The “journalists” at the major broadsheets, networks, and wire services have now become indistinguishable from the psychiatric patients posting anti-Palin rants at the Daily Kos. As Michelle Malkin puts it:
Echoing the bottom-feeders in the liberal blogosphere, mainstream journalists and Obama water-carriers now question Palin’s commitment to motherhood and even challenge her prenatal care decisions in an […]
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Posted 03 September 2008
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As I have noted before, I have a rule of thumb that has served me well in assessing public figures and policy ideas: Anyone or anything Paul Krugman dislikes can’t be all bad.
So, when I saw that Krugman had trashed John Goodman about a (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek post he had written about abolishing the term “uninsured,” I knew Goodman must have made […]
The Democrats have cobbled together their 2008 platform and it is a predictable mixture of bad ideas and promises they can’t possibly keep. This second category is well represented by the health care plank.
In fact, the very title of the health care section, “Affordable, Quality Health Care Coverage for All Americans,” implicitly promises a combination that no one […]
What is it about the “news” media that prevents them from producing honest coverage of health care issues? Are all editors and producers congenitally incapable of telling the truth?
I was inspired to ask this question by the articles I have read in the last 24 hours about the latest health care survey from the Commonwealth Fund. Here’s a sample:
The non-profit […]
Last week, at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, one of John McCain’s health care advisors (Al Hubbard) pointed out the following:
When a third-party pays for a service or product—we consume it as if it was free…It’s interesting, if you would think about, the employers rather than providing health care […]
As I have pointed out many times, a good deal of BS appears in the “news” media relating to health care. Few articles, however, reach the level of irresponsibility achieved yesterday in Slate:
Imagine you run a hospital. There are two competing sources for inpatient beds. The first source is patients who come in through direct and transfer […]
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Posted 25 July 2008
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Ever wonder why Lefties have such difficulty absorbing and correctly interpreting objective data? Well, Ezra Klein inadvertantly provides a hint in his latest piece on Romneycare, which begins thus:
Everyone who looks at the Massachusetts health reform plan sees what they want to see.
What we have here, of course, is a textbook case of projection. It isn’t “everyone” who […]
A personality trait common among progressives is an inability to admit it when they have been wrong. This is what causes them to doggedly defend favorite programs long after they have been shown to be miserable failures. A case in point is the latest NYT editorial about the 2006 Massachusetts universal health care initiative:
Massachusetts’s pioneering plan to provide universal health coverage […]
Tim Russert was one of the few broadcast journalists for whom I had respect. He was not afraid to ask real questions and insist on actual answers.
I was looking forward to seeing him force Barack Obama to abandon the windy bromides and actually say something of substance.
C’est la vie.
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Posted 13 June 2008
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As I have previously noted, the “news” media are doing their best to create the impression that the U.S. economy is going to Hell in a handbasket and that Americans in general are in bad shape.
This theme is echoed in the rhetoric of the leading presidential candidates, each of whom would like to convince the electorate that our […]
