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MRC Study: ABC, CBS and NBC Cast GOP as Debt Ceiling Villains

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:25:00 +0000

By a Three-to-One Margin, Network News Stories Say Republicans Deserve More Blame than Democrats for Debt Impasse

Rich Noyes

Geoffrey Dickens

On Election Day 2010, then-CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith posed a hypothetical question about newly-elected Republicans to Ann Coulter: "There'll be a routine vote, for instance, to increase the debt ceiling and the Tea Party guys are going to say, 'Over my dead body,' and the government comes to a screeching halt.

Krugman Crowns Alan Simpson the Epitome of Evil, Fears for American 'Blood Bath'

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Paul Krugman's taking opposition to deficit spending quite hard: "It's hard to see how this situation is resolved without a major crisis of some kind. [Former Sen. Alan] Simpson may or may not get the blood bath he craves this April, but there will be blood sooner or later. And we can only hope that the nation that emerges from that blood bath is still one we recognize."

Clay Waters

Paul Krugman's Monday column "There Will Be Blood," is the #1 most emailed story on the New York Times website as of Tuesday afternoon, and one can see its appeal to the paper's liberal readership.

Krugman took hysterical objection to a metaphor employed by retired Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, who has made bits of colorful phrases his stock and trade. Simpson said:

Calmes Again Puts Onus for Deficit Reduction on Minority-Party GOP

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:49:00 +0000

Yeah! Retired Republican Senator Alan Simpson set "to challenge the party's antitax orthodoxy" according to reporter Jackie Calmes.

Clay Waters

In a Thursday profile, reporter Jackie Calmes relished the anti-conservative verbal railleries of retired Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, the Republican co-chairman on Obama's politically inspired bipartisan commission to tackle the burgeoning national debt: "Republican Deficit Hawk Returns, Much to His Party's Dismay."

Wishful Thinking on Obama-Care and Alan Simpson, Undeniable Conservative

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:18:00 +0000

Hopeful on health care? Reporter David Kirkpatrick on the Times' latest "Political Points" podcast: "And if they capture Osama bin Laden we might actually get a health-care bill this year."

Clay Waters

Sam Roberts and David Kirkpatrick were joined by White House correspondent Peter Baker and Washington reporter Jackie Calmes on the Times' latest "Political Points" podcast on Thursday.

A discussion seven minutes from the end on the recent capture in Pakistan of Taliban chief Mullah Barader morphed into what sounded like wishful thinking that the Democrats would pass some form of Obama-care this year: