of Auburn's football team and the Republicans are the defeated Alabama. Schultz even replayed Saturday's exciting final play, swapping out player Chris Davis for the President: "…
Scott Whitlock
December 2nd, 2013 6:05 PM

Is Martin Bashir's 'Vacation' Actually a Suspension

When I noticed about 90 minutes ago that Joy Reid was once again filling in for MSNBC's Martin Bashir after having done so last week, I started wondering if this wasn't a vacation at all, and if the man who last month suggested someone should defecate and urinate in former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's mouth was actually being punished for it. Almost on cue, Politico's Dylan Byers wrote…
Noel Sheppard
December 2nd, 2013 5:29 PM

Attkisson: Fast and Furious Whistleblower 'Rare Example' Amidst Obama

Sharyl Attkisson touted 'Fast and Furious' whistleblower John Dodson as "a rare example, especially amid the Obama administration's war on leaks" during a segment on Monday's CBS This Morning. Attkisson, whose reporting on the arms trafficking scandal won CBS a Edward R. Murrow Award, spotlighted the ATF senior agent's new book on "the inside story of why he went public to expose the government…
Matthew Balan
December 2nd, 2013 4:44 PM

CNN Pundit Shrugs Off Obama's Lie: 'Every President Is Going to Lie to

On CNN Sunday evening, liberal ESPN columnist LZ Granderson justified the President's repeated lie about ObamaCare, claiming that Americans knew he did it for their own good. "And, time and time again, Americans have said we can deal with the lies that President Obama tells us because we believe in his heart, he has the best interest for the American people," Granderson claimed. He also…
Matt Hadro
December 2nd, 2013 4:04 PM

MSNBC Panel: Detroit is GOP's Fault, 'Not a Single Thing' Obama Couldn

On Wednesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, during a discussion of Republican Mike Murphy's suggestion that the next GOP convention should be in Detroit, host Al Sharpton and Karen Finney blamed Republicans for Detroit's problems, with Sharpton referring to the solidly Democratic city as "the same Detroit that was destroyed by the Bush recession." A bit later, guest and Oprah Winfrey Network talk…
Brad Wilmouth
December 2nd, 2013 3:45 PM

Global Warming Alarmist Sam Champion Leaves ABC for Weather Channel: H

  ABC announced on Monday that weatherman and global warming alarmist Sam Champion will be leaving the network for the Weather Channel. Champion has developed a long history of the most hyperbolic predictions about climate change. Additionally, the ABC personality has promoted bizarre environmentalists such as No Impact Man, an activist who shunned toilet paper. On February 8, 2008,…
Scott Whitlock
December 2nd, 2013 3:24 PM

Liberal Civility: Cardinal Is ‘Bulls---ter,’ ‘Blowhard’ on Gay

It’s hardly a shock that the paragons of class at Jezebel hate the Catholic Church, what with its rules and morality and stuff. But shouldn’t people who write for a living be able to come up with a better epithet for a Church cardinal than “Catholic Bullshitter?” Is that the best enlightened progressives can do? Jezebel's Doug Barry blamed the Church for “deny[ing] gay people certain critical…
Katie Yoder
December 2nd, 2013 2:19 PM

NY Times 'Dot Earth' Blogger Draws Cartoon of Christmas Trees Tying a

Environmentalists prefer plants and animals to humans. The latest proof? Through a panicky global-warming tweet from Think Progress blaring "Floods and heat cause mass Christmas Tree deaths," I came across a new cartoon drawn by veteran New York Times environmental reporter-turned-"Dot Earth" blogger Andrew Revkin. Revkin had several pine trees driving a car with a balding white guy tied to…
Tim Graham
December 2nd, 2013 1:20 PM

President Obama Nominated Twice in PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year' Read

Corrected/clarified from earlier | President Obama's lie about having always said that there were caveats to "if you like it you can keep it" claim made it into the top 10 finalists for PolitiFact's 2013 Lie of the Year Readers Choice Award. PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan invited readers this morning to vote for their favorite false claim. Half of the nominees were conservative…
Ken Shepherd
December 2nd, 2013 12:49 PM

NBC's Gregory Cuts Off GOP Congressman to Spew ObamaCare Propaganda

On Sunday's Meet the Press, as Republican Congressman Mike Rogers denounced ObamaCare's "unprecedented confiscation of people's health care," moderator David Gregory interrupted to parrot White House talking points defending the disastrous policy: "...you talk about confiscation, the reality is there's also a lot of people who are going to have the potential to get insurance who never had…
Kyle Drennen
December 2nd, 2013 12:28 PM

CNN Walks Back Sunday's Report on Upgraded ObamaCare Website Crashing

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, CNN's New Day featured a segment wherein the newly upgraded ObamaCare website crashed when senior medical producer Matt Sloane tried to open up an account. Maybe that was too honest for on Monday's New Day, senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen painted a much rosier picture of the website's progress (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 2nd, 2013 11:44 AM

Open Thread Monday

For general discussion and comment...
NB Staff
December 2nd, 2013 9:32 AM

WashPost: Democrats Never Careen to the 'Far Left,' They Can Only Beco

On Sunday, The Washington Post reported on its front page “Democratic Party feeling heat from a revived left.” They rarely acknowledge the Democrats have an ideological base, and almost never use the word “liberal” to describe it. Reporter Zachary Goldfarb did use the word “liberal” routinely, but when you want to push something really leftist, you aren’t getting extreme, you are growing…
Tim Graham
December 2nd, 2013 9:04 AM