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Mark Levin: Obama 'Biggest Disaster in Modern American History
February 28th, 2010 5:18 PM
At last there appears to be a president worse than Jimmy Carter - at least according to conservative talk show host Mark Levin. That was the question host Don Imus asked Levin on the Fox Business Network's "Imus in the Morning." "So the President Obama, worse than Jimmy Carter?" "Worse than Jimmy Carter? I mean they're not mutually exclusive, they're both disasters," Levin replied, citing…
Stossel Exposes Cali's Lavish Public Sector Pensions
February 27th, 2010 6:47 PM
The past several decades, Americans have seen the disaster unionism has wrought on Detroit's Big Three. The auto-makers, saddled with powerful unions, fell victim to a combination of labor inefficiency and premium worker pay that proved unsustainable. And while much of the rest of the private sector long ago realized the sots, government apparently has not. So, for the first time in history,…
Cato Scholar: Private Accounts the Only Answer on Social Security, Pen
February 25th, 2010 10:32 AM
Americans have been so bombarded with the word "crisis," it appears to have lost all meaning. But according to a distinguished scholar at the Cato Institute, there is a real, serious crisis pending in America's addiction to entitlement programs, government-dependence, and imaginary "rights" to live off future generations. "You will have to look into the future, do the responsible thing, and…
Gasparino: 'It is My Job to Turn This Into a Barroom Brawl' with CNBC
February 22nd, 2010 5:58 PM
A little competition is good for consumers, right? If that's the case, it looks promising for consumers of cable business news. Former CNBC on-air-editor, now the senior contributor for the Fox Business Network, Charles Gasparino vows to provide just that. Gasparino appeared on the Feb. 22 broadcast of FBN's "Imus in the Morning" and explained why he made the move. "I always wanted to work…
Begala: 'Republicans Want Insurance Companies to Have the Right to Dum
February 10th, 2010 7:24 PM
There's really little opportunity for the spirit of bipartisanship to exist when you have a part-time operative for the Obama administration/cable network political commentator throwing bombs about the GOP for not catering to the Obama administration's wishes on health care reform. CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist Paul Begala bashed the opposition on Fox Business Channel's Feb…
AccuWeather's Bastardi Warns New Federal Climate Service Effort to 'Sh
February 10th, 2010 1:45 PM
Time after time, the Obama White House has demonstrated a desire to control the message and flow of information, whether it's issues on health care, the economy, bailouts and the latest - climate science. With cap-and-trade legislation waiting in the wings that would come at an estimated cost of up to $200 billion, or $1,761 per household, according to the Treasury Department, the federal…
CBS's Reid Rips Obama's Anti-Wall Street Populism: 'Sounds More Like P
January 25th, 2010 3:09 PM
Is the luster finally wearing off the love affair between the White House press corps and President Barack Obama? It is, if CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid's analysis of President Barack Obama's latest Wall Street proposals is anything to go by. Reid appeared on the Fox Business Network's Jan. 25 "Imus in the Morning" program and offered an update on the president's financial and…
Fox News' Wallace on White House Effort to Spin Brown Victory: 'I Have
January 21st, 2010 5:22 PM
Since Republican Scott Brown won the special election Jan 19 to fill Massachusetts' U.S. Senate seat vacated after the death of Ted Kennedy, President Barack Obama and high-level White House staffers David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs have been on the media circuit in damage control mode. But according to "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, efforts to spin this in a positive way are futile.…
Fox Business Host Stuart Varney: Obama's Losing 'Ally' Warren Buffett
January 21st, 2010 2:43 PM
Liberal billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been very popular among the news media, but that might not hold if Buffett continues to dissent from President Barack Obama. On Jan. 20, Bloomberg reported that Buffett opposed Obama's proposal to tax a number of large banks supposedly to pay for losses from the bank bailout. "I don't see any reason why they should be paying a special tax," said…
Former BB&T CEO: Current Policies Will Push U.S. to be a Third-World C
January 9th, 2010 12:36 AM
While countries like China, Brazil and India are on the path to ascendency, the United States appears to be heading in the opposite direction, according to the former CEO of a major U.S. bank. In a segment on the Jan. 7 broadcast of the Fox Business Channel's "Stossel," John Allison, the former CEO of North Carolina-based BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT), the 10th largest bank in the United…
Stossel & Mackey Blame Govt for High Health Care Prices, People Die Wa
December 20th, 2009 4:41 PM
On Thursday’s Stossel show on Fox Business Network, host John Stossel got to do the kind of show he was not able to do earlier this year when he was at ABC, as he devoted an entire show to the debate over access to health care, and gave attention to the market-based plan utilized by most employees of Whole Foods, which uses health savings accounts and encourages employees to shop around for…
Angry Environmentalist Assaults Warming Skeptic in Copenhagen
December 17th, 2009 4:24 PM
Filmmaker and noted global warming skeptic Phelim McAleer yesterday experienced first hand the disdain for a free press some Copenhagen attendees exhibit during an interview with Fox Business Channel's Neil Cavuto. Dressed in a polar bear costume with a sign inquiring as to the whereabouts of controversial climate scientist Phil Jones, McAleer was forced to raise his voice above the shouting…
Kurtz Bashes Stossel: Partisan Person Goes To Partisan Network To Do P
December 13th, 2009 6:29 PM
Howard Kurtz must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed Sunday, for his "Reliable Sources" review of John Stossel's new Fox Business Network show was uncharacteristically way off base.After presenting a cherry-picked video clip of Stossel talking about how he wished Nobel Laureate Al Gore would come on the program to debate man's role in global warming, Kurtz asked guest David Zurawik, "[D]…