Posts Tagged ‘Media Watch’
Monday, December 9th, 2013
A LinKSwarm to start your Monday off, with a mix of old and new:
Obama’s popularity down among the Obama coalition:
Obama’s job approval rating among Hispanic Americans has plunged from 75 percent in December 2012 to 52 percent today — a drop of 23 percentage points, the sharpest decline among any voter group. Among Americans who make less than $24,000 a year, the president’s approval rating has fallen from 64 percent last December to 46 percent today. Among Americans 18 to 29 years of age, it has fallen from 61 percent to 46 percent. Among women, it has fallen from 57 percent to 43 percent.
Evidently free contraceptives don’t trump lost jobs and insurance. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
First came the first wave of ObamaCare “cancellation shock” as policies were dropped left and right. Next comes the “Doc Shock,” as people lose physicians who won’t cut their rates for ObamaCare plans. (Hat tip: Instapundit and Ed Driscoll.)
Indeed, 7 out of 10 California doctors are boycotting California’s ObamaCare exchanges. When you’ve lost California…
So get ready to see a lot more signs like this. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
“The GOP establishment is loath to admit it, but the government shutdown is turning out to be a brilliant political chess move on the part of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.”
Why the hell is Paul Ryan trying to undo the sequester cuts?
New York City starts confiscating rifles and shotguns.
On Twitter, #LiesObamaToldUs trended for three straight days. Well, it’s a target-rich environment…
Photojournalist robbed twice in one day in Detroit. Funny how 50 years of Democratic rule mean that government is unable to enforce its most central function: keeping the populace safe by enforcing the rule of law.
Why you don’t stop shooting until the threat is neutralized:
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
Is Hollywood turning the Biblical story of Noah into another tree-hugging Dances With Smurfs?
Tags:Budget, California, Detroit, gun control, Guns, Hollywood, Media Watch, Mike Lee, New York City, Noah, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, video
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Monday, November 18th, 2013
Some links to start your week with, ObamaCare still looming as topic one:
Chao before Congress: ObamaCare is hunky dory! Chao in internal memo the day before: we are so farked!
Over four million Americans have their policies cancelled thanks to ObamaCare.
Less than 50,000 sign up for ObamaCare.
One of the Democratic Senators running as hard as she can away from ObamaCare is Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. Too bad she already embraced 100% accountability for it.
Race-baiting provided a shield that allowed Obama to fail.
And remember that calling Obama’s critics racist was a deliberate strategy by MSM members wanting to boost and protect Obama.
Don’t expect Obama to bounce back.
So is Politico actually covering the dysfunction within the Obama cabinet, or are they trying to shield a favorite from the stink of failure engulfing same?
A look back at Communist genocide in Ukraine.
Fitch gives Chicago bonds three steps, yes they gave them a three step cut toward the floor.
Michael Totten: “The case for walking away from Egypt and dusting our hands off is sound.”
Antisemitism getting worse in Europe says notorious Zionist shill, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
Islamists in Nigeria doing what they do best: murder children.
Sex crime investigator arrested for sex crime with a minor. That’s really cutting out the middleman…
How the holy hell can Amtrack lose one BILLION dollars on food service? You could feed Ethiopia on that!
Dwight has an EarthQuest update.
Julian Castro to force streetcars down the throats of San Antonians despite votes against them.
Another super-genus criminal. Just click the link and look at the pics.
Tags:Communism, Crime, Democrats, EarthQuest, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Guns, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Mary Landrieu, Media Watch, Nigeria, ObamaCare, Texas
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Friday, November 8th, 2013
If you hadn’t heard, Ted Cruz will be chatting with Jay Leno tonight, November 8, 2013.
Obama’s promises were going to appear, but they all had to cancel at the last minute.
I wonder what the over/under is for Cruz guest-hosting Saturday Night Live.
Tags:Jay Leno, Media Watch, Republicans, Ted Cruz, TV
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Friday, November 8th, 2013
Time for another LinkSwarm, still top-heavy with ObamaCare failure news:
Have insurance through your employer? Don’t worry, ObamaCare will screw you as well.
“Can the Obama-loving media really bring itself to report that their Beloved is simply lying about every single aspect of his signature program?” Beyond a few iconoclasts like Sheryl Atkinson or Chris Wallace, I think we all know the answer to that one.
ObamaCare was bad enough to start out, but the Obama White House intentionally made it worse.
