Media Largely Ignore ObamaCare's War on Physician-Owned Hospitals
With the two-year anniversary of the law's signing and this week's marathon set of hearings before the Supreme Court about ObamaCare, it's a good time to examine just another area where the media have failed to report on a little-reported liberty-infringing aspect of the health care overhaul.
No, I'm not talking about not the individual mandate. I'm talking about a provision that forbids the…
March 29th, 2012 12:54 PM
Nothing to See Here: Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan Barely Mention O
CNN's own legal analyst described Wednesday morning's Supreme Court hearing on ObamaCare as a "trainwreck" for the Obama administration and added "it may also be a plane wreck" – but prime-time hosts Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan made only one brief mention between them of the bill's rough morning in court, during Wednesday night's prime-time coverage. In fact, during Tuesday and Wednesday…
March 29th, 2012 12:50 PM
AP Headline on House's Unanimous Rejection of Obama Budget: 'GOP-run H
Every Congressman who voted on President Obama's budget on Wednesday voted against it -- every Democrat and every Republican.
The headline writer for Andrew Taylor's related story at the Associated Press nonetheless felt it necessary to remind readers that Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives, and only told readers that Dear Leader's budget was "easily" rejected. The…
March 29th, 2012 12:44 PM
NYT's Gail Collins to Gun Rights Supporters: We Don't Want Your Kind H
Support the Second Amendment and gun rights? Gail Collins doesn't want your kind in her town. In her Thursday New York Times column, "More Guns, Fewer Hoodies," the paper's former editorial page editor dropped her trademark (attempts at) humor in her attempt to use the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida to call for severely limiting access to firearms: "Really, just leave us alone. If you don’t…
March 29th, 2012 12:35 PM
Nothing to See Here: ABC Totally Skips Any Mention of Obamacare's Bad
The Obama administration suffered another bad day in the Supreme Court, Wednesday, leading many to wonder if all of the President's health care law will be entirely scrapped. ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday responded to this with silence, totally ignoring the story.
GMA co-host George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday referred to the case as "historic," but apparently lost interest a day…
March 29th, 2012 12:10 PM
Goo-Goo: Luke Russert Decries Simpson-Bowles Defeat
Simpson-Bowles would have: raised taxes by $1.2 trillion--bumping to 21% the tax share of GDP from the typical 18%; relied largely on defense cuts to reduce spending; retained all $2.5 trillion in ObamaCare spending and done nothing to reform Medicare and Medicaid. No wonder Luke Russert loved it.
Appearing on Chuck Todd's Daily Rundown on MSNBC today, NBC congressional correspondent…
March 29th, 2012 11:43 AM
The Crusade Against Faith
The Liberal Media’s four-pronged attack on traditional religion.
March 29th, 2012 11:08 AM
Bloomberg's Carlson Tells Sharpton to Get Away from Trayvon: 'I See a
Former Time editor Margaret Carlson pleaded Tuesday night at Bloomberg.com “Dear Al Sharpton: Leave Trayvon Martin Alone.” She began: “The last thing the family of Trayvon Martin needs is Al Sharpton.”
Carlson agrees with the liberal line that deep-seated American racism is on trial, but she added: “Every time the screen fades from a picture of Martin to Sharpton, I see a demagogue with…
March 29th, 2012 11:06 AM
We're Getting to Him It Seems: Testy Ed Schultz Slams NB Publisher Boz
On the Tuesday edition of his radio program, an unhinged Ed Schultz railed on against conservative "pigs" that were out to get him, like our very own publisher, Brent Bozell. "You know, if these people want to fight every day, we'll fight every day. That's OK with me," Schultz pledged, insisting he was not afraid, unlike other liberals, to fight back.
Our friend Brian Maloney at Radio…
March 29th, 2012 10:32 AM
ABC, NBC Note Plight of Dissidents in Cuba During Pope's Visit
As the broadcast network evening newscasts recounted Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Cuba, ABC's Christiane Amanpour on World News and NBC's Andrea Mitchell on the NBC Nightly News both noted reports that dissidents had been detained and prevented from meeting the Catholic leader, while the CBS Evening News failed to mention their plight.
March 29th, 2012 9:14 AM
Daily Kos: 'Movement Conservatism' More Deadly in America Than al-Qaed
Here’s a sentence you don’t read every day: “Movement Conservatism will kill more innocent Americans than Al-Qaida ever will.” That is, of course, a Daily Kos sentence from Wednesday.
Several hours later, another Kosmonaut insisted the conservative brain has no sense of time, place or direction. Conservatives can barely walk, it seems, let alone talk.
March 29th, 2012 8:41 AM
After Massacre of Children By Islamist, NYTimes Frets Only About 'Dive
Peculiar priorities at the New York Times. Reporter Scott Sayare, in Toulouse in the aftermath of the killings of seven by a radical Muslim, seemed to think that the top story out of the tragedy was Muslim fear of rising tensions and loss of "diversity": "After Killings in France, Muslims Fear a Culture of Diversity Is at Risk."
Toulouse is by no means without racism, anti-Semitism, crime or…
March 29th, 2012 8:01 AM
Washington Post: 'Limbaugh Sees Heat Over Comments Turn Down to a Simm
Remember the Left's campaign to get Rush Limbaugh off the air in the wake of his comments concerning Georgetown University law student and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke?
According to an article published in the Washington Post Thursday, the heat on the conservative talk radio host has turned "down to a simmer":
March 29th, 2012 7:35 AM
MSNBC Boss Defends Sharpton Protesting in Trayvon Martin Case While Al
After years of denying he was trying to pursue a hard-left audience, MSNBC president Phil Griffin is now shamelessly trying to justify his actions in continuing to employ infamous race-baiter and tax cheat Al Sharpton, host of the cable network's Politics Daily program. The latest controversy for Sharpton involves his dual involvement in covering the case of slain Florida teenager Trayvon…
March 29th, 2012 5:56 AM