When ObamaCare Mugs a Liberal: The Curious Case of Kirsten Powers

"A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality," goes the old saying. We doubt Kirsten Powers will completely eschew her left-of-center ideology anytime soon, but it is abundantly clear that the Fox News contributor has been mugged by ObamaCare's empty promises. Bob Parks of our sister site MRCTV put together a little video that compares Powers's full-on rah-rah cheerleading of ObamaCare…
Ken Shepherd
November 15th, 2013 3:48 PM

Elections 2014: Katty Kay Keeps Hope Alive For Dems

Amidst all the liberal doom and gloom stemming from the Obamacare debacle, at least someone's trying to keep hope alive for beleaguered Democrats . . . On today's Morning Joe, the BBC's Katty Kay did her best to paint a scenario in which Dems go into 2014 with Obamacare working, and the election results would not be the "disaster" that Republicans are assuming.  View the video after the jump…
Mark Finkelstein
November 15th, 2013 2:40 PM

MSNBC's Taylor: 'Bozo Caucus' Republicans 'Fanning the Flames of Hatre

On the Thursday, November 14, PoliticsNation, MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor asserted that Republicans who are pushing Attorney General Eric Holder's impeachment are a "Bozo caucus" who are "fanning the flames of hatred and bigotry." Host Al Sharpton raised the possibility of "racial elements" as he posed the question:
Brad Wilmouth
November 15th, 2013 1:11 PM

TheBlaze's Will Cain Schools CNN: GOP Being Ordered to Fix a Law It Di

On CNN Friday morning, TheBlaze's Will Cain ripped the network and others who are lecturing Republicans to stop repealing the law and start fixing it. "The truth is this, ObamaCare was a house built upon sand. Republicans said it was for years. And now, and now that the sand is melting away from underneath this thing, it's amazing how many times we have to hear, "why don't you help fix it?…
Matt Hadro
November 15th, 2013 12:58 PM

WashPost Burying Obama? Labels Obamacare the 'Crowning Achievement of

Friday's Washington Post went soft on the Obamacare fiasco with the top headline "Obama offers an insurance fix."  Below that, a story by a committee of Juliet Eilperin, Amy Goldstein, and Lena Sun still oddly contained the words "crowning achievement of his presidency." That's a nice way to bury the Obama presidency, but that's probably not the Post's intention. "The president was contrite,…
Tim Graham
November 15th, 2013 12:34 PM

Oprah: Racists Have to Die for Racism to End

Oprah Winfrey, one of the wealthiest people in the world, is throwing the race card again. During an interview with the BBC Friday, she not only said that President Obama is treated with disrespect because he’s black, but also that entire generations of racists are going to have to die for racism to end (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 15th, 2013 12:18 PM

MSNBC Onscreen Graphic Asks if ObamaCare Rollout Is 'Obama's Katrina

You know it's bad when MSNBC is using the K-word: Katrina. Below the page break you can check out the onscreen graphic deployed on today's Jansing & Co. in a segment featuring former senators Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) where the stateswomen discussed President Obama's ObamaCare rollout blues:
Ken Shepherd
November 15th, 2013 12:01 PM

Sour ABC on Obama: 'White House Fumble' Leaves President 'Exactly' Lik

 According to the journalists at ABC's Good Morning America, the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare has left the President in a perilous position comparable to George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina. Co-host George Stephanopoulos opened the show by announcing, "White House fumble...The fix [Obama] is offering and why one state is already saying it won't work." Stephanopoulos connected the…
Scott Whitlock
November 15th, 2013 12:01 PM

NBC: Polar Bears Like 'Passengers on the Titanic' Because of Global Wa

Teasing an upcoming story on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams warned of "the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever" and promised "a jaw-dropping look at a way of life quickly disappearing." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In the report that followed minutes later, chief environmental correspondent Anne Thompson kept up the…
Kyle Drennen
November 15th, 2013 9:49 AM

Chuck Todd: 'Boehner's Right And The White House Knows It

Let the record show that at 7:17 AM ET on November 15, 2013, a leading member of the MSM flatly declared that a leading Republican was "right" in rejecting an Obama proposal, and what's more, that "the White House knows it." That MSM equivalent of Haley's Comet streaked by on today's Morning Joe.  A clip had been played of John Boehner rejecting the proposal President Obama offered during…
Mark Finkelstein
November 15th, 2013 9:41 AM

Brent Bozell Cracks Up Hannity: CNN, MSNBC Obamacare Spin 'Would Make

On Thursday night’s Media Mash on the Hannity show on Fox News Channel, Sean Hannity and MRC president Brent Bozell laughed about MSNBC’s Michael Smerconish, Ed Schultz, and Chris Matthews being the Three Stooges of Obamacare for attacking anyone (including the "so-called independent media") who’s admitting there was a rollout fiasco. When they turned to how MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe and CNN’s…
NB Staff
November 15th, 2013 8:09 AM

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NB Staff
November 15th, 2013 6:00 AM

PBS Anchor Judy Woodruff Whacks NRA, Skips Fast & Furious In Interview

How could a network TV anchor interview the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and not ask about Obama’s “Fast & Furious” Mexican gun-running scandal? Ask PBS anchor Judy Woodruff. On Thursday night, Woodruff interviewed newly confirmed ATF director B. Todd Jones and utterly failed to ask a scandal question. She began by lamenting the ATF is called a "…
Tim Graham
November 14th, 2013 11:15 PM

George Clooney Ably Moves From Obama Suckup to Hillary Suckup

Movie star George Clooney is able moving from Obama Suckup to Hillary Suckup. According to a Marc Malkin report at NBCNews,com, Clooney is repeating after Andrea Mitchell that Hillary is inevitable in the 2016 presidential race. “I think she'd be very tough to beat now," Clooney declared at an awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. And since Hollywood is bigger on winning than on ethics,…
Tim Graham
November 14th, 2013 10:31 PM