President Obama agreed to a FOX News interview in the 11th hour of his big push toward a healthcare bill in order to reach FOX’s audience of Democrats and Independents. A few of us wondered if the network would, in appreciation for the President temporarily lifting his embargo of FOX, stage a milk toast interview and lob softball questions. After all, when FOX’s Bill “I’m lookin’ out for the folks” O’Reilly finally landed an interview with candidate Obama, it was an innocuous non-event.
But in this latest FOX interview, Bret Baier showed us how a genuine professional TV journalist works.
It was clearly the President’s intent to filibuster most of the approximately 15 minutes devoted to the healthcare bill, repeating all the same talking points we’ve heard ad nauseum for a year. Obama never intended to directly answer Baier’s questions. That strategy was, to use a favorite word of his administration, transparent.
The President isn’t accustomed to being interrupted in the midst of his long answers to reporters’ questions, even when those answers have little or nothing to do with the initial query. When interrupted by Baier, his frustration clearly showed — non-verbally and in an occasional condescending tone.
In response, Baier was respectful, but not intimidated. Unlike most of the legacy media interviewers, Baier understands that he represents more than himself and his network. He represents the viewing public. It’s why the media has been historically called the Fourth Estate. Contrast Baier’s approach to that of NBC’s Brian Williams when, at the close of his interview of the President, he parted with a nauseous sycophantic bow. We were embarrassed for him.
The President’s answers ranged from long-winded obfuscations with puzzling convolutions to territory best described as a Wonderland of Fuzzy Logic. For example, on the one hand, Obama said that everyone knows what’s in the bill by now. On the other hand, he said that Baier would see “my healthcare bill” when it’s posted for all to see. Some of us came away from the interview not convinced that the President clearly knows what’s in his own bill!
Those already persuaded on both sides of the argument are unlikely to be effected by the interview. Open-minded Independents, perhaps the main audience from the Administration’s perspective, were likely not impressed by the President’s presentation, which was not particularly impressive.
Coming from a man who former Governor Mario Cuomo once described to Larry King as representing a “new kind of intelligence,” large parts of President Obama’s answers were… well, just flat-out unintelligible.
While honest establishment pundits will admit that it wasn’t a sterling presidential performance, the true-believer Obama lemmings will call Baier rude and vote him out of the Club. In that case, he’s better off.
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He proved only ONE thing! That he is completely incapable of being President of the greatest nation on earth!!! HE has NO IDEA of what is in the massive bill that he is going to sign! He never answered ONE of Bret's questions….nothing more than an empty suit that cannot hold a conversion with out his teleprompter!!!
"Let me be clear…"
Nah, you haven't been clear in the 20 months you've been in the public eye, why would you start now?
Bret did a decent job, but some journalist somewhere is going to have to get up the guts and just say "you're lying Mr. President. There is just know other way to say it. If you want to continue you need to stop that or we can't continue".
He must have been expecting another media fluffer otherwise never would have agreed to the interview. Somebody goofed.
He made us all wonder why a weird reference to Hawaiian earthquakes was in a health care bill. And we still don't know the answer to that, but not much about the bill makes sense when you get down to the details.
Brett Baier didn't make one attempt to highlight something good about the bill. I don't support the bill in it's current form, but it is not that far off. To suggest there is nothing good in this bill is absurd! You may not agree with the way the bill is funded, which is most peoples prob with it. There are several easy ways to maintain cost control by offering competition, or we could have went the medicare +5% road, but those were shot down for the Republican favored method of allowing the purchase of out-of-state insurance and not taxing the cadillac insurance plans. Now that certainly is NOT enough to cover 35 million more Americans and to hold down premiums. Most uninsured people are healthy and with the added money in the insurance pool it will lower premiums somewhat, but profit-seeking executives will always push the limit in every industry. There will be no cost containment without competition offered either by extending a medicare buy-in to all individuals or just simply regulating the insurers.
Brett Baier doesn't see anything good in this bill? Thats crazy.
Why is it the right wing will not admit that they DO NOT WANT to insure people that can't afford it? The more profitable you are, the more constitutional rights you are granted. If you look like a possible red mark in their bank book, then just run off and die!
Baier did his job as well as possible. BHO has stock "answers" to all possible questions, even if the answers are in effect filibusters. My prediction is that Fox News ratings go permanently up while the presidents' poll numbers continue permanently down. He did not help himself.
I agree. I thought Bret Baier did well and was respectful at the same time. He put him on the fence about the process and kept him defensive.
I still can't firgue out what earthquake in Hawaii he was talking about that occured after Katrina. There must have been one if O says so. If the MSM reported it it must be true afterall. Maybe I should find a gushing supporter to set me straight and make be believe it really happened.
Bret Baier did an excellent job of returning to the original question and clearly made the O feel like he wasn't controlling the interview. I was concerned he was going to be too nice and not be a journalist. Bret, the new Brit! Excellent job!
It is not Baier's job to be a cheerleader for Obama and his agenda. You must have him confused with the liberal mainstream media types who fall all over him.
Oh the bill is so far off it's not even funny. Very few people have put this president on the spot. It's not the reporters job to cheerlead.
You are so wrong on so many levels. The only point that I will address at this point is' "You may not agree with the way the bill is funded", an exactly correct statement. I get taxed so that people that don't work or pay taxes can have insurance. Since when have we begun living in an ant hill where all the workers cater to the select few? Oh, that's right. We have the geart FDR to thank for that.
MunKy….
you sound like a left wing… don't expect that people like you here…
Lots of respect for Brett here, and a great roundtable discussion by the panel. I'll bet O'Reilly, who is such an incredible egomaniac is choking at your description of his great non-event.
Did Bret expect the President to cater to him?? You are surely at the wrong party. There's no wine,pills, crack, or heroin, at this democrartic party. For that stuff, you have to go to the republican party!!!
Health Insurance is NOT a constitutional right! What the American people want is for President Obama and the democrats to scrap this monstrosity and start over. Most people agree that there needs to be health care reform, but also agree that a govermnent takeover of 1/6 of the economy is not the answer.
because you must not know about medicare, that is why it is aparent you don't know what you are talking about. medicare is broke, not if you talk to barney happy shoes frank, when asked if it was broke, he said not at all, it just needs more money. insurance rates, and medical costs are inflated, partially due to medicare. if you go to a doctor, and you are on medicare, the doctor performs that proceedure at a loss, and overcharges everyone else to make up for it. once we are all on medicare, where do the doctors and hospitals go to makeup for the loss? go back and plant your lips firmly on his backside, perhaps you can come up with a better argument.
I wasn't really impressed with Baier's effort. Albeit, it was tough trying to get a word in edgewise against shuch a master shuck-n-jiver as Obama, who didn't answer one f***ing question. THAT is what Baier should have hi-lighted, right after Obama whined about Baier's interrupting him – "But, Mr. President…you haven't answered any of my questions".
Eh. WTF – for all his fillibustering, he didn't change any minds, I'm sure. In fact, I'm sure it didn't escape anyone who really listened how utterly retarded some of his talking points were, such as the one about the Louisiana Purchase helping out Hawaii.
Gimme a break.
Empty suit – all style, no substance.
Brett Baier didn't make one attempt to highlight something good about the bill."
See, you lost me at hello, MunKy. That his not his job (although Mathews thinks its his –and Brian Williams–but I guess you didn't actually read the post.) The rest of your rant is about how this bill will help the United States of America. Well, buddy, I think the opposite, but you know…hard times are ahead either way. Did you know that we are broke? Don't cry now.
I'll just have to read what you all say here and the synopses of the interview with the US distributor of Hopium.
It is long past the time when I can bear to watch and listen to this creature of Manchuria.
His arrogance and permanent state of obfuscation drive me up the wall.
There might be a tasty cherry embedded in a steaming pile of cow poop too. I wouldn't advise trying to dig it out though.
There's nothing good in a bill that consists of deals with businesses who are regulated, deals with the members of Congress who voted for it, and unconstitutional processes to pass it.
Baier was right to repeat the questions his viewers asked, since no one else in the media has asked them.
That's such BS – Do you think President Bush would've stood for such disrespectful treatment?
Baier was clearly nervous and couldn't wait for the real answers the President was offering.
He was stuck on the PROCESS and not on the substance of the bill, which will help us all.
I saw a clip of the interruptions edited together and it was shameful – Obama gets no respect!
Hawaii was mentioned because they ALSO had a recent disaster like Louisanna and are therefore covered in the bill. ObamaOpponents are willfully ignorant of simple facts that don't suit their narrow view of things.
It's Baier's job to be FAIR and BALANCED! He clearly wasn't!
Yes, because a bill that is passed illegally because it can't even get 50% of the floor vote is what the people want and need.
Makes sense, if you're a Communist.
Hawaii hasn't had any recent disaster. The last earthquake that killed anyone was 35 years ago.
Why do you lie?
Any why is that upsetting to you?
Rules for thee, but not for me?
Yes, it upsetting that there is not one objective journalist left. But conservatives are outnumbered 4 to 1.
In addition, Walgreen's in WA state will stop accepting Medicaid (different program I know) as of next month because they are getting reimbursed at 82 cents on the dollar. How's that for profit-seeking, Munky? Bartell's already has stopped, and Fred Meyer is considering it.
What the… After reading your comment it is obvious that someone is engaged in a one-man "wine, pills, crack, or heroin" party of his own, as he sits at his computer spouting inane drivel, probably talking to himself and laughing at his own lame jokes. Put down the pipe, Leo, and go lie down before you hurt yourself.
MunKy, you're missing the point of the interview. NO ONE has asked the tough questions. When you only have 15 minutes, AND when you have to try to stop the filibustering, you ask what you NEED to ask. And the underlying problem is not what's good about the bill, but what is bad. A sprinkling of good Republican wishes mixed in with a flood of disastrous Liberal legislation will not make this a good bill. Bret HAD to bring that to light as best he could.
I thought he also did a great job showing Obama is a true leftist-radical. By BO saying he (basically) doesn't care what process Congress uses to pass the bill, he is opening admiting that THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS, in true Saul Alinsky fashion.
I can't imagine any FOX reporter ever interrupting former President Bush in the manner that Brett Baier did. Like our current president or not, it's disrespectful to the office.
Even reading the text of the interview was excruciating (I can't stand hearing his 'Deja Vu' words/speeches anymore). Hillary proved that he couldn't debate an issue without falling apart, and Baier's interview proves that Obama is nothing more than a rude bumbling idiot.
When will you guys get the idea that holding down costs this way is only going to lead to shortages, not less expensive care? We have to properly incentivize, not penalize, all the players in the game – insurance, providers, and patients. The current HCR bill does none of that. In fact, it seems designed to solidify the current state in the short term, and then force insurance companies out of the market altogether. All using coercive tactics like mandates and fines and minimum required coverage rather than incentives to actually spend the money wisely and/or create efficiencies in the market.
They seem to think that by making it seem cheaper to you individually with subsidies is actually making it less expensive. They think that the public is stupid, if they think they can get away with it.
We don't want to not insure people who cannot afford it, we want to make it so that they CAN afford it. We're open to common-sense rules and regulations that protects against pre-existing conditions, and for some government support for the truly needy. This bill is far far too much. It seeks to break the system for the vast (90%+) majority of consumers to fix problems for the <10%. Why is that? It's a power grab, pure and simple. If you don't get that, then you are the rube here, not us.
And, as my final remark, a little philosophy. I do not think it "just" for for the government to take money from people just to make YOU feel better.
