Media
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You can also try Kaitlyn Buss at kbuss@freedomworks.org
Kaitlyn will be at the media table at the West Lawn on 9-12.
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The media like to report lies, its time we stand.
Sorry to blow your myth. I am a media photographer I shoot as i see it, period! I will at the event to witness this event and document. Do not “cookie cutter” as, ” the media like to report lies” …I am insulted, please stick with You -tube for your negative comments
Thank you Greg for being a responsible journalist with integrity. We need you – and more like you! See you in DC!
Blessings to you
Greg,
I talked to a cameraman at one event and he said that his producer made the decisions as to what was actually shown. I believe he did shoot balanced and truthfully, but what was shown was far from accurate. Have you found that to be the case at your station? Or will your producer/editors respect you judgement?
Thanks and best wishes (we need guys like you to report it as you see it).
Its’ funny how people who are well educated are usually Dem or are Progressive.
I’m not saying you all are not intelligent . I’m just saying you might not be well informed.
It’s great ya’ll are being active, but you may want to fact check your idealolgy.
http://www.factcheck.org/
I’m wondering where you get your facts from – I am on the right – libertarian/republican and I have a Bachelor’s from Columbia and a masters and I’m working on a PhD in Early American History and Constitutional Studies!! Maybe you should check your facts before you show your ingnorance!!!!
Liberal democrats are not well educated, they have been brainwashed in the indoctrination centers called public schools, colleges and universities. This has been the case since about 1980 when “political correctness” rather than the classics of western civilization was taught. Don’t delude yourself, idiot, and wake up!
You know what I find funny Mr. “Reality”. Its funny how there are millions and probably tens of millions of people in this country that are on Welfare and live off of Government handouts. Republicans are hard working and earn a living while a lot of liberals sit in the cities, vote democrat, just so they can get more handouts. Don’t call out republicans by saying we don’t know the truths. I use to be a democrat, but switched once Obama came into office. He gives liberals and many democrats handouts they don’t deserve. He is rewarding failures, where handouts don’t allow the PEOPLE to take the initiative to get a job and work to earn money for a living. They would rather join a union, or protest the streets to get more handouts. What a load of crap Welfare is. I hope millions more vote against the liberals in Congress as Barack Obamas approval rating is Plummeting. Thank God Americans are standing up to this communist punk that thinks he is the God of America and the World. America now needs change- more republicans, and this is coming from a past democrat…
Laura,
My evidence was only anecdotal, but I was curious and did some quick research and found that in previous elections percentages were generally pretty even. Except for in 2004 when 55% of post grads voted for Kerry and 44% for Bush.
Also, if you look at my post I said “usually” not always. So, I’m sorry for the generalization, but maybe I thought that, because many of the arguments made here are usually childish and lack substantial facts.
T. Paine,
Why must you resort to name calling? Why are you such a mean spirited and hateful person?
Brett B.,
Your perception of urban areas is perversely distorted. Ask yourself: Where are the majority of jobs? Where is the majority of wealth? And so on… I’ve got nothing against rural areas/ I live in Denver and Colorado is a great mix of Urban and Rural areas.
To everyone: Please stop listening to hate radio. It appeals to the worst side of humanity and will poison your soul.
Greg, you know that its true that a large portion of the media,(not everyone), are educated and trained in the northeastern universities and, as such, come away with a “liberal bias”. Lately that has been carried to the extreme as with NBC, etc. and real unbiased journalism is almost extinct. I don’t expect or want someone with a conservative bias, just an old fashioned “news reporter” that takes his job seriously. I think you may be one. Unbiased news is hard to come by these days.
I recently went back to college and there is a concerted effort to avoid any political talk.
I think you’re confusing looking at the facts, using reason and making an educated decision on the issues as a “liberal bias”
You are being obtuse.
Sorry to blow your myth? sorry to see your so “sensitive” , but the majority of the media does report lies or does not report as they see it. We get the view of the individual that’s reporting the story. I would like to have some links of the news that you were involved in and let us be the judge of you’re impartiality. Don’t you think its time to be a man? Really what type of man gets insulted so easily? Please grow a pair before you sound off sissy.