Short and no doubt woefully incomplete list of businesses that have already cut back hours and hiring due to ObamaCare.
ObamaCare demonstrates “timeless demonstration of the failure of central planning, government regulations, and the entitlement state. It is a failure so total, so comprehensive, and so multifaceted that it will be studied by schoolchildren 50 years from now when their teachers explain to them why the giant welfare and regulatory state built up in the second half of the 20th century collapsed in the first half of the 21st.”
Krauthammer on ObamaCare’s continued unpopularity: “And unless they stop the avalanche here, the Democrats are going to get buried in this.”
And now the ObamaCare website is dishing out gibberish?
A quarter million Coloradans have their health insurance ObamaCared.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find Chicago’s Democratic machine abusing bonds to paper over deficits.
Having Dana Milbank say that Obaama lives in a reality bubble is like the guy who just mugged you saying “Man, this is really a high crime neighborhood! You should watch out!”
Philadelphia man adds two more to the dead goblin count.
If you’re the son of the most famous Fascist* in British history, maybe it’s best not to participate in Nazi-themed S&M sex orgies.
Voters in Amarillo and Houston rejected spending money for sports complexes.
Another hammer drops on Prenda Law.
Things to make you furious: Cops killing puppies.
And speaking of dogs, I missed this from a week ago: Giant George, RIP.
Heh.
*Real Fascist, not just in the liberal name-calling sense.
Tags:Charles Krauthammer, Chicago, Colorado, Country Music Awards, Crime, Dana Milbank, dogs, fraud, Max Mosley, Media Watch, ObamaCare, Prenda Law, self-defense, video, Welfare State
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Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
ObamaCare is the failure that keeps failing.
How many Americans might lose their insurance coverage due to ObamaCare? Try 68% of privately insured Americans.
Republicans tried to fix the rule that’s causing so many insurance companies to cancel policies due to ObamaCare. Democrats said no. Mary Landrieu, Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Pryor, Kay Hagan and Mark Begich all voted against grandfathering in insurance policies that didn’t have ObamaCare’s precious taxpayer-funded abortions.
Stage 4 cancer survivor Edie Sundby is among those having their policies cancelled due to ObamaCare:
Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers.
My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.Countless hours searching for non-exchange plans have uncovered nothing that compares well with my existing coverage. But the greatest source of frustration is Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health-insurance exchange and, by some reports, one of the best such exchanges in the country. After four weeks of researching plans on the website, talking directly to government exchange counselors, insurance companies and medical providers, my insurance broker and I are as confused as ever. Time is running out and we still don’t have a clue how to best proceed.
Two things have been essential in my fight to survive stage-4 cancer. The first are doctors and health teams in California and Texas: at the medical center of the University of California, San Diego, and its Moores Cancer Center; Stanford University’s Cancer Institute; and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The second element essential to my fight is a United Healthcare PPO (preferred provider organization) health-insurance policy.
Since March 2007 United Healthcare has paid $1.2 million to help keep me alive, and it has never once questioned any treatment or procedure recommended by my medical team. The company pays a fair price to the doctors and hospitals, on time, and is responsive to the emergency treatment requirements of late-stage cancer. Its caring people in the claims office have been readily available to talk to me and my providers.
But in January, United Healthcare sent me a letter announcing that they were pulling out of the individual California market.
ObamaCare is great at one thing: Revealing your personal information. (Via Ace.)
ObamaCare is estimated to increase premiums about 41% across 49 states. State with largest hike? Nevada, at 179%. How’s that decision to reelect Harry Reid working out? (Also via Ace.)
That map shows Texas rates rising 26%, but for some Texans that hike will be as much as 158%.
Here’s notice to a man whose monthly premiums doubled to $934.99 thanks to ObamaCare.
Flowchart of President Obama’s “You can keep your plan, period” defenses. (Via Instapundit.)
The Humanitarian Tragedy of ObamaCare: “Before passage of the ACA, we had no free market in insurance or medical care. Both industries had long been cartelized in the states through licensing and other regulatory barriers to free competition. When people say that the medical market failed, they really should say that a government-business partnership failed. In light of that failure, it makes no sense to expand the partnership further under the central authority of the federal government, as the ACA does.”
Hey, lets put some liberal policy wonks in charge of a complex technical project. What could possibly go wrong? It’s like putting the guy who writes shipping regulations in charge of designing and building an aircraft carrier.
