… You are all just being “silly.”
That was Gibson’s assessment of charges of ABC being “in the tank” for Obama while he was being interviewed this morning on KABC radio, Los Angeles, by Doug McIntyre. Gibson maintains that his news program is only broadcasting from the Blue Room because of convenience, making the subsequent “healthcare forum” he and Diane Sawyers will be “moderating” in the East Room easily accessible for him.
Oh yes, convenience.
Gibson further asserted that there would be 149 participants in the forum, from people in the pharmaceutical industry to “a couple of young doctors just starting out and possibly worried about rationing.” He stated he was sure they would have tough questions for Obama.
Yes, I’m sure, too, because like these 149 people were randomly chosen and never vetted for their views.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Comment by Carin on 6/23 @ 8:04 am #
Related. Link to my blog (sorry) where I quote and link to a great article. Snippet:
Comment by Carin on 6/23 @ 8:05 am #
You know what is the ONLY question I wanna hear asked. Which absolutely won’t.
Why are Federal employees going to be exempt from the whole health care dealo you guys are cooking up?
Of course, someone can dress it up so it sounds a tad more serious.
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 8:06 am #
I would find asshats like Gibson far more tolerable if they would not overtly lie to our faces.
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 8:11 am #
I would like someone to ask, given the White House saying that not all of the promises Teh One made in his speech to the AMA can be kept, which ones was he lying about?
Or, how the fuck do you plan on apying for this without taxing the holy hell out of everyone?
Or, can you please provide an example of the federal government providing a service more efficiently than the private sector, or an example where the federal government has had any modicum of success in delivering healthcare, or an example of the federal government controlling costs?
Comment by Joe on 6/23 @ 8:12 am #
Carin, Federal Employees are exempt because their sweetheart deal is better. The animals are all equal, but some are more equal than others.
Comment by Joe on 6/23 @ 8:13 am #
ABC management is more concerned about ratings than ideology, and Obama delivers ratings, but Gibson is definitely in the bag for Obama. It is propaganda, plain and simple.
Comment by thor on 6/23 @ 8:17 am #
Ohnoes, Momma Bushy Toots already has her anger groove on. Her stool softeners must not be working as advertised.
Health care really winds the mare up. We might be in for Duh-Dar’s full rage of hate; fear her Duh-Dartoons white people!
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/23 @ 8:23 am #
Puh-leeez,
They aren’t going to even allow groups that politically disagree with Obamacare to run advertisments during the Gibson, Sawyers, and Obama show. They aren’t going to allow rebuttal by those opposed to Obamacare following that variety show. And we’re supposed to believe that Obama will be asked “hard questions” by an audience that has been picked “at random”…
Right…
And Obama’s Cairo speech has directly resulted in the uprising in Iran too!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/23/white-house-cairo-speech-inspired-the-iran-uprising/
They’re gonna stack the audience with shills; the Democrats have refined that practice into a fine art, just as they have the politics of personal destruction. Just as Billy Jeff,on CNN, managed to arrange it so George Stephanopolous was the first caller to ask big Bush an embarrasing question in the ‘92 camoaign, so too will the audince be filled with sops that arlready on the bandwagon…
Hell the only thing I wonder is if all of their “socratic” questions have been scripted so carefully as to allow O! to assume the proper llos of thoughtfullness and benevolence upon his countenance as he listens, and then bestows his words of wisdom on the proletariat…
Puh-leeeez, they admitted up front that they would brook no Dissent! at this performance, I mean, the issue is far to important to muddy the waters with inconvenient truths and stubborn facts…
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 8:29 am #
Bob – They are claiming credit for the uprising based on the Cairo speech, yet they refuse to take a strong stand and condemnation of the regime’s actions, for fear of being seen as meddling. The cognitive dissonance must be overwhelming.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/23 @ 8:40 am #
It would make my head explode JD
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/23 @ 8:44 am #
I see thor is back.
Still in his coprophagous groove.
Comment by Pablo on 6/23 @ 8:57 am #
We can’t be seen as interfering. Oh, and they’re having this uprising because of me. Check.
Comment by Joe on 6/23 @ 9:14 am #
As Bob Reed notes above, the White House now claims that Obama’s Cairo speech prompted the protests in Iran!
Now how will Sullivan, self appointed White House apologist in chief, justify Obama’s silence on Iran when the White House is claiming they inspired the whole dissent process in Iran?
Somehow love will find a way.
Andrew Sullivan is to Barack Obama as Kathryn Jean Lopez is to Mitt Romney. The only difference is K-Lo is less fauning and less of a 12 year old girl with a crush.
Comment by TheGeezer on 6/23 @ 9:16 am #
JD: The federal government’s Army-Navy-Marine forces seem to kick ass very efficiently, even if the supply buyers/contracts may be flawed. I like to think of these services as being well-deliverd for the most part.
Regards.
Comment by cranky-d on 6/23 @ 9:17 am #
OT: I just found out that Ed McMahon has passed.
All I can think is, “Heyoooooh.”
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 9:18 am #
Geezer – Agreed. But would anyone want that healthcare system for the entire populace?
Comment by Kevin B on 6/23 @ 9:24 am #
Sample hard questions.
“President Obama Your Majesty, just how great will the blessed ObamaCare be? Will it be truly magnificently great, absolutely wonderfully great or “Oh God I’ve just come in my panties” great?”
“Your Majesty, is it true that touching the hem of your robe will cure my scrofula? And can I? Please? Pretty Please?”
Comment by Carin on 6/23 @ 9:34 am #
More “hard” questions (this could be fun)
Mr. President, how come the uninsured had to wait so long for government to offer a solution to the health care crises?