Bob T – try to develop some respect for a fellow American before you start questioning his patriotic allegiances and moral foundations. You’re the archetype for why we can’t have a reasonable debate about major issues, because you’re too busy going after the messenger, instead of the ideas that go with the message. I’m from the South, born and raised, and I’m tired of people twisting things around in a negative way, especially when it comes to faith. Only when you let go of your own insecurities can you really have a logical “can-do,” productive, and effective discussion about something important.
What do you mean “what type of man gets insulted so easily”? You’re answer is one who is defending his profession from disillusioned hacks. I could go after the oil driller, or even the insurance agent, blaming them for ruining our planet or for being the real “death panel”, but then I’d be ignoring the forces and policies that are behind those particular individuals’ work.
Think before you speak please.
Please anouce The Triangle Conservative Constitutional Tea Party in Raleigh this Tuesday. please go to my blog Randy’s Right for details
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/alert-triangle-constitutional-town-hall/
The Triangle is holding a Constitutional Town Hall on Tuesday, August 25th, from 7 PM – 9 PM.
Senators Kay Hagan and Richard Burr have been invited via hand delivered letters, as well as Representatives Brad Miller, David Price and Bob Etheridge. Sen. Burr, Rep. Miller and Rep. Price have declined their invitation to this event. They will be represented on stage with a physical likeness to represent your interests. Please prepare your questions prior to the meeting. We will be posting your questions on YouTube.
A panel of medical experts will also be available to answer questions concerning health care,including BJ Lawson and a economist will be included in the panel.
Doors will open at 6:15 PM and there is seating for 800 people.
Supporting Organizations/Websites:
NCFreedom.us
NCTeaPartyRevolution
NC Voice
Randysright
Sons of Liberty
Triangle Conservatives Unite!
Triangle Constitutional Town Hall
Tuesday, August 25th, 7 PM – 9 PM
Lighthouse Convention Center
326 Tryon Road, Raleigh, NC 27603
Bill Moyers on the Bush Administration:
What would happen, however, if the contending giants of big government and big publishing and broadcasting ever joined hands, ever saw eye to eye in putting the public’s need for news second to free-market economics? That’s exactly what’s happening now under the ideological banner of “deregulation”. Giant media conglomerates that our founders could not possibly have envisioned are finding common cause with an imperial state in a betrothal certain to produce not the sons and daughters of liberty but the very kind of bastards that issued from the old arranged marriage of church and state.
Consider the situation. Never has there been an administration so disciplined in secrecy, so precisely in lockstep in keeping information from the people at large and — in defiance of the Constitution — from their representatives in Congress. Never has the powerful media oligopoly … been so unabashed in reaching like Caesar for still more wealth and power. Never have hand and glove fitted together so comfortably to manipulate free political debate, sow contempt for the idea of government itself, and trivialize the peoples’ need to know.
There should be a investigation into the agenda of the news media. There is no free news. It’s all bought and paid for by special intrest and socialist.
Everyone gives an opinion instead of reporting the news.
Thomas, my view of bias in the media is this: it is very difficult, if not impossible, to remove all prejudice or apparent prejudice from a news story. And the reason for this is because the media are governed by human beings, who are of course naturally predisposed toward one idea or another. So I’m fine with bias on networks like CBS, NBC, Fox, etc. I expect to find it there. My hope, however, is that media sources eventually stop pretending to be something they’re not. I think most Americans who pick up a remote control know in advance what sort of slant they’re getting when they turn to a particular channel. And the media know we know that. They need to stop beating behind the bush.
The only television-based media I view as fairly “unbiased” is C-Span, and that’s because Brian Lamb has done a great job of preventing the sort of glitz and glamor entertainment that plagues mainstream media sources. Some people complain that C-Span is “boring” or “dry.” Well, that’s what happens when you get news without an agenda. Personally, I really enjoy C-Span and it’s the only news media source — and the only television station, for that matter — that I watch.