Sam gets upset when his hero-god is made to look foolish; he despises anyone who would dare challenge his idol. Of course, Obama doesn't need anyone's help in order to make himself look foolish, so Sammy's feelings must be a swirling torrent of love/hate.
Hey MunKy, we don't want to insure illegals….and I certainly don't want to pay to insure you…tho you may need a little mental health work…we don't want to pay for 4 years of no insurance before there will be insurance while I still pay for my insurance that I have now….I am sure you know where that money is gonna go..right into the insurance fund right…get some therapy
So this is the horseshit they're now teaching in public schools?
Your comments are so profoundly ignorant with regard to Constitutional law it would take an essay to fisk them, and it ain't worth my time.
Leo
WHAT are you talking about. The problem with comments are when 1) they do not make any sense. 2) they resort to name calling and little substance ( both sides ) and 3) someone just does not know what the hell they are talking about. There are some good ideas in this bill. HOWEVER with the abundance of pork and Govt expansion and new taxes and fees. I would think would prevent any intellegent person to say Lets do this over. We need reform But why doe we hear all the time." Its not the bill I wanted" or "Its not a perfect bill" . Its time we stopped settling for the lesser of two evils and did it right.
No, but it sure seems the President expected Baier to cater to him.
The rest of your comment is frankly unintelligible. What point are you trying to make?
You are either stupid or willfully ignorant. The press grilled Bush (deservedly so) many times, as they should any president or politician, especially a politician who is attempting to pass legislation against the will of the people. Beir was respectfull in his questioning yet forceful. Obama was clearly unprepared for such a strong set of questions and failed miserabely to make a case for his bill, while Beir's stock as a real journalist went up.
FYI it is unwise to come to this site and spout unfounded and ignorant talking points, the folks here are intellegent, informed, and aggressive. Do your homework before your next post or don't post at all.
What the insurance companies want is for Obama to scrap it – not the American (translation: Republican) people! If this bill is stopped, we'll have another 20 years of stalling – nothing was done by Bush and the Republican Congress, and Republicans have always fought any health care reform. They don't want to scrap it and start over, they just want to scrap it. Whenever someone w/o insurance hits an emergency room, out taxes pay the average 9 grand it costs. This bill sees to it that folks pay their own way – that's a conservative plan!
Something strange happens at 11:49 into the interview…I hear someone off-camera trying to intervene as Obama is getting hammered….Listen for yourself.
If this happened someone needs to apologize. Interrupting an interview with a network that hasn't been granted one in a year and a half? Whoever did it probably went apoplectic for a moment because they had never seen Obama really pressed in an interview before.
Andrew Breitbart should call Brett Baire and see what the deal is.
See what I mean at 11:49 here:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4113350/fox-news-exclu...
You said "There will be no cost containment without competition offered either by extending a medicare buy-in to all individuals"
And you call Brett Baier crazy…
Why do so many libs fail to understand that Medicare is a horribly run business and many doctors and pharmacies are looking at dumping them altogether if they haven't already. So lets increase it's size and just throw trillions more of taxpayer dollars at it. Super smart. They can't even pay doctors for their work now, and it will only get worse. If doctors are forced to take it (they eventually will be) a huge portion will quit.
"The right wing" doesn't want to insure people that can't afford it? Nice spin, but try again. I can't speak for some of the GoP, but conservatives want methods in place to lower costs and increase competition between the companies that really keep medical costs high (which aren't the insurance companies, you're just drinking the obama repeat it 1,000 times and it must be true kool-aid): Medical manufacturing/supplies, big pharma, and lawyers are what drives cost up, and those aren't addressed at all by this bill.
Conservatives don't want to not insure people that can't afford it, they want the market to be cut loose and drive prices down so the people who can't afford it will be able to. We can subsidize people with pre-existing conditions if need be for less than 1/10th of what this insane bill will cost, and Obama and the dems know it, they just don't care.
Foxnews is really not his demographic.
