The president’s health care speech last night consisted of discredited canards bookended by emotional manipulation. Between his distortions, token gestures for opponents, and lengthy bouts of tongue-lashing, Barack Obama signaled he will continue pushing forward toward socialized medicine. However, it seems likely he will move incrementally through a final bill that will nationalize health care a … [Read more...]
Pulling the Trigger?
September 10, 2009 By Ben Johnson
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Olbermann Discovers 85 Percent of America
August 6, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Listening to Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC’s Countdown, is like is receiving multiple layers of anesthesia at the dentist: each inane phrase and assault on facts and logic he utters progressively numbs his viewer to the next. David Horowitz has noted Olbermann’s underwhelming evidence for “health care riots” at townhall meetings, as Democrats try to sell an unpopular plan to constituents who … [Read more...]
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