Even so, some liberal groups have accused C-Span of leaning toward the right based on their guest selection. For example, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) accused C-Span of favoring conservative think tanks over liberal ones: . This is what I meant by “apparent prejudice” earlier in my post. Even an organization like C-Span will never be free from criticism, because there are those who constantly count the number and type of guest appearances, the tone of the hosts, the types of books reviewed, and so on, in order to prove that bias is present.
Free media? Does your company work for free? Do you work for free? does your company have a point of view in its PR or stance it takes on some subjects? Do you have a point of view? what makes you think the media should not have a point of view? A free press means lots of voices saying their ideas, not one press saying only what one person claims is the truth.
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To make the Sept. 12th event more “eventful”, may I suggest the following:
1. A day or two before the 12th, have Primary Meeting areas OUTSIDE of Washington where encapments of Protestors are Gathering. Much like an approaching invading Army might do. Set up Camps and Define Routes which will be taken once the advancement on the Capital is put in motion. Prime areas may include, Gettysburg, PA, Manassas, VA, etc. All battlegrounds, and all very Steeped in the history of this country as Turning Points in her history.
2. On the 12th, turn the incoming freeways into parking lots. Amass vehicles on major Interstates and Highways. Obey all Traffic Laws, but preserve your fuel by moving at a very modest pace as the movement approaches its target.
3. Identify and assemble smaller groups at Senator/Congress households in and around D.C. These groups would be pressed into service to Chronicle the Interrogation of each member of Congress on their stance related to the Constitution. Again, Obey all Local Laws, but demand access, as this will be a Saturday, and everyone knows that Congress doesn’t work on Weekends, unless they are voting on their own pay increases.
4. When in D.C., remember decorem. Assemble peacefully, yet forcefully. I can imagine “regiments” of protestors (100 to 500 strong, each) being sent one-by-one, from Lincoln to Capitol Hill. A nice scenario would be to arrange by State with a large Flag at the front of each regiment, for example. (another would be by generation)
5. Ammunition. Each protestor MUST Leave behind a Personal Letter or Demand at the Capitol. One way of performing such an act would be similar to the processions we see when a former President lies in State. A well-organized procession, by State or Generation, single-file. There would remain 50 (if by State)Piles of Letters at the Designated dropping point on the Steps of the Capitol. Since Postage has gone up, American preferred delivery method for a matter of this Importance is “Hand-Delivered”. To make the submission more appealing, a demand on Congress for individual “receipts” shall be requested in advance.
Well, that’s my contribution to this monumental event. What’s Yours?
David
Ohio
Leaving behind the “ammunition” (letters) at the Capitol is a fantastic idea.
I think that is a great idea – the more “theater” the better.
I also think we need to stress leaving the DC mall CLEAN.
Remember the pix of the area after Obama’s inauguration?
We dont need to give more fuel to the fire of “unruly” mobs that the media is now starting to chant.
Please leave our streets and our yards clean, too, many people come to protest and trash our streets and toss trash in our yards and our parks. The Park Service cleans up some of it, the city cleans up the rest, and we citizens who are home owners and tax payers have to clean up the rest, as well as pay taxes to the city to clean up after protesters like yourselves. How would you like to have do that in your town? Please treat our city like it is your own.
DC, would you mind taking pictures of the aftermath and post the results? Thanks
Sure, I’ll take pictures. and don’t be surprised when you see the trash – will you folks return to clean up the crap you will inevitably leave behind after I post the pictures? I’ve been here since 1976, after growing up in a small town in Ohio, and let me tell you, I’ve seen all of the groups come and go and they are all the same — you will trash the place, jaywalk in front of moving traffic, be rude to anyone you think lives here under the mistaken belief that we are all evil, and you will go home telling the folks back there what heroes you were for braving such a dangerous place as DC.
Hey, DC , would you also include Jesus Christo in your view of the trash left over. Be sure to photograph his good side, you know, the one trailing his stomach. He likes to show that a lot. Does “trash” include trash talk? If so, he could get a “double exposure” out of this. I sure the crowd will be glad to leave this trash behind to be collected by the liberal garbage collectors.
