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Perino, Van Susteren push falsehood that only Stupak amendment will prohibit federal funding for abortion

March 18, 2010 12:10 am ET

From the March 17 edition of Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren:

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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (March 18, 2010 12:24 am ET)
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      VanSusteren is a lawyer who endlessly examined the OJ Simpson case blow by blow. I know she must have read the helth Care bill and maybe even watched jon Stewart skewer that betsy personna.Why is this otherwise bright woman allow herself to appear on national tv pretending not to know what is in the bill. there is no federal funding of abortion, directly or indirectly.
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      • Author by dimes (March 18, 2010 12:31 am ET)
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        She's afraid of losing her job?
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      • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (March 18, 2010 6:21 am ET)
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        Even smart people have been known to drink kool-aid?
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      • Author by progressivevoicedaily (March 18, 2010 9:19 am ET)
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        It's very unfortunate that some would choose money over doing the right thing. Even if this bill does nothing more than stop an insurance company from dropping someone after they get sick, or capping the amount of money that will be spent over the course of a sickness it's 1,000 times better than the status quo. In no way will this bill make things worse. They couldn't be worse for middle class people.
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      • Author by mari2jj (March 18, 2010 5:05 pm ET)
           
        It is simple. To work for Fox, one HAS to be an ideilogue and one has to hue to the far, far, far right agenda or they would not be welcome to stay at Fox. Never mind that the reporting is colored all the time with dishonesty. What the heck, just so they make Republicans from my own party into saints and Democrats from the opposition to be devils. That is the first requirement of being a Fox reporter. It is a simple rule that is adhered to in order to keep one's employment there. I guess some Republicans love this sort of deception but it is humiliating to me. We used ot have the guts to argue fairly and squarly about any issue. But now so many of the News outlets are just an adjuct of the far to the right party flim flam and it is embarassing.
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    • Author by Russ139 (March 18, 2010 12:34 am ET)
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      Perino was much cuter in the WH Briefing Room, interpreting Bushisms for the rest of the world. But at least it was honest work. Now that she's gone over to the the Dark Side (Fox), she's lost her innocence.
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    • Author by donwelty (March 18, 2010 12:42 am ET)
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      Dana seems to have a problem with reality. Belief is better facts.
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    • Author by ojnabieoot (March 18, 2010 1:07 am ET)
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      A bit off-topic, but the front page of foxnews.com has gone absolutely crazy this week. They are scared to death that health care is going to pass and be popular.
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    • Author by Sharpe (March 18, 2010 1:50 am ET)
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      Notice how all four of the last posts were basically identically the last few nights. Susteren still lying about stupak being the only law that could possibly ban federal funded abortions when in reality, stupak would just generally start the process of banning abortions entirely. Hannity with the same crap about all the deals which are ALL going to be taken out in the reconciliation bill (I dont think hannity has any clue what reconciliation is.) And Morris continuing to advertise on fox to kill the bill even though no protest in the world would stop the vote at this point. Just the same redundant vomit every single night this week. This just proves - one, how little these people know about the bill or that they are just total liars. And two, how idiotic they are to not be able to come up with real arguments that are truthful and make sense or at least another fake argument.
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    • Author by Sharpe (March 18, 2010 1:58 am ET)
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      I can come up with better and accurate reasons to not pass this bill and I actually want it to pass. One can say why are we giving all this tax money via subsidies to the insurance industry that caused the mess in the first place? Why not force the insurance companies to provide such sums of money for the millions of new customers they are getting. One can also claim that this bill's only plan to lower costs is by regulation and not by competition - so essentially congress is assuming that their regulation is tight enough so that insurance won't find any loopholes which they most certainly will. Someone that actually knows something about the bill could also ask why many of the crucial laws like the one banning pre-existing conditions for adults don't kick in for years. Why not just start that policy now? But these childish arguments about almost completely irrelevant issues like haggling over the process is ridiculous - have these people never seen congress in action before? These bodies have more rules and insane votes and processes than any other agency in the country. But the constitution allowed each individual body of congress to write their own rules and so over the next two centuries they tried to outsmart each other by writing in everything that every popped into their head.
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    • Author by John Paradox (March 18, 2010 2:03 am ET)
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      Only the Stupak Amendment can prevent another Cuban Missile Crisis, whatever that was!
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (March 18, 2010 6:31 am ET)
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        "You've never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis? Another Lib shows off his public education. The Cuban Missile Crisis was when Woodrow Wilson attacked Picasso's villa to close the Concentration Camps. Remember, I know everything."

        -BobbyJindalFan's intern
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        • Author by lather (March 18, 2010 6:37 am ET)
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          Oh.. I love the BJFans reference.. I an are two a studnt of him..



          LOL.


          He must not be awake yet or I am sure he would be posting some foolish comeback.
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (March 18, 2010 8:24 am ET)
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          -BobbyJindalFan's intern

          Did someone say "amateur exorcist"?

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    • Author by bintx (March 18, 2010 10:51 am ET)
         
      Actually, the Hyde Amendment has already prohibited it. Stupak's language would just be an exercise in redundancy.
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    • Author by jbrantow (March 18, 2010 11:16 am ET)
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      I'm still amazed anyone would take perrino seriously after saying that "no terrorist attacks occured on US soil during the gw bush years". She's just another delusional lying fox commentator.
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