Candidate Obama Pushed for Higher Taxes to Reform Healthcare

During President Obama's healthcare address to the nation last week, he said, "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future," and that most of his plan "can be paid for by finding savings within in the existing healthcare system."Yet, presidential candidate Obama, speaking at a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on April 3, 2007, said, "…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

NPR's Schorr: ObamaCare Would 'Save Many Lives,' So Why Fuss Over Ille

NPR "senior news analyst" Daniel Schorr recited the socialist sermon on Wednesday night’s All Things Considered: nationalized health care "would save many lives," and all that bother about providing taxpayer-subsidized abortions and health care for illegal aliens are tiresome "distractions" from the urgent need for more government. Schorr lamented: Barring illegal from insurance benefits doesn't…
Tim Graham

The View Sticks Up For ACORN: Republicans Aren't Going to Take Care of

The ladies of ABC's "The View" on Thursday spoke out against Republicans who "have always felt that there was something a little off about ACORN," and said the embattled community organization needs to be given a second chance because "the Republicans aren't going to take care of [the poor]."Sure...who cares that they're advising people how to set up child prostitution rings, cheat banks, and…
Noel Sheppard

Outbursts and Punishment

It's time networks were held responsible for the outrages for their stars.
L. Brent Bozell III

Andrew Sullivan, Domestic Foreigner

Amy Ridenour

Down Steeply Since Late Jan., Big 3 Evening Newscasts Stuck at Low Sum

After a summer swoon, you would think that the evening newscasts of the Big 3 networks would start to recover a bit now that many Americans are back from vacations, kids are back in school, and fall routines are getting established or re-established. So far, you would be wrong. It's early, and there's still plenty of time this fall to recover, but during the time period after Labor Day, the…
Tom Blumer

Joe Klein's Moral Compass Always Points Left

Time Magazine's Joe Klein leveled another accusation of racism against Tea Party protesters today, employing fallacious arguments that could be torn apart by any student of basic logic.Tea Party protesters, by Klein's account, are similar to the caricature of the 1990s religious right: "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command," in the words of the Washington Post. Klein takes that WaPo…
Lachlan Markay

NYT's Timothy Egan: Middle Class Too Easily 'Distracted' To Know Own B

Timothy Egan, liberal New York Times reporter turned ultra-liberal nytimes.com "Outposts" blogger, titled his Wednesday night entry "Working Class Zero," a condescending, stereotypically liberal attack on blue-collar folks too ignorant and easily "distracted" to fight for their own interests, which Egan defined as government-controlled health care. Egan was vexed that many middle-class Americans…
Clay Waters

87% of Employers to Reduce Benefits if Health Care Reform Increases Co

Will The MSM Notice? A Towers Perrin Survey came across the Business Wire on Reuters this morning stating that a majority of employers surveyed will reduce benefits resulting from the proposed Democrat Health Care Reform bill that is working its way through Congress if it increases costs.
Terry Trippany

Time Magazine Asks 'Is Glenn Beck Bad for America

As Glenn Beck's popularity and ratings increase, so does the attention he's getting from the Obama-loving media.To be sure, most of the recent articles and news reports have been scathing, especially after his comment on FNC's "Fox & Friends" this summer about President Obama being a racist.Yet, despite the headline, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?", Time magazine's David Von Drehle…
Noel Sheppard

Weekly Standard: Obama Honeymoon Not Over -- at Least at Washington Po

Brent Baker

Atlantic Mag Names Paul Krugman Most Influential Commentator

When you think of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a man who has been found by his own public editor to actually make up economic data when it fits his agenda, do you consider him to be the most influential commentator in America?Well, hold on to your chair, for the Atlantic magazine does.According to the Atlantic, Krugman is more influential than Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Glenn Beck,…
Noel Sheppard

Tasteless: Olbermann Guest Invokes 'Special-Needs' Children to Bash Pa

Keith Olbermann is not one to pass up an opportunity to attack anything that even hints at being right of center. The repugnant MSNBC host devoted some three-quarters of his Sept. 16 show to claim criticism of President Barack Obama had to have elements of racism, no matter how you sliced it. And therefore, those critics were all despicable human beings, end of story. However, he did manage to…
Jeff Poor