Hannity hosts Ph.D. in constitutional history "Dr. Betsy McCaughey" to discuss health care reform
August 24, 2009 7:35 am ET
From the August 23 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America:
Previously:
Betsy McCaughey resigns from medical company board over "conflict of interest" concerns
Jon Stewart corrects serial misinformer McCaughey's latest end-of-life counseling falsehood
Caught with "pants on fire," McCaughey backtracks, hedges -- again
Why do the media -- most recently CNN -- enable McCaughey's falsehoods?
The other right-wing media mogul you should worry about
Palin's book and Obama's bow: a media week to forget
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
and understood NOTHING... think Jon Stewart....
pg.37 House bill:
periodic updating of the benefit standards previously
2 adopted under this section.
3 (3) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary may not
4 adopt any benefit standards for an essential benefits
5 package or for level of cost-sharing that are incon
6 sistent with the requirements for such a package or
7 level under sections 122 and 123(b)(5).
8 Subtitle D—Additional Consumer
9 Protections
10 SEC. 131. REQUIRING FAIR MARKETING PRACTICES BY
11 HEALTH INSURERS.
12 The Commissioner shall establish uniform marketing
13 standards that all insured QHBP offering entities shall
14 meet.
15 SEC. 132. REQUIRING FAIR GRIEVANCE AND APPEALS
16 MECHANISMS.
17 (a) IN GENERAL.—A QHBP offering entity shall pro
18 vide for timely grievance and appeals mechanisms that the
19 Commissioner shall establish.
20 (b) INTERNAL CLAIMS AND APPEALS PROCESS.—
21 Under a qualified health benefits plan the QHBP offering
22 entity shall provide an internal claims and appeals process
23 that initially incorporates the claims and appeals proce
24 dures (including urgent claims) set forth at section
25 2560.503–1 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, as
Notice at 1:59 of the video, the transition from the long zooming shot of Obama - blood spatters. Don't tell me it's coincidence. That's not a typical video transition, and the odds that it was thrown in randomly are ridiculously minute.
I consider myself a fair person, and I was willing to give Fox the benefit of having their own principles - namely greed and profit by targeting a defined segment of the tv audience. Not very ethical, but legal. But I'm past that now. It seems every other day they give us another reason to believe that they're promoting violence.
Am I over-reaching? Or is Hannity planting another seed of violence in his field of ignorant jackass viewers here? I'm completely serious when I say that at this point, I think the Secret Service needs to pay this disgusting waste of skin a visit.
Hey Media Matters - I may be over-reacting, though I'm not known to do so very often. But is this blatant enough to start a stink over? It may not be exactly misinformation, but it seems important enough to me to get some attention.
This was the Secret Service saying this. Not Media Matters or Daily Kos or Huffpo- but The Secret Service. And since no one was, or is, admonished for it, then there's no reason for them to stop. Until something happens. At which point the Glen Becks, Sean Hannitys, and Sara Palins of the world will pass it off as the acts of a "lone nut job" and absolve themselves of any responsibility.
BTW, the more I see of this woman the more I am reminded of Palin and Bachmann. She may speak better than the other two but what she says is just as dishonestly loony.
I love when Repubs make claim that the Left fears Palin and Bachman because they always comment on them...Here is a hint to the Right, we love these women. They make us laugh thru their sheer stupidity. Please run them for office.
Then again, so do Michael Savage and Jerome Corsi
In her case, it stands for "Phony Doctor". :-)
Yeah -- but it's in history, not medicine or public health.
Just like "Dr." Laura Schlessinger has a Ph.D in biology -- yet spouts off on radio as some kind of psychiatry expert.
Proof once again that, for the rightwingnuts, not only do you need not have any credentials at all [like Hannity] to be considered an "expert," sometimes you don't even need credentials in the area you're supposedly an expert in to speak on it . . .
I appeal to reason...
The insurance industry has words to describe, "death panel;" preexisting conditions. They are telling health professionals what to do, already. Anyone can hold a handful of air and call it water. The difference is Ms. McCaughey is doing the bidding of the insurers, not the doctors, less the patient. A doctorate in anything does not entitle license to everything.
Mr. Hannity, a skillful actor, with Herculean strength tumbled gravity, to lift the proposed bill. He says a nameless, faceless board will decide who will receive care. Insurance bureaucrat, anyone?
The gloom and doom music fondles Mr. Hannity's apocalyptic pandering(s). His rush to stun elevates Ms. McCaughey's sky-falling wrong-talk. It is about control of the masses, not contributions to them.
What less are we, who are valued by profit?
Addsum,
Ronin Kannushi.
Are these the same that think Colbert is a Right Winger? Did they go to college? Do they know anybody who went to college? Did they ever make a Collage?
We live in a world where a woman can call a Jew a Nazi... Then go "Boo Hoo".
Sinful! I would be ashamed to be one of them. It hurts to watch Faux..
Now to be sick.....
Patient: "Dr. McCaughey, I've been told I may have terminal cancer and that to save my life I need an operation." McCaughey: "No-you're fine! Perfectly healthy the way you are!
Problem solved.
Good work by the way, Sean. You have proven once again that a thrity minute show on an all comedy channel can provide better and more trustworthy news than twenty four hours of Fox news viewing on any given day.
This was about fixing her's and the network's image and repairing the damage that was done by a lone comedian armed only with wit and common sense. Your entire network failed in a simple reading and comprehension lesson. How embarassing for you.