Obama is the devil!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns0xDdQ43aQ

Just a little video I found with some not so hard searching. It's amazing to see what people will put on the internet with a simple video editing program and a radical view. I can only hope this video was tongue in cheek, but I highly doubt it with the number of spelling and grammar mistakes - plus the misused bible verses. The proof, of course, offers very little evidence considering ANY political figure can be inserted into the same video and 'proved' to be the anti-christ.

What bothers me is the over 4 million views. Most were probably sent to this video as a joke, but it doesn't stop many of those people from being persuaded by the terrible rhetoric. I just hope people can see the sensationalism in stories like this.

Affordable Healthcare Act Website in Turmoil

Its no secret that Obamacare has it's flaws. Its also no secret, in more recent news, that the website has "glitches." Howard Kurtz notes these problems in his article on Foxnews.com. Kurtz points out that the "glitches" Obama and others are mentioning are actually huge problems. Namely, there are price calculations going wrong which can mislead people on their insurance plan choices. I'm not quite sure if this is meant to be an opinion piece as its unclear on the link I took to the page. I DO know that Kurtz's voracity certainly paints it this way. He clearly has a bone to pick with Obamacare and has no shame about showing it. It's the blurred line between opinion and journalism that makes me wary of the "facts" in his article. I do agree that the problems with the website are underestimated and not covered well. I do not agree with his presentation of this fact. He has plenty of sources through out the article that support his main idea, just not enough pose to do so himself. People must be wary of journalism that appears as fact but muddies itself with harsh opinions and bias.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/21/obamacare-meltdown-even-media-liberals-are-appalled/

Holding the off button on Congress

Let's talk about the government shutdown. The Republicans and Democrats are at a stand still and the media can only speculate when it will end. Looking at the major news outlets: CNN, Fox News, ABC News, and NBC News to name a few, we can see a few discrepancies. The major stories today are concerning either the government shutdown and debt ceiling or the controversial decision to deny death benefits to the families of 4 soldiers. The latter involves the former so we'll just put them together. It is no surprise that the biggest news concerns the government shutdown and unilaterally media outlets are firing shots at Congress. Most articles are how the debt ceiling will affect citizens, members of Congress are still receiving pay while hundreds of thousands of others are furloughed, and current efforts by Obama to speak to Boehner. Overall, the position is not favorable for the government; this isn't surprising considering only 43% of U.S. citizens approve of Obama. The shutdown essentially fed the media who is ever hungry. It gave them countless stories about the closing of several federal programs and most notably the closing of national parks. NPR reported a story where a man, who waited 18 years for a permit to raft in the Grand Canyon, cannot do so because of the government shutdown.