Obama to press: Obamacare website failures aren't news anymore...

Marching orders...

Via The Hill:

President Obama expressed the White House’s frustration with news coverage of the Affordable Care Act’s rocky rollout by taking a jab at the press on Tuesday.
During his ObamaCare enrollment victory lap speech in the Rose Garden, the president swiped at reporters, who the White House believes were too eager to spotlight every incremental development associated with the site’s botched launch.
“I want to make sure everybody understands – in the months, years ahead, I guarantee you there will be additional challenges to implementing this law,” Obama said. “There will be days when the website stumbles. I guarantee it. So – press, I want you to anticipate there will be some moment when the website is down and I know it will be on all your front pages. It’s going to happen. It won’t be news.”
Obama cracked a smile during the remark, and Vice President Biden, standing behind the president, laughed as well.
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Unbelievable: Piers Morgan claim he is not part of the liberal media...

Via Red Alert Politics:

English import and gun control advocate Piers Morgan claimed during his television show Sunday night that he is in fact not part of the liberal media.

During a discussion with political commentator and author Margaret Hoover about NRA President Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech, Morgan claimed to not belong on either side of the political aisle. LaPierre speech touched on protecting Second Amendment rights for women to own and carry guns.

“I agree [LaPierre's] rhetoric is inflammatory, and sure, he’s talking to you, the liberal media,” Hoover said on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.”

Morgan rejected the label, stating, “I’m not saying I’m the liberal media. I don’t park myself in liberal or right-wing at all. I can’t even vote for a horse in the race.”

He clearly doesn’t understand that having a political point of view has nothing to do with voting.

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Gallop: 8 percent of Americans say they have a “great deal” of trust in the news media

Trust in the news media is at a record low. 

Via CNS News:

Only 8 percent of Americans say they have a “great deal” of trust in the news media, according to a new Gallup poll.

That is down from 11 percent a year ago and is a record low for the 40 years that Gallup has been polling on the question.

Shocking: George Stephanopoulos claims there is no liberal media bias

Is he clueless or a liar?

John Sununu to Soledad O’Brien: “Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this,”

Soledad O’Brien probably has Obama's campaign logo tattooed in a discreet location...

Via Mediaite:

“I have the Congressional Budget Office Budget report right here,” Sununu said, waving it on camera. “Go read page 13 and 14.”

“I can tell you what it says, yes,” said O’Brien. “It cuts a reduction in the expected rate of growth, which you know. Not cutting benefits to the elderly. Benefits will be improved. The focus is on hospitals. The focus is on health insurance.”

“He gutted the program by $711 million [sic],” said Sununu of Obama. “And the fact is he reduces services to Medicare beneficiaries currently on the package. What the difference is, is that Romney says no impact to anybody 55 or over. It is clear in here that the reduction in services start on January 1, 2013 and Obama stole that money to put it into programs under Obamacare…”

“The hospitals agreed to that,” O’Brien countered. “The drug providers agreed to that because their theory is that what they’re going to be able to do is make up by the number of people who come into the system. It doesn’t reduce or cut the benefits. Right….”

“Soledad, stop this!” said Sununu. “All you’re doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there….”

“I’m telling you what FactCheck.com tells you,” she insisted. “I’m telling you what the CBO tells you. I’m telling you what CNN’s independent analysis does.”

“Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this,” Sununu shot back.

Video: CNN's Candy Crowley Says, 'Usually You Kind of Give the President a Pass on Leaking Confidential Stuff'

Would Crowley have given George W. Bush a pass on leaking classified material?

Via NewsBusters:

Shocker: Liberal Media Finds Liberal Media is Less Biased Than FOX News

Whodathunkit! Liberals in the media have analyzed MSNBC and FOX News and found MSNBC is less liberal than FOX is conservative.

Those who cover media and follow television news contend that Fox News has a clearer political bent than MSNBC, strong ties to the Republican party, and a clear conflict with the paid employment of at least five potential GOP presidential candidates...

"Intellectually, are they more honest than Fox, I think they are," Eric Deggans, media critic for the St. Petersburg Times, said of MSNBC. "I saw that Fox was more consistent in reflecting a right wing tilt than MSNBC was in reflecting a liberal tilt. I think Fox is much more evolved in what it does than MSNBC does, in reflecting a political bent, it being right-wing."

