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Straight news? Special Report host Baier advances myth that reconciliation process is "the nuclear option"

March 09, 2010 7:23 pm ET

From the March 9 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:

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Previously:

Fox perpetuates "nuclear option" falsehood

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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 09, 2010 7:36 pm ET)
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      Just give in, why fight against it, OK it's the nuclear option... and reforming Senate Rules to eliminate these stupid and undemocratic "cloture motions", that's nuclear disarmament... and eliminating these crazy one-man dictatorial Republican "holds" in the Senate's Rules ("unanimous consent motions"), that's like keeping little hostile IRAN from having nuclear weapons... and millions of millions of Americans without health insurance, that's like nuclear fallout... and covering those sick and injured masses staggering about in a nuclear aftermath, that's something we should really give a scary name to, something really terrifying, like...

      Public Health Insurance.
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    • Author by princeofwheels (March 09, 2010 8:22 pm ET)
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      I wonder when these Foxbots think when they get home at night knowing that they have lied on National TV for money. Their parents wasted all that money to get them a degree in journalism and now they waste it at Fox News.
      Until they get to the Rush, Hannity level of pay, they should be ashamed of themselves.
      Talk about being smarter than a 5th Grader..the 5th graders know the difference between Reconciliation and the Nuclear Option.

      Such a pity these people have to grovel at the feet on some millionaire haters.
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      • Author by MR Jensee (March 09, 2010 8:54 pm ET)
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        It's nuclear because as soon as the Democrats shove this down our throats they are going to be blown out of the air. The backlash by the public over this stinker of a bill will stick to them for a long, long time.
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        • Author by skiploader1111 (March 09, 2010 10:05 pm ET)
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          So now you want to call it the "nuclear option" because you think the public doesn't want the bill to pass now?

          You are basically just admitting that reconciliation is not the "nuclear option." So now you are looking for a totally different reason to still call it the "nuclear option."

          Which Republican lie am I supposed to believe? Is it the procedure called reconciliation is bad or is it because it the bill is bad?

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          • Author by MR Jensee (March 10, 2010 12:20 am ET)
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            You probably prefer to believe the Democrat lie. You know the one that says that THEY
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            • Author by MR Jensee (March 10, 2010 12:22 am ET)
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              know what's best for you better than you do. You will probably believe them too. Lies are always easier to face than truth. Especially when the truth will break your little bubble world.
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              • Author by skiploader1111 (March 10, 2010 12:50 am ET)
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                Democrats never claimed that they know what is best for me or America. But I do know that they know better than the Republicans period.

                Almost everything conservatives are told by their own leaders and advocates like Rush are lies. Where in the world should I start? What's amazing is that many conservatives know that Rush, Beck, O'Reilly, Coulter, etc. are full of crap. But they don't mind that others are tricked into believing those lies because it results in Republican votes.

                More people for example believing that "death panels" were ever in the health bill = Republican votes. When a liberal advocate speaks about the health care bill, they accurately describe what's in it.
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                • Author by rumpleteasermom (March 10, 2010 5:30 pm ET)
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                  You know the really ironic thing about the 'death panels'? The bit of language in the bill that was inaccurately portrayed as death panels was proposed by a Republican - U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson.
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        • Author by John Paradox (March 09, 2010 10:58 pm ET)
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          Ramming it down our feeding tubes, eh?

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          • Author by angels4light (March 10, 2010 12:04 am ET)
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            Wow - that is SO perfect!
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            • Author by John Paradox (March 10, 2010 2:21 am ET)
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              Same time you sacrifice a virgin Dominican boy for Rush.
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              • Author by mescal (March 10, 2010 4:15 am ET)
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                Well done, John. You just obliterated that nasty, smirking little troll. You have my thanks and my admiration.
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                • Author by John Paradox (March 10, 2010 6:30 am ET)
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                  Remember, I've been doing this since before Rush was preening about the 1994 elections, when the freshman Republican caucus gave him an honorary membership in their caucus.
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        • Author by historygeek001 (March 10, 2010 10:31 am ET)
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          Mr Jensee: It's not the nuclear option. You're lying again.
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    • Author by Sharpe (March 10, 2010 12:20 am ET)
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      Some people aka the people on this network right before Baier and whoever watches them on a daily basis.
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    • Author by ProgLib (March 10, 2010 4:33 am ET)
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      Yes, confusing for you, because you keep calling it that and misinforming your gullible, uneducated viewers.

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      • Author by carlh (March 10, 2010 9:05 am ET)
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        Right! It's not confusing, it's not a myth. It's an outridge stupid pathetic lie.
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