Alter: With Ryan Plan, Republicans Voted 'To Throw Granny Into The Sno

Mark Finkelstein
April 15th, 2011 8:10 PM
Q. How does a liberal describe giving seniors choice over their health care coverage? A. Murder. On Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show this evening, Jonathan Alter claimed that in proposing to issue Medicare vouchers, Republicans voted "to throw granny into the snow." For good measure, Cenk came out in favor of the "Robin Hood" approach to taxation--robbing from the rich and giving to the poor…
 

In Story on Town Hall Meeting About Shutdown, WaPo Reporter Buries Com

Ken Shepherd
April 8th, 2011 12:14 PM
Update (14:30 EDT): Joe Schoffstall of NewsBusters sister site MRCTV.org has video of Moran berated a 27-year military veteran who asked Moran questions at last night's townhall. Click here to access the video. In his 20-paragraph April 8 article* on a congressional townhall hosted by liberal Democrat Jim Moran (D-Va.), reporter Ben Pershing buried in the very last paragraph the complaint of…
 

Morning Show Hosts Skip News of Ethics Probe of Dems, Play Dress-up fo

Scott Whitlock
October 30th, 2009 3:24 PM
All three network morning shows on Friday skipped a Washington Post report revealing that powerful congressional Democrats such as John Murtha, James Moran and others on a defense panel are the subject of an ethics investigation for a relationship with a lobbying firm. The Democrats, and some Republicans, are under intense scrutiny for steering over $200 million in earmarks to clients of a…