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MSNBC's Schultz Predicts ObamaCare Will Have '5 Million People Signed
Urging his viewers to "get your tapes rolling at home" to record his prediction, that great Nostradamus of MSNBC predicted on his Wednesday, December 11 program that come March 1, five million people would be signed up for ObamaCare.
"I mean, if we have got 3 million people who have been on to it already, where are we going to be in April?!" the MSNBC host pondered aloud, referring to the…
December 11th, 2013 6:30 PM
NBC’s Chuck Todd Twists Poll Findings to Fish for Good News on Obama
Polls have not been kind to President Obama or his health care law lately, and MSNBC has had no choice but to acknowledge that fact. However, on Wednesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, NBC News political director Chuck Todd desperately fished for a silver lining in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll numbers on ObamaCare.
Todd told Mitchell that health care was the key to the president…
December 11th, 2013 5:57 PM
Rachel Maddow to Write Monthly Column for the Washington Post
"The journalistic bond between The Post and MSNBC just grew a bit stronger, as the paper’s opinion section announced that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will be writing a monthly column."
So began Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple's announcement Wednesday concerning the addition of the perilously liberal Maddow to the Post opinion page.
December 11th, 2013 5:26 PM
Gun Control Advocate Piers Morgan Admits 'It's Not My Country, It's No
CNN's Piers Morgan admitted that he is fighting U.S. gun laws despite it being "not my country" and "not my constitution."
In an interview with TV Newser, the CNN host explained, "It's not my country, it's not my constitution, but I'm a resident here, and I'm therefore governed by the same constitutional rights as anybody else." He also went on another mini-gun control rant on Tuesday night…
December 11th, 2013 4:07 PM
MSNBC's Fineman: Sounding 'Nuts' with 'Outrageous Statements' is a Plu
On Tuesday's All In show on MSNBC, during a discussion of Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman's primary challenge to Senator John Cornyn, MSNBC political analyst Howard Fineman asserted that, "if you don't make outrageous statements," the Tea Party movement will not consider you to be "serious."
Referring to some of Stockman's more controversial statements, Fineman reacted:
December 11th, 2013 4:01 PM
Time Still Hopeful For 'Transformer' Pope – Even As Francis Gives 'S
Time magazine's left-leaning reasons for choosing Pope Francis its 2013 Person of the Year were apparent in the cover story written by Howard Chua-Eoan and Elizabeth Dias. Chua-Eoan and Dias trumpeted how supposedly, "in a matter of months, Francis has elevated the healing mission of the church...above the doctrinal police work so important to his recent predecessors." The two later underlined…
December 11th, 2013 2:47 PM
MSNBC Minimizes Obama-Castro Handshake, Calls Ted Cruz Walkout a ‘St
Once again, the folks at MSNBC have whitewashed the bloody history of a Communist dictator in order to provide political cover for President Obama. Following video of President Obama shaking hands with Cuban dictator Raul Castro at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, the folks at the Lean Forward network jumped to President Obama’s defense.
Appearing on his daily MSNBC show on December 11, host Thomas…
December 11th, 2013 2:19 PM
Mashable Editor Laments Time Person of the Year Is Yet Again a Man
Time's editor Nancy Gibbs -- who, last we checked, was a woman -- announced today that Pope Francis would be honored as the magazine's 2013 Person of the Year. This, of course, is the perfect excuse for the sort of folks who get their knickers twisted over these sorts of things to complain that, yet again, a man was named for the honor. As insult to injury for left-wing feminists, the man in…
December 11th, 2013 1:27 PM
NBC: Obama's Handshake With Castro 'A True Mandela Moment
After Brian Williams touted President Obama's handshake with Cuban dictator Raul Castro as "one of the better moments" at Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela, correspondent Lester Holt went further on Wednesday's NBC Today, hailing the encounter as "a true Mandela moment." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
A sound bite followed of Democratic Congressman John…
December 11th, 2013 1:23 PM
Slate: 'Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore...Should Be a Pe
Remember all those promises that racism would end if Barack Obama became president?
Perfectly demonstrating the absurdity was Slate culture blogger Aisha Harris Tuesday actually making the case that it's racist for Santa Claus to be an old white man, and that he should be replaced by a penguin:
December 11th, 2013 1:11 PM
New York Times Lamely Hypes Obama Recovery: 'Rebound In His Approval
The New York Times is including all the Happy Talk That’s Fit to Print. Their latest poll came with the headline “Obama Sees a Rebound In His Approval Rating.” One might think it’s getting close to 50 percent.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Allison Kopicki wrote, “President Obama’s approval ratings, which hit his all-time low last month, have returned to where they were before the rollout of the…
December 11th, 2013 12:57 PM
ABC Finds the Positive In Obama's Low Approval Numbers; 'He Has Stoppe
ABC's Good Morning America provided the most positive spin it could from new Obama approval numbers, declaring that "he has stopped the free-fall" and reporting only the two least negative disapproval ratings for the President.
"And meanwhile, the President getting some new polls out this morning that show he may have stopped the bleeding from that botched rollout of the ObamaCare website,"…
December 11th, 2013 12:54 PM
Leno on Kanye Wanting To Be Obama of Clothing: Fashion Nobody Wants at
Jay Leno took another shot at the President Tuesday night.
Early in his opening monologue, the NBC Tonight Show host commented about Kanye West wanting to be the Obama of clothing saying, “To achieve his goal, he's designing fashion nobody wants and offering it on a website that doesn't work” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
December 11th, 2013 11:21 AM
Nicolle Wallace: I'm A Coburn/Axelrod 'Groupie
Nicolle Wallace played the quintessential DC insider on today's Morning Joe, proclaiming herself a "groupie" of both conservative Senator Tom Coburn and liberal partisan David Axelrod, while also saying she was "inspired" by Paul Ryan's leadership in forging a budget compromise deal.
But the Sooner senator wasn't letting the inside-the-Beltway bonhomie blunt his criticism, saying the budget…
December 11th, 2013 9:38 AM