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Baier: "Reconciliation or the nuclear option ... people aren't calling it the nuclear option" but "it's exactly what it is"

February 26, 2010 5:54 pm ET

From the February 24 edition of WOR's The Steve Malzberg Show:

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Malzberg and Baier further hype the Breitbart-pushed video to falsely accuse Dems of hypocrisy on the "nuclear option."

Previously:

They Decide: Fox News still pushing falsehood that reconciliation is "the nuclear option"

Fox News continues to attempt to redefine "nuclear option"

Quick Fact: Fox & Friends seizes on Breitbart-pushed video to falsely accuse Dems of hypocrisy on "nuclear option"

Hannity conflates reconciliation, "nuclear option" to accuse Democrats of "hypocrisy"

Baier claims reconciliation "was once called the nuclear option" to falsely suggest Dem hypocrisy

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    • Author by raddave43 (February 26, 2010 5:57 pm ET)
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      Looks like people are calling reconcilliation "the nuclear option" but that's NOT what it is.
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    • Author by shaggles (February 26, 2010 6:07 pm ET)
         
      It's not what it is and the Reps have used it many times themselves in the past.
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    • Author by Far Left but Always Right (February 26, 2010 6:22 pm ET)
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      This talking point must be the work of Frank Luntz.
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    • Author by bintx (February 26, 2010 6:29 pm ET)
         
      Nope, that's not what it is.
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    • Author by foghornleghorn (February 26, 2010 6:38 pm ET)
         
      In a way he's right because once health care reform passes and people like it, the chances of the rethugs getting the majority again are effectively nuked into oblivion.
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    • Author by Invent a Scandal (February 26, 2010 6:47 pm ET)
         
      He's right,
      People with half a brain and an ounce of integrity are not calling it the nuclear option--because it isn't the nuclear option.

      Only dingbats such as himself are calling it the nuclear option.

      Once in a while these fulminating nuts accidentally speak the truth.




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    • Author by knowledgereigns (February 26, 2010 7:53 pm ET)
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      UGH! This is really starting to p*** me off. I send corrections to Fox News shows all the time and I have doubts my emails are ever read.

      We need a means of responding to this misinformation faster. If we were to have something like Breitbart's Big Journalism and their huge Twitter feed.

      Does anyone else ask for corrections at this site? It would seem we would make more of a difference if we actually did something about this.
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    • Author by John Paradox (February 26, 2010 8:32 pm ET)
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      One of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: `How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?' The answer: `Four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg'.

      [emphasis added]
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