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Halperin/Heilemann: MSM Primed to Dig Into Hillary Dealings
December 17th, 2014 8:53 PM
Mark Halperin claims that the MSM has an "anti-Clinton bias." That might send the blood pressure of a Newsbusters reader rocketing. But before downing a diuretic, consider what he and John Heilemann had to say on their Bloomberg TV show today.
Halperin and Heilemann were riffing off the New York Times report that Hillary's State Department permitted a rich Ecuadorian woman to enter the US after…
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Heilemann Mocks 'Undereducated' Royals, Touts Beyoncé, Jay-Z, & LeBron
December 8th, 2014 9:20 PM
Has John Heilemann ever gotten this riled up over the commies ruling Cuba? If so, I missed it. But on his Bloomberg TV show tonight, Heilemann got on his populist high horse to blast the British monarchy on the occasion of the visit to the US of Prince William and Princess Kate, mocking them as "undereducated" and calling for the British monarchy to be "done away with tomorrow."
In Heilemann's…
HHS Proposes 'Default Re-Enrollment' — Into Another Obamacare Plan
November 22nd, 2014 10:09 AM
Even if you like your Obamacare insurance plan, Health and Human Services may move you by default into a different one — often with a different network of providers. In such situations, you wouldn't get to keep your doctors and other providers unless you acted.
That's what HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service has indicated in a 300-page proposal dumped yesterday so it would get minimal…
Keynesian Fail: Japan 'Unexpectedly' Falls Into Another Recession
November 18th, 2014 11:41 PM
There were several more of those infamous "U-word" ("unexpectedly") sightings yesterday in the business press, as Japan — to the surprise of no one who has successfully avoided the Keynesian koolaid — reported that its economy shrank for the second quarter in a row, officially falling into yet another recession. The U-word hit the trifecta, appearing in reports at the Associated Press,…
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Obama Spokesman Sarcasm: ABC's Jon Karl the 'Most Delightful' Reporter
October 11th, 2014 8:07 AM
During Tuesday's segment of the new Bloomberg TV show, "With All Due Respect," hosts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann were getting whimsical with their guest, Obama press secretary Josh Earnest, asking which reporter at the White House is the "consistently most delightful."
Earnest picked ABC's Jon Karl -- suggesting he's the un-favorite right now.
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John Heilemann: Clinton’s Hands Are ‘Like The Paintbrushes Of Picasso’
October 8th, 2014 12:37 PM
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of the controversial 2008 campaign book Game Change, have a new show on Bloomberg called With All Due Respect and the two liberal journalists are using their platform to continue the media fawning over President Clinton. On their Tuesday show, the two hosts gushed over a campaign speech Clinton gave on behalf of Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor and Heilemann…
HealthCare.gov Cost Surpasses the $2 Billion Mark; Press Mostly Yawns
September 26th, 2014 10:05 PM
It wasn't that long ago that Obamacare defenders were ridiculing those of us who pointed out that the fully loaded cost of HealthCare.gov would surely top the $1 billion mark.
Well, we were wrong — to be so conservative. The real number is "about" $2.1 billion and counting, according to a Bloomberg report which is mostly being kept out of the non-business press.
MSNBC’s Halperin on Perry Indictment: ‘This Is the Stupidest Thing
August 18th, 2014 12:50 PM
On Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, MSNBC contributor and managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin slammed the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) by an Austin, Texas-area grand jury for threatening to veto funding for a Democratic District Attorney’s public integrity unit after she was convicted of a DUI as “the stupidest thing I’ve seen, I think, in my entire career.”…
AP's Crutsinger Thinks Today's Econ News Was Good; Bloomberg's Glinski
July 18th, 2014 8:00 PM
There were two pieces of significant economy-related news today. The first was that the Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators increased for the fifth straight month, this time by 0.3 percent, while May's increase was revised up to 0.7 percent. The second was that the University of Michigan's preliminary June reading on consumer confidence came in at 81.3, a decline from May.…
AP Quickly Buries Bad Housing News, While Reporter Crutsinger Blames I
July 17th, 2014 11:59 PM
Late this afternoon, I went to the Top Business Headlines page at the Associated Press's national web site to get today's new home construction news. Because the AP didn't have a story there (saved here for future reference), I knew it had to be bad, especially because to ignore it, the wire service made room in its Top 10 stories for an item on Toyota experimenting with fuel cells and aircraft…
Time Warp: Bloomberg Touts UN Report Calling for U.S. Emission Cuts to
July 9th, 2014 7:17 PM
Bloomberg’s Eric Roston attempted to keep a straight face while promoting a draft report for the United Nations. It said U.S. emissions would need to be “cut to one-tenth of current levels, per person, in less than 40 years.” Short of societal regression, it is unclear how that could be done.
“It’s perilous to say these things in the U.S., where a mere description of the scale of the climate…
As ISIS Nears Baghdad, US Press Snoozes, But AFP, UK Telly Are Coverin
June 18th, 2014 1:43 AM
At roughly 8 a.m. Eastern Time Tuesday morning, the wire service AFP (Agence France-Presse) had a story entitled "Fighting nears Baghdad as UN warns crisis 'life-threatening.'" AFP reported that "Militants pushed a weeklong offensive that has overrun swathes of Iraq to within 60 kilometres (37 miles) of Baghdad Tuesday." A Skynet video found at Gateway Pundit tells us that "ISIS Terrorists…
AP and Delusional Bloomberg Completely Disagree in Covering Today's Ho
June 17th, 2014 10:48 PM
There must have been a double delivery of Obama administration koolaid over at Bloomberg News this morning.
The business wire service, which ordinarily is slightly less imbalanced in its business and economics reporting than the Associated Press, somehow interpreted a 6.5 percent seasonally adjusted decline in housing starts during May and a nearly identical percentage drop in building…
Bloomberg Reporter Sees No Political Damage for Democrats After Bergda
June 5th, 2014 3:57 PM
Appearing on Thursday's MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports, Bloomberg News reporter Jeanne Cummings asserted that the highly controversial Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange – which an overwhelming majority of Americans feel has endangered the lives of U.S. soldiers – would have no negative political impact on Democrats in November's midterm elections. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the…