MSNBC Onscreen Graphic Asks if ObamaCare Rollout Is 'Obama's Katrina

You know it's bad when MSNBC is using the K-word: Katrina. Below the page break you can check out the onscreen graphic deployed on today's Jansing & Co. in a segment featuring former senators Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) where the stateswomen discussed President Obama's ObamaCare rollout blues:
Ken Shepherd
November 15th, 2013 12:01 PM

Sour ABC on Obama: 'White House Fumble' Leaves President 'Exactly' Lik

 According to the journalists at ABC's Good Morning America, the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare has left the President in a perilous position comparable to George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina. Co-host George Stephanopoulos opened the show by announcing, "White House fumble...The fix [Obama] is offering and why one state is already saying it won't work." Stephanopoulos connected the…
Scott Whitlock
November 15th, 2013 12:01 PM

NBC: Polar Bears Like 'Passengers on the Titanic' Because of Global Wa

Teasing an upcoming story on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams warned of "the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever" and promised "a jaw-dropping look at a way of life quickly disappearing." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In the report that followed minutes later, chief environmental correspondent Anne Thompson kept up the…
Kyle Drennen
November 15th, 2013 9:49 AM

Chuck Todd: 'Boehner's Right And The White House Knows It

Let the record show that at 7:17 AM ET on November 15, 2013, a leading member of the MSM flatly declared that a leading Republican was "right" in rejecting an Obama proposal, and what's more, that "the White House knows it." That MSM equivalent of Haley's Comet streaked by on today's Morning Joe.  A clip had been played of John Boehner rejecting the proposal President Obama offered during…
Mark Finkelstein
November 15th, 2013 9:41 AM

Brent Bozell Cracks Up Hannity: CNN, MSNBC Obamacare Spin 'Would Make

On Thursday night’s Media Mash on the Hannity show on Fox News Channel, Sean Hannity and MRC president Brent Bozell laughed about MSNBC’s Michael Smerconish, Ed Schultz, and Chris Matthews being the Three Stooges of Obamacare for attacking anyone (including the "so-called independent media") who’s admitting there was a rollout fiasco. When they turned to how MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe and CNN’s…
NB Staff
November 15th, 2013 8:09 AM

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NB Staff
November 15th, 2013 6:00 AM

PBS Anchor Judy Woodruff Whacks NRA, Skips Fast & Furious In Interview

How could a network TV anchor interview the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and not ask about Obama’s “Fast & Furious” Mexican gun-running scandal? Ask PBS anchor Judy Woodruff. On Thursday night, Woodruff interviewed newly confirmed ATF director B. Todd Jones and utterly failed to ask a scandal question. She began by lamenting the ATF is called a "…
Tim Graham
November 14th, 2013 11:15 PM

George Clooney Ably Moves From Obama Suckup to Hillary Suckup

Movie star George Clooney is able moving from Obama Suckup to Hillary Suckup. According to a Marc Malkin report at NBCNews,com, Clooney is repeating after Andrea Mitchell that Hillary is inevitable in the 2016 presidential race. “I think she'd be very tough to beat now," Clooney declared at an awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. And since Hollywood is bigger on winning than on ethics,…
Tim Graham
November 14th, 2013 10:31 PM

Obamacare: Chris Hayes Needs A Hug

You really have to watch the video to perceive Chris Hayes' pathos.  The poor guy really needs a hug.  He needs to be reassured that—yes—it will all work out in the end for Obamacare. On his MSNBC show this evening, Hayes asked—begged—guest Dr. Kavita Patel, a former Obama healthcare policy advisor, to assure him that in six months or a year, Obamacare would be working.  Patel reached across…
Mark Finkelstein
November 14th, 2013 9:27 PM

ObamaCare Architect Ezekiel Emanuel: Website Disaster Actually Fault o

Over the years, lefties have blamed Fox News for all sorts of things. Now, via ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel, we learn that the nation’s sole non-liberal television news operation is actually responsible for the HealthCare.gov debacle. In a debate with FNC host Megyn Kelly on her program last night, Ezekiel argued that Fox News Channel was really to blame for the fact that almost no one…
Matthew Sheffield
November 14th, 2013 7:44 PM

Chris Wallace: NYT ‘Must Be Breaking Out in Hives’ Having Krautham

Fox News’s Chris Wallace announced on Thursday’s Special Report that syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer’s book “Things That Matter” is now at the top of the New York Times Best Seller List just above Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus.” This led Wallace to deliciously quip, “The Times must be breaking out in hives having the two of you at the top of their chart” (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
November 14th, 2013 7:27 PM

Ed Schultz Parrots Hillary's 'What Difference Does it Make' Shrug

Libtalker and potential MSNBC pyromaniac Ed Schultz starts every hour of his radio show with the same high-minded slogan -- "From the heart of America, the nation's number one liberal voice, where truth and common sense rule." Well, depends. Turns out that Schultz is curiously indifferent to the truth -- when disclosing it risks embarrassing Democrats. He also broadcasts the show more often…
Jack Coleman
November 14th, 2013 7:11 PM

CBS Spotlights House GOP Hammering ObamaCare Managers; ABC, NBC Minimi

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Nancy Cordes zeroed in on the three Republican congressmen who grilled top administration officials during a hearing on ObamaCare, ballyhooing that "none of them were really able to explain why this product they worked on for years was so flawed". Cordes played extended clips from the hearing totaling 51 seconds – nearly twice the combined number of ABC's World…
Matthew Balan
November 14th, 2013 6:56 PM

MSNBC’s Toure: Gerrymandering Impacts Senate Races

Do prospective MSNBC hosts have to fail a civics test in order to be hired? Consider The Cycle’s Toure Neblett who on Thursday made the case that gerrymandering impacts Senate races (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 14th, 2013 6:46 PM