Since a lot of people I know aren’t gonna be able to make it, it would be awesome if we could in someway also represent them. Like I know some folks have mentioned the idea of bringing silhouette posters for every person that couldn’t go.
We need to send a clear message. We’re not alone. We’ve got 50,000,000+ other Americans standing behind us.
I like the silhouette idea but what about collecting petition names or even collecting handwritten notes from those who want to come but can’t and deliver them along with the petitions.
What the media didn’t show you at Obama’s Town hall meeting in Raleigh yesterday, the enormous amount of protesters lined 4 blocks in front of the meeting
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/photosvideo-obama-town-hall-meeting-protestors-in-raliegh/
All, keep up the good work but I am getting concerned that there is not enough PR going on for this event. I have yet to hear this date mentioned on a national news/talk radio program other than the Beck radio show. Hopefully there is an effort to get this date promoted. If people know about it, they will come.
Beck has mentioned us on his TV show as well as on radio, and also said he’s going to cover the event live from the studio. We’ve also sent e-mails to bunches of folks who, hopefully, have sent e-mails to MORE bunches of folks.
It was all over cspan this morning
Will there be coverage such that we in Marysville CA could participate locally by putting up a big screen to project the event in Washington DC ?
please forward me this is my second request for media passes, thank yiu
gregory a clarke
Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Matthew 22:15-22
For those of us flying into DC (Reagan International) , will poster and sign supplies be easy to find? I seem to not remember a lot of convienience stores in DC proper. Any suggestions (I don’t want to fold up poster board).
Rite Aid: 1815 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC
Walgreens: 1217 22nd St NW, Washington, DC
You can find everything you need there
I thougth Walgreen was suddently stifling free speech by not supporting Glenn Becks hateful show.
oh sorry that’s Walmart. My bad.
I am coming and bringing new recruits. My 5 daughters all bought me (5 copies) Glenn Becks Common Sense for my B Day and I have passed them out to the management at my company. What a recruiting manual.
I LIVE IN OHIO AND AM 76 YRS. OLD. I CANNOT GO TO D.C. BUT ALL OF YOU WILL BE IN MY PRAYERS THAT DAY AND EVERY DAY FOR THAT MATTER. GOD HELP US IF OBAMA GETS WHAT HE WANTS. I AM A MOTHER OF 6 AND GRANDMOTHER OF 15 AND MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. BY THE TIME YOU REACH MY AGE THE AMERICA I GREW UP IN WILL BE A THING OF THE FORGOTTEN PAST IF OBAMA AND THE DEMS ARE NOT STOPPED. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU FOR CARING ABOUT OUR COUNTRY.
MARY BARRETT
1125 GORLEY ST.
UHRICHSVILLE, OHIO 44683
My name is Chelsea Schilling, and I am a journalist for WorldNetDaily. I have been following the 9-12 march.
I would like to invite attendees and organizers to submit photos of the event to news@wnd.com. Please let us know your name and contact information so you can be credited if we use them. Also, please give us updates on speakers, comments, events, crowd counts, etc., as it happens. We’d like to hear from you.
Chelsea, I will be taking part in the march and demonstration, and will take both videos and stills with my camera. I have some experience in photography, and would be honored to contribute my photos for you to evaluate.
Allen, that would be wonderful. Please feel free to submit them along with your name and any other information about the photo that should be included in captions, etc. We would love to hear from you.
here you go:
National Day of Service and Remembrance
Please take a moment now to post your personal plan to perform a good deed, volunteer or engage in another charitable activity in observance of the newly established September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance. Help create a wonderful legacy that honors the victims and those who rose to service in response to the attacks on America.
http://911dayofservice.org/
guess cheney forgot to tell bush it was his job to set up a national day of remembrance.
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I have spoken to so many people who want to come to DC – but are unable to attend. I like the silhouette idea – but that might be difficult to carry. I am going to wear or carry a sign written in big letters that says “I represent 10 people who were unable to be here”
MaryBarrett – if you would like I can make it 11 people and then you will be represented too.
