Obama Blows His Presidency -- Top Ten Health Care Reforms He Won't Do
Obama is afraid to tell Americans that -- well, remember that old sign: "You can have it cheaper, better, and more of it -- but not all at the same time."
Obama is afraid to tell Americans that -- well, remember that old sign: "You can have it cheaper, better, and more of it -- but not all at the same time."
Think Progress | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Michael Steele has spent a lot of time in his short tenure as RNC Chairman railing against President Obama for what he perceives as the president's la...
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Predictably, as healthcare reform grows larger in the window, the claims from the far-right are becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous, topping, in some cases, the psychotic claims of, say, the Obama birthers.
Alex Leo | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
To be totally accurate it should probably read, "despite the fact that everyone blames the Internet for the demise of newspapers it's really people like me that instill a serious distrust of the media in the American psyche."
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.11.2009 | Living
Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.
Dave Hackel | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
Taking someone's words and rearranging them to tell a completely different story is wrong. It's not journalism, reporting or even commentary. It's lying. So why isn't this front page news?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
Seems like only yesterday I was talking about the way Sean Hannity cooks up some news, for his teevee show. It goes a little something like this: 1...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Whenever President Barack Obama goes abroad, cameras follow him, and record the things he says to people. Just as often, it seems, Fox's Sean Hannity...
Samantha Marshall | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York
In a media capital like New York, we're obsessed, and a little suspicious of anyone whose views don't line up on the side of political correctness. But, south of the Mason-Dixon line, other priorities loom large.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Right-wing talk radio firebrand Mark Levin was a guest on Sean Hannity's self-titled Fox News show and unleashed a diatribe against President Obama. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Yesterday, Al Franken, after a protracted Hundred Years War with Norm Coleman that played out in front of every legal body in the state of Minnesota, ...
Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
"Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer responded to accusations that ABC News will pander to the Obama administration in an upcoming primetime ...
Eric Alterman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.
Tom Gerdy | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
I am proposing a tax on the self proclaimed political pundits. Skewed and twisted "news" reporting has taken over our airwaves.
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
Reposted from http://www.commondreams.org on June 9, 2009: Although it has been several weeks since Keith Olbermann has used his MSNBC show as a pla...
Dave Hackel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
Karl Rove never designed anything other than a way to help elect George Bush and Dick Cheney. He should be ashamed to show his face in public but, of course, that's why Fox loves him.
John Milewski | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
Attacking Sean Hannity while ignoring management and ownership is the media equivalent of blaming the grunts at Abu Ghraib while ignoring the generals at the Pentagon.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
The right-wing attack machine is in high-gear, throwing all sorts of inflammatory rhetoric around like it was the '08 campaign all over again.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Fix News host Sean Hannity only devoted one sentence to discussing the shooting at the Holocaust Museum on his program this week, Media Matters report...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.13.2009 | Comedy
We have obtained exclusive footage of Carrie talking about that very subject with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. Take a look.
Karl Frisch | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
In the wake of these attacks, it shouldn't be too much to ask that the DHS report be taken seriously rather than used to score political points.
Robert D. Patterson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
I really wanted to help them understand that despite the positive changes in the current political landscape, they will need to be prepared for the inevitable backlash.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy
Researchers seem confident that by finding the exact region of the human brain that leads to becoming an important and respected member of the Republican party that it will be possible to isolate and ultimately eradicate the condition.
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics