Software Expert Slams Healthcare.Gov On MSNBC: ‘This Really Shouldn

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing brought software expert Luke Chung onto Thursday’s Jansing & Co. to analyze the federal government’s troubled healthcare.gov website. Chung, the founder and president of software and database programming company FMS, served up a scathing indictment of the website that left Jansing reeling at certain points during the interview. [See video below the break. MP3 audio…
Paul Bremmer
October 24th, 2013 3:50 PM

Slate Writer Defends Md. Democrat Gansler as 'Sensible' Parent

Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler (D) is in hot water today after the Baltimore Sun released a photograph showing the gubernatorial candidate in the middle of a raging underage-drinking party at a vacation home in Delaware. Gansler insisted he was merely there to check in on his 18-year-old son, who was attending the rager, and that breaking up the party was none of his business.…
Ken Shepherd
October 24th, 2013 3:35 PM

Elizabeth, NJ Mayor, Obamacare Truther, Thinks GOP Might Be Jamming Ac

As HealthCare.gov's disaster has dragged on and grown in scope, it was entirely predictable that doctrinaire leftists in the fever swamps would begin concocting reasons why its epic failure thus far has been the fault of obstructionist conservatives and Republicans. What perhaps was less expected, but based on history should not have been, is that supposedly responsible Democrats in elected…
Tom Blumer
October 24th, 2013 3:16 PM

CNN Anchor Admits Team Obama 'Can Be Quite Nasty' to Deal With

CNN's Carol Costello admitted on Wednesday that President Obama's staff "can be quite nasty" to deal with. Given Costello's propensity to be a bleeding-heart liberal, her admission is all the more striking. "I felt it first hand when I was, you know, reporting on the presidential race," Costello noted. "I mean President Obama's people can be quite nasty. They don't like you to say anything…
Matt Hadro
October 24th, 2013 3:01 PM

Liberal Billionaire Soros Joins Hillary Super PAC

Liberal billionaire George Soros has accepted a position on the National Finance Council of the Ready For Hillary Super PAC, a group paving the way for a 2016 presidential run for the former first lady. Soros, 83, has long been a monetary influence behind liberal politics, but this is the first time he has accepted a formal role on an American political campaign. Soros has a long history of…
Mike Ciandella
October 24th, 2013 1:38 PM

Piers Morgan Links to Fake News Report to Mock Sarah Palin

Piers Morgan used a fake news site to mock Sarah Palin on Twitter on Thursday. He linked to the satirical news site The Daily Currant saying that Palin claimed Jesus celebrated Easter. "And she's back!" Morgan gloated, with absolutely no mention that the article was fake. When critics told him the website was satire, Morgan answered that he knew it was. Yet he praised the notion that it was…
Matt Hadro
October 24th, 2013 1:06 PM

Politico's Purdum Decries 'Trash-Talking the President' Over Denied In

Taking journalistic hypocrisy to ever-headier heights, Politico's Todd Purdum spent hundreds of words Wednesday evening bemoaning the potential impact of an incident which both sides involved say never happened, and acted as if incivility only comes out of the mouths of conservatives and Republicans. Earlier Wednesday, the website's Tal Kopan relayed news that Illinois Democratic Senator Dick…
Tom Blumer
October 24th, 2013 12:50 PM

INTERPOL Chief: 'Armed Civilians' Could be Key to Preventing More West

To prevent more soft-target terror attacks like the deadly Al Shabaab strike on Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, policymakers around the world should consider liberalizing their gun laws to allow for armed civilians, the head of the the world's largest international police institution argued in an interview with ABCNews.com earlier this week. Unfortunately a search of Nexis finds that ABC has…
Ken Shepherd
October 24th, 2013 12:03 PM

Stewart Edits Krauthammer Telling Him 'You Need My Book Because You Do

Charles Krauthammer made a comment to Jon Stewart Wednesday evening that the folks at the Daily Show for some reason edited out of the version aired on Comedy Central. Speaking about his new book "Things That Matter," Krauthammer told his host, "You need the book because you don’t watch enough Fox News" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 24th, 2013 11:40 AM

Krauthammer to Jon Stewart: 'If Ted Cruz is the Leader of Conservatism

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer told Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart Wednesday, “You are the official spokesman of liberals.” When the Daily Show host objected during the extended online version of their interview, Krauthammer marvelously countered, “If Ted Cruz is the leader of conservatism, you’re the leader of liberalism” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 24th, 2013 11:03 AM

Piers Morgan Admits American Press ‘Quite Soft’ on President Obama

Piers Morgan, the liberal host of an eponymous hour-long weeknight program on the Cable News Network, said during an interview posted on Newsmax.com on Tuesday that the American news media have been “probably quite soft and could have gone harder” when covering President Barack Obama. But while promoting his new book -- “Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God and George Clooney” -- the former…
Randy Hall
October 24th, 2013 10:24 AM

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NB Staff
October 24th, 2013 10:08 AM

NBC Reporter Tries to Blame House GOP for ObamaCare Website Failure

In an interview with Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn on Wednesday's MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports, fill-in host and NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker desperately attempted to blame Republicans for the disastrous ObamaCare website rollout: "Congress repeatedly refused to authorize requests by the Obama administration for additional funding for the rollout of the health care law…
Kyle Drennen
October 24th, 2013 10:07 AM

Coulter Column: Hang One to Encourage the Others

One of the most effective ways of discouraging people is to make them think there's absolutely nothing they can do about something, anyway. Thus, liberals have tried to insinuate that Obamacare is impossible to remove, hoping conservatives will despair. But with only one-half of one branch of government, Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and the House Republicans have made it absolutely clear that…
Ann Coulter
October 24th, 2013 9:38 AM