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George Will: Other Than Nixon ‘Has There Ever Been a Worse First Yea
Syndicated columnist George Will asked a marvelous question Sunday that few in the liberal media will.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Will said, “Has there ever – with the exception of Richard Nixon in 1973 - been a worse first year of a second term?” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
November 10th, 2013 11:22 AM
After Updating, White House Website Still Says 'You Can Keep Your Plan
Saturday afternoon, Politico's Jason Millman, in an item incredibly headlined "Updated White House website keeps disputed Obamacare language," reported that "The Obama administration has updated a White House website that says its health care law allows people to keep their plans if they like them — but the website still maintains the language that Obamacare opponents have aggressively attacked…
November 10th, 2013 10:19 AM
Sarah Kliff: Hooray! D.C. Obamacare Enrollments Not as Pathetic as Tho
If you are a health policy reporter for the Washington Post and take upon yourself the role of cheerleader for Obamacare, the task can be quite challenging. Therefore one must admire the effort that Sarah Kliff displays into putting a positive spin on this bit of pathetically sad news:
The District of Columbia's insurance marketplace has enrolled exactly five people in health plans, according…
November 10th, 2013 8:43 AM
WashPost Media Critic Honors MSNBC's Rachel Maddow As 'Clear Winner of
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple read through a stack of books by cable-news hosts for a Sunday Outlook piece, and declared “MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the clear winner of the cable-news-host literary prize” for her book “Drift.”
On Sunday’s front page, The Post called it a “blab lit review” and called it “A survey of the many cable big mouths who have stuffed it between hard covers…
November 10th, 2013 8:27 AM
HuffPo, AP Report Obama Considering an Expansion of ObamaCare Subsidie
Sam Stein, who poses as a journalist while toiling at the Huffington Post (he lost any legitimate claim to the title when he wouldn't back away when caught red-handed pretending to know something he couldn't possibly know about John McCain's vetting or lack thereof of Sarah Palin in September 2008), wrote on Thursday (HT Hot Air) that "The Obama administration is considering a fix to the…
November 9th, 2013 11:43 PM
NBC Pushes Line That Death of 'Sacred' Yasser Arafat Was Poisoning, Ig
On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News and Thursday’s Today, NBC hyped the notion that Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat “may have” been assassinated by poisoning. They let Palestinians accuse Israel, and bizarrely suggested only Israel “considered” Arafat a terrorist (forgetting decades where the U.S. officially agreed).
There was no NBC update Friday when NPR’s All Things Considered…
November 9th, 2013 9:33 PM
Axelrod: Insurance Cos. Should Have Given Customers Advance Warning Ab
Assisting the Obama administration in its perpetual flight from responsibility for anything, former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod, who now campaigns from a paid propaganda perch at NBC and MSNBC, tweeted the following on Friday afternoon (HT Twitchy): "Wonder how many Insurance cos that sold junk policies after ACA was signed told customers at purchase that they'd have to eventually…
November 9th, 2013 6:24 PM
Buchanan: If ObamaCare Cancels 76 Million Plans ‘There’s Going to
“If there’s anything like 76 million healthcare plans voided, not only is ObamaCare dead, there’s going to be guillotines set up at Farragut Square.”
So said syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan on PBS’s McLaughlin Group Friday.
November 9th, 2013 5:38 PM
Seriously? 'Mommyish' Blog Uses 'Adorable Cats' to Illustrate Ten Reas
Abortion supporter Eve Vawter thought it would be cute to use "adorable cats" to describe "10 reasons to have an abortion."
Her explanation: “I don't think the majority of women make the decision to have an abortion lightly.”
November 9th, 2013 5:16 PM
Chris Matthews Calls Rand Paul a 'Pissant' for Questioning Christie Pu
In May, ABCNews.com reported that Democrats were unhappy that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put his family into state tourism ads begging people to come back to beaches on the New Jersey shore. “That Gov. Christie would allow $25 million in federally-funded ads to feature him in the middle of an election year is both supremely arrogant and wildly inappropriate,” his opponent Barbara Buono said…
November 9th, 2013 4:24 PM
NYT Puts Michael Shear's Pathetic Coverage of Obama's 'You Can Keep Yo
In a Thursday evening writeup (HT Twitchy) which appeared on Page A14 in its Friday morning print edition, Michael D. Shear at the New York Times reported on President Barack Obama's attempt to clean up the four-year mess he made (from June 6, 2009 through September 26, 2013) in over three dozen statements and published items. The mess was Obama's guarantee — not a promise, a guarantee — that "…
November 9th, 2013 2:51 PM
PBS Staff RINO David Brooks Rants 2012 GOP Debates Were 'Looney Tunes
New York Times columnist David Brooks always knows he's sitting on a liberal Democrat set at the PBS NewsHour. PBS viewers don't want a real conservative that makes conservative arguments. Only insults are welcome. So in praising Chris Christie on Friday's show, he said the 2012 GOP presidential debates were "Looney Tunes." He was dead serious.
But when the subject turned to liberal Democrats…
November 9th, 2013 2:36 PM
Maher: ‘There's Always a Good, Moral, Christian Reason to Tell Every
If it’s Friday, HBO’s Bill Maher must be attacking conservatives as well as people of faith.
On the most recent installment of Real Time, the host did a lengthy segment accusing religious conservatives of being hypocrites saying, “There's always a good, moral, Christian reason to tell everyone you meet to f--k off and die” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
November 9th, 2013 2:22 PM
National Press Ignores Wendy Davis's Claim to Be 'Pro-Life,' 'Amateuri
Recently declared Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis had a really, really bad opening round of campaign appearances. Naturally, the national press, which swooned over the Fort Worth Democrat's ultimately failed filibuster against a common-sense pro-life law in the Lone Star State's legislature, pretended not to notice.
They had local help. On Wednesday, At The Monitor in McAllen, Texas…
November 9th, 2013 10:58 AM