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Bloomberg Spins Negative ObamaCare Poll Into Bad News for GOP
October 8th, 2009 3:43 PM
Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft, who has been on quite a roll as of late, had the Media Bias Catch of the Day, Polling Division, this morning. Rush mentioned Hoft's post on his show this afternoon. Jim compared the results of a Quinnipiac poll on ObamaCare to how Bloomberg reported the results. He first noted what Quinnipiac found: Jim then asked, "So, how does the state-run media report this news…
Bloomberg: Obama Hurting Democrat in Virginia Governor's Race
September 2nd, 2009 11:10 AM
Barack Obama has been President for less than eight months, yet his policies are already having a negative impact on Democrats seeking office this year.So said Bloomberg Wednesday in a piece entitled, "Corzine, Deeds Electoral Weakness Reflects Obama’s Lower Rating." With a number of high-profile off-year elections scheduled for November, it will be fascinating to see how Obama-loving media spin…
A Government-Run Betting Monopoly Goes Broke
September 2nd, 2009 10:04 AM
New York State's Off-Track Betting Corp. (OTB) is filing for bankruptcy "as a municipality" under Chapter 9 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code "after four years of losses totaling $38 million." You read that right: A government-run gambling monopoly has gone broke, after losing money for years. How was this seemingly impossible feat accomplished? There are clues in stories at Reuters and Bloomberg…
Former Majority Leader, now Bloomberg Contributor Daschle Says Health
August 11th, 2009 5:04 PM
Not everyone on the left is in denial of the town hall protests and propagating the notion that any opposition to ObamaCare is manufactured "Astroturf" from the right. Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, now a Bloomberg TV contributor, said that the issue of public sentiment isn't settled. Some prognosticators have concluded that everyone wants President Barack Obama's brand of…
Bloomberg's Unchallenging Obama Interview: No Mention of Cratering Col
June 20th, 2009 10:45 AM
Maybe reporters Brian Faler or Nicholas Johnston at Bloomberg asked Barack Obama some really challenging questions when they had a chance to interview the President at the White House. Maybe they even did some basic fact-checking. If so, there's precious little evidence of either in their June 16 report.They allowed the president to blame most of the current year's deficit on George W. Bush. They…
New GM Chair: 'I Don't Know Anything About Cars'; He's Just the Latest
June 10th, 2009 5:00 PM
You can't make this stuff up. The titled quote comes from a Bloomberg story today about new GM Chairman Ed Whitacre. You also can't make up most of the media's calm acceptance of yet another person heavily involved with running General Motors, aka Government Motors, who knows next to nothing about cars except as a consumer who drives them.
At least it's refreshing that this guy has…
Here We Go Again: This Time Gov't. Is Trying to Shaft Unsecured GM Bon
May 22nd, 2009 2:17 PM
Earlier today at my blog, I noted in a post updating the sad situations at bankrupt Chrysler and headling-for-bankruptcy General Motors, that GM is, according to a Wednesday Reuters report, offering secured bondholders a much better deal than the 29 cents on the dollar Chrysler's secured creditors have been offered. Chrysler's "non-TARP secured lenders," after what they allege with much…
Social Security Surpluses Are Near Their End; Bloomberg's Hassett Note
March 31st, 2009 12:22 AM
Yesterday, in the process of passing on news that bloggers such as Ed Morrissey at Hot Air and outfits like the Heritage Foundation were onto earlier, Bloomberg's Kevin Hassett delivered a stinging indictment of the establishment media for being asleep at the switch (the sole exception appears to be a video report at PBS). But while he does a good job identifying the problem and indicting…
Liberal Economist Krugman Explains Populist Backlash Will Cause Geithn
March 25th, 2009 10:41 AM
Talk about unintended consequences. All this populist anger ginned up by congressional Democrats, the media and the Obama administration is going to hinder the Treasury Department's strategy to rescue the banking system. Paul Krugman, the liberal New York Times columnist and winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics explained to Bloomberg News on March 24 that this is just what is happening…
Bailed-Out Car Cos. Want More Money; Bloomberg Fails to Challenge Cons
March 22nd, 2009 9:45 PM
Anyone who has followed the decline of General Motors and Chrysler since the two companies received a combined $17-plus billion in bailout money in December won't be surprised at the news that they need more -- or at the government's convenient weekend timing of the news. The financial cliff on which Chrysler stands was a given by the time its first bailout installment arrived. But, as shown in…
When Will Media Blame Economy and Bear Market on Obama
March 6th, 2009 10:40 AM
A consistent media meme since Election Day has been that Barack Obama was inheriting a recession that some believe began as far back as December 2007. Since then, despite various rescue plans from his Administration, and the passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, the stock market has continued to plummet while employers shed payrolls in a fashion rarely seen in history.This all raises an…
NASA's Global Warming Satellite Crashes, Will Media Notice
February 24th, 2009 10:05 AM
A rocket carrying a NASA satellite designed to study global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica Tuesday shortly after being launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.How delicious that it landed near the continent whose expanding ice mass totally defies the myth climate alarmists so eagerly spread for their own purposes.Talk about your inconvenient truths. As Bloomberg…
Ifill & Carlson on HuffPost Question to Obama: 'Perfectly Reasonable
February 16th, 2009 2:04 PM
During a segment on the “Reliable Sources” hour of CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, PBS’s Gwen Ifill and Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson agreed that it was fine for President Obama to call on Sam Stein of the Huffington Post at his first press conference, and that the correspondent’s left-wing question on a proposed “truth committee” investigation into the Bush administration was “perfectly…
Olbermann Challenged: 'Do You Have the Backbone to Debate Me
February 15th, 2009 3:51 PM
A health policy expert who Keith Olbermann eviscerated during Thursday's "Countdown" (video embedded below the fold) has officially challenged the disgraceful MSNBC personality to a debate concerning provisions in the soon to be enacted stimulus plan.In a press release issued Friday, Betsy McCaughey stated (h/t TVNewser):If Keith Olbermann of MSNBC could defend the health provisions slipped into…