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Fox News' Shannon Bream repeatedly corrected on falsehood that health care reform will increase premiums

March 21, 2010 12:50 pm ET

From the March 21 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ:

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AP "fact check" headline falsely suggests people would pay higher premiums under health care reform

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    • Author by MidnightWriter (March 21, 2010 1:05 pm ET)
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      What's this? Someone who is for the Health Care Bill actually getting the opportunity to offer an intelligent, fact based answer without being screamed at, interrupted, or having their patriotism questioned?

      That might explain why the temperature is 31 degrees at the gates of Hades this morning.
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      • Author by punkin (March 21, 2010 1:43 pm ET)
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        or that his mic wasn't shut off or that the segment even AIREd on Fox
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    • Author by oscar the grouch (March 21, 2010 1:27 pm ET)
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      After the President said we could see up to a 3000% reduction in premiums. (hope the check will be in the mail soon.)
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      • Author by MidnightWriter (March 21, 2010 1:37 pm ET)
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        Interesting coincidence about the President's unintentional verbal misstep. Three thousand is the average number of times per week you'll hear Fox personalities intentionally lie about Death Panels.
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      • Author by MickD (March 21, 2010 2:37 pm ET)
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        Oscar, luckily you didn't count GWBush's verbal gaffes. You'd still be locked in a room somewhere doing it, with the anticipation of being done in around 2050.
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        • Author by oscar the grouch (March 21, 2010 4:14 pm ET)
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          Oh, I counted his and Quayle's and the number of times they were ridiculed by those of the opposing party as showing their "utter lack of knowledge." And yet gaffes from the current President and Vice President are written off by the same people as "mere mis-speaks". What goes around, comes around. Get used to it.
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          • Author by MidnightWriter (March 21, 2010 4:36 pm ET)
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            Oh, we can handle it.

            After all, most of us are pretty certain that Obama's a good deal more intelligent than W. and Quayle combined.
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            • Author by hughjass7955 (March 21, 2010 7:36 pm ET)
                 
              How do you know that?

              After all, Obama is the one who's hidden his grades, thesis and other papers he wrote while in school, etc... So there's nothing to go on, other than his voting record in the Senate.. where, ahem, he voted 'Present' more often than not...

              What has he got to hide?

              Oh, that's right... his grades & papers are locked away somewhere w his birth certificate (from Kenya) LOL!
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          • Author by DellDolly (March 21, 2010 7:10 pm ET)
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            There are times when an ERROR - like Quayle correcting someone who had spelled "potato" correctly because he thought it was spelled "potatoe" because "potatoes" has an 'e', or like Bush misprounouncing "nuclear" for years, or any number of OTHER errors by Bush, was an indication of ignorance.

            When Obama misspoke and said 3000%, there's NO indication that he actually THOUGHT that that percentage actually made sense. It was a simple case of him misspeaking.

            So, yeah, some errors deserve ridicule. Others errors are simple errors.

            This isn't rocket science, but as seems typical for you, Oscar, you are baffled by even simple things.
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            • Author by hughjass7955 (March 21, 2010 7:53 pm ET)
                 
              Don't forget when Biden said 'I have 3 letters for you: J-O-B-S'


              Or how about when Biden said; 'When the stock market crashed, FDR got on television and explained it to the people.'

              Er, yeah... right Joe...

              Biden is by far & away, the gaffe-master!

              Or when Obama claimed he was going to visit 57 states!

              and you guys are hooked on the 'e' on the end of potato? People who live in glass houses....
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            • Author by oscar the grouch (March 21, 2010 9:17 pm ET)
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              That must be why I seldom respond to your posts, they are so "simple."
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    • Author by New Frontier (March 21, 2010 1:48 pm ET)
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      Breaking news stories: Sun rises in east, and a young, white, blond woman conveys misinformation on Fox News.
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      • Author by hughjass7955 (March 21, 2010 7:39 pm ET)
           
        at least Fox has hot babes....

        Unlike MSLSD with Maddow the Cow!

        No wonder why libtard men are all gay... just look at the frigid (e.g. Boxer), fat (e.g. H. Clinton) & ugly (take your pick) libtard women ...
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (March 21, 2010 4:42 pm ET)
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      Such statement are so general they are always true somewhere, much like astrology. And they put a pretty face on the tube to administer this warning to alllesteners.
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    • Author by doggeddem (March 21, 2010 8:45 pm ET)
         
      So if it snows on one winter day, that means that there is no climate change crisis. It's the same kind of nonsense as the "some people say" crapola that that network always engages in. If 80% get lower rates, then that means the rates are going up.
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    • Author by Sharpe (March 21, 2010 9:04 pm ET)
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      It likely wont raise premiums but without the public option or medicare buy in or prescription imports or caps on premiums or profits for insurance, the rate hikes wont stop. I dont see any mechanism in this bill that addresses either profit or overhead from the private sector nor do i see much more competition. And there is nothing about caps on salaries or bonuses. There is nothing that bans insurance from increasing rates period. So to say that insurance costs won't go up is just not true but it is not going up because of the bill, its going up because insurance companies will keep hiking it up and the bill did nothing to stop that. I think congress expects that millions of more customers and god knows how much in subsidies going directly into insurance comapanies pockets will be more like bribing them to stay fair rather than keeping them honest by legislation. I really hope i am wrong but for all the ridiculous calls of socialism this quite a republican-looking bill in the end (I mean the GOP 15 years ago, not the radical christian fundamentalist extreme fringe they have become today).
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