The use of the term "Intellectually Honest" in a sentence about MSNBC is absolutely astounding. I doubt the liberals making this analysis have ever turned FOX News on.

AP Puts Lipstick on Housing Market Pig

Here is an excerpt from the AP story. (accent is mine)

AP reported:

U.S. homebuilders battered by the worst summer for home sales in a decade are already looking ahead to spring, saying they feel somewhat more optimistic about the prospect for an uptick in sales.

The National Association of Home Builders said Tuesday its monthly index of builders' sentiment edged up in November to 16, the highest reading since June.

Here is a table of the Housing Market Index (HMI) for the last 25 years.

Via NewsBusters:

How anyone can look at that chart and feel in anyway optimistic the housing market has entered an upturn is beyond me.

Tom Blumer over at NewsBusters opined:

The AP's Veiga "somehow" forgot to tell readers that the NAHB's "highest since June" reading was really "the same as June." In historical context, saying something good about October's result is like getting excited when an 0-12 NFL team finally wins a game -- in overtime, because the refs blew a call that cost the other team the game.

IPCC Urges Climate Scientists to Avoid Those Embarrassing Questions About Why Global Warming Has Stopped

What do you do when you are a global warming proponent and the Earth stopped warming in 2002? The IPCC recommends their researchers should avoid the media. Let us hope Al Gore takes this advice.

The NT Times reported:

Andy Revkin reports at Dot Earth that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, faulted in the past for a siege mentality, has urged its participating researchers to “keep a distance from the media” and send any press questions about their group work to supervisors.

The Oil Spill Concealment Has Begun

Oil is still gushing from the exploded Deep Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no foolproof plan to stop the leak until mid-August when the relief wells are complete. BP is capturing about half of the leaking oil. They are planning to connect new equipment this weekend which they claim will increase the capture rate. BP's past claims haven't always proven out. The Gulf oil spill has been a PR nightmare for President Obama. A majority of Americans rate Obama's handling of the disaster the same or worse than Bush's handling of hurricane Katrina. Some pundits are claiming it could be his "Waterloo." After first trying to use the oil spill disaster for political purposes to push Cap and Trade, President Obama has decided to keep the oil spill off the front page. One part of his plan is to give the media something else to focus on. Thursday, President Obama tried to change the topic by kicking off his controversial immigration reform plan in a speech. Next, he needs to restrict coverage of the disaster. Obama's democratic allies in the House blocked a trip by Republican lawmakers to see the damage caused by BP’s oil spill in person. Then, President Obama's point man for the disaster, U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, has restricted media access to view the oil spill clean-up and damage.

Anderson Cooper reports for CNN on the restrictive new Coast Guard rules.


Problem solved.

Voters Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Big Money

The blatant media bias for Barack Obama in the 2008 election has opened voters eyes. Fifty-five percent (55%)of voters think media bias is a bigger problem than big campaign contributions. Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters recognized the mainstream media was trying to get Barack Obama elected in 2008. Only seven (7%) percent thought the media was trying to elect John McCain.

Rasmussen reported:

Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters continue to think that media bias is a bigger problem in politics today than big campaign contributions, identical to the finding in August 2008.

Can You Hear Us Now? (video)

Protesters converged on media outlets in dozens of U.S. cities yesterday and today for Operation "Can you hear us now?" They were protesting media bias. Here is a video from the protest in Chicago outside the studios of ABC News and CBS News.

Even Liberal Reporters Realize WH is Controlling the Media(video)

This is hilarious. CBS’s Chip Reid presses White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs for prepackaging events and not allowing open questioning at the planned town hall health care meeting. Then, Helen Thomas said, "I’m amazed that you people … call for openness and transparency.” Then, she brought up the prearranged Huffington Post question. Gibbs danced and said, "we have had this discussion ad nauseam." Thomas replied, "because you don't have any answers."

From NewsBusters:

Is the press corps starting to tire of the Obama Administration?

At a press conference today, Helen Thomas and CBS’s Chip Reid got into it with Robert Gibbs over how the administration has been prepackaging media events.

First Reid asked why the questions for Wednesday’s town hall on healthcare were being preselected. After Gibbs tried to dodge that question a few times, Thomas became involved, saying, “We have never had that in the White House. I’m amazed that you people … call for openness and transparency.”

Thomas said that the administration was trying to control the media, and she pointed out how they coordinated questions with the Huffington Post at a press conference.