Contessa Brewer: What If GOP Nixed ObamaCare Repeal, Invested In Education of Unemployed Instead?
January 7, 2011 No CommentReporting that House Republicans will soon be voting to repeal President Obama's “job-killing” health care law, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer wondered if the GOP should take a different route to save jobs. During her Thursday 12 p.m. EST news hour, she revealed a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report estimating that a repeal of the health care law will cost $230 billion over the next ten years. Disregarding the GOP arguments for repealing ObamaCare, Brewer wondered aloud about the merits of the $230 billion being invested in re-education of unemployed persons. “What would happen,” Brewer asked Prof. Robert Reich of the University of California at Berkeley, “if you took $230 billion and instead put that toward re-education of the nation's unemployed?”
Continue reading …Ed Schultz: Republicans are ‘Bastards Wanting to Destroy the American Dream’
January 6, 2011 No CommentMSNBC's Ed Schultz on Wednesday called Republicans bastards that want to destroy the American dream. Apparently recognizing that he might have gone too far, the “Ed Show” host apologized moments later (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more
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Appearing on Wednesday's “Morning Joe,” Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward dismissed the significance of the accession of Rep. John Boehner to the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives, saying that Presodent Obama's inauguration dwarfed Boehner's. Politico's Mike Allen had reported that Capitol Hill had “the air of a Presidential Inauguration” Wednesday with a new Speaker of the House and 87 new Republican congressmen coming in. A few minutes later, Woodward tempered Allen's enthusiasm. “I think Mike Allen's one of the best in the business, but to compare the Boehner coming to the Speakership with the Presidential Inaugural – four busloads, Mike? I mean, for Obama, for any president – c'mon, they had hundreds of busloads.” read more
Continue reading …Schultz’s Hysterical Math: Corporations Donate 1000x More Than Unions To Campaigns
January 5, 2011 No Comment
Here at NewsBusters, we've documented Ed Schultz's heroic if unsuccessful struggles with the English language.
Continue reading …Meacham Calls Disastrous Limo Lib Lindsay ‘One Of Greatest Mayors In New York History’
January 3, 2011 No Comment
John Lindsay might have been the worst mayor in NYC history. Epitome of the limousine liberal, Lindsay nearly bankrupted the Big Apple. But that hasn't stopped Jon Meacham from lauding Lindsay as
Continue reading …Best Notable Quotables of 2010: Crushing Rush and Damning Conservatives
December 31, 2010 No Comment
The liberal press likes to scold what it sees as lapses in civil rhetoric, usually from conservatives who fail to properly respect the icons of the Left. But as documented by the MRC's Best Notable Quotables of 2010 , the media elite itself lurched into some pretty uncivil rhetoric this year — especially when the targets were Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party and other conservatives. PBS's Tavis Smiley won MRC's ” Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabbl e” (and was runner-up for ” Quote of the Year “) for arguing with author Ayaan Hirsi Ali that everyday Christians and the Tea Party were just as dangerous as radical Muslims. read more
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The Washington Post's Ezra Klein appeared on MSNBC's Daily Rundown, Thursday, to mock the incoming Republicans for their stated fixation on the Constitution, asserting that the document is rather old and “confusing.” MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell dismissed the GOP effort as “lip service” and wondered if it was a “gimmick.” After playing clips of Republicans claiming they would reject legislation that couldn't be justified constitutionally, Klein complained, ” The issue of the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than 100 years ago and what people believe it says differs from person to person and differs depending on what they want to get done. ” (It was actually written 223 years ago, which is a slightly “more than 100.”) Klein didn't expound on which parts “confuse” him the most. [ MP3 audio here . See video below. ] read more
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Every year, the Media Research Center invites a distinguished panel of expert judges to sift through the dopiest, wackiest quotes of the year, and every year it seems the honor roll of idiocy gets longer and longer. This year, top honors in the MRC's ” Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year ” went to the Boston Globe Magazine's Charles Pierce, for a January 10 column he addressed to Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown just days before the Massachusetts special election. In Pierce's highly-esteemed opinion, Brown's cause was hopeless: read more
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