I think the purpose of POTUS visit to Fox was not to sell healthcare to any "viewer hold-outs." He clearly states that they are going to pass the bill by hook or crook—
No, I believe he went on to put "a personal face" on what has been lately characterized as Marxist/Dictatorial. This has caught on with more and more folks–I believe his disapproval numbers were at an all time low as of yesterday morning.
This visit was to give conservatives and Indys a message–"Hey, I'm actually a nice guy. This is business as usual. This is no atom bomb to the US constitution."
He doesn't care if he sounds dumb. They think it will "calm us down" b/c he is just an idiot and we should lay back and take it…surrender, so to speak…
Wait – you're basing your opinion on a CLIP of the interruptions EDITED TOGETHER?!?! Without having the long-winded non-answers in between the interruptions, how on earth would you get any sense of whether the interruptions were appropriate or not, or disrespectful or not? You aren't being intellectually honest here.
Petee Petee Petee – someone with a nickname like that, I can understand your gay phobia.
Medicare isn't broke, and many more than Barney Frank know it'll sort itself out.
Meanwhile, it's helped those of us of a certain age immeasurably over the past 49 years.
God Bless LBJ. Medicare, by the way, is pretty much what Congress' health plan is – only better.
And you help pay for it – don't have a stroke, now!
Good interview by Bret, weak non-answers by Obama. It really is surprising how poorly Obama performs without a written script or an adoring interviewing.
Some humorous cartoons on the corruption behind the healthcare vote at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/corrup...
Several more about Obama's truthfulness (lack of) at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/obama-...
Not surprising since Obama is Kenyan of anal orifice and Barack is the stuff that comes out of it.
Yeah, we're broke – Bush & Cheney BROKE US with FOX's help!!
It's disrespectful of the President to try and eat all the time for the interview with long-winded answers, that, when you get right down to it, don't actually answer the question. That's how the President works. We've seen it in other interviews. He gives these horribly long, ten minute answers, without ever answering the question, so the reporter has time to ask MAYBE three questions. Why should Brett, or any other reporter, let him get away with giving a monologue about why we need health care reform. Don't we know that already. It's "what's in the bill" and "how is it going to get done and get paid for" that everyone is waiting to hear the answer to now and the president wasn't answering the questions.
Fine, maybe Brett was rude… but Obama made him be rude. See, that's what he does. He keeps talking figuring no one will possibly the President, the Messiah, the One!
Good job, Brett.
Respect is earned, Jackass, and he's sqandered what little he had left.
It's not his job to do that, the President had that handled – all the talking points were there. It's his job to ensure the viewing public is full informed about the topic being discussed. If it takes having the President defend against the valid criticisms against it, that is what is necessary and fair. And balanced.
Disrespectful?
Obama has already trashed any honor and decorum deserving of the office by giving a shout-out to someone prior to announcing the slaughter of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood, trashing the SCOTUS and embarrassing them on national television at his SOTU and allowing Jay-Z and Beyonce into the situation room at the WH.
Baier was there to interview him – not record more taking points – the same ones we've heard for over a year now.
No, Jennifer, so challenge yourself with this one…
"Why did he go on there?"
Why did he say nothing to convince anyone to change their mind?
Enpty head.
This is the vetting our Manchurian president should have endured before 11/08. Soft peddling any candidate right or left should never be tolerated by the so called keepers of the truth, our illustrious Lame Stream Press.
I just keep remembering ol looking out for us Bill, saying after his interview with obama where obama claimed never to have heard any rants in Wright's church in 20 YEARS, " I BELIEVE HIM." For whatever good O'Reilly does, that really made him look like the rest of the msm. Baier' s interview was far superior to any done previously.
Chris, don't play false naivity here – Baier was perfectly right when trying to bring the talk to the correct trajectory, which the Deliberator constantly tried to avoid.
America is stuck with an air heater that has no warranty and can't be returned – boy, proud I am that I am not a Dem!