I also like the letter Idea. I could ask those I am representing to write a note and I could leave theirs along with my own. Is there a way to ask the organizers if something like that could be worked out?
Does anyone know if there are local marches taking place around the country on 9/12 for those who can’t be in DC?
Regarding National Day of Service – I always have and will continue to give of my time to better my community. I have no problem with a day being set aside to promote giving back – but I am very unhappy that the Obama administration felt it necessary to choose 9/11 as that day.
My calendars all say 9/11 is Patriots Day and I believe that is the perfect way to observe it. On that horrific, shocking, tragic day the citizens of the United States did not cower and hide, we stood up tall, displayed our flags and said to the world “these colors don’t run ” I would say on that day we were Patriots!
In the past few years many schools in our area have used the day to remember those who perished on 9/11 as well as celebrate real heroes – like those in the armed forces who defend us and our forefathers – the first patriots.
I will continue to celebrate 9/11 as Patriots Day
the organizer of your protest has a history of starting trouble:
“Brendan Steinhauser was the Washington, D.C. chapter leader of the right-wing protest group, Protest Warrior. He led the counter-protest against the anti-war movement’s mobilization on September 24, 2005. The group’s confrontational and provocative methods have caused incidents at numerous peace rallies. Steinhauser also led an “infiltration” of a peace rally in San Diego in March of 2005, and protests of Michael Moore in Crawford, Texas and San Diego, California. He brags about making short films of his provocative “infiltrations” and distributes them to other activists. ”
WOW, I didn’t know he was so talented, or dedicated to our cause. Any one who trashes Michael Moore can’t be all bad.
Talk to any political organizer and they’ll tell you the hardest part about pulling off a successful protest rally is building a big enough crowd for the press to show up and cover the festivities. As tax day approaches, conservatives planning anti-Obama “tea party” demonstrations across the country have found a way around this once-daunting organizer’s dilemma: Fox News.
That’s right. Despite repeatedly claiming its coverage is “fair and balanced,” despite its attacks on anyone who dares claim or imply the cable outlet tilts to the right, despite encouraging viewers to “say ‘no’ to biased media,” Fox News has frequently aired segments imploring its audience to get involved with tea-party protests across the country — protests the “news” network has described as mainly a response to President Obama’s economic policies.
Organizers of these tea-party protests have no bigger cheerleader (or crowd-builder, for that matter) than Fox News, which has provided attendance and organizing information for the events on air and online dozens of times. You name it, they’ve likely done it. Fox has offered viewers and readers such vital organizing information as protest dates and locations and addresses of websites where people can learn more. It has even posted information and publicity material for the events on its own website. Tea-party planners are now using the planned attendance of Fox News hosts to promote their protests and listing Fox News contributors as “Tea Party Sponsor[s]” on their website.
You see, Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, and Greta Van Susteren are all scheduled to broadcast live from tea parties in different cities across the country, and they’ve wasted little time in diligently working to boost attendance levels for the April 15 events.
On his Fox program, Hannity has told his viewers, “And don’t forget, you can log on to our website to get all the details one week from tomorrow, our special, ‘Tax Day Tea Party’ show. You can attend. It’s live. It’s in Atlanta.” Cavuto struck the same note, telling his audience, “By the way, this tea party movement that’s going against largesse, it is growing. And folks are fed up with out-of-control spending. To that end, we are going to be broadcasting live from one of the biggest of these rallies on April 15, Tax Day. We are at California’s state capitol in Sacramento. This is the epicenter of this tax revolt beast, if you will.” Buried under the fault line of this “epicenter”? Cavuto’s integrity.
For his part, Beck, Fox’s conspiracy-theorist-in-chief, managed to escape his “doom room” — Beck’s words — where he regularly hosts survivalist fringe characters prophesying our impending demise as a nation, long enough to encourage his viewers to come “[c]elebrate with Fox News” at any of four “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties.”
