bye bye death panel mccaughey
Former Lieutenant Governor of New York and adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute Betsy “Death Panel” McCaughey has resigned from her position as Director of Cantel Medical Corp. after her appearance on The Dailey Show with Jon Stewart. It is amazing to me Jon Stewart, on a comedy show, is doing more to expose the false claims of opponents to health care reform than any actual news anchor out there with the one exception of Bill Moyers.
BIG NOTE: Update Sept 1, 2009 sorry these youtubes are down — I will try to find new links but meanwhile you may watch :::part i::: and :::part ii::: on site at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
part i :
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zxKrPXLvFw]
part ii :
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMDt6_taJRM]
0 Responses to bye bye death panel mccaughey
Colbert and especially Stewart do a far better job at outing the absurdity of the Republican Party than the DNC or any leading Democrat in office.
They are the best.
They really are. I am so glad too. It is past time to out the delusional basis of patently false statements circulated against American health care reform.
Stewart needs to do EXPAND his show and spend more time on the news. I don’t care if it’s interviews like this or more skits- just get the stories out there.
BTW I’m going to use this line at the next Town Hall I go to when some Deather starts screaming at me.
I’m going to smile and say, ” That’s just silly.”
Thanks Jon Stewart!
Hmm. I better warn you. I have been saying “that is just silly” a long time and sometimes, when people are not on TV trying to look nice for the camera? It kinda goes the other way. It is still entertaining though.
“job at outing the absurdity of the Republican Party than the DNC or any leading Democrat in office.”
I hate to tell you…the Democratic party is just as absurd and corrupt. Americans have a bizarrely oppositional way at looking at politics: I don’t know if it’s the two party thing, or just the inherent competitiveness of the culture, but it’s like you see society as a team sport being played by the left and the right..and that one side can somehow win it.
The Daily Show is excellent though: Stewart’s brutalizing of Tucker Carlson and Paul Bengala(sp) was one of my all time favorite TV moments.
You can say that –– and with a certain amount of superior detachment. You have not seen the emergency rooms here. Or the fairgrounds in which people are treated in hastily sterilized horse stalls after driving across states to get there and waiting hours just hoping to get in. To you, this is distant, nothing you have seen or will ever experience — merely a political game. To me, it is personal. I am not cheering for a football team. I am fighting to save the lives of, at minimum, 18,000 people during the next year. And the year after that. And the year after that. It is not a game. It is a turning point that, if lost, will not return. And corruption in the system — on both sides — only makes it a grimmer proposition.
“To you, this is distant, nothing you have seen or will ever experience ”
I lived within 3 miles of U.S. border most of my life (Brockville). We did our groceries in upstate New York. I played sports and drank in the U.S. my entire life: I’ve seen your hospitals. It’s not like I’m bashing the U.S. from some French Villa.
My point wasn’t that the American health care system isn’t broken, my point was specifically directed at Forkboys comment about DNC not being able to attack the absurdity of Republicans…when Democracts are no less absurd (and really a huge amount of them are also against this health care bill).
It just seems that injecting partisan attacks into an issue like this (or any issue really) just poisons the waters, and polarizes the moderates on each side. When you attack a specific party (and brand everyone within that part as stupid and evil), instead of discussing the issues at hand, it raise acrimony not discourse.
I’ve save you the trouble of making the exact same post in: republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason
“When you attack a specific party (and brand everyone within that part as stupid and evil), instead of discussing the issues at hand, it raise acrimony not discourse.”
This is in most cases true. Large generalities can often simply alienate people who fall into those generalities. Discourse has sort of broken down in the Stripes.
Whoa, the youtubes are down, I will have to try to fix that or link to Daily Show later today.