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.
NPR Touts 'Nightmare' Sob Story to Rip El Salvador's Pro-Life Law
September 23rd, 2014 6:38 PM
NPR's Jason Beaubien spotlighted a woman's "nightmare with El Salvador's abortion law" on Monday's All Things Considered. Beaubien zeroed in on the case of Christina Quintanilla, who served four years of a thirty-year prison sentence, after a dubious conviction for the death of her unborn child. He also cited unnamed "activists who are pushing to liberalize El Salvador's abortion law [who] argue…
NY Times Boosts Biden Extolling Dissident Catholic 'Nuns on the Bus'
September 19th, 2014 12:41 PM
Jason Horowitz spotlighted Vice President Biden's personal activism for Catholic sisters who dissent from Church teaching in a Friday article for the New York Times. Horowitz trumpeted how Biden sang the praises of "the sisters who remained the target of a Vatican crackdown for their activism on issues like poverty and health care." The writer underlined that "the nation's first Roman Catholic…
CBS Covers Latest V.A. Scandal Report, ABC. NBC Ignore
September 17th, 2014 10:40 AM
On Wednesday, September 17, the House is scheduled to hold a hearing on the latest surrounding the scandal plagued Veterans Administration, specifically questions about the inspector general’s recent report on patient deaths at VA facilities. Despite the new revelations from a VA whistleblower that the VA changed its final report to downplay any connection between patient deaths and long wait…
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Networks Ignore Gov't Report That ObamaCare Plans Cover Abortions
September 16th, 2014 10:46 PM
On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report documenting how abortions are being funded by taxpayers under ObamaCare despite a provision in the law stating that abortions will not be covered under ObamaCare insurance plans. When the Tuesday evening newscasts for the major broadcast networks had passed, however, none of them devoted even a second to the story.…
