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Can CBO News Boost the Public Option?

We’ve been hearing for quite awhile now that adding a public option to healthcare reform would break the bank. “More than a trillion dollars!!!” lawmakers screamed. And many of them were Democrats. Now comes word that a preliminary estimate from the Congressional Budget Office puts the cost of a House Democratic bill with a public [...]

October 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Broadcasting, Congress, Health, Legal, Media, Money, News, Politics, Politics and Health, US | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Hating on Obama- Is it Racial?

One thing is for sure. You’ll never hear President Obama himself say so.

For him to do so would simply feed a frenzied media cycle that would last at least a week. “Obama Plays the Race Card,” the headlines would scream. Yet more and more black folks I talk to are starting to believe a [...]

September 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: African American, Media, News, Politics, Radio, US | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Did Empty News Cycle Cause Obama Speech Controversy?

By the end of Tuesday, President Barack Obama will have spoken to the nation’s schoolchildren, and hopefully the auto-generated mess it created will be history. It was quite something to behold, the President wanting to tout education to young people, and conservatives going bonkers. So how exactly did all this happen?

Well for one, Congress [...]

September 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Culture, education, Media, News, Politics, US | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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