It’s sounding more and more like a nerdy third-grader begging classmates to show up for his birthday party: “Come on, guys! There’s gonna be pizza and a clown — you’ve gotta come!”
In all seriousness, it’s one thing for a news outlet to cover a political protest — that’s pretty logical. It’s quite another for a news outlet to repeatedly encourage its viewers to attend a political protest. Far from practicing legitimate journalism, it’s blatantly and unabashedly political.
Beck isn’t just helping with turnout. Discussing his participation in the upcoming protest at the Alamo in San Antonio on his syndicated radio program, Beck announced, “I’m going to do a fundraiser for them” to help defray costs. “So you can come and you can have lunch with me. … I don’t know any of the details, but I’ve heard it’s like $500 a plate or something like that.” I’m guessing they won’t be serving pizza with a price tag clocking in at 500 bones per ticket. The clown, on the other hand? I’m told Beck makes amazing balloon animals.
At this point, Fox News might as well retire its worn-out “we report, you decide” slogan in favor of something more accurate and timely. Perhaps “we incite, then report; rinse and repeat” would do the trick.
Taking all of this into consideration, it’s logical for people to be upset over the horrible state of affairs at Fox these days. Some might even be inclined to blame Beck, Hannity, and the rest of their right-wing broadcasting colleagues, but they should resist such temptation. You see, it really isn’t their fault at all.
They are simply fulfilling the charge of their boss, Fox News senior vice president Bill Shine, who, in an interview last month with National Public Radio, described the conservative cable network as “the voice of opposition on some issues.” Indeed.
At least someone’s finally being honest at Fox. Now, if that’s not a reason to party, I don’t know what is.
Oh, that is BS, you idiot. Fox IS fair and balanced. Beck is the last true patriotic journalist who understands that we are fighting for our very lives. He’s opened our eyes and you can’t stand that he has an army standing behind him, ready to take our marching orders.
We will prevail at all costs.
Glenn Beck tries to connect public anger towards the banking CEOs who ruined our financial sector with the situation in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, as if resentment and criticism of the wealthy is inherently Communist. Really Glenn? Here’s a quick quiz, and try to guess who wrote or said the following quotations, answers provided below.
1. “The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.”
2. “All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.”
3. “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
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1. Abe Lincoln 2. Tom Paine 3. Andrew Jackson
Glenn Beck on Al Gore concernig An Inconvenient Truth:
“[W]hat was the first thing they did to get people to exterminate the Jews. Now, I’m not saying that anybody’s going to — you know Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different.”
What? lol
New name for Beck: Reich-Winger
All Liberal Hog Wash from a far left elitist.
Hey DC resident,
When has DC ever been clean? I lived in Northern VA most of my life and DC has always been discusting.
Hey Quote Party
1. “The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.”
**All the more reason for limited gov’t**
2. “All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.”
** the key point is beyond what a man produces he owns a part back to society. I don’t think he was saying that anybody should pay 30, 40 or 50 percent of EVERYTHING they produce.
3. “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
**All the more reason for limited gov’t**
Try formulating some of your own thoughts instead of misunderstanding somebody elses
“Get a brane moran”
1) All the more reason to regulate industries and distrust the motives of the rich and powerful. We should err on the side of the powerless and poor in our governing.
2) Taxes are a citizens duty that is owed to the society that allowed him/her acheive success.
3) All the more reason the regulate industries and distrust the motives of the rich and powerful. We should err on the side of the powerless and poor in our governing.
quote party you are the moron, you obviously have not paid one bit of attention to what our gov’t actually does with taxpayer money. on 9-10-01 yes the day before 9-11 donald rumsfeld announces that over 2 trillion dollars is missing!!! back then that would have amounted to 8k dollars for every man woman and child in the USA , and that is nothing compared to what obama has put us on the hook for. YOU REALLY THINK THE GOV”T CAN HANDLE HEALTH CARE? AND HAVE YOU ACTUALLY READ H.R. 3200? I DID AND EVERYTHING THAT IS BEING SAID IS TRUE!!! you might want to recheck which side of the fence your standing on befor you are so willingly ready to give my freedoms away, for i will not give them up quietly
http://tjwilde.com/2009/09/02/did-glenn-beck-rape-and-murder-a-young-girl-in-1990/
Don’t give the ones againt the march any power Have no contact with the side liners or the one mixed in with us. Stick with the group cause we are not alone. Don’t give them anything to throw back at us.
