Wasserman Schultz: Obama's 'You Can Keep Your Plan' Was Not a Lie; Mah

November 2nd, 2013 3:40 PM
On Bill Maher's HBO show Friday night, Democratic National Committe Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz insisted that President Obama's promise to the American people made over 20 times during a span of over two years, namely "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan," was not a lie. Maher, appeared to warm to the idea that it was a lie, but at crunch time decided…

Video: Tennessee State Senator Gives Kathleen Sebelius 'Web Sites for

November 2nd, 2013 11:53 AM
This is really delicious. The Memphis Daily News reported Friday that Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Memphis to discuss ObamaCare when out of the crowd came Tennessee state senator Brian Kelsey (R) to hand her a copy of "Web Sites for Dummies."

Harris-Perry's Hilarious Excuse For Obama's 'If You Like It You Can Ke

November 2nd, 2013 11:46 AM
Of all the lame attempts to explain away President Obama's oft-repeated Obamacare lie that "if you like your plan, you can keep it," Melissa Harris-Perry might have come up with the most hilarious: President Obama figured people wouldn't like it! Yes, that's what MHP actually asserted on her MSNBC show this morning, claiming the Obama administration figured people wouldn't like their plans,…

MSNBC Tweets 'Flashback' Segment on Obama's 2008 Election Is 'Absolute

November 1st, 2013 11:25 PM
The blog Inside Cable News reports that the MSNBC late-morning show "Jansing & Co." routinely has a "Flashback Friday" feature, but it really stepped Into the Obama Tank on November 1...since it gave the Leg Thrill Network its first chance to flash back to Obama's election five years ago. On the Jansing show Twitter account, there was this gooey tweet: "The absolute best Flashback Friday…

'Healthy Ho's Party': ObamaCare Registration Drive For Prostitutes

November 1st, 2013 11:47 AM
Just when you thought you've seen everything, along comes what's called a "Healthy Ho's Party." As reported by CNN Money, this is what a "sex worker" in San Francisco called her effort to register others in her "profession" in ObamaCare (video follows with commentary):

New Yorker Mag Cover Slams Obama and Sebelius

November 1st, 2013 11:10 AM
Don't look now, but even New Yorker magazine is piling on the disaster that is ObamaCare. Take a gander at the cover for the issue to hit newstands Monday:

MSNBC's Finney Blames 'Dictator' Bush for Troops in Afghanistan

October 31st, 2013 6:36 PM
On Wednesday's PoliticsNation, as MSNBC's Karen Finney joined host Al Sharpton in slamming Republicans who liken President Obama to a "dictator," Finney charged that President Bush "lied us into a war" that has resulted in U.S. troops still being in Afghanistan "12 years later," apparently without noticing that President Obama is the commander-in-chief who currently is in charge of whether troops…

CBS Anchors Can't Bring Themselves to Say Obama Lied on 'You Will Keep

October 31st, 2013 5:42 PM
Charlie Rose twice couldn't bring himself to clearly state that President Obama made a false promise when he repeatedly claimed that "if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it". On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Rose underlined that "more than two million Americans are losing their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Jan Crawford uncovers new information on what could be a…

MSNBC's Wolffe Derides 'Cheap' Insurance, 'What Is It Really Worth

October 31st, 2013 4:09 PM
On Wednesday's The Last Word on MSNBC, MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe joined host Lawrence O'Donnell in exonerating President Obama from blame for the recent wave of health insurance policy cancellations, with Wolffe going so far as to dismiss inexpensive insurance policies which presumably are focused on covering expensive, catastrophic health care as being "bad policies" not worthy…

Press Ignoring CNN's Report of WH Pressure on Health Insurance Industr

October 31st, 2013 11:50 AM
Tuesday evening (noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters early Wednesday morning), CNN's Drew Griffin reported on Anderson Cooper's show that there is a "behind the scenes attempt by the White House to at least keep insurers from publicly criticizing what is happening under this Affordable Care Act rollout." Such a report occurring during a Republican or conservative administration would spread…

Forbes: White House Predicted in 2010 That 93 Million Would Lose Their

October 31st, 2013 10:20 AM
To counter accusations that the President lied when he repeatedly told Americans they can keep their health insurance plans if they liked them, the administration has claimed that he was referring to the millions of people covered by their employers. An article from Forbes Thursday thoroughly refutes this claiming that Obama officials back in 2010 predicted that 93 million Americans would…

Ed Schultz Depicts Charles Krauthammer as a Tin Foil Hatter

October 30th, 2013 7:00 PM
He had a hard time pronouncing the subject's name, and admitted "I don't pay much attention to the guy," but MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Wednesday actually depicted Charles Krauthammer as a tin foil hatter. Schultz and Company even had the audacity of making a picture of the good doctor wearing such a hat (video follows with transcript and commentary):

WashPost's Milbank: GOPers 'Slashing the Tires' and 'Then Complaining

October 30th, 2013 6:58 PM
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined host Al Sharpton in lambasting Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Tom Coburn for attending a fund-raiser in New York City the day before the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Sharpton griped:

Sharyl Attkisson: Insurance 'Death Spiral' Could Cause ObamaCare's 'Co

October 30th, 2013 6:44 PM
Besides facing a "credibility death spiral" on the issue of ObamaCare, as political director John Dickerson recently put it, Sharyl Attkisson pointed out on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the very structure of the so-called reform could encounter a separate "death spiral" due to the "enrollment fiasco" surrounding HealthCare.gov. Attkisson cited unnamed health care analysts, who predicted a…