Jon Stewart confronts McCaughey over her "hyperbolic" and "dangerous" claims

Stewart did not have to put any effort at all into revealing her as a deceptive mouthpiece for insurance companies and the party of NO.

She is like Oily Taintz except without the heavy eastern accent.

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Why does it take a commedian to make a moron look like a moron?

I just finished watching the show and the clips here on the west coast. I was sober before it started. I now need a drink. I literally can't figure out McCaughey's objections, nor can I grasp what she wants to accomplish. It was a though she is on a hyperactive yet logic-numbing drug.

I honestly don't comprehend how McCaughey thinks. She seems to be completely consumed by the knots on the trees and unable to comprehend (or explain) either a tree or the forest. She's not stupid, but she doesn't seem to listen well. She seems unable to persuade from a factual basis, but resorts to appeals to the crowd and an appeal to authority. (a PhD in constitutional history is not the same as law and the ability to write, read or comprehend law)

I've spent a fair amount of the past year reading health care reimbursement documentation (my appeal to credential) from both Medicare and private insurers for a new medical device we have in trials in Europe and hope to get to the US in the next year or so. I read Section 1233 a couple weeks ago and it's a pretty simple data capture and "best practices" analytical piece. Like all Medicare reimbursements it lays out a set of procedures and the specifications to be met for compensation.

BTW, my European and Canadian medical business associates have watched this absurd healthcare "debate" and have come to the conclusion that Americans have proven we not only deserved Dubya, but he was one of our smartest citizens.

The best way to make these people real is to ask them to describe the exact words that they say are so bad. It does no good to use the same ad hominem attacks that they do. Ask where the opinion comes from, where the words they say are so bad exist.

Stewart should win a pulitzer. He's the best (and last true) journalist left!

It was just extraordinary the way he handled her torrent of BS. She’s skillful, but he’s better. And how cool is it that Stewart had actually read the relevant section of the bill! I can't even imagine any other TV host -- or even a news anchor -- doing that. And he’s so incredibly LUCID about it, it just blows me away. Let's face it, he's one of the smartest people in television news -- and yeah, there's no point backing off from that categorization: he says it's a fake news show, but it's the realest sstuff on the airwaves.

Jon Stewart was just refreshingly "AWESOME" by letting Ms. McCaughey read aloud what she mis-interpreted just to 'make-up' in time to oppose the HealthCare Reform Bill that is "NOT" final yet - LOL. Thanks Media Matters.

I think Conservatives are just trying to keep up with the Obama Adm. in the Corporate Whore column

You notice, McGaughey never read the offending language and pretended not to be able to find it when asked. She's a bought and paid for, lying shill.

I have to get up early in the morning, so I can't see the Daily Show when it comes on. I seem to be missing out on a whole lot of really good information delivered with wit. I have of course seent the polls that show Daily Show and Colbert Report viewers to be the best informed, and I am understand why. It takes a lot of knowledge and understanding of the issues to skewer them as they do. Bravo!

Perhaps I am a simple mind. But my favorite part was right at the outset when she came on the set with her large binder of the House bill saying that it was "sooooo BIG" at 1,000+ pages.

Then when she opens it, you see that it is the old large ring binder and printed on 1 side of each paper!!

That's pretty typical from the right wingers, isn't it? Use technology from the 1970s, waste paper and claim that a bill is much, much too big for them to have to actuall read & understand!

I just love jon stewart, i wish the media was as well versed as jon.

THIS is why Jon Stewart is the most trusted name in news.

CNN......eat your heart out.

How IS it that this comedian with his small staff, is able to reference all the facts, any/all old video clips, manage NOT to loose audio and video feed, never have ANY blackouts......and CNN cannot?

How IS it that this comedian is the only one on TV to have the integrity to call these wackos out on their insanity.

How IS it, that when he criticizes the president, it is more "fair and balanced" than any other "news media"

And just how is it that as a comedian, Jon Stewart, provides the best journalistic news on TV?

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god it's almost too easy for him. what a lying whore of a woman.
it really seems like jon stewart is the only one in the media doing his job and he's a comedian.

I do not for one second believe that an old lady looked up at Betsy McCaughey from her death bed and said, "Hurry." Unless it was, as Stewart suggested, that she wanted her to leave. Why do politicians always make up these ridiculous stories?

I loved the bit where McCaughey said that the person or family should be able to 'change their mind' about a living will. What? If a person is still in their right mind they could change the living will whenever they want. THis bill would not change that. So what she's really saying is that the family should be able to decide whether or not to adhere to the living will. What's the point of a living will if someone else can override it?

They touched on a core problem with our health system, the profit function of the industry.

The health system is a public safety issue. Just like the Police and Fire departments. It's a shame that the Police and Fire Departments aren't for profit... right? <sarcasm>

In the UK, doctors are paid well and are wealthy, but there is no expectation of great wealth like it is often portrayed here. Doctors and nurses work for the government, just like Policeman and Fireman. It's a service to your government and community.

I believe in the capitalist system for business. If you want to manufacture a widget to sell in the open market, then the free market is the best process in the world. But the problem in America is that we are accustomed to the fact that the quality of our health is a business. We call it the Health Care Industry, don't we.

Any industry where the ultimate goal is the irridication of what they service is not an industry, it's a public service. Crime and Fires are horrible things that we as a society pay for to fight, just like sickness and disease is to the Health System.

But, Fire and Police departments don't suffer when there are no fires or crime, and when there is too much of it, we question the quality of their work. In the Health Care Industry, they profit as the condition of society worsens.

This is why all industrialized nations provide health care...except us. There is no money to be made in wellness.

McCaughey is either delusional or openly lying, and Stewart proves it.