Invoked the House’s guest chaplain as the floor session opened Thursday: “Gracious God, we meet in a challenging moment of your history. We cannot control all that may endanger us, but we can choose our behavior and the example we set as leaders,” said The Very Rev. George L.W. Werner, dean emeritus of Trinity Cathedral in Pittsburgh.
Back on Wilson’s home turf, the uproar turned into a boon for Democrat Rob Miller, his opponent in next year’s midterm elections.
In the first 24 hours after Wilson’s outburst, Miller’s campaign coffers swelled by $200,000, according to Jessica Santillo of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The contribution, she said, came in from 5,000 individual contributions.
Check out their after the March plan to “reclaim our culture.” Don’t miss The Declaration of Redependence. Sounds like a Christian only club.
http://www.teapartynextstep.com/page1.php
Sarah Palin is off working on her memoirs somewhere, so she wasn’t in the audience Wednesday to hear President Barack Obama call her a liar.
Palin is the most prominent politician to have promoted the idea that Obama wants to create some sort of Third Reich-style medical bureaucracy that would decide whether the disabled and the elderly deserve to live, or just have their health care terminated.
“Death panels,” Palin called them, in one of the most calculated, incendiary falsehoods of the entire health-care debate. It embarrassed even some of her fellow right wingers.
But it served its purpose, scaring the living daylights out of older voters and churning up so much anxiety over the summer that Obama was forced to address it in his speech to Congress this week.
The death panels rumour, said Obama, “would be laughable if it weren’t so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.”
In the same speech, though, Obama cited a few uniquely American anecdotes not too far from just the sort of thing Palin and her cohort are predicting:
* An Illinois man whose health insurance was cut off in the middle of chemotherapy because an enterprising researcher at the insurance company discovered he hadn’t reported gallstones he didn’t even know he had. With his treatment cut off, he proceeded to die.
* A Texas woman who was about to undergo a double mastectomy when her health insurer cut her off, citing an unreported case of acne earlier in her life. By the time she got the decision reversed, said Obama, her breast cancer had more than doubled in size.
These are common stories here, reported in the media just about every day.
* The Los Angeles woman with lupus, fluid in the heart and pancreatic cancer who was cut off health coverage because of unreported earlier back pain (which she says isn’t even true).
And of course, it doesn’t have to be true. Or even remotely related to your illness. It just has to be in your doctor’s notes, or hinted at in your doctor’s notes, even if your doctor didn’t tell you about it.
The moment the insurance company finds it, bang! Your treatment is cut off. And the insurers really start looking for excuses once you get sick and start submitting costly claims (one insurer, Health Net, has actually admitted paying bonuses to employees who dig up reasons to maroon sick clients).
If your treatment is life-preserving, like chemotherapy, and you can’t find some other way to pay, you die.
The industry term for cancelling a policy on some sort of technical grounds is “rescission,” and it is probably the most odious practice of an industry known for some pretty predatory behaviour.
Now, imagine for a moment what the reaction would be if federal or state governments started directing public servants to comb medical histories for the slightest excuse to cut off life-saving care. (It’s not well understood abroad, and sometimes not very well understood here, but the American government is already in the health-insurance business, big time. Medicare pays health-care bills for senior citizens, and Medicaid, the state-run programs, pay to treat the indigent).
The answer is obvious. It would be called what it is: Brutal, near-criminal, disgusting, inhuman behaviour. Maybe even death panels. And it wouldn’t last long once the public found out.
The curious thing is, when private companies do it, companies whose profit motive is diametrically opposed to the well-being of their clients, the American public remains relatively supine.
