Leno: Brian Williams Getting Knee Surgery Now 'Before ObamaCare Kicks
It was announced last week that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will be taking medical leave to have surgery to repair a knee he injured years ago playing high school football.
NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno marvelously said Monday, “I guess he wants to get it done quickly before ObamaCare kicks in” (video follows with commentary):
Economic Recovery? We'll Take Reagan's, Thanks
This past July’s dismal jobs report was no outlier. Job gains during the Obama recovery have been slow at best.
If monthly job gains going back to 1946 are ranked in order of best to worst, the difference between job growth during the first four years of economic recovery under President Ronald Reagan and Obama is astounding. Total job growth during the first four years of the Obama recovery…
Politico Changes Headline About Poor Attendance at ObamaCare Event
Politico on Sunday published a highly embarrassing piece to the administration titled "Poor Attendance at Obamacare Event in Virginia."
Someone at Politico must have thought that was too embarrassing for at some point the title was changed to "Obamacare Message War Goes Local":
Peggy Noonan: U.S. Government 'Feeling Resentful' and 'Dissed' By Puti
"I think those in the American government, looking at Vladimir Putin and what he's done, are feeling resentful and they're feeling dissed. They're wondering why he's treating America so roughly."
So said Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.
Congressman King: ‘Al Qaeda Is in Many Ways Stronger Than It Was Bef
Remember all that talk from President Obama during last year’s campaign about al Qaeda being decimated?
Apparently not, for on ABC’s This Week Sunday, Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.) said, “Al Qaeda is in many ways stronger than it was before 9/11 because it's mutated and it spread and it can come at us from different directions” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Leno on Congress's ObamaCare Exemption: Should Be the 'Do As We Say, N
Jay Leno took a comedic swipe at ObamaCare Friday.
After informing a somewhat stunned crowd about the exemption members of Congress were given from the Affordable Care Act, the NBC Tonight Show host said, "Why don't they call it what it really is - the 'Do As We Say, Not As We Do Act?'" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Obama's Picture Used as Target in Dart Game at County Fair in Upstate
President Obama's picture is being used as a target in a dart game at a county fair in upstate New York.
Fairgoer Abigail Czapsky provided the following pictures to the Huffington Post:
Broadcast Nets, Major Papers Ignore Conservative Women Protesting Obam
As my colleagues Kristine Marsh and Katie Yoder reported earlier, hundreds of conservative, pro-life women turned out in Lafayette Park across from the White House on Thursday to protest the Obama/Sebelius contraception mandate, which was originally scheduled to take effect on August 1. You may recall that administration officials pushed back implementation of the religious freedom-infringing…
Malkin Column: Vacationer Obama's Favorite Vineyard 'Vulture
It's good to be the king ... of class warfare hypocrisy. While he lectures his political opponents about their neglect of middle-class America, President Obama is headed to Martha's Vineyard. Again. Because nothing spells populist like a $7.6 million, 9.5-acre estate owned by one of Chicago's wealthiest corporate financiers.
The sprawling summer manse of David Schulte is actually a downgrade…
MSNBC’s Alex Witt Explodes: How Does Obama Overcome ‘Folks Who Say
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt continued the tradition of liberal media hand-wringing over congressional Republicans on last Sunday’s edition of her eponymous show Weekends with Alex Witt. At the end of a discussion about President Obama’s renewed focus on the economy, Witt erupted against the GOP in a question to Ana Marie Cox of The Guardian: [Video below. MP3 audio here.]
"What do you think, Ana…
Obama Warns House Democrats 'Not to Believe Everything You Read in The
Since the Huffington Post was first launched, NewsBusters has been warning people to skeptically view anything published by the disturbingly liberal website.
President Obama somewhat agrees, for according to The Hill, he told House Democrats he met with Wednesday "not to believe everything you read in The Huffington Post."
MSNBC's Brzezinski: Barack Obama Above the 'Fishbowl of Idiots' in the
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasted Barack Obama’s decision to run for president in 2008 on Thursday’s Morning Joe, claiming Obama was “only in [office] for about two minutes before he decided he was bored with the Senate and wanted to be president.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski pushed back throughout the segment, suggesting that then-Sen. Obama was above “that fish bowl of idiots that nobody likes” –…
Obama to Appear on Tonight Show August 6: Will He Face Tough Leno or
It was announced Wednesday that Barack Obama will appear on NBC's Tonight Show next Tuesday for the fourth time since he's been President. Jobs and the economy are to be the focus.
As NewsBusters has been reporting, despite host Jay Leno having been very hard on the White House resident in recent months, particularly on the economy, he has offered nothing but softballs to the Commander-in-…
Former Top NYT Editor Promotes Notion That Obama's a Political Jackie
As Brent Bozell hinted, The New York Times sees the president through sympathetic eyes as a political Jackie Robinson. In his latest column "Profiling Obama," former Times executive editor Bill Keller defends Obama against critics on the right and on the left who think Obama is either too black or not black enough.
Keller is gentle with liberals who are "disappointed that Obama has not made…
