Johnson falsely denies fearmongering health care reform, suggests legislation would create rationing
August 18, 2009 9:39 am ET
From the August 18 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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This explains why FOX News spends every day imagining what the health reform legislation could look like, and then imagining the scariest possible outcome they possibly can. What's really sad about that is that a majoriyt of FOX viewers, including Mr. Limbaugh apparently, mistake these phantasms as actual reality. As though somewhere someone is busily counting up seniors who should are expendable. I suppose if there are no facts on your side of the argument (which for conservative FOX is pro-Pharma, pro-private insurance), the next best thing is to dream some 'facts' up, and then report your dreams as reality.
Mr. Obama: no public option=no health reform.
The way these guys supported each other in their own delusional "circle-jerk", sure seems like they're a pitch team.
If Billy Mays hadn't passed, I'm sure Fox would have found a place for him in their ranks.
Image Billy doing this same pitch.
Doctors here have a limited number of patients that they can accept (I think it's 200 or so). They can have walk-ins available, but it is limited as to what they can do (no referrals to specialists sort of thing). They won't just toss you out the door if you are a patient, they basically want you to stay with them.
There are flaws of course, but its the difference between a scratch and a 3rd degree wound. I'll take the scratch thank you.
I haven't googled this guy but who is he? He has no content to his speech. He doesn't say anything. His scatter gun approach to forming a sentence is just like Hannity. And Doocey is interviewing him? TV doesn't get any better than this.
His best line, "I begin to lose frankly, confidence, in what I'm hearing.. My sentiments concerning you, you Johnson.
NPR debunked Fox's attack on the UK's NHS.
Fox has been interviewing a UK Parliament member, Daniel Hannan, who has been attacking the NHS to further Fox's point of view. He has been villified in the UK by the Prime Minister and rebuked by the head of the Conservative Party in the UK. The NPR piece is relatively short, 3:37... if you have 4 minutes, listen to the piece. There's another interview with a Surgeon who explains the NHS, including the reform of 2000.
Fox has no credibility when it comes to this debate. They are the Press Secretary of the Republican party and only want to end this debate. They are the Cable News Network of NO! They are willing to spread lies, incite fear and do anything else that the Right Wing of this country wants to do.
A recent poll that KO released showed that the popularity and credibility of Fox News is regional. Only in the South does a majority believe what Fox News is saying... also noting, its audience is primarily white.
I'm sorry.. as an Asian-American who lives in southern California, not Mississippi, Fox is simply a local news network that caters to white southerners. I've said it before, this debate smells of the Civil Rights Act. It's dividing this country along similar lines.
The most outstanding example of double speak and double think I have ever seen.
From beginning to end, completely content-free, yet able to be self-contradictory.
Bill Clinton's 'what the meaning of 'is' is' comment has been overridden by a true master.
Already, Insurance companies choose what treatments you get. A parent of a friend of mine does that. She isn't a doctor and decides what treatments you deserve. I highly recomend the movie Sicko. This is ridiculous, a rescue helicopter ride and leg surgery shouldn't cost 250,000 dollars. We need reform NOW.