Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In, has a favorite tactic–though not an original one: connecting today’s Republicans with the racist Democrats of the old South. In June, he rewrote history by casting George Wallace as a Republican–an error for which,
When Real Clear Politics (RCP) asked Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) questions about the government shutdown, questionable FDA interaction with pharmaceutical companies, Democrat chances in 2014, and the way he has “injected” himself into debates on Syria, student loans, and gun
The left-leaning CNBC economics reporter who asked for “Mexican music” to be played on Tuesday when an image of Sen. Tex Cruz (R-TX), who is partly of Cuban descent, came on the screen apologized “if” his “remarks were insensitive.” On
On Wednesday evening, NBC Nightly News’ Brian Williams opened his program by breaking the news that the Obama Administration was planning to move back the deadline for purchasing health insurance under the individual mandate by six weeks. Reporter Tom Costello
State Senator Wendy Davis (D-TX) was the woman behind that symbolic obstructionist filibuster the media championed — the one that temporarily halted a law in Texas that would make late-term abortions illegal, unless the mother’s life is endangered or in
All sides of the political spectrum, from Gov. Sarah Palin to the New York Times editorial board, are endorsing the new book Extortion by senior Breitbart News editor-at-large Peter Schweizer. In a rare moment of ideological similitude, a Wednesday piece
One of billionaire investor Warren Buffet’s conglomerates, Berkshure Hathaway, Inc., what the largest shareholder of the Washington Post Co. before it was sold to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Buffet said he thought about buying the beleaguered Washington Post but decided against
On Monday, the Associated Press’ Scott Bauer blasted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s new book, Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge, by fibbing repeatedly about Walker’s record and criticizing Walker for not writing about matters that Bauer would prefer
Two stories from separate publications on the same day suggest a delay in the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate will bring relief to hurting Americans–a delay initiated by Barack Obama, not Congress. The two stories, one in New York Magazine
Today, on the CNN Money site, there is a terrific story about the problems surrounding the ObamaCare website. The story includes all kinds of new information from a host of experts, and most of the news is flat-out terrible: The
After President Barack Obama vowed not to negotiate over the continuing resolution or the debt ceiling, after the Democratic Senate failed to pass a successful budget since 2009, The Hill‘s Erik Wasson
The National Journal headline reads: “Millions of Uninsured Latinos Live in States Without Spanish Obamacare Sites.” The story (and facts), however, aren’t quite so dramatic: “Over 1.2 million uninsured Latinos in the United States do not have access to a
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein now admits that weeks before the disastrous ObamaCare launch, he heard “some very ugly things about how the system was performing[.]” We also now know that a few hundred people were involved in a test
The November issue of Playboy features an interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who spends much of the article railing against the evils of capitalism and its alleged control of the political system. Playboy does deserve some credit for ideological diversity: in
This morning’s New York Times features an article on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the administration official shouldering most of the blame for the disastrous rollout of Obamacare. It appears Ms. Sebelius gave permission to friends and allies
Huffington Post labeled the Obama Administration’s attacks on press freedom a “Dictator’s Dream” when highlighting a wire story from the Associated Press. The article details remarks made by AP CEO Gary Pruitt to the 69th General Assembly of the Inter
Left-leaning CNBC reporter Steve Liesman asked for some “Mexican music” to be played while he talked about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during a segment on the September jobs report Tuesday. “We’re going to call this the Senator Ted Cruz jobs report.
CNN’s Piers Morgan is criticizing the American press corps for being “quite soft” on President Obama: “I would say actually they’ve been probably quite soft and could have gone harder. The financial crisis was inherited by the president, but he’s
Washington Post and MSNBC pundit Ezra Klein is stinging from fellow liberal Joan Walsh’s criticism of his harsh analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rollout. As John Nolte pointed out yesterday, Walsh did the White House’s heavy lifting and
