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Fox's math: CBO score on Senate health bill's cost + the amount reform reduces the deficit = real cost of health bill

November 19, 2009 8:55 am ET

From the November 19 broadcast of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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    • Author by Bad News (November 19, 2009 9:36 am ET)
         
      I was wrong about Brian Kilmeade.
      It's Steve Doocy that is the real Brain Bleed.
      If we could just Computer Hack into his Telepromper we could control him like a Puppet.
      Doocy is like that old kids tv commercial "Hey Mikey, He Likes It" He'll read anything like a Muppet.

      Speak truth to power.


      Mr. News
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    • Author by caels (November 19, 2009 9:52 am ET)
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      Republican math:

      Price of Bills Theorem:

      Cost of Bill (Republican) = Real Cost of Bill / k where k>0 and is chosen arbitrarily. k is best chosen to be a really large number, so the cost is really low.

      Cost of Bill (Democrats) = (Real Cost of Bill)k + c where k>0 and c>0 and both are chosen arbitrarily. Here, k should at least be 10 and c should at least be $5 trillion.

      The proof is really complicated, but it was proven by Professor Karl Rove in the Annals of Mathematics.
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    • Author by SoloPocono (November 19, 2009 10:08 am ET)
         
      ok, maybe it's because I've been out of college for over 11yrs...but I'll be damned if I can make sense of his logic??
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    • Author by manofmystique (November 19, 2009 10:37 am ET)
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      Obama is in a no-win situation, which means he is damned if he do and damned if he don't according to Fox News.
      Unless you are, racist, mentally challenged or stupid, this would be obvious to you.
      The reason I say you would have to be stupid is due to the fact Fox News is not selective in their attacks and criticism of Obama. It is an all out assault on Obama. These bigots criticize BIG things, small things, petty things and EVERYTHING.
      There is not one person with common sense who will accept what Fox News wants to project.
      They want people to believe Obama can't do ANYTHING right. How stupid is that? This defies logic and it is an insult to the overwhelming number of voters who help elect him President. Fox News viewers refuses to see the hypocrisy and contradictions in Fox News "fair and balanced" programming.
      The fact is Obama, not only won the 2008 election fair and square, but he outfoxed, (no pun intended), Democrats, Republican AND the main media.
      None of these entities believed this was possible prior to his win, and they didn't think it would be possible AFTER they threw everything they had at him, yet he prevailed.
      All that is left for Fox News and other racist elements is to downplay, undermine, criticize, attacks, discredit, distort, miss-represent and lie on the President, while trying to convince people he is incompetent.
      But for some strange reason...perhaps stupidity, Fox News believe it makes sense to criticize EVERYTHING Obama does, as opposed to selective things. Is it not a risk you will lose credibility?
      Perhaps Fox News fans/mobs are that brainless or clueless, but do they really think EVERYBODY is that stupid?
      How smart is that?
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      • Author by mk3872 (November 19, 2009 10:40 am ET)
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        it must be awfully nice for the GOP to have their own national cable channel pushing their agenda and talking points 24x7 ...
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    • Author by thundavolt (November 19, 2009 11:08 am ET)
         
      I think the new strategy is mass confusion. i looks like this thing is going to pass and if there is enough confusion people will ask for more time. The planned undercover tea parties are no longer going to be effective. How can they want Universal coverage and be so bad at math all of a sudden. If this goes through it will be the biggest waste of money in all history by the Insurance Companies in their fight against it. Second only to the Iraq war.
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    • Author by Turk72 (November 19, 2009 11:38 am ET)
         
      Wait a minute he added a positive number( the bills budget ) to a negative number ( the deficit reduction ) and came up with and even bigger number? I must have missed that day in math class.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 19, 2009 12:34 pm ET)
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      Fox's math: CBO score on Senate health bill's cost + the amount reform reduces the deficit = real cost of health bill

      And the people believed that elementary math problem. I seen this morning with Doocy saying this. No positive talk from a channel totally devoted to smears. That is Fox Snooze for you.

      I guess they forgot our who basis to establishing this country to where we got since 1776 was of the tax and spend clause of the constitution, but FOX Snooze and Friends will never say that.
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