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by Dan Gainor [media analyst]

Obama and journalists complain the president is fighting some fictional opposition to boost his standing.

We need to get special interests out of politics. They spoil everything.

For once President Barack Obama is right: special interests are messing up health care reform. “Every time we are in sight of health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they’ve got,” Obama told us. (more…)

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by Dan Gainor [media analyst]

After 8 years of Nazi images and loony left protests, now the media oppose dissent.

For eight years in America, protest was in and all the cool kids did it. We had flamboyantly dressed Code Pinkers demonstrating at conventions and in sessions of Congress, calling Marine recruiters “traitors” and protesting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Then there were the crazies from Acorn stalking Wall Street executives at their homes. And anti-war lefty Cindy Sheehan got so much news coverage from the major networks and top newspapers that they practically had to create a bureau to handle her antics. (more…)

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by Dan Gainor [media analyst]

Media support spiraling cost of Obama’s goal to remake America.

Say the words “just a bill” and our TV civics lesson takes hold. Without realizing it, millions of Americans would instantly start humming a Schoolhouse Rock song entitled “I’m Just a Bill.”

The song is cartoon version of how a bill becomes a law. (more…)