MSNBC.com Ups Ante in ObamaCare Cheerleading: 'This Website Might Just

December 3rd, 2013 6:35 PM
As my colleague Jeff Meyer noted earlier this afternoon, msnbc.com has been busy today boosting HealthCare.gov, insisting that the "bug" which made the website nearly inoperable in October and November was now fixed and everything was working just fine. Well now the landing page for the Lean Forward network is hailing HealthCare.gov as the "website [which] might just save your life." The…

MSNBC.com Proclaims HealthCare.gov's ‘Bug Killed,' Ignores Persisten

December 3rd, 2013 3:24 PM
The folks at MSNBC.com seem to be dutifully following their on-air counterparts in providing cover for the failed rollout of the HealthCare.gov website, even as sister network CNBC is reporting ongoing problems with the site. In a December 2 online piece, Sarah Muller, Senior Digital Producer for The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell, wrote a gushing pro-ObamaCare piece exulting that “Major…

MSNBC Hosts Share What They're Thankful For; Most Spout Lefty Talking

November 26th, 2013 2:54 PM
Leave it to MSNBC to see Thanksgiving as a time to be thankful for ObamaCare, Wendy Davis, same-sex marriage, and John Kerry hammering out an interim nuclear deal with Iran. "In a year where Congress’ approval rating has reached an all time low, an embattled President Obama faces the healthcare challenge that could define his legacy, and the timetable for US troops in Afghanistan remains…

Shorter MSNBC.com: It's Racist to Move a City Election to July

November 22nd, 2013 12:52 PM
In compliance with a new state law, Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia, is moving up the date for its nonpartisan elections from the month of November to July, when primary elections are held. Although such a move will synchronize the jurisdiction's non-partisan municipal election date with that of other counties in the Peach State, some Democrats are crying foul and playing the race card.…

MSNBC.com Takes Offense for Obama: Is Clinton 'Underminer-in-Chief', W

November 13th, 2013 6:47 PM
"[Former president] Clinton did President Obama no favors this week when he endorsed a growing push on Capitol Hill to modify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in order to allow people to keep their existing individual health insurance policies if they want to," MSNBC.com's Zachary Roth lamented in his November 13 story, "What's Bill Clinton up to on Obamacare?" The teaser on the MSNBC.com main…

Understatement of the Year; MSNBC.com Headline: 'Obamacare Sign Ups Fa

November 12th, 2013 5:09 PM
Thus far, at best, ObamaCare has achieved just 10 percent of the Obama administration's 500,000 new-users goal for the first month of the rollout of the health care overhaul. Significantly more people have signed up for taxpayer-funded Medicaid, but that doesn't do a lick of good for the private health insurance pools offered on the federal exchanges. Not even MSNBC.com can ignore such a…

MSNBC.com Spins October Job Numbers for Obama; Ignores New Low in Fema

November 8th, 2013 4:00 PM
Women's participation in the workforce is at a new Obama-term low -- 56.9 percent -- according to the October unemployment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today. What's more, Ali Meyer of NewsBusters sister site CNSNews.com noted today, "the number of women holding jobs declined by 357,000 from September to October, and the unemployment rate increased for women from 6.7…

Despite Smooth Texas Election, MSNBC Insists There's 'Trouble on the H

November 7th, 2013 4:13 PM
The first election cycle in the Lone Star State with a photo ID mandate went off without a hitch on Tuesday. In fact, voter turnout was up 66 percent over the last comparable election cycle in 2011, according to the Texas Secretary of State's office. But that has done nothing to stop MSNBC's fear-mongering as the network's Zachary Roth hacked out a piece ominously warning in the headline, "…

MSNBC.com Contributor Hails Abortion As Act of 'Mercy

October 31st, 2013 5:20 PM
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" -- Isaiah 5:20 Forget zombies, vampires, and the other assorted imaginary embodiments of evil. This Halloween the most sickening, skin-crawling, and frighteningly real evil you can come across is just a click away for you at MSNBC.com, where…

MSNBC.com Pushes Wendy Davis’ Strategy to Become Texas Governor

October 31st, 2013 12:17 PM
Ever since Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) engaged in an 13-hour filibuster to protest new abortion safety measures, the folks at MSNBC have taken it upon themselves to act as her unofficial campaign for governor. Apart from the numerous on-air segments pushing Ms. Davis’ candidacy, the new MSNBC.com website has followed suit in a new puff piece entitled “How Wendy Davis can win…

MSNBC.com Spins: Obama's 'You Can Keep It' Lie Merely a Passing 'Polit

October 30th, 2013 1:30 PM
President Obama's lie that folks who like their insurance plans could keep them is merely a "political mess," MSNBC.com's Geoffrey Cowley is insisting. After all, "consumers still stand to benefit from the new rules" governing the health care industry." [see screen capture following page break] "For a president who has spent five years fighting for health care reform, this should be a…

MSNBC.com: 'Left Burned in Obamacare Rollout'; Was 'Punch in the Gut

October 23rd, 2013 4:03 PM
On the air, MSNBC is doing its best to level some criticism of the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare but to principally deflect blame to, who else, Republicans. But the Lean Forward network's website today actually published an item headlined, "Left burned in Obamacare rollout." "President Obama might have said on Monday that 'no one is more frustrated' than he is about the messy launch of his…

MSNBC.com Declares ObamaCare to be 'The Ultimate Survivor

October 18th, 2013 1:13 PM
ObamaCare is "the ultimate survivor," exults a headline at the newly-redesigned MSNBC.com website today. But the article actually teased by that headline -- "The challenges facing Obamacare" -- went at lengths to detail challenges facing the implementation of President Obama's signature health-care overhaul and to, what else, blame Republicans for anything that is already or may proceed to go…

MSNBC's Facebook Page Celebrated Voter Registration Day with Image of

September 26th, 2013 2:15 PM
Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day. MSNBC social media editors marked the occasion with a Facebook post inquiring, "Have you registered to vote yet?" But for the stock image to accompany the post, editors chose to show a clipboard with an Organizing for America flier which reads, "Register to Vote Here" and bears the O-shaped Obama logo in the top left-hand corner [see screen capture…