Back in August 2009 BB  (Before Scott Brown) CNN was frantically producing infomercials for Obama’s healthcare plan. Luckily for them, Michael Moore had a handy supply of valuable footage from his infomercials for Castro’s healthcare plan.

So on the August 6 edition of CNN’s  “Newsroom,” while Morgan Neil “reported” on location from a Potemkin Havana hospital, gushing about Cuban healthcare’s “impressive statistics!” the broadcast included clips from Michael Moore’s Sicko, adding much oomph to the propaganda montage. CNN’s “Cuba’s infant mortality rates” reported Neil, “are the lowest in the hemisphere, in line with those of Canada!”

“Amazing!” probably gasped the type of person who watches CNN nowadays  “No wonder Colin Powell said “Castro had done some good things for his people!” No wonder Barbara Walters hailed Castro for “bringing great healthcare to his people!” No wonder Michael Moore catches so much grief from those insufferable Miami Cubans! Before Castro only they could afford doctors, as Cuba’s huddled masses languished in sickness and poverty!”

And indeed, according to UN figures, Cuba’s current infant mortality rate places her 44^th from the top in worldwide ranking, right next to Canada. (The lower the rate the higher the ranking.) What CNN left out is that according to those same UN figures, in 1958 (the year prior to the glorious revolution), Cuba ranked 13^th from the top, worldwide. (more…)

The most infuriating thing about our mainstream media is the utter ignorance of their so-called “journalists.”  When little miss anchorwoman, Katie Couric, interviewed the president last Sunday on his sudden, desperate invitation to Republicans for ideas on healthcare reform, he told her this:

I want to look at the Republican ideas that are out there. And I want to be very specific. ‘How do you guys want to lower costs? How do you guys intend to reform the insurance markets so people with preexisting conditions, for example, can get health care?’

Ms. Couric was so ignorant of the past year-long healthcare debacle that she offered no challenge whatsoever to this latest whopper by President Obama.  If she had known the issues — which is the job for which she is supposedly paid $14 million a year, or $300,000 per week — then she would have immediately challenged the president with the fact that very specific ideas from Republicans have been on the table – in writing – since early last summer.

Over and over again, the president and his “people” go unchallenged on every whopper they tell. Either our MSM is a bunch of ignorant boobs, or they are, once again, indulging their penchant for left-wing ideology.  Whatever the case, their coverage of the president on his healthcare-reform shenanigans has been nothing short of disgraceful.

Doing the job, our MSM refuses to do – for whatever reason — here is the other half of the story on healthcare reform efforts: (more…)