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Ed Schultz Depicts Charles Krauthammer as a Tin Foil Hatter
He had a hard time pronouncing the subject's name, and admitted "I don't pay much attention to the guy," but MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Wednesday actually depicted Charles Krauthammer as a tin foil hatter.
Schultz and Company even had the audacity of making a picture of the good doctor wearing such a hat (video follows with transcript and commentary):
October 30th, 2013 7:00 PM
WashPost's Milbank: GOPers 'Slashing the Tires' and 'Then Complaining
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined host Al Sharpton in lambasting Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Tom Coburn for attending a fund-raiser in New York City the day before the first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Sharpton griped:
October 30th, 2013 6:58 PM
Sharyl Attkisson: Insurance 'Death Spiral' Could Cause ObamaCare's 'Co
Besides facing a "credibility death spiral" on the issue of ObamaCare, as political director John Dickerson recently put it, Sharyl Attkisson pointed out on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the very structure of the so-called reform could encounter a separate "death spiral" due to the "enrollment fiasco" surrounding HealthCare.gov.
Attkisson cited unnamed health care analysts, who predicted a…
October 30th, 2013 6:44 PM
Time's Joe Klein Slams Obama As 'Buckpasser
"[T]here is a danger that the Obama Administration will be remembered as not even good enough for government work," if President Obama doesn't step up his game, argued liberal Time magazine columnist Joe Klein in his October 30 piece, "Buckpasser."
"Firing for cause doesn’t seem to exist in the Obama Administration," groused the columnist, lamenting that "few have paid the price for the…
October 30th, 2013 6:20 PM
Amid ObamaCare Disaster, NBC's Todd Insists GOP 'Has No Interest in Go
While discussing the numerous ObamaCare failures on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd felt it necessary to gratuitously bash Republicans: "And suddenly you have the picture of two parties, a Democratic Party led by the President that apparently doesn't know how to govern, has a competency issue when it comes to this health care website, juxtaposed next to a…
October 30th, 2013 6:10 PM
CNN's Gupta on ObamaCare Dropping Millions From Health Plans: 'It Hasn
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta – who was once considered for President Obama's surgeon general – gave cover to President Obama Wednesday in explaining his broken promise that Americans could keep their insurance.
"It hasn't been explained very well," Gupta said of millions who will be dropped from their health plans and who must buy insurance in the ObamaCare marketplaces. He also failed to note that…
October 30th, 2013 6:04 PM
Ex-Obama Flack: It's 'Difficult to Get Anything Done Inside Government
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, Samuel Johnson famously observed, much as truth is a last resort to liberals.
Hardly a day passes without yet more novel excuses for the ongoing trainwreck known as Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, a legislative title well en route to becoming a punch line. But there amid the torrent of lame apologia came a brief moment of candor from a…
October 30th, 2013 5:50 PM
NBCUniversal’s Insurance Premiums to Rise Due to Obamacare
CNBC’s morning anchors were troubled by the news that their own insurance plans will become more costly under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
On Oct. 30’s “Squawk Box,” CNBC Senior Correspondent Scott Cohn revealed details of NBC’s open enrollment, brandishing an official fact book outlining the process. He quoted the document, revealing that the ACA would increase employee premiums.
October 30th, 2013 5:22 PM
Chris Matthews Compares Ted Cruz to Cinematic Child Murderer 'Freddy K
Apparently, a lot of conservatives remind Chris Matthews of the scarred and burned child murderer from the Nightmare on Elm Street films. On Tuesday, the Hardball anchor linked Republican Ted Cruz to the cinematic killer. He opened the program by spewing, "Is Ted Cruz the Republican Freddy Krueger?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
According to Matthews, the Texas senator is a "…
October 30th, 2013 4:32 PM
Obama Heckled By Environmentalists at ObamaCare Rally
Early in his speech to promote ObamaCare in Boston Tuesday, the President was interrupted by hecklers asking him to not support the XL Pipeline.
“Mr. President, protect me from XL,” they said. “Stop punishing. For our generation, stop the pipeline.”
October 30th, 2013 4:27 PM
Dickerson: 'HealthCare.gov Launched With The...Success Of A North Kore
John Dickerson didn't mince words about the "bad launch" of ObamaCare in his Tuesday item for Slate.com. The CBS News political director invoked one of deceased tyrant Kim Jong il's most infamous saber-rattling tactics: "Healthcare.gov launched with the fanfare and success of a North Korean missile."
Dickerson also rephrased his recent contention that "the administration could get into, sort…
October 30th, 2013 4:16 PM
CNN’s Jake Tapper Attends ‘Book of Jezebel’ Party
The world of the elite liberal media is a small one. Witness Jezebel founder Anna Holmes and CNN’s Jake Tapper.
The Washington Post’s Megan McDonough covered Holmes’ newly published “The Book of Jezebel,” on the Style section’s front page via her piece: “A compilation of lady things, A to Jezebel.” In the Oct. 30 article, McDonough noted the presence of CNN’s “The Lead” Host Jake Tapper at a…
October 30th, 2013 3:56 PM
WaPo's Kessler Gives Obama's 'You Can Keep Your Plan' Promise 'Four Pi
43 months after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, another national establishment press outlet has called President Barack Obama's serially made promise that "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health plan" a lie. Specifically, Washington Post designated fact-checker Glenn Kessler has given it "four Pinocchios," the lowest possible rating on his scale reserved for "…
October 30th, 2013 3:39 PM
Berkeley Climate Scientist: IPCC Predictions ‘Getting Worse
While climate alarmists and the media continue to link everything, including storms like Hurricane Sandy, to climate change, one scientist recently admitted to HuffPost Live that accuracy of forecasts is deteriorating.
Jane Long, Berkeley researcher and associate director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, cast doubt on climate change forecasts in an Oct. 29 HuffPost Live segment…
October 30th, 2013 3:09 PM