Fox & Friends asks: Could "Health Reform Create a Welfare State?"
March 09, 2010 7:56 am ET by Media Matters staff
From the March 9 broadcast of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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Sadly, the half-baked health insurance reform that has gone through both chambers of the U.S. Congress falls well short of the Good Samaritan Standard.
Must try harder.
For example, people with pre-existing conditions may be allowed to buy insurance, but will there be a cap on premiums? If it costs $3000 a month, what's the point?
We know what you were shooting for, but you missed.
I'm a Texan who knows that what Rather, a fellow Texan, said had no racial significance in the least. You are the racist, dearie. You assigned racism where none was intended. See, we ALL eat watermelon in Texas . . . rarely with a fork. Eating a wedge of watermelon with the juice dripping down your chin while you see how far you can spit the seeds is a Texas tradition. You ought to try it.
Okay, back on ignore, have a good one.
Imagine replacing Dan Rather's name with Bush or Rove's, who are also from Texas, and MMFA would have written a few thousand words about how terrible the watermelon comment is. You know this to be true.
would probably qualify as racist.
and maybe this.
Not sure what you are talking about, retired. Who did I "ignore" and for what? Oh, and like I said, I am a conservative . . . you aren't. Did you do the google search on RWA? You should, it would explain to you why I keep telling you that you aren't a conservative and that Fox/hate talk radio do not represent conservative thought.
Actually, Bush is NOT "from Texas." Bush lived here off and on for years, but he's not really a Texan. That accent is fake. He didn't have it before he started running for president. Rove . . . also not a Texan. But, that's beside the point.
The statement wasn't racist . . . your ASSUMPTION that it was indicates that you have a stereotypical belief that commenting on watermelon and black people automatically indicates racism on your part. That says more about YOU than it does Rather.
bintx about 4 1/2 hours ago on this very link: "Not sure what you are talking about, retired. Who did I "ignore" and for what?"
See why I can't take you loonies serious?
MMFA already covered the watermelon issue, when the nutjob politician spread emails showing the Rose Garden as one large watermelon patch.
That's racism. Rather's isn't. Please, please make a note of it.
Frankly, the most interesting part of what he said was that "he had to compromise it to death," correctly noting that Obama is the one who has displayed all the bipartisanship. We knew that, of course.
Of course you won't find this anywhere but on fair and balanced news outlets such as FOX.
Please, reviledinsf, you look silly enough without making statements like this. Besides, since the interview took place on MSNBC, that's where you'd find it.
And the Left continues with their absurd assertions the [sic] Right are the Party of racists.
Wrong. We do tend to point out, with perfect accuracy, that people who are racist are predominantly in your party, but no one is claiming that the party is entirely made up of racists or that racism is one of their official planks.
Now, for the more important question, reviled--what does any of your little diatribe have to do with the topic at hand? Here, I'll copy it so it will be easier for you:
Fox & Friends asks: Could "Health Reform Create a Welfare State?"
If you can make a substantive statement on this issue, please go ahead.