No Mentions of Conservatives/GOP in Networks’ Coverage of Latest ObamaCare ‘Fix’
ABC, CBS, and NBC all devoted air time to the Obama administration’s latest “fix for the botched health care rollout” on their Friday morning newscasts, but failed to include any conservative or Republican reaction to this development. Good Morning America minimized their coverage, airing just two news briefs on “the White House offering relief now for people who lost their health insurance because it didn’t meet standards required by the…health care law.” Today and CBS This Morning both spotlighted the insurance industry’s worries over this change, but didn’t get around to the possible political fallout over the White House announcement. Guthrie only vaguely asserted how the “fix” might be “more ammunition for the critics of the law.”
MSNBC’s Hayes: GOPers ‘Screwing Over’ People, View ‘Poverty as Punishment’
On Thursday’s All In show, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes repeatedly used words like “screwing over” to describe Republican policies toward the poor, and claimed that Tea Partiers in Congress believe in “poverty as punishment” as he fretted over a delay in the extension of unemployment benefits and then hyped Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston’s suggestion that school children do chores in exchange for subsidized lunches. After characterizing recent statements by congressional Republicans as being like immaturely declaring, “Yeah, and your mother,” the MSNBC host a bit later whined: “So Republicans leave 2013 impotent and neutered. But even though their bullying and hectoring is mostly false, it doesn’t mean they don’t still have the power to kick people who are down. They can’t make the White House do what they want it to do, but the one thing they can do, the one thing they are successful at doing, the thing that they deliver reliably is screwing over poor and working people.”
MSNBC’s Taylor Invents ‘Hypocrisy’ Charge Over GOP Views on Duck Dynasty Vs. ObamaCare
On Thursday’s PoliticsNation, MSNBC political analyst Goldie Taylor ludicrously saw “hypocrisy” in Republicans speaking out against A&E possibly firing Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson while opposing ObamaCare’s contraception mandate as she failed to note that ObamaCare, as opposed to the Duck Dynasty controversy, is an issue of forcing employers by law to obey the government in spite of religious objections. Without providing any quotes as evidence, she accused conservatives of making Phil Robertson’s employment with A&E into a First Amendment issue, and then failed to note that ObamaCare actually does involve the First Amendment, and went on to make a lame joke quoting Gomer Pyle from the television show Gomer Pyle, USMC.
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