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Betsy Mccaughey

Why Some Elites Never Have to Say They're Sorry

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey, Evan Thomas, Tom Friedman, Andrew Sullivan, Lawrence Summers, Living News
Jonathan Weiler

It's sign of a corrupt political/intellectual culture that being wrong in highly consequential ways appears to have no bearing on your implicit moral standing to propound in weighty terms on the crucial issues of the day.

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Dickipedia: Betsy McCaughey

Dickipedia/HuffPost Comedy | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey Health Care, Betsy McCaughey Dickipedia, Betsy Mccaughey, Dickipedia, Dickipedia Betsy McCaughey, Betsy McCaughey Public Option, Comedy News

Betsy McCaughey is the former Lieutenant Governor of New York, a former member of the Cantel Medical Corporation, a former teller of the truth, and a ...

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Jason Linkins

Andrew Sullivan's McCaughey Mea Culpa Hints At Internal Struggle At The New Republic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Marty Peretz, Betsy Mccaughey, Andrew Sullivan, Media Criticism, Andrew Sullivan McCaughey, The Atlantic McCaughey, Media News

Speaking of Betsy McCaughey, her return to the spotlight has prompted a second round of mea culpas from The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, who was the ed...

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Jason Linkins

Betsy McCaughey Media Obsession: What's The Point?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Betsy Mccaughey, Dylan Ratigan, Jon Stewart, Media Criticism, Media News

Columbia Journalism Review's Greg Marx will have to be a little bit more specific on what "concerns" of mine he feels I am "overstating," but beyond t...

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Weiner Battles McCaughey In Explosive Health Care Debate

Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Anthony Weiner, Weiner McCaughey Square-Off, Health Care Debate, Betsy Mccaughey, Anthony Weiner Health Care, Health Care Reform, Weiner McCaughey Health Argument, Medicare, Health Care Legislation, Betsy Mccaughey Health Care, Politics News

If you like partisan combat, the New York University/Langone Medical Center in Manhattan was the place to be Monday night. Betsy McCaughey, former lie...

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Jason Linkins

Betsy McCaughey, Dylan Ratigan Spar Over Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Video, Dylan Ratigan, Betsy Mccaughey, Anthony Weiner, Betsy McCaughey Anthony Weiner, McCaughey Weiner Ratigan, Media News

Betsy McCaughey is a famous liar whom the media keep inviting on their programs to continue to lie about health care, instead of banishing her to some...

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Obama's Top Health Care Opponent: No PhD In Medicine, No Scholarly Articles On Health Care

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey Infection, Betsy Mccaughey, Death Panels, Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, Betsy Mccaughey Health Care, Mccaughey, Politics News

The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg has profiled Betsy McCaughey, trying to square the one-time Republican official's work on infection deaths and in ac...

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Betsy McCaughey Death Panel

Jeff Danziger | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Political Cartoion, Dewath Panlel Damato, Betsy Mccaughey, Wilbur Ross, Political Cartoon, Pataki, Cartoon, Death Panel, New York News
Jeff Danziger

Horrors of the future! Betsy McCaughey goes before her own Death Panel!

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Kumbaya, Not Kevorkian, Will Kill Grandma

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey, Health Care Debate, Daily Show, Chuck Grassley, Jon Stewart, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Barack Obama, Media News
Marty Kaplan

I don't know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times' failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama's failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar.

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Jason Linkins

Betsy McCaughey's Ideas Called "Hyperbolic... Dangerous" By Jon Stewart (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey, Video, Jon Stewart, Death Panels, Health Care Reform, The Daily Show, Politics News

Betsy McCaughey is a famous liar who famously lied about the Clinton health care bill back in the 1990s, who has returned to lie just as famously in t...

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The Gorilla Dust of Health Care

Michael Winship | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Betsy Mccaughey, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, David Frum, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Bruce Bartlett, Town Hall Meetings, Sarah Palin, Health Care, Politics News
Michael Winship

What's interesting about the health care hullabaloo is that there appears to be an emerging backlash from some of the more reasoned thinkers of the conservative movement.

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An Open Memo to Progressives: Do Limbaugh, Dobbs, and Beck Represent Your Country?

Eric E. Burns | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey, Birthers, Dick Armey, Orly Taitz, Rush Limbaugh, Freedomworks, Lou Dobbs, Barack Obama, Media Matters, Sean Hannity, Nancy Pelosi, Jon Klein, Harry Reid, Fox News, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Media News
Eric E. Burns

No matter what progressive issue you pick, conservatives are working to turn it into nothing less than sedition, carried out by an illegal president. The conservative media is their megaphone.

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The Good News Beneath The Health Care Spin

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldier Suicide, Betsy Mccaughey, Froma Harrop, Dangerous Spin on Healthcare Reform, Spin Doctors, Featured Contributor, Bogus Military Contract Bonuses, What We Can Do, Seniors and Polar Bears, Questionable Diagnostic Codes, Sarah Palin, Health, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Here's the truth. I was headed for a vacation this week, to give my back some more corrective rest after the great train mishap last week. But, as th...

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On Health Reform, George F. Will Just Threw a Spitball

RJ Eskow | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Betsy Mccaughey, Kennedy Health Reform Bill, George F. Will, Elizabeth McCaughey, James Fallows, Health Reform, George Will, Mickey Kaus, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Will's column is a mashup of disparate declamations. As is often his style, he offers quotes that are very enjoyable, but only loosely related to the topic at hand.

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Jason Linkins

Keith Olbermann Traces "Anatomy Of A Smear" -- Bizarre Stimulus Attack (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Betsy Mccaughey, Marc Ambinder, Video, Cnn, Economic Stimulus Package, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Media News

Hopefully the next editor who holds a piece from Betsy McCaughey on health care will see it as the equivalent of Plaxico Burress penning an op-ed on clubwear, and file it in the closest cat litter box.

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