Disrespectful??? He was just trying to get Obama to ANSWER a question!!! All Obama did was continue the same b/s campaign speech that America is TIRED of hearing!!!
He must be kin to Obama to lie like that!!!
Sam( crybaby)-You leftists have been giving handouts to your voters for 60 years! Got everyone on the dole. Acorn, now there's something to be proud of!!!
Good job screwing up the country. By the time you got this guy in, you have no more money to play with…so you're doing the power grab of 1/6 of the economy (and you'll p1$$ that away in no time.)
Hey, your guy is still fighting all those wars!!! You are really grasping at straws, fella.
What really roils me is that this bill is just not supported by the U.S. Constitution! At least some states are now indicating they will sue if it passes. Is any member of Congress bringing this point up?
The Democrats are using a rule to the best of their ability. Who can fault them? It is the American way. That is how we got into the mortgage mess we are in (by Wall Street using all the rules they can). After all how many folks do you know that would use a rule to make buckets of money off of morons? I sure would be tempted. Re-write the rule-book.
Are you freaking blind? The big Insurance companies and Pharma companies were supporting it from the beginning. Pretending that "big business" is just a "Republican" thing and that the Democrats are truly just out for the common man is bull crap. Pharma companies jumped on by making a deal with the govt in which they wouldn't have outside competition and Insurance companies jumped on when the govt said it would mandate that everyone had to buy their product. Only recently have several of the insurance companies backed away because they're being vilified as profit mongers (can't have businesses staying solvent, that would be a crime. And no, their profit margins are worse than freaking McDonalds so they make relatively little in comparison to what they pay out), and they also found out that they only way the govt could attempt to afford it is to put more and more price controls on it. Controlling the price doesn't control the actual cost (a lesson we learned from both FDR and Carter). "This bill sees to it that folks pay their own way"…..now that's funny. This bill sees that our freaking great grandchildren pay, along with medicare, and Social Security, and every other entitlement we've piled on over the years. There are two things you should consider here. One, if the bill is so great and the people really really want it, why are they having to bribe congressmen and use a process to try and not be on the record specifically voting for this travesty? Because they know it's junk and they're going to get hung out to dry in November. Second, if this is such a wonderful thing, why are Senators and Congressmen specifically EXEMPT from it, having turned down multiple amendments to make sure they have to live under the same law we do? Because they know it's crap and they don't want to be roped in with the great unwashed. Get Govt out of health care all together and let me pay for mine, you pay for yours, and let us as individuals help those who really need it.
There's a LOT in this so-called health care bill that has nothing to do with health care!!! In Pelosi's own words "You will see what's in the bill AFTER WE pass it"… talk about arrogant and not caring about the American people!!!
Republicans are hesitant to say anything good about the bill, but I have heard a very few good things. Fox news is Republican, as sure as the sun rises.
This was a great interview, originally meant to be 30 minutes, but Obama's handlers thought he could not stay on point for more than 20 so pared it down. Would love to see Bret given a full hour with this man. As far as interrupting? You do not need to hear the full song to name the tune when you have heard the song a million times.
You are absolutely right on. Bret did a stellar job of asking REAL questions that cannot be dodged without it being obvious and Obama was on the ropes the whole interview. All this talk about 'respecting' the office and not challenging the President is nonsense. I will afford any leader the same level of 'respect' he gives me and the impression I have of this President is he neither respects me, my opinions or more important to me, the future of my children and grandchildren. This is an ego driven ideological game for Obama. If the bill were any good at all, it would have been passed by his Democratic super majorities long ago.
Medicare isn't broke? Yeah, that's right Mr Frank told us "it isn't broke, it just needs more money…" I'll have to remember to use that one should I ever be faced with bankruptcy; "But Judge, I'm not broke, I just need more money…" We are not millions, not billions, but Trillions of dollars in debt. We are also facing a mind boggling number of Trillions in uncovered liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and a range of all the other entitlements. How kind is it going to be when it all falls apart and there literally is no money to help those who truly need it, or the rest of us for that matter? "It'll sort itself out…." Very comforting, God help us.
