Author: Bill Scher

McCain\’s health care plan effectively ends employer-provided health benefits and has everyone buy health insurance on an \”individual market\” with fewer \”regulations.\”

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We\’ll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air…

After Time Magazine\’s Swampland blog slapped fellow journalists on the wrist for understating the \”radical\” nature of Sen. John McCain\’s health care plan, Trudy Lieberman at the Columbia Journalism Review is also struck at McCain\’s \”radical\” plan. Furthermore, she delves deeper into the media\’s failure to ask questions, and the McCain campaign failure to answer…

On Monday, Bernie Horn warned us that Sen. John McCain\’s health care plan is a \”radical scheme.\” Yesterday, Roger Hickey set up a test for the media: \”The reality is, McCain’s proposals would greatly increase the number of uninsured Americans, while also doing nothing about health care costs except increasing the number of people who…

Whether or not you are a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, if you are a politician interested in having your substantive arguments be heard, or if you\’re a citizen that wants your government responding to your needs, you\’ll stand against ridiculous guilt-by-association attacks and persistent politics of personal destruction that distract from the relevant issues…

What pressing issues facing our country do the pundits think you don\’t care about today? Stateline.org: 23 states face budget gaps in \’09 Like a college student fishing for stray quarters in the sofa cushions, states are tightening their belts, dipping into their rainy day funds and hoping revenues will pick up. But many states…

Sen. John McCain on Monday, about the lower 9th ward of New Orleans: We need to go back to have a conversation about what to do: rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is. Sen. John McCain, three days later: I don’t remember ever saying it. Straight Talk!

Over at Bloggingheads.tv, I do a regular \”This Week In Blog\” feature, recounting the hot topics in the liberal and conservative blogospheres. This week I was joined by Townhall.com\’s Amanda Carpenter, and we discussed blog reaction to the PA primary, Sen. Clinton\’s recent Iran comments, Al Gore\’s global warming ads, the blockbuster New York Times…

My colleague Isaiah says McCain is offering nothing but \”inaction\” in his visit to New Orleans\’ lower Ninth Ward, as McCain continues to offer another eight years of do-nothing conservatism from our government. But apparently he\’s fine with certain kinds of government action, such as, tearing down the entire Ninth Ward. The CBS \”From The…

You may not know this, but our media often reports on important issues that affect our lives. However, the reporters on the presidential campaign beat and the punditocracy then choose to assume voters care more about guilt-by-association charges, silly surrogate remarks and choice in accessories — and leave the substantive reporting from their colleagues to…