ABC Touts Jon Karl Going 'Toe-to-Toe' With White House Over Website's

  ABC's World News on Monday night continued to highlight the network's exclusive that Barack Obama knew there was no real alternative to the ObamaCare website, even as he pushed options like mail and calling the hotline. Yet, on Good Morning America, the network's content-free morning show, the revelations were ignored. World News anchor Diane Sawyer touted the story as all "about what the…
Scott Whitlock
November 5th, 2013 5:26 PM

Christie Advises Obama on ‘You Can Keep Your Plan’ Correction

Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) had some advice for President Obama concerning his new claim concerning what he meant when he told Americans they could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them. Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on The Lead Tuesday, Christie said, “Don’t be so cute…When you make a mistake, admit it.”
Noel Sheppard
November 5th, 2013 4:56 PM

JFK Truther Oliver Stone Still Claims ‘Cloud of BS’ Conceals Facts

“Still Crazy After All These Years” – it ain’t just a Paul Simon song when Oliver Stone is around and talking about the John F. Kennedy assassination. The Oscar-winning director vehemently defended his conspiracy theorist film “JFK” in a rambling diatribe on Nov. 4’s HuffPost Live, blasting critics as “silly” and “idiotic.” Stone stood by his twenty-year-old movie: “I think it holds up very…
Sean Long
November 5th, 2013 4:30 PM

Denial On NPR: Journos Say Obamacare's Not a Scandal, and Obama's 'Rel

In a sign of liberal panic, NPR's Diane Rehm Show spent its first hour Monday questioning President Obama's management style. As their website elaborated on the Healthcare.gov fiasco and the NSA spying on world leaders, "the latest embarrassments have even some of the president’s supporters questioning his management style." To insure that their comments weren't too upsetting to Obama-loving…
Tim Graham
November 5th, 2013 4:07 PM

CNN Rebukes Guest for Calling Obama's False Insurance Guarantee a 'Lie

CNN is still giving President Obama the extreme benefit of the doubt over his false promise that Americans could keep their insurance under ObamaCare. The President added words to his promise on Tuesday, that Americans could keep their insurance "if it hasn't changed since the law passed." Anchor Ashleigh Banfield then suggested he call his initial promise an "oversight" and rebuked…
Matt Hadro
November 5th, 2013 4:04 PM

Americans Like Doughnuts, Cheap Insurance and Other Bad Things, Sneers

"The Odd Couple" sitcom, which featured slob sportswriter Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) sharing a New York City apartment with overbearing neatnik Felix Ungar (Tony Randall), rarely fell short in delivering funny lines, but one in particular has stayed with me in the decades since the show aired. Felix was lecturing Oscar, as he so often did, that what he was doing -- smoking cigars, eating…
Jack Coleman
November 5th, 2013 3:31 PM

Barbara Walters Claims 'The View' Was Never Intended to Be 'Political

During an interview on Sunday's edition of the new Fox News Channel program Media Buzz, Barbara Walters told host Howard Kurtz that The View -- the weekday program she created for ABC on August 11, 1997, and is retiring from next summer -- is neither political nor news-oriented since it was intended to be “entertaining and upbeat.” “The View is not Meet the Press,” Walters said even though…
Randy Hall
November 5th, 2013 2:20 PM

St. Louis Fed President: Shutdown ‘Not That Big a Deal’ for Econom

The government shutdown didn’t hurt the economy much after all. That was the assessment of St. Louis Fed President James Bullard in a Nov. 4 CNBC interview. “I don’t think it’s gonna have that big of an impact on growth. … It’s probably not that big a deal,” said Bullard on “Squawk Box.”
Sean Long
November 5th, 2013 2:15 PM

National Journal's Ron Fournier: Obama Is 'Lying About Lies' in an 'Or

If there is to be a tidal wave of defenders of President Barack Obama's "it if it hasn't changed" revision to his original guarantee — "If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan" — Ron Fournier (NewsBusters history here), who toiled at the Associated Press for 20 years and joined the National Journal several years ago, will not be among them. In 2008,…
Tom Blumer
November 5th, 2013 1:48 PM

CBS Spotlights 'Multiple Security Issues' With ObamaCare Website

On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Jan Crawford zeroed in on the "several flaws" with HealthCare.gov that "could expose your personal information" to hackers, contrary to the Obama administration's claims that "information is protected by stringent security standards", as White House Press Secretary Jay Carney put it at an October 31, 2013 briefing. Crawford spotlighted a South Carolina resident…
Matthew Balan
November 5th, 2013 1:08 PM

Not a Shock: 'Independent' Washington Post Endorses Democrats in 20 of

The Washington Post, which touts itself as "an independent newspaper," endorsed Democrats in 20 out of 27 races leading up to election day in Virginia. In the three statewide races, the paper's editorial board supported liberal Democrats Terry McAuliffe, Ralph Northam and Mark Herring for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively. In 17 of 24 state delegate races, the paper…
Scott Whitlock
November 5th, 2013 12:53 PM

Election Day Open Thread

Since it's an odd numbered year, most of the attention in politics is focused on the Virginia governor's race and also the one in New Jersey. Who do you think will win each race and what will the implications, if any, be?
NB Staff
November 5th, 2013 12:47 PM

WaPo: Liberal, Profane Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber A ‘Superhero,’ ‘R

Now here’s a Christian the Washington Post can love: profanity-fluent liberal Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. And she’s coming to Washington, D.C. Nov. 5, as advertised by the Post’s Michelle Boorstein. From the beginning of her long (1,798 words) Nov. 4 article, Boorstein gushed over Bolz-Weber as a “superhero from Planet Alternative Christian” and enthused that the Lutheran pastor’s “liberal,…
Katie Yoder
November 5th, 2013 12:14 PM

NBC's Todd Predicts 'A Lot of I-Told-You-Sos' Against Tea Party After

On Tuesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd eagerly forecasted Republican defeat in the Virginia governor's race and that all the blame for the loss would be ascribed to conservatives: "There are a lot of anti-Tea Party Republicans who think the Tea Party has done damage to the Republican Party who are going....'You've got a Tea Party that took over the Virginia…
Kyle Drennen
November 5th, 2013 11:59 AM