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Fox & Friends graphics interpret health care bill: "Comply or go to jail," "Kiss your freedoms bye"

November 10, 2009 7:48 am ET by Media Matters staff

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Drudge, WND distort health care bill to fearmonger about cost of insurance, possibility of jail time

Legal experts debunk conservative media's claim that health reform proposals are unconstitutional

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 10, 2009 7:50 am ET)
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      I love waking up to a few laughs with the 3 stooges in the morning!

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      • Author by mikelartist (November 10, 2009 9:07 am ET)
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        Exactly. At the local gym, the rack of TVs have all the morning shows on. When you switch over the Fox and Dorks the laughs ensue. Many others in the room do the same and we all look at each other with knowing grins and laugh while shaking our heads.

        I wonder how many of these types of viewers get counted in their ratings?

        These fools have to know that they are being laughed at often.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 10, 2009 8:20 am ET)
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      Let me see...is this from the "news" or "opinion" side of FOX?

      This is so confusing... I reiterate my suggestion for FOX to run a continuous crawler indicating whether the extant segment is either news or opinion. Otherwise, some viewers may actually confuse opinion, i.e. nutty right wing propaganda, with fact...and I am sure that FOX News, being the fair and balanced, professional news organization that it is, wouldn't want to mislead its viewers in any way or at any time. Ha...!
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    • Author by bluestate69 (November 10, 2009 8:59 am ET)
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      i'm actually more offended at luntz's take on health care. he actually said the people are against this, when most polls say the opposite. luntz says the people spoke in august, and they don't want obama's health plan. saying the people spoke in august is the biggest lie repeated by republicans. the "people" that spoke in august were angry republicans. the people had an election one year ago and they put the democrats in charge, but i guess we should ignore the election results. maybe we should have nationwide town hall meetings instead of elections, and the loudest people are the winners(sarcasm).
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      • Author by magnolialover (November 10, 2009 9:43 am ET)
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        Except, in August, they weren't speaking, they were yelling and shouting and not making any sense. So if "those" folks are the ones who don't want health care reform, then so be it, they're a vast minority.

        Another thing I've been thinking about. Almost every state in the union today has a law that says, you WILL have auto insurance, and if you don't, you normally can't get a car registered, and if you drive without insurance, and get caught, your car gets taken away from you and you get a civil fine in the local courts, and then you HAVE to get insurance.

        My point is this. Are our cars more important than the people of this country? Apparently so...
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        • Author by JLP (November 10, 2009 11:38 am ET)
             
          This should be a republican talking point about enslavement and the end of freedom, oh wait, the insurance companies wouldn't look to kindly on that.
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    • Author by goesto11 (November 10, 2009 9:56 am ET)
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      I'm waiting for Fox News to be similarly outraged about the legal requirement for males to register for the draft when they turn 18 or face jail time.

      Or to be similarly outraged about a whole range of penalties for ignoring a whole range of federal regulations.


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