This sort of thing has been going on here for years, and while the horror stories are denounced regularly by liberal activists and routinely retailed by Democrats in stump speeches, it seems to be regarded by the public at large as just business. As in: “Well, they do have shareholders to answer to.”
In the minds of many here, business is good for America, and whatever business has to do to make money is good for America, too.
Certainly you don’t hear much about health insurance rescission from Sarah Palin, or Senator Jim DeMint, or the Christian conservative leaders who are now mobilizing against Obama’s plan. They have various motives. Palin wants to be president. The evangelicals believe Obama’s plan will lead to publicly financed abortion. Others, like DeMint, have stated flatly they simply want Obama to fail.
But where great swathes of the public are concerned, the antipathy to publicly funded medicine is something else. Clearly, a lot of people here fear any plan run by their own government more than that of the most venal insurance company.
It’s partly the innate distrust of government itself among conservative Americans, and it’s partly the widespread American self-image as a nation of rugged individualists who scorn public handouts, as delusional as that may be (see earlier reference to Medicare and Medicaid, not to mention the ocean of public subsidies that flow from Washington).
Obama himself has been talking about a woman who sent him a letter containing a stern admonition: “‘I don’t want government-run health care. I don’t want you meddling in the private marketplace. And keep your hands off my Medicare.’”
“True story,” says Obama, when he tells it.
And sort of pathetic, given the stakes of what’s going on here.
The fact is, there is so little understanding of what really exists here now and what is actually being proposed that for Palin and her cohort, working against Obama’s plan amounts to picking low-hanging fruit.
After Obama’s speech, the Washington Post quoted a middle-aged woman sitting in the waiting room of a local hospital.
The speech, she said, sent her blood pressure up: “For every story he tells about somebody that doesn’t have insurance, there’s one you can tell about somebody who wouldn’t get treatment because the government wouldn’t allow it.”
Well, as somebody who lived for 40 years in a country that has one of the most strictly public health systems in the world, I know all about the shortcomings of government-funded medicine. But in all those years, I never saw anything like what the insurance companies here are capable of.
To borrow one of Palin’s attack phrases: “Downright evil.”
Thank you Eric! Great job!
These tea baggers and the people who are exploiting them, Dick Armey, Glenn Beck, Fox News, The insurance companies, corporate lobbyists, the Drugster aka Rush, etc, are a disgrace to our great country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y
Ummm actually since youre the one trying to destroy every value this country was built on, You my friend are the disgrace.
Did anyone see last nights The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?
The whole episode attacked ACORN and Democrats.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/248914/tue-september-15-2009-matt-damon
As a Liberal, I am glad that Jon Stewart shamed the mainstream news media (as he usually does) and I’m glad that he took ACORN to task for the unscrupulous behavor of a few of it’s offices. Even Jon didn’t defend ACORN at all, even though he could have said that there were several ACORN offices that turned the undercover dude away.
The way Jason Jones was criticizing the Dem plan in that interview on the federal building thing was hilarious and sad when the woman became so exasperated and didn’t have any answers for him.
I love those guys. They go after everyone. I personally appreciate that Jon calls himself a “fake news man” . I’m glad he doesn’t pretend to be important and that there is a conspiracy against him even though he gets in battles with nearly every TV pundit. Jon will be the first person to defame his own charachter and is honest enough to call himself a dick.
I can’t tell what side you are on Aliasperson, but it doesn’t matter because I agree with Vegasperson almost completely, except that I was dissapointed that he did a Fox News style commentary on the story without addressing the facts about how ACORN prompty fired anyone they found that had commited wrongdoing. Whether it be in the voting issue or the tax advice to pimps issue.
I’m surprised that more teabaggers aren’t touting this story. Maybe they don’t want anybody checking out Jon Stewart in the future. Yeah, probably.
Beck calls his audience “zombies,” O’Reilly dismisses Beck’s flu vaccine conspiracies: “That’s nuts”
October 09, 2009 5:44 pm ET
From the October 8 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910090052?lid=1069566&rid=35870712
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