Like his employer, Paul Krugman is too dumb to admit he’s wrong.
Tags:Democrats, Jeanne Shaheen, Kay Hagan, Mark Begich, Mark Pryor, Mary Landrieu, Media Watch, Nevada, ObamaCare, Paul Krugman, Texas
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Monday, October 28th, 2013
Well, this should break the story wide open. If you haven’t already, see the whole thing.
And here’s the transcript.
Tags:60 Minutes, Benghazi, Jihad, Libya, Media Watch, Obama Scandals
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
While the Grambling football team is back practicing, from Dwight comes news that Grambling fired David Lankster, online editor ofThe Gramblinite student newspaper, supposedly over posts made on the official Twitter feed. Lankster played a key role in exposing the deplorable facilities football players were complaining about. (Fox News has pictures of the facilities.) Lanskster’s firing was overturned, but he plans to resign.
I do wonder if I had some small hand in Lankster’s firing, since he used his personal Twitter account to retweet my suspicion that someone in the Administration was embezzling funds:
And it’s not just the athletic department; large parts of the rest of the university are falling apart. And as a well-known book collector, this picture just breaks my heart:
Just budget cuts and the higher education bubble bursting? Maybe, but that doesn’t seem to explain everything. If I were Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal or Treasurer John Kennedy, I’d seriously consider auditing Grambling…
Tags:Bobby Jindal, education, fraud, Grambling, Louisiana, Media Watch
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Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Sometimes you see a troll attempt so shamelessly blatant that, like the ludicrous science in a Sy Fy channel movie, you can’t help but laugh at the obvious, naked stupidity.
Today’s example of trolling comes from that renowned redoubt of Euroleftisms, The Guardian:
“American gun use is out of control. Shouldn’t the world intervene?”
One can only smile at the image of wave after wave of UN troops, each bearing ammo cans laden with Strongly Worded Letters, landing on America’s shores to liberate their oppressed liberal brethren.
The article itself is the usual insular ruling-class assumption of Absolute Righteousness on the part of the far left agenda and the simultaneous assumption of Evil Incarnate on the part of their political opponents.
In the comments, a few worthies like Clayton Cramer have undertaken debunking some of its more obvious idiocies, but this is really a piece that need only be labeled with the “Maximum Trolling” tag and then ignored.
Tags:Clayton E. Cramer, Guns, Media Watch, The Guardian
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Thursday, September 19th, 2013
Texas Governor Rick Perry appeared on Crossfire yesterday, and by all reports he got the better of Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley.
Though not all of the episode appears to be on YouTube yet, you can judge for yourself based on what is available.
Some fact checking here.
Tags:Crossfire, Economics, Martin O’Malley, Maryland, Media Watch, ObamaCare, Rick Perry, Texas
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Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
Via Dwight comes a link to this Jonathan Chait piece in New York magazine. Which contained this gem of prevarication:
Bloomberg’s health crusade is so unusual because it embraces a political mode usually associated with the right. Conservatives favor regulation of vice and personal behavior, especially related to sex, because they believe that the state has a legitimate role in shaping the culture. Traditional social values, they believe, undergird stable families and a well-functioning community. Liberals traditionally want to remove the government from regulating personal behavior and to deploy it only in the economic realm.
That quote might have had some nodding relationship to reality in, oh, 1980 or so. But it’s certainly not conservatives who have been pushing to:
Ban civilian firearms ownership
Increase tobacco taxes
Ban incandescent light bulbs
Force Catholics to pay for abortions
Ban “high flow” toilets
Ban “hate speech”
Ban plastic bags
Ban transfats
Ban crosses and managers on public land
Ban liquor stores in black neighborhoods
Ban talk radio
Ban government use of the word “Christmas”
Ban SUVs, or any other vehicle that get insufficiently “virtuous” gas mileage
Ban genetically modified foods
Ban foie gras
And don’t forget that the “War on Drugs” was an extremely bipartisan affair, with Hubert Humphrey, Joe Biden and Tip O’Neil all among its enthusiastic backers.
Etc.
This poster makes many of the same points:
The idea that modern (as opposed to classical) liberals “want to remove the government from regulating personal behavior” is a naked, vainglorious, self-flattering lie on Chait’s part, and only someone living in the coastal Liberal Reality Bubble could possibly type it with a straight face.
Tags:Democrats, Jonathan Chait, Media Watch, Nanny State, Regulation
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