'Jeopardy!' Loser Chris Matthews Introduces Guests as 'Two of the Most

May 15th, 2012 6:39 PM
Fresh off his humiliating defeat on Jeopardy! Monday night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews actually introduced a pair of guests Tuesday as "two of the most smartest people." Almost as funny, "two of the most smartest people" in the Hardball host's opinion are Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Robert Reich Spins French Socialist's Win on CBS: No 'Dramatic Effect

May 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Monday's CBS This Morning brought on former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich to brush off the effect of French socialist Francois Hollande's election on the world economy, despite the immediate decline in global stock markets: "I don't think there's really much danger." Anchor Erica Hill had asked the pundit if there was "a danger in throwing off the French economy and the ripple effect…

George Will Demolishes Robert Reich: 'You Are a Pyromaniac In a Field

December 18th, 2011 7:30 PM
George Will on Sunday marvelously told liberal economist Robert Reich something that many conservatives have been dying to say for years. During a fascinating Right vs. Left debate on ABC's This Week, after Reich predictably pined for higher income tax rates to solve all that ails us, Will struck back with the line of the weekend, "You are a pyromaniac in a field of strawmen" (video follows…

Free Publicity on CBS for Millionaire Liberal's Call to Tax the Rich

November 17th, 2011 3:04 PM
CBS's Chris Wragge spotlighted a millionaire's bid to raise taxes on the rich on Thursday's Early Show, all the while omitting that his guest is a big money donor to liberal candidates like Al Franken and to Moveon.org. Wragge didn't bring on any opponents of higher taxes, nor did he play sound bites from them. Instead, he played three clips from proponents, including former Clinton aide Robert…

Reich Touts FDR's Mid-1930s Depression-Era Growth; He and the Press Ig

March 31st, 2011 5:09 PM
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, in a column appearing at Business Insider, says that we're heading in the direction of a "double-dip" -- and though he doesn't follow it with the word "recession," it's obvious he's not talking about an ice-cream cone. It's also obvious that he's less than pleased with the media spin that things are really okay. Along the way, Reich had to go back…

Chris Matthews and Robert Reich Ironically Discuss 'Republican Lies Ab

March 23rd, 2011 9:30 PM
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich wrote a truly nonsensical piece for the Huffington Post Tuesday ironically called "The Republicans' Big Lies About Jobs." MSNBC's Chris Matthews must have loved this tripe and its sophomoric title for he invited the Berkeley professor on Wednesday's "Hardball" so that the pair could put on a clinic in liberal economic fantasy (video follows with…

CBS's Erica Hill Wonders if Americans Are Being 'Scammed' by Oil Compa

March 7th, 2011 3:59 PM
In an interview with former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Erica Hill wondered if higher gas prices in the wake of Mideast unrest were the result of some sort of fraud: "We've seen prices skyrocket....Is the public right to feel taken advantage of in some ways here, or even scammed?" Even the liberal Reich didn't accept the premise: "Well look, a lot…

Robert Reich Wrongly Claims Bill Clinton Inherited a Recession

December 11th, 2010 5:54 PM
The staggering ignorance and/or blatant dishonesty of liberal economic commentators never ceases to amaze me. Consider the following item from former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich published at the Huffington Post moments ago (picture courtesy Life magazine):

Robert Reich: Palin's a 'Realistic Candidate' for President, Not Clear

November 21st, 2010 1:33 PM
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich made a couple of rather startling comments on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. During the Roundtable segment, the devout liberal not only defended former governor Sarah Palin as a "realistic candidate" for president, but also questioned whether or not the government bailout of GM was necessary (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CBS: The Rich to Blame For Bad Economy, Need to Pay Higher Taxes

September 27th, 2010 5:18 PM
On CBS's Sunday Morning, correspondent Martha Teichner promoted left-wing class warfare talking points from former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich: "[He] in a new book points out another ominous parallel between the Great Depression and the 'Great Recession,' its cause." Reich proclaimed: "More and more of the income that was generated by the economy went to people at the top." [Audio…

Bill Maher: Obama Would Be A Better President 'If He Was Fully Black

September 18th, 2010 12:19 AM
Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama's problem is "he's only half black." He'd be a better president "if he was fully black."In the season premiere of HBO's "Real Time," while chatting with former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich, the host said, "Isn't Obama's big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it's because he's only half black."Maher continued, "If he was fully black…

Robert Reich: Stimulate Economy With 90% Tax On Top Earners

September 3rd, 2010 12:51 PM
Can you imagine what would happen to the economy if top wage earners were taxed at 70 to 90 percent?Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich can, and he thinks it's a great idea.To be sure, many Americans were concerned that giving Democrats control of the executive and legislative branches of our government during an economic crisis could usher back in socialist tendencies first seen in this…

George Will Schools Robert Reich On Deficit Spending, FDR and Herbert

August 22nd, 2010 3:26 PM
George Will on Sunday gave Robert Reich a much-needed history lesson about deficit spending and liberal myths concerning Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover.As the Roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week" moved to the current state of the economy, Reich predictably called for another stimulus package. "You can't even talk about stimulus because people say, 'Oh, that would create a deficit…

Robert Reich Falsely Accuses Newt Gingrich Of Saying 'Muslims Are Like

August 22nd, 2010 1:19 PM
Robert Reich on Sunday falsely accused former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of saying Muslims are like Nazis.As NewsBusters reported last Monday, Gingrich was quoted by the New York Times as saying that building a mosque at Ground Zero "would be like putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum."Gingrich elaborated on "Fox & Friends" that very morning:Nazis don't have the right to…