Bret, brilliant; absolutely brilliant. He looked like some MSM type (like the one with warm, fuzzy feeling running up his leg) in responding to your questions. He was Nonsensical; he was incoherent. Honestly, he is an embarrassment to America.
Xerxes is kind! All he asks………..is that you kneel.
I watched the whole interview and I came away with the impression that Baier knew more about the bill than Obama did.
The President’s Wonderland of Fuzzy Logic.
The Senate can make its own rules. If they want to play spin the bottle, flip a coin, or have a drinking contest to make a decision, than they can. That is, evidently, in the constitution (that they get to make their own rules).
Having two egos of that size in the same place could create a black hole and suck . . . .
Substitute "health care reform" for "hope and change" and you get the same result- lots and lots of words by Obama but few answers despite Baier's attemp to hold him accountable. Ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, evasive, false, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty, shuffling, slippery, sly, sophistical, stonewalling, unclear, vague describe Obama's response.
Sam, you've swallowed the Obama propaganda so deeply that you're now dangling from his stringer. Here's what you're missing: Every time Obama wants to push another element of his far-left agenda — meaning more power for the federal government, less freedom for you and me, and a burden of several billion/trillion more dollars on the backs of working men and women — he invents a new enemy and whips up the emotions of people like you.
Today the insurance companies are the bad guy … yesterday it was the banks … before that it was rich people … tomorrow it'll be the energy companies. As long as Obama can convince you that business is evil, capitalism is evil, and the government is your only hope for salvation, he'll continue to spend this nation into oblivion.
Do you seriously believe that the mounting deficit and national debt won't affect you in any way because, gosh, only "the rich" will have to pay for it? Wait till inflation kicks in, the dollar melts down, or worse.
And what's truly amazing is that if you swap the term "insurance companies" /"rich people"/"energy companies" with "Jews," you've got a carbon copy of how a certain dictator came to power in Germany during World War II. It's a classic ploy: Turn a nation against one of its own minorities — be it ethnic or corporate — and a power-hungry leader will gain influence every time.
I'm just loving the trolls today. They all have the same old, tired comment:
"Republicans are just trying to protect their interests in the big insurance and pharmaceutical companies."
Before you post it (again), please answer this question:
If Republicans are in the pockets of insurance and pharms, them WHY did Martha Coakely attend a $10,000-per plate dinner, sponsored by Big Pharm & Insurance, in DC exactly 7 days before the MA senate election vs. Scott Brown? Why was COAKLEY there and not Brown, if the Dems are doing this "for the good of the people"?
Thank you, and I await your elitist, holier-than-thou, moonbat-inspired answers.
Justin says "It is the American way."
Justin, just who are you?
This guy is dumber than I thought (and that's pretty dumb)
well Bill likes to talk about how fair but tough he was when he interviewed Obama. Personally, I thought that interview was way too deferential, and not that tough at all. My problem with O'Reilly is he treats the regular Fox people on his show like dirt, and cannot shut himself up. It seems over the last couple of years, that bad habit has worsened. Too often, his technique is to bully and overpower the other party.
Perhaps sam will enlighten us on the disaster Hawaii has recently had???
You might like to live in a marxist paradise where everyone is treated equally miserable, except for our Dear Leaders, but the rest of us like the whole Freedom thing. You want universal healthcare, go to Cuba !!!!!
SM
Why you hate Obama? He just wants to hep the people.
When he said Hawai he obviously be meaning the garden spot and 57th State o Haiti.
We in da 'hood here in Port o Prince . be hearin' funding for the Hawian/Haiti disaster gonna be increasing, what 3000%…! We love Obama!
The Media Matters Troll have been given their marching orders to infest the internet. He's on of them.
