They decide: Fox Business reporter Gasparino declares he would not vote for health care reform and asks "Who would?"
March 09, 2010 8:29 pm ET
From the March 8 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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So now it is tied becuase I'd vote for it.
Maybe Gaspie doesn't know enough "real Americans."
He said "no I wouldn't vote for health care reform, but who would", and then he explained his answer by saying "it's too complicated, I don't think anybody really understands it", and o'reilly confirms his reservation by saying "and so it's just because you don't know what the heck it says", and then the other guy asks "do you understand it?" and o'reilly says "I don't, but I don't understand many many things."
This is the information business at work, this is "news" and informed commentary.
"I don't understand it, do you?"
"Heck no not me either, but that's par for my course."
Ever hear the expression that it's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness?
Of course you have, it means that if you can actually do something to light the light, to inform yourself, to make things better, then do it, but don't just curse the darkness of your own dim and empty mind, don't just curse and say "I don't know, beats me, I haven't a clue."
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, and these two characters in the video clip, in the "news" business, it's like they're both blowing out the candle first, and then cursing their darkness right after.
A: It's OBAMA's fault!!!!1!!one!
It's funny how when the Republicans were in charge, these same fools would just proclaim that we have to trust our leaders in whatever they decide to do.
Both views are actually wrong. The answer is to find out what the heck is going on.
"If you were a Congressman, would you be working on health care reform, and by that I mean working to reduce health care costs, to reduce the extremely high insurance premiums that working Americans pay, or working to offer them an affordable Public Health Insurance plan to maybe choose... would you be doing that if you were a Congressman?"
That's what Ronald Reagan thought back in the sixties when Medicare was created. He criticized it as socialized medicine. He claimed that it would take away doctors' freedoms and would result in quotas and rationing. Conservatives where wrong then. Conservatives are wrong now.
BTW, I chose the Senate version of the bill because it looks like that's going to be the one to pass.