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The Crucial Question David Gregory and Bob Schieffer Didn't Ask Timoth
July 10th, 2011 11:41 PM
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was the featured guest on both CBS's "Face the Nation" and NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
For some reason, hosts Bob Schieffer and David Gregory didn't ask the most important question every person in the world currently following the debt ceiling is dying to know the answer to:
Chuck Todd: Limbaugh Couldn't Win GOP Nomination - Doubtful Palin Coul
July 10th, 2011 6:24 PM
David Gregory decided to have a very fair and balanced roundtable discussion at the conclusion of Sunday's "Meet the Press" exclusively with the perilously liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and the equally left-leaning Chuck Todd of NBC News.
With the subject being Newsweek's new cover story about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Todd mysteriously made the case for how slim…
George Will to Donna Brazile: Obama and Dems Have Kicked Deficit Can S
July 10th, 2011 11:49 AM
Democrat strategist and ABC contributor Donna Brazile on Sunday predictably blamed the current debt ceiling impasse on Republicans and their refusal to raise taxes.
This led George Will to state what would be obvious to all media members if they weren't so in the tank for Barack Obama, namely that he and his Party have been kicking the deficit can down the road so long they're guilty of "can…
Ann Coulter Tells MSNBC Contributor His Government Worker Mom 'Is A Dr
July 9th, 2011 12:59 PM
You knew when you saw conservative author Ann Coulter was pitted against far-left MSNBC contributor and Nation magazine editor Christopher Hayes on HBO's "Real Time" sparks were going to fly.
Such occurred when Hayes told the panel that his mother works for the government prompting Coulter to respond, "She is a drain on society" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
WaPo's Robinson: Solve Deficit With Tax Hikes, Defense Cuts and Univer
July 8th, 2011 11:01 AM
Eugene Robinson's column in Thursday's Washington Post should have been placed in that paper's funnies section rather than the opinion page.
His solution to our nation's deficit would be laughable if it wasn't so gosh darned scary:
NYT: Debt Ceiling Woes Caused By Bush Tax Cuts and GOP Refusal to Rais
July 8th, 2011 9:53 AM
The New York Times on Friday once again proved itself to have absolutely no clue how budgets work.
In its editorial "Negotiating the Debt Ceiling on a Knife's Edge," the Times - like so many other math-challenged "news" organizations in America today - blamed the current debt ceiling woes on the Bush tax cuts and Republican refusal to raise revenues:
Media's Debt Ceiling Hysteria Ignores How Bonds, Budgets and Taxes Wor
July 5th, 2011 8:33 PM
If you believe every word uttered by hysterical news anchors and political commentators lately, you would think the world ends August 2nd if the debt ceiling isn't raised.
Not only isn't this true, it's another indication of the press's total ignorance about our nation's budget and/or their willingness to lie to the American people in order to get taxes raised.
Let's start our truth dig by…
NBC Wonders: Can America 'Afford Not to' Spend Billions on High-Speed
July 1st, 2011 4:43 PM
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams praised China's high-speed rail system and lamented that United States had not done the same: "China is rocketing ahead of the U.S. with high-speed rail. And it has a lot of people wondering how long we can keep chugging along the same old track."
Touting the completion of a new rail line between Beijing and Shanghai, Williams proclaimed…
Freudian Slip? MSNBC's Martin Bashir Claims Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner
July 1st, 2011 4:09 PM
On the July 1 edition of "Martin Bashir," the MSNBC anchor after which the show is named made a statement that reveals a great deal about his worldview.
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Krugman: Spending Cuts Would Destroy 'Possibly Millions of Jobs
July 1st, 2011 11:36 AM
With a month to go before the next supposedly "drop dead date" regarding the nation's debt ceiling, liberal media members are out in force with hysterical claims about the world ending if Congress isn't free to spend more money it doesn't have.
Ever the faithful shill, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman did his part Friday cautioning that any spending cuts at this time "would destroy…
MSNBC's Ratigan: California's 'Amazon Tax' Kills Jobs, Let's Have Nati
June 30th, 2011 6:10 PM
Unfortunately for Dylan Ratigan, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
The MSNBC anchor nearly stumbled onto a valid point on Thursday's "Dylan Ratigan Show" – reporting that California's new Internet sales tax could cost thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – until he proposed solving this dilemma with a national Internet sales tax.
Jon Stewart to Harry Reid: 'If [GOP] Were Living in a Fantasy World Wo
June 30th, 2011 10:46 AM
Jon Stewart Wednesday finally stopped responding to the aftermath of his performance on "Fox News Sunday" and tried to make amends with a somewhat bipartisan segment bashing the President for his budget solutions as well as both parties for not getting anything done.
Toward the end of the opening "Daily Show" sketch, after a video clip of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying, "My…
NBC Nightly News Mentions Jet Tax Loophole Twice, Ignores It Was Part
June 30th, 2011 12:33 AM
The "NBC Nightly News" mentioned the corporate jet tax loophole twice in its report concerning Barack Obama's press conference Wednesday.
Unfortunately, Brian Williams and Chuck Todd neglected to inform viewers that this loophole was part of the President's stimulus package in 2009 (video follows with commentary):
MSNBC's Martin Bashir: Mitch McConnell 'Suffering Some Kind of Mild De
June 29th, 2011 5:04 PM
MSNBC's Martin Bashir, who once argued Sarah Palin's bus tour was in "breach of federal law," attacked Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday, wondering if the 69-year-old Republican is "suffering some kind of mild dementia or long-term memory loss?"
Excoriating McConnell for rejecting tax increases as part of a potential budget deal, the former ABC "Nightline" anchor regurgitated a litany…