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Nostalgic Matthews Relives the ‘Thrill Up the Leg’ from Obama
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Thursday night reminisced about the “stellar” Barack Obama from 2008 and how the Democrat gave him a “thrill up the leg.” Matthews finally conceded that such excitement couldn’t live up to expectations. He also added, “Hillary can’t match that.”
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CNN's Costello Seeks 'Fun' by Getting Hill to Talk 'Angry White Men'
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, race-obsessed CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill painted "white male" Donald Trump supporters as being bothered at "a rise in expanded opportunity for black people and for brown people," suggesting that Trump's slogan is really "We're going to make America white again." Host Costello set him up: "Let me ask you this, Marc,…
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CNN's Beinart Gushes Over ‘Brilliant’ Hillary for Taking Cabinet Post
In the early moments of CNN’s Super Tuesday 2 coverage, Atlantic contributing editor and CNN political commentator Peter Beinart encouraged viewers to consider “how brilliant was Hillary Clinton” to accept President Obama’s offer to become his secretary of state and “politically de facto his vice president” even though “[a] lot of people at the time didn't see” this so-called “wisdom.”
Obamacare Medicaid Clawback: Shocking Because the Press Has Ignored It
Beginning early in 2014, shortly after its initial disastrous rollout, there has been a virtual blackout on anything resembling negative coverage of the "Affordable Care Act," aka Obamacare.
It hasn't been due to a lack of horror stories: plan cancellations, shocking rate increases, shrunken provider networks, co-ops going out of business, etc. It's because the nation's establishment press has…
Not News: Food Stamps Is Now Our Guaranteed Income Program
Since the economy finally began consistently regaining jobs in early 2010, the establishment press has had a consistent, predictable and annoying reporting (and non-reporting) pattern.
It starts with the Friday morning jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at or near the beginning of the month. Virtually without fail, it has spit out positive and sometimes even very positive seasonally…
Obama Labor Dept. Rule May Curtail Financial Advice Talk on AM Radio
Score another blow for (allegedly) "unintended consequences."
A proposed 33-page rule applying to investment advisers emanating from the Department of Labor would redefine the fiduciary relationship between investment advisers and their clients investing for retirement, which is the predominant objective of most investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, the rule "could be released as soon…
'Journalists' Deserve Most of the Blame for Newsroom Shrinkage
Columbia Journalism professor Dale Maharidge has produced a lengthy lament about the state of print and newsroom journalism, and how hard it's been on those forced out of their jobs. It's present online at The Nation, one of the far-left's flagships, and at BillMoyers.com, the web site of the former Johnson administration press secretary. The delusional Moyers believes that "We have an…
Press Euphoria Over Jobs Report Blows Off Lower Hourly Pay, Earnings
The press is mostly thrilled over yesterday's Employment Situation Summary from the government, which reported that the unemployment rate stayed at 4.9 percent and that the economy added 242,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs. President Barack Obama took the opportunity to take what CNBC's Jeff Cox described as "a victory lap ... in Friday remarks to the media."
Well, why not? Obama was secure…
New Yorker Writer to ‘Rational’ Conservatives: Vote For Hillary!
Adam Gopnik has some advice for “rational or far-sighted conservatives”: since it’s too late to deny the Republican presidential nomination to “the monster they’ve created,” Donald Trump, they shouldn’t hesitate to support the “reasonable, experienced mainstream centrist,” Hillary Clinton.
Of course, Gopnik doesn’t think that’s likely to happen. He wrote in a Thursday post, “At this moment when…
Slate Writer: GOP’s Anti-Obama ‘Psychosis’ Led to Trump
A certain January 20, 2009 private dinner in Washington is famous because the Republican bigwigs in attendance resolved to stymie President Obama’s agenda. William Saletan implies that gathering also should be known for inadvertently getting the Donald Trump presidential ball rolling.
“The Republican Party decided to be what Obama wasn’t,” opined Saletan in a Monday article. “And what Obama wasn…
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Scarborough Mocks MSNBC, Olbermann 'Bowing, Scraping' to Obama in '08
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough ridiculed his employer, MSNBC, for "bowing and scraping" to then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Along the way, he did an hilarious impression of Keith Olbermann's faux-Churchillian tones, seeing racism on the rise whenever Hillary won a primary, and "calling George W. Bush a Nazi every day."
Scarborough's comments came in the course of discussing the way…
WashPost Plays the Hitler Card Again — In a House Editorial
The Washington Post's obsession over Donald Trump is a sight to behold — but not a pretty one.
On Monday, following two week-earlier Trump-demonizing columns, one comparing the billionaire to medieval emperor Charlemagne, and another claiming that Trump's electoral progress thus far had helped her understand "exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany," the Post issued a house…
Good Grief: AP Report on Car Sales Says Buyers Were 'Giddy'
To believe what the Associated Press's Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin wrote yesterday about February's auto sales, you have to believe that last month's car buyers were either: "a) affected with vertigo; dizzy"; or b) "frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty."
That's because they claimed that in February, "consumers - giddy from Super Bowl ads - returned to showrooms after a snowy January…
NPR Takes Obamacare Poll, Avoids Result: More Feel Harmed Than Helped
The Hill newspaper carried this headline on Monday: “Poll: Only 15 percent say they have benefited from ObamaCare.” Sarah Ferris reported just 15 percent of people say they have personally benefited from ObamaCare, although more than one-third believe it has helped the people of their state, according to an NPR poll released Monday, while 26 percent said they have been personally harmed .
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