Monday, March 31, 2014
By Kyle Drennen, Mar. 31, 2014, Newsbusters
Appearing
on Monday's Today, NBC's chief White House correspondent and political
director Chuck Todd seized on ObamaCare hitting the six million sign-up mark by
the March 31 deadline, proclaiming: "So at a minimum, the importance of
hitting the six million....it means the law is unrepealable....It means that
it's here to stay." Todd made no mention of only 26% of Americans
supporting ObamaCare in a new poll.
[Listen to the audio
or watch the video after the jump]
Co-host
Matt Lauer accepted Todd's declaration and wondered about the political impact
of the health care law: "You can't repeal it, but does that mean seven
months down the road, as the midterm elections come around, that this will be
any less of an issue in terms of close races in congressional districts?"
Todd admitted: "No, I don't think – at this point, the law is so embedded
as sort of a – as a political negative for the Democrats and political negative
overall, that I don't think anything's going to change by November."
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By Jeffrey Meyer, Mar. 30, 2014, Newsbusters
ABC News Political Analyst and former Bush/Cheney advisor Matthew Dowd attempted to downplay the impact ObamaCare will have in the 2013-midterm elections. Appearing on This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos on March 30, Dowd asserted, “2014 is going to be about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives. It's not going to be about ObamaCare.”
Despite the bizarre prediction from the ABC analyst, conservative editor of "The Weekly Standard" Bill Kristol slapped down Dowd’s ridiculous claim and shot back that “I’m happy to have a referendum on ObamaCare… and will be good for Republicans.” See video below.
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Ronan Farrow |
By Jeff Duntez, Mar. 31, 2014, truthrevolt.org
The NY Daily News is reporting
that Ronan Farrow’s new MSNBC talk show is facing cancellation
because of poor ratings. “He sort of stinks on TV,” said an MSNBC
source. “He hasn’t turned out to be the superstar they were hoping
for.”
MSNBC believed they had the makings of a
television superstar on their hands, a face that might prove to be the face
of the news outlet. The son of actress Mia Farrow and Woody Allen (though much
speculation surrounds the possibility that Frank Sinatra might actually be his
biological father) seems to have not only the genes but the intellectual
and ideological makeup of the perfect MNSBC host. But as NY Daily News
reports, "Ronan Farrow Daily" has been a ratings
"disaster" since its premiere in February.
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Associated Press, Mar. 31, 2014
The
Obama administration's health care website stumbled early Monday , falling out
of service for nearly four hours on deadline day for sign-ups. After it was
fixed, officials plowed ahead with a nationwide promotional drive, almost like
getting out the vote on Election Day.
Early
visitors to HealthCare.gov on Monday morning saw messages that the site was
down for maintenance. At times the visitors were also directed to a virtual
waiting room - a feature designed to ease the strain on the site during periods
of heavy use.
Administration
spokesman Aaron Albright said the website was brought back up shortly before 9
a.m., Eastern time. But people who missed their window sign up may still be
able to take advantage of a grace period and other special extensions announced
last week.
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By Maggie Fox, Mar. 29, 2014, NBC News
Women who drink the most diet sodas may also be more likely to
develop heart disease and even to die, according to a new study published
Saturday.
Researchers found women who drank two or more diet drinks a day
were 30 percent more likely to have a heart attack or other cardiovascular
"event," and 50 percent more likely to die, than women who rarely
touch such drinks.
The findings, being presented at a meeting of the American
College of Cardiology, don't suggest that the drinks themselves are killers.
But women who toss back too many diet sodas may be trying to make up for
unhealthy habits, experts say.
"Our study suggests an association between higher diet
drink consumption and mortality," said Dr. Ankur Vyas, a cardiovascular
disease expert at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic, who led the
study.
"It's
not an extreme risk," he added.
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By Sarah Hurtubise, Mar. 31, 2014
A couple in La Mesa, California received a voter
registration card from California’s Obamacare exchange already pre-marked for
the Democratic Party.
The couple did not want their identities revealed
but told
local station 10 News that they received an envelope addressed from Covered
California, the state’s exchange, with a letter and registration card from the
health care marketplace. They’ve always been registered to vote Republican.
“I’m an old guy and I never would have noticed it,
except I have an accountant that notices every dot and dash on a piece of paper
as a wife,” the man who received the card said.
Covered California is in the midst of sending out
voter registration cards to all of its sign-ups, due to pressure from left-wing
groups threatening legal action if they don’t comply.
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