Former CNN Pundit Roland Martin Rips 'Cowardly Bullies' at the NRA
October 9th, 2014 6:36 PM
In a Thursday column for The Daily Beast, former CNN contributor Roland Martin attacked the supposed "cowardly bullies" at the National Rifle Association for opposing President Obama's surgeon general nominee. Martin's op-ed follows in the footsteps of MSNBC's Krystal Ball and NBC's Anne Thompson, who politicized the Ebola crisis nearly a week earlier when they bemoaned that due to "Senate…
Lefty Blogger: Joni Ernst a ‘Dangerous…Militia Type’
October 8th, 2014 11:08 AM
Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall says Ernst’s ideas about localism and the ACA are “insane” and remind him of something you’d hear from “militia types.”
AP Fact-Checks 'a Few" of Obama's 'Stronger Economy' Claims: Two
October 7th, 2014 11:28 PM
The dictionary tells us that "a few" is "a small number of persons or things." Though there is some ambiguity in the guidance I have reviewed, it's fair to say that "Generally a few is more than 2."
Not at the Associated Press, where "a few" can apparently be two, at least when it comes to "fact-checking" President Obama's grandiose claims in his Thursday speech at Northwestern University.…
Naomi Wolf: ISIS Beheading Videos May Have Been Staged
October 6th, 2014 12:44 PM
The author of The Beauty Myth alleged over the weekend on Facebook that the U.S. government isn’t really fighting the terrorist group and the deadly disease, but instead is engaged in a power grab.
Daily Kos: GOP Anti-Medicaid ‘Virus’ Deadlier Than Ebola
October 4th, 2014 3:09 PM
A blogger declared that as many as 17,000 Americans per year needlessly die because of what “might be the greatest act of political spite in modern American history.” The good news, he added, is that the “GOPer virus” can be killed at the polls.
Lefty Blogger: ‘Completely Insane’ GOP Spreads Ebola Hysteria
October 3rd, 2014 3:26 PM
Charles Pierce alleges that the right-wing reaction to the disease has been marked by “political opportunism married to an active campaign of disinformation.”
MSNBC Points Finger at NRA For 'Making the Ebola Crisis Worse'
October 3rd, 2014 3:15 PM
MSNBC anchor Krystal Ball and NBC correspondent Anne Thompson shamelessly politicized the Ebola crisis in a Thursday op-ed on MSNBC.com. Ball and Thompson bewailed how due to "Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now....during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is…
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CBS Contributor Wildly Blames Climate Change For Viral Outbreaks
October 3rd, 2014 12:31 PM
On Monday, Dr. David Agus injected the media's regular hype about climate change into CBS This Morning's coverage of the outbreak of Enterovirus D68 in the U.S. and the Ebola crisis in Africa. The CBS medical contributor admitted that science didn't have any answers at this point, but that didn't stop him from wildly speculating: "We don't know exactly why there was a dramatic spread this year,…
Ebola Crisis: Nets Ignore CDC Failures in 98 Percent of Reports
October 2nd, 2014 3:51 PM
In spite of revelations in recent months the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mishandled strains of deadly bird flu, anthrax and botulism, the broadcast networks remained confident the government’s “disease detectives” could handle the Ebola outbreak. On Sept. 30, the CDC announced that a patient in Texas was the first instance of Ebola in the U.S. But from the very beginning of the Ebola…
Slate's 'Visceral Discomfort' Over Missionaries' Role in Ebola Crisis
October 2nd, 2014 12:44 PM
Brian Palmer revealed what many secularists feel about Christian missionaries in Africa in a Thursday piece on Slate, especially the role on the front lines of the ongoing fight against Ebola. Palmer acknowledged how "missionary doctors and nurses...have undertaken long-term commitments to address the health problems of poor Africans," but added that "for secular Americans...it may be difficult…
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Did Andrea Mitchell Just Laugh at Obama's Credibility?
October 2nd, 2014 9:07 AM
Not saying President Obama should be jittery about Andrea Mitchell jumping the White House fence anytime soon. Even so, the prez would have reason to be concerned if such a generally staunch ally as Andrea openly laughed at his lack of credibility.
View the video and judge for yourself. On today's Morning Joe, Republican Rep. Matt Salmon predicted that President Obama would send ground troops…
Univision Partnering with Obama Admin to Promote DACA
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October 1st, 2014 5:20 PM
Univision is out with another ad in partnership with the Obama administration. This time, U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent for Univision morning show weatherwoman Ximena Córdoba to exhort beneficiaries of President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to renew the permits exempting them from deportation proceedings for another two years.
Over 300,000 Face Deadline to Prove ObamaCare Eligibility; Nets Omit
September 30th, 2014 9:00 PM
Tuesday marked the deadline for hundreds of thousands Americans with insurance through ObamaCare to provide proper verification of their income levels or risk losing their government subsidies used to purchase health care plans. When it came to marking this critical deadline for ObamaCare, the major broadcast networks dodged coverage of the story in both their morning and evening newscasts.…
HealthCare.gov Cost Surpasses the $2 Billion Mark; Press Mostly Yawns
September 26th, 2014 10:05 PM
It wasn't that long ago that Obamacare defenders were ridiculing those of us who pointed out that the fully loaded cost of HealthCare.gov would surely top the $1 billion mark.
Well, we were wrong — to be so conservative. The real number is "about" $2.1 billion and counting, according to a Bloomberg report which is mostly being kept out of the non-business press.
