New Yorker Mag Cover Slams Obama and Sebelius

Don't look now, but even New Yorker magazine is piling on the disaster that is ObamaCare. Take a gander at the cover for the issue to hit newstands Monday:
Noel Sheppard
November 1st, 2013 11:10 AM

CNN's Toobin Says Benghazi Is Not a Scandal; 'There Is Nothing There

CNN's senior legal analyst thinks that any further investigation into Benghazi is looking at a "non-story" since "there is nothing there, in terms of a scandal." On Thursday's AC360 Later, Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at Republican efforts to gain access to more Benghazi witnesses and CIA operatives. "This is a non-story. Benghazi was a tragedy. It's not a scandal. Republicans are going to…
Matt Hadro
November 1st, 2013 10:43 AM

Shock: Piers Morgan Slams Obama Promise on Health Care Coverage as

During Wednesday night's edition of CNN's Piers Morgan Live program, the liberal host and a conservative Republican congresswoman teamed up to put pressure on Democratic representative Frank Pallone to defend president Barack Obama's repeated promise that people could keep their own physician and insurance plan if they chose to be part of ObamaCare. “When the president repeatedly stood up…
Randy Hall
November 1st, 2013 10:16 AM

Pro-Life Groups: ObamaCare Will ‘Make Planned Parenthood a $2B Indus

915: the number of pink crosses pro-lifers staked into the lawn of the Capitol on the morning of Oct. 31. 915: also the number of babies aborted daily in the U.S. by Planned Parenthood. And according to a pro-life organizer, that number could double under ObamaCare. Students for Life of America (SFLA) along with the Christian Defense Coalition (CDC) hosted an event titled “Exposing the…
Katie Yoder
November 1st, 2013 10:15 AM

Brent Bozell Tells Hannity to Get Medication Over to MSNBC for Their

On Thursday night’s edition of “Media Mash” on the Fox News Channel, Sean Hannity and MRC president Brent Bozell discussed how you should “bring a laugh meter” to the coverage of desperate media liberals who are trying to insist against all the mounting evidence that Obamacare is not a debacle, and Obama never misled anyone about it. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz even insisted the media are too…
NB Staff
November 1st, 2013 9:51 AM

Todd Purdum In Politico: Republicans 'Sabotaged' Obamacare Like Segreg

What an odious piece of garbage.  Today's Politico, in an article by Todd Purdum, accuses Republicans of "calculated sabotage" of Obamacare, comparing their opposition to the "pattern of 'massive resistance' not seen since the Southern states’ defiance of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954." Purdum himself seems to recognize just how loony he comes off, writing…
Mark Finkelstein
November 1st, 2013 9:42 AM

The Crazy Ones Take Cheap Shots

Lauren Laster
November 1st, 2013 9:33 AM

Politico Tags 2013 as 'Year of the Liberal Billionaire

Politico’s Alex Burns and Maggie Haberman have designated 2013 as “Year of the Liberal Billionaire,” as progressive titans like Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer unload their money bags on TV ads in off-year elections. “Their arrival on the political scene, at the same time as many conservative donors remain disheartened from the GOP’s 2012 defeat, represents a shift in power in the arena of…
Tim Graham
November 1st, 2013 9:13 AM

Nicolle Wallace Defends Hillary On 'What Difference Does It Make

Nicolle Wallace has yet again demonstrated why she's a Morning Joe kind of Republican.   Two weeks ago, even after the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, Nicolle Wallace wasn't sure she opposed the big-government monstrosity.  Today, when Joe Scarborough alluded to Clinton's infamous "what difference does it make?" line about Benghazi, there was Wallace riding to Hillary's defense: "I don't…
Mark Finkelstein
November 1st, 2013 8:45 AM

Open Thread Friday

Discuss the news of the day or anything else you'd like...
NB Staff
November 1st, 2013 8:33 AM

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Big Bang Theory Edition

Bob Newhart and Bill Nye the Science Guy visit the Big Bang Theory next week.
Evan Mantel
November 1st, 2013 4:13 AM

NPR Racial-Sensitivity Bloggers Want to Ban the Term 'Chinese Fire Dri

NPR’s “Code Switch” bloggers are taking offense at the phrase “Chinese fire drill.” It’s racially insensitive. On Thursday, NPR blogger Lakshmi Gandhi explained it’s a prank when people get out of a parked car, run around it, and then get back in. “One of the most famous pop culture references to the game appears of the classic 1970s sitcom Happy Days, in which Richie Cunningham and friends can…
Tim Graham
October 31st, 2013 11:04 PM

James Cameron Gets Matt Damon, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Showtime announced last year that it had commissioned Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron to produce an eight-part series for the network designed to scare the public into thinking the world is doomed as a result of global warming. Coincidentally on Halloween, the cable network released a trailer for the April 2014 series entitled Years of Living Dangerously and credits that identify key…
Noel Sheppard
October 31st, 2013 7:15 PM

MSNBC's Finney Blames 'Dictator' Bush for Troops in Afghanistan

On Wednesday's PoliticsNation, as MSNBC's Karen Finney joined host Al Sharpton in slamming Republicans who liken President Obama to a "dictator," Finney charged that President Bush "lied us into a war" that has resulted in U.S. troops still being in Afghanistan "12 years later," apparently without noticing that President Obama is the commander-in-chief who currently is in charge of whether troops…
Brad Wilmouth
October 31st, 2013 6:36 PM