Excellent catch! However my old ears cannot make out what his human teleprompter is trying to feed him. Can anyone with better hearing figure it out? Maybe if was just O'Reilly trying to help his buddy BHO out of a tough spot.
My guess is that Chris thought it was 'disrespectful" of Chief Justice Roberts to criticize the President's criticism of the supreme court in his s.o.s. address in January, although had no problems with the virtually unprecedented attack on the court in the speech. My vote is for willfully ignorant, since a lot fly by commenters essentially choose to hear and believe only what they want to hear and believe.
Oh yeah, Sam, the government does everything better than the private sector, doesn't it? Let's see … there's Amtrak … the post office … Medicare and Social Security … public housing … and how many of those are making a profit?
It was a classic foot-in-mouth gaffe when Obama tried to compare his health care plan to the post office competing with FedEx and UPS. Gee, Mr. President, how's the post office's financial picture these days?
FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Post Office … as the Sesame Street song goes, "One of these things is not like the others …"
I've been asking the same question. That one has been brushed under the rug even by Fox. Not sure why, but it's a pretty important point since Obama's entire strategy is vilifying the insurance companies.
If he says it 1,000 times it must be true and it can anger the left enough that they don't notice he's not doing a single thing to lower the costs of healthcare. The progressives win and all the big corporates win. We lose.
We must mobilize NOW! We need a million people in DC this weekend. We need to shut the place down in a mass act of civil disobedience. We need to get talk radio and the blogosphere behind this. Everyone, try to get to Beck, Rush, Hannity and all the local folks. Twitter, email, call! LET'S GET THIS OFF THE GROUND ASAP.
See you in DC 3/20-21.
The leader of the Democrat Destruction of the Constitution. Just as he passed the healthcare details to the Pelosi/Reid twin despots he now insists things are know to the public that he can't even enumerate. He said he wanted to fundementally change America, many of us are now saying "see…….we told you so!" his hope-change meant instituion of Statism socialism. The Democrats own this mess….it is theirs alone, with their now stratagy of deem and pass they have inadvertantly exposed the true nature of their party and leaders, they advocate not a democratic -republic but a dictatorship……..they are dictating to the people what is good for them……..Hugo Chavez is so proud!
Going inside his brain…
"Trying… must visualize teleprompter… earthquake… starts with "H" — ends with "I" — HAWAII, that's it! It's a state, too. I've been there."
I think "milk toast" should properly be milquetoast. You can find the first in the urban dictionary, which no doubt is the usage that came about for people who don't know the proper spelling. But I think if you're going for proper spelling you should use the second.
Sorry. Just had to mention that.
I was thinking that the reason they chose Bret was because they were expecting him to be less experienced than O'Reilley or Wallace. I thought Bret did a decent job and once again showed us that Obama without his teleprompter is about a can short of a six pack.
Brett understands that had he been using ObamaCare when his son was born that child would have been left to die of the heart disease the poor child was born with.
Don't be a drone-slave!
This fight is not about "helping others"- this is about rescuing the greatest healthcare system ever from gov't takeover, which will result in total gov't control over citizens' very lives, and destruction of our free market excellence.
For many years the gov't has been incrementally legislating regulatory imbalances, with the goal of medicine's free-market demise.
We are at a major crossroads. FIGHT AGAINST THIS TAKEOVER!!
I agree with you, except I think Brett was very respectful. In all fairness to Obama, he does what most professionals do when confronted with a tough question . . . dodge it and go back to your talking points in a way that makes people think you are answering the question. Obama is skilled at this, but he is overexposed and a lot of his sctick is getting old. AS for Brett, it IS very intimidating to sit down and do a one on one with POTUS. Although not perfect, Brett wouldn't let Obama completely get away with hijacking the question. He was never disrespectful. Charlie Gibson's interview iwith Sarah Palin was disrespectful
Happy for you, Sweetheart. Uncle George gave you a shiny new computer.
I am saying that folks are going to use the rules to suit them. If you don't like it, then work to change them.
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