NPR's Rovner: Dependent Constituencies Among the 'Benefits' of ObamaCa

NPR's Julie Rovner put the best liberal spin on the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare becoming law on Wednesday's Morning Edition. When an opponent of the legislation stated that supporters would try to "create constituencies that will fight to preserve it...[by] spending hundreds of billions of dollars on health insurance subsidies," Rover added that "those are just a few of the law's benefits…
Matthew Balan
March 23rd, 2011 7:47 PM

MSNBC Resorts to Using Boy Health Care Activist to Plug for ObamaCare

On the one-year anniversary of the health care law, MSNBC thought it fitting to bring on a boy who championed the bill and give him a platform. Anchor Andrea Mitchell hosted 12-year-old activist Marcelas Owens Wednesday and asked him questions with predictable answers to explain the case for the health care law. Owens became famous last year for his public appearances to rally support…
Matt Hadro
March 23rd, 2011 6:07 PM

Diane Sawyer Ignores Lack of Congressional Approval for Libya, Is Fasc

ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Tuesday interviewed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for World News and Nightline, but offered no questions about the Obama administration's failure to seek congressional approval for air strikes in Libya. Instead, the journalist seemed fascinated by the decision-making process, repeatedly asking about Clinton's "decisive" role in going ahead with the bombing.…
Scott Whitlock
March 23rd, 2011 4:58 PM

MSNBC Celebrates ObamaCare Anniversary, Condemns Republican 'Lies' Abo

In Wednesday's 12PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer touted the one year anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare: "One year ago today, President Obama signed the health care reform bill into law. It wasn't soon enough for Eric De La Cruz, who needed a heart transplant." The headline on screen read: "Why We Need Health Care Reform: A Personal Story." Brewer spoke with Eric's sister,…
Kyle Drennen
March 23rd, 2011 4:44 PM

Drilling Ken Salazar

After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's words mean anything anymore? While President Obama promotes offshore drilling overseas thousands of miles away in Brazil, Salazar now promises to revitalize America's oil and gas industry. It's like Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian promoting himself as a lifesaving CPR…
Michelle Malkin
March 23rd, 2011 4:01 PM

What Do 49 Percent Approve of

Even Chris 'Thriller' Matthews perplexed by Obama.
Dan Kennedy
March 23rd, 2011 3:03 PM

NYT's Shear Covers GOP's 'Assault' on First Anniversary of 'Historic M

New York Times political blogger Michael Shear used loaded language to describe the Republican Party’s “assault” on Obama-care on the one-year anniversary of that “historic measure," in his Wednesday morning post “Boehner, McConnell Push Assault on Health Care Law” A year after President Obama signed his health care law into effect, the two leading Republicans in Congress are making it clear…
Clay Waters
March 23rd, 2011 2:20 PM

NYT Quotes Biologist Likening Housecats to Environmental Threats Like

New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal has found another unlikely environmental menace: Cats, an invasive species that disturbs the natural order, like kudzu. That’s the takeaway from Monday’s report on the grave danger felines present to birds: “Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy.” While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows…
Clay Waters
March 23rd, 2011 2:14 PM

O'Reilly, Code Pink Founder Agree: Schultz and Maddow Are Hypocrites

They won't agree on much, but Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and Medea Benjamin, founder of the far-left anti-war group Code Pink, found some common ground on one fact Tuesday night: MSNBC talkers Rachel Maddow and Ed Shultz are hypocrites. Both Schultz and Maddow defended President Obama's decision to impose a no fly zone over Libya on their respective shows. Maddow trotted out the "reluctant…
Lachlan Markay
March 23rd, 2011 1:45 PM

Bill Maher: Obama is GOP's 'Best Friend,' Doesn't 'Blame Them For Anyt

On Tuesday's In the Arena on CNN, Bill Maher channeled the far left's frustration with President Obama: "This is one of my big problems with our president. He never blames the Republicans for anything. He's their best friend....There's an oil rig that blows up in the Gulf of Mexico, and the party of drill, baby, drill does not get blamed." Host Eliot Spitzer also joined Maher in bashing the Tea…
Matthew Balan
March 23rd, 2011 1:31 PM

CNN.com Notes Unpopularity of ObamaCare, Hypes Minority Who Think It's

On the one year anniversary of ObamaCare being signed into law, nearly 6 out of every 10 Americans oppose ObamaCare, according to a new CNN poll. Yet in reporting the development, the network's website spun the development by noting the polling is about where it stood last year and that the latest poll could be bad news for Republicans. From a March 23 post at CNN.com's Political Ticker…
Ken Shepherd
March 23rd, 2011 1:03 PM

Only ABC Mentions Obama Flip-Flop on Presidential War Powers, CBS and

While a report on ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday referenced 2007 comments from then-Senator Barack Obama against a president taking military action without congressional approval, CBS and NBC both failed to point out President Obama contradicting those earlier statements by failing to seek congressional approval before committing U.S. forces in Libya. As NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock…
Kyle Drennen
March 23rd, 2011 12:45 PM

NOW Defends Palin for Being Called a 'Dumb [Vagina]' Without Mentionin

The National Organization for Women on Tuesday finally responded to Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin a highly derogatory term for a woman's vagina, but did so without mentioning Maher's name, the program he said it on, or the television network he represents. NOW Communications Director Lisa Bennett also took the opportunity to bash conservatives (photo courtesy Reuters):
Noel Sheppard
March 23rd, 2011 9:49 AM

Howie The Hawk: 'You Can't Stay Out Of These Things

Call him Howie "The Hawk" Dean . . . Last evening we detailed Cenk Uygur's hypocrisy in supporting military action in Libya.  This morning brings news of another liberal nouveau-hawk: Howard Dean.   The man who was a scream away from winning the 2004 Dem presidential nomination based on his opposition to the Iraq war suddenly supports a muscular foreign policy.  On Morning Joe, Dean told Joe…
Mark Finkelstein
March 23rd, 2011 9:11 AM