A $2 Billion Chrysler Double-Cross? If So, It's Virtually Invisible

The Obama administration and its car-czar group appear to be intent on teaching someone who got in their way a brutal lesson. If there's another way to interpret what is going on involving the "Old Chrysler," the company's first-lien secured lenders, and the US Treasury, I want to know what it is.
Tom Blumer
September 9th, 2009 1:35 PM

CBS’s Smith Cites Medicare as Socialist Success Story

While arguing with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele about health care reform on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "...if the public option is socialism, then what is Medicare?....That people overwhelmingly think works pretty well for them."Steele pointed out Medicare’s obvious flaw: "Medicare’s a government-run program that is not – that is not doing…
Kyle Drennen
September 9th, 2009 1:07 PM

Snyderman: ObamaCare 'Going So Well' Till Hijacked By 'Lies

Mark Finkelstein
September 9th, 2009 1:05 PM

Obama: Out of Frying Pan, Into the Fire

No matter how little media focus they get, president's tough times are getting tougher with nationwide 9-12 events
Dan Gainor
September 9th, 2009 12:48 PM

CNSNews.com: Obama Pitched Health Care Plan in Chat with Students Prio

While the mainstream media mock as overblown and unjustified the concerns of many conservatives that President Obama's televised speech to the nation's schoolchildren would be accompanied by liberal politicking, one online news outlet is noting how the president took the chance to push his agenda to a small group of Northern Virginia students prior to the actual speech."Prior to his nationally…
Ken Shepherd
September 9th, 2009 12:39 PM

Today's Push for ObamaCare Matches Media Spin for HillaryCare in 1990s

As President Obama prepares to deliver his 29th speech on health care, this time before a joint session of Congress, it recalls Bill Clinton’s September 22, 1993 speech to Congress on the same topic. Back then, media liberals hit some of the exact same points journalists are making today: “reform” would end the “shame” of America being the only industrialized nation without universal coverage;…
Rich Noyes
September 9th, 2009 12:27 PM

ABC’s Robin Roberts Coos to Obama: ‘How Difficult Is It to Stay on

ABC’s Robin Roberts conducted a fawning interview with Barack Obama on Wednesday’s Good Morning America, downplaying controversy and instead offering fawning softballs such as "How difficult is it to stay on message?" The GMA host previewed Obama’s big health care speech to Congress and only gently broached the difficulties that the President has had with the legislation.Earlier in the segment, …
Scott Whitlock
September 9th, 2009 12:07 PM

NYT: August Recess Didn't Greatly Alter Opinion on ObamaCare

Have you ever wondered what planet liberal media members live on?Before you answer, consider the following astonishing quote from a New York Times article published Tuesday:While the month of August clearly knocked the White House back on its heels, as Congressional town hall-style meetings exposed Americans’ unease with an overhaul, the uproar does not seem to have greatly altered public opinion…
Noel Sheppard
September 9th, 2009 11:28 AM

CNBC’s Cramer: Spiraling National Debt to Cause Bear Market in 18 Mo

Since hitting their lows back in March, financial markets have rallied in the wake of last year's financial crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is up 43 percent since March 9. But can it last? It could be all given up with this rate of government spending according to CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer. Cramer, responding to a viewer e-mail on his Sept.8 program, explained what a…
Jeff Poor
September 9th, 2009 10:58 AM

Daily Kos Editor Posts Picture Depicting Glenn Beck As Racism's Leader

Last month, an MSNBC anchor claimed socialist was the new N-word.On Tuesday, a contributing editor of the liberal website Daily Kos took this insanity a step further by creating and posting a picture depicting Tea Partiers as racists and Fox News's Glenn Beck as their leader.Why are Beck and so many Americans deserving of this dishonor?Because they are "fond of calling the Obama Administration a…
Noel Sheppard
September 9th, 2009 10:56 AM

NB's Finkelstein To Scarborough On Obama School Speech: It's Not The I

NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein was a guest yesterday on the Joe Scarborough Show, the nationally-syndicated radio show that the Morning Joe anchor co-hosts with Mika Brzezinski.  Listen to audio here. For days, Scarborough had been lambasting Republicans for going after Pres. Obama on his speech to schoolchildren.  Finkelstein argued that it was not so much the potential for indoctrination as the…
NB Staff
September 9th, 2009 10:36 AM

Cramer Warns Increasing National Debt Could Cause Bear Market in 18 Mo

CNBC 'Mad Money' host says congressional spending to going to cause higher taxes and sharp downturn for stocks.
Jeff Poor
September 9th, 2009 10:27 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
September 9th, 2009 9:52 AM

York: Journalists More Interested in Denying Conservatives a Victory T

In his column in Tuesday's Washington Examiner, Byron York, who in a Friday blog post recounted “The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy,” asked: “Why did the press ignore the Van Jones scandal?” The chief political correspondent for the paper answered: “The question may not be so much who they are, as who they hate, or at least who they intensely dislike.” York pointed out: The first words of the […
Brent Baker
September 9th, 2009 9:33 AM