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Fox & Friends cites Godfather in applauding Obama's "cousin's" "courage" for opposing health care

March 11, 2010 6:38 am ET

From the March 11 broadcast of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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See also: Washington Times publishes anti-health care reform op-ed by "Obama's second cousin once removed."

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    • Author by stevensm (March 11, 2010 7:12 am ET)
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      Bringing up mobsters/death while discussing Obama and a family member?! Once again the F&F propagandists use a completely tacky and disturbing analogy that they would never dream of using if the situation involved Bush.
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      • Author by manndan (March 11, 2010 10:02 am ET)
           
        I can't believe that anybody is so dense that they miss a Fredo reference.
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        • Author by stevensm (March 11, 2010 2:08 pm ET)
             
          I hope you're seriously not directing that at me as I did not "miss" Kilmeade's Fredo reference. Kilmeade's comment was completely inappropriate. As I said, an analogy about the mob/dead family members has no place in a discussion about Obama/his cousin (especially when the cousin just wrote an op-ed opposing the healthcare plan Obama wants to have passed).
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    • Author by New Frontier (March 11, 2010 7:37 am ET)
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      "It's rare that a member of Obama's own family comes out against (health care reform)!"
      Know what would be even rarer?? If a member of Fox News came out for it.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (March 11, 2010 7:57 am ET)
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      So Dr. Wolf is a cousin of the President, it must be on his father's side, because his mother was an only child. That is a cute little stretch of the truth. And don't you just love how Retchin' worries about adding 30 million people to the system? It's too many people, and so care for the rest of us will suffer, I guess all those people will just have to continue to do without. You heard her, go suffer and die over in that secluded corner, don't you go bother her pretty little head, you don't deserve to be cared for!
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      • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 8:38 am ET)
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        I was struck by that argument, as well. According to these clowns, the "Best Healthcare System in the World" would implode from a 10% increase in customers.

        Sounds more like a business opportunity to me.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (March 11, 2010 8:42 am ET)
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          Yes, indeed, it is a great opportunity for all the young doctors, it might even make primary care profitable.
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          • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 9:04 am ET)
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            Not to mention all the support personnel. I know that it is a long, expensive process to train doctors and nurses, but nurse's aids, clerks and techs can be recruited and trained much more quickly. If the Healthcare industry stops whining and gets to work, maybe they could even make a dent in the unemployment figures.
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    • Author by Ouroborus (March 11, 2010 8:11 am ET)
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      Ah yes, the courage of a person Obama has likely never met being paid off by a right wing rag to shill against health care. That takes serious cajones, let me tell you.
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    • Author by drempala (March 11, 2010 8:17 am ET)
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      Well, if it's in the Washington Times, it must be true.
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    • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 8:41 am ET)
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      Yep, it takes a lot of moral fiber to adopt the "To Hell with you, I've got mine" attitude. Yes, indeed.
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    • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (March 11, 2010 9:11 am ET)
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      I know that I for one don't have the courage to speak out against my distant cousins whom I've likely never met before.
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      • Author by nerzog (March 11, 2010 9:36 am ET)
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        Good point. Most of us have "cousins" whom we wouldn't recognize if we met them face to face. How many families have those big Reunions every year?

        I'll bet this is one of those situations.
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    • Author by scubcap647 (March 11, 2010 10:42 am ET)
         
      This is just insane how the right wing is going out to find some obscure relative to Obama and use them against him. They always find someone who he's not that familiar with who was raised completely separate from him. I think I read somewhere that Brad Pitt is a distant cousin of the president. Since we're making a habit of finding distant relatives to comment on the president, I wonder why they never sought his opinion on Obama.
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