Tag: Jon Stewart

Fox News Makes Fools Out Of MSM Again

Filed in National by on November 11, 2009 8 Comments

One story that the MSM has been very enamored of this year is the Obama administration vs. Fox News. The administration (rightly IMO) has accused Fox of being biased. The MSM has circled the wagons in defending Fox and going as far as saying Fox = MSNBC (someone please remind me at what time Fox […]

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Actions Have Consequences?

Filed in National by on August 21, 2009 1 Comment

Betsy McCaughey, last seen being dismantled by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, has “resigned” from the position with medical device company Cantel. Dick Armey was forced out of his lobbying shop, and now opposition to health care reform has taken a professional toll on another critic: A New Jersey medical device company, Cantel, just […]

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Jon Stewart Rips Apart Health Care Misinformer

Filed in National by on August 21, 2009 18 Comments

I don’t know how many of you know who Betsy McCaughey is, but she is very influential in Republican health care politics: Back in the early 1990’s, Betsy McCaughey wrote “No Exit,” an article for The New Republic on the Clinton administration’s healthcare reform plan. The piece was filled with falsehoods — so many, in […]

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Jon Stewart Destroys Bill Kristol On Healthcare

Filed in National by on July 28, 2009 8 Comments

Jon Stewart gets Bill Kristol to admit the the VA system is an exceptional healthcare system but that the rest of Americans don’t deserve it. Kristol gets caught up in the typical GOP talking point trap of “government run healthcare is really awful but it’s so good that private insurance can’t compete.” Republicans are just incoherent on this issue. At least he wasn’t repeating the Faux News talking point that Barack Obama wants to kill your grandmother.

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