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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Falsehood, schmalsehood: Post's Cohen reports "Grandpa's" claim about Clinton and hedge funds |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 3:14 pm |
| Tags: 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton |
| workers. Hillary's economic vision focuses on shared prosperity in the face of rising economic inequality in our country. A key element of her economic agenda is tax fairness that rewards work, not just wealth. Speaking at a rally in Keene, New Hampshire, on her Ready for Change, Ready to Lead tour, Clinton said that the |
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| Matthews can't believe that public favors Dems on fiscal issues |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 8:26 pm |
| Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, Msnbc, Economic Issues, Economy, Taxes |
| Democrats on fiscal policy issues, even as polling showed that he was wrong. With this latest poll, he conceded that the public does not in fact favor Republicans over Democrats on issues of fiscal policy, but took the position that the public is simply wrong. Matthews provided no support for the position that Republicans are in fact |
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| Discussing what public wants in health care, Luntz left out top priority |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 6:53 pm |
| Tags: Frank Luntz, Sean Hannity, Fox News Channel, Hannity Amp Colmes, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care |
| On the August 7 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity answered Alan Colmes' question, "Most people want national health care. Don't they?" with a flat "No." Colmes said he wanted guest Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, to answer his question. Luntz did not answer whether the public wanted "national health care," |
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| Cavuto: "Karl Rove leaving: A loss for Wall Street?" |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 8:58 pm |
| Tags: Fox News Channel, Your World W Neil Cavuto, Economic Issues, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine |
| 9-11 you had $100 billion in economic losses. You lost a million jobs in the three months after 9-11, and those tax cuts made a difference. But we're not really going to miss him, because he's going to be running someone else's campaign. CAVUTO: Do you think so? I always wonder whether the draw of private-sector work, you |
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| Broder again claimed that Bush's predecessors "have enjoyed" fast-track authority |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 3:40 pm |
| Tags: The Washington Post, Economic Issues |
| In his August 12 nationally syndicated Washington Post column, on the "Free Trade Divide" between President Bush and Democrats, David Broder asserted: "The House leadership cavalierly denied his request for the kind of 'fast-track' negotiating authority that past presidents have enjoyed." Broder was discussing the refusal of Democrats |
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| USA Today editorial suggested Bush's Social Security plan would have defused "underfunding time bomb" |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 7:46 pm |
| Tags: Usa Today, Economic Issues, Social Security |
| In an August 14 editorial, USA Today falsely suggested that President Bush's proposal to "partially privatize Social Security" would have addressed the program's "underfunding time bomb, set to detonate in about a decade." The editorial was commenting on the "divisive legacy" of White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, who had |
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| Stossel report again failed to identify conservative expert, did not report WHO rankings of health systems |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 9:42 pm |
| Tags: John Stossel, Abc, Good Morning America, Economic Issues, Health Care |
| (how well people of varying economic status find that they are served by the health system); and the distribution of the health system's financial burden within the population (who pays the costs)." As Media Matters for America documented, this is not the first time Stossel has used a Manhattan Institute scholar without identifying |
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| In health-care special featuring mainly free-market advocates, Stossel endorsed Health Savings Accounts |
| Published: September 16, 2007, 5:27 pm |
| Tags: John Stossel, 20 20, Abc, Economic Issues, Health Care |
| On a special September 14 edition of ABC's 20/20, co-host John Stossel presented a one-hour report on "America's health care system," which Stossel said "most everyone agrees" is "a mess." During the program, he interviewed five advocates of free-market approaches to health care but only one advocate of increased |
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| ABCNews.com uncritically quoted Romney's attack on Clinton health plan |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 3:29 pm |
| Tags: Abc, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Media, Mitt Romney, Propaganda Noise Machine |
| A September 16 ABCNews.com article quoted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) then-unannounced health care policy at a campaign event in Iowa, saying: "The last thing we need is Hillarycare," and, "The last thing we need is socialized medicine." The article did not note, |
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| Blitzer didn't note that "weird" 1994 chart purportedly of Clinton health plan was GOP creation |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 3:53 pm |
| Tags: Wolf Blitzer, Cnn, The Situation Room, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care, Hillary Clinton |
| Discussing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) recently released health care plan on the September 17 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer said that the health care program proposed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 was "1,000 pages, if you remember, the detail, all the fine print the last time" and claimed that |
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| Special Report correspondent claimed Clinton would pay for health care plan by "repealing the Bush tax cuts" |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 2:51 pm |
| Tags: Fox News Channel, Special Report Brit Hume, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care, Hillary Clinton |
| On the September 17 edition of Fox News' Special Report, Fox News correspondent Steve Brown claimed that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) would pay for her health care plan, which would, according to Clinton, "make health care both universal and affordable for everyone," by "repealing the Bush tax cuts." Brown's report was |
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| Drudge's false headline on Clinton health care plan: "HEALTH INSURANCE PROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK" |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 7:37 pm |
| Tags: Matt Drudge, The Drudge Report, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care, Hillary Clinton |
| On September 18, the Drudge Report, the website of Internet gossip Matt Drudge, featured the lead headline "HEALTH INSURANCE PROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK" under a picture of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). However, the Associated Press article to which the headline linked did not report that Clinton's recently proposed health care |
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| Despite polling, Andrea Mitchell saw "general election" problem for Clinton on health care |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 7:23 pm |
| Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Nbc, Today Show, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care |
| While reporting on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) recently unveiled universal health-care proposal during the September 18 edition of NBC's Today, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell said that "the real problem for Clinton" may be "selling the plan in the general election campaign." As evidence, Mitchell |
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| Media air Romney attacks on Clinton health care plan without noting he signed a bill with similar requirements |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 5:14 pm |
| Tags: Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney |
| that's great," said MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, an early adviser to Romney on the healthcare reform law who has consulted with all the major Democratic presidential candidates. "We are the shot fired around the world again - there's a whole new movement in healthcare started by what we did here. And rather than |
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| The Hill reported Clinton's health care proposal "comes at a heavy price tag," failed to fully report her plan to pay for it |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 10:28 am |
| Tags: The Hill, 2008 Elections, Economic Issues, Government Elections, Health Care, Hillary Clinton |
| In a September 18 article in The Hill, reporter Sam Youngman described Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) recently proposed health care plan as "com[ing]" with "a heavy price tag complete with federal mandates and vague in some key areas," adding, "She estimated it would cost $110 billion per year." While Youngman quoted from a |
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