Comment by Joe on 6/23 @ 9:42 am #
Oh look Obama is now reversing course. Good for him.
A little late, but better than never.
Comment by alppuccino on 6/23 @ 9:51 am #
They are claiming credit for the uprising based on the Cairo speech,
So a youthful uprising in Iran signaling a change in the Middle East is the only thing Obama did not inherit from the Bush Administration?
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 6/23 @ 9:52 am #
You are all just being “silly.â€
“After all, ABC is not making a law regarding the establishment of a Religion. We are simply going to Church.”
Comment by alppuccino on 6/23 @ 9:52 am #
Obama’s and idiot. Gibson’s a dick. And vice versa.
Comment by geoffb on 6/23 @ 9:56 am #
Having a better deal is not why they are exempt, that would make the case that “The Plan” should be to extend the Federal Employees deal to everyone.
They are exempt because to force them to take the “Obama Plan” would cost “The Party” their monetary support, their “get out the vote” efforts, and their votes. The lower levels of the new nomenklatura must be carefully watered at this critical time. Their total support is still necessary. Later they can be purged as needed to make way for the even more loyal up-and-comers.
Comment by geoffb on 6/23 @ 10:03 am #
All that is good flows from The One™. All that is bad is from the former administration and it’s rabid filthy neo-cons and hick conservatives. It’s truth™. It’s in the newest text message TPM. The One™ cannot lie, ever. He’s The One™.
Comment by The Monster on 6/23 @ 10:41 am #
Will Stossel be involved? (Methinks not.)
Comment by Joe on 6/23 @ 10:54 am #
I am sure Stossel will NOT be involved. Becuase that will screw up the narrative.
Comment by nikkolai on 6/23 @ 11:11 am #
And thor predictably eagerly consumes the droppings form “the won.” I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.
Comment by Joe on 6/23 @ 11:32 am #
Hot Air reports Mousavi was behind the Beruit Marine Baracks bombing. Mousavi is part of the Iranian Mullah regime. I assume he was in on Iranian crimes and terrorist acts just like most of the senior members of the Iranian government were in on such crimes and terrorist acts. So there was some element of truth that there is not that much difference between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad on underlying philosophy. Whether Mousavi refutes that radical past remains to be seen. I am not sure that is the case or not. My guess he is less radical than Ahmadinejad and what is interesting is the Mullahs, by doing this, have pushed Mousavi to be even less extremist. That might prove to be a good thing in the long run.
The better analogy (granted it is a very rough one) might be Mousavi is the Gorbachev of this change, and the Mullahs fear the Yeltsin that may follow. Both China and Iran saw what happened in Soviet Union when change was allowed to ferment.
Still, the Iranian democracy and reform movement is far broader than Mousavi.
Comment by geoffb on 6/23 @ 11:44 am #
Because, like in the European political scene, there is no actual choice allowed that aligns with the aspirations of many, a handy hook must be found on which to hang the hat of revolt.
Mousavi is the hook but he is not the hat. The hat is to be worn the whole of those wishing to change the way of governance. The hook will not be needed once they put the hat on. And no this is not a reference to PJM in any manner.
Comment by Sammy on 6/23 @ 11:57 am #
You guys could actually watch the broadcast, and then form an opinion on how biased it is.
Comment by SDN on 6/23 @ 12:04 pm #
Sammy, if I drop a hammer on your head in a gravity field, I don’t have to actually watch it drop to know it fell. And if it hits you in the head, I don’t have to worry about damaging your brain….
Comment by JHo on 6/23 @ 12:16 pm #
But can’t we just move on, SDN?
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 12:17 pm #
SDN – A hammer to the noggin would probably be an improvement for Sammy.
Comment by Sammy on 6/23 @ 12:18 pm #
I’m not sure how gravity works over in your reality. For y’all, things tend to fall up. Just the few I’ve witnessed:
Dealergate is real.
Don’t answer any census questions beyond people in household.
A KKK member (today) is just as likely to vote for a Democrat as a Republican.
If Rush basically says, “If a Supreme court justice overturns Roe v. Wade because of religious beliefs, that’s just fine.” no one here sees anything wrong with that statement.
A religious lunatic shooting a Dr. and a religious lunatic shooting up a recruiting station are fundamentally different.
Jet disappears over the Atlantic – likely cause: lack of racial profiling.
And the list goes on, and on, and on…
Comment by JHo on 6/23 @ 12:23 pm #
Consider this already done frequently, halfwit, just not in the current context: Consider thou Nationalized Progressive Radio. Wait, wait; don’t tell me — to know it is to be simultaneously chagrined and entertained.
Likewise, to know Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer is to be forewarned. That they have rigged the game concerns you not at all. This we know too.
Oh look bunnies.
Comment by SBP on 6/23 @ 12:24 pm #
I’ve been away for a while, but I see that Sammy is the same mendacious liebot that he always was.
Some things just don’t change, I guess.
Spin, lie, deflect, change the subject… ANYTHING to keep people from harshing on Presentdent Teleprompter, eh?
Britain expels Iranian diplomats.
Obama invites them to a barbecue.
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 12:25 pm #
Sammy has resumed his asspulling. Hope he lubed up for that one …
Comment by alppuccino on 6/23 @ 12:27 pm #
A religious lunatic shooting a Dr. and a religious lunatic shooting up a recruiting station are fundamentally different.
Who in the MSM do you think you’re talking to on this blog Sammy?
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 12:30 pm #
alpuccino – On that one, sammah was quite right. One murder is worthy of wall-to-wall coverage for weeks on end, denouncing half the population of the US as terrorists. The other was not worth reporting on. One caused Teh One to be deeply troubled and required his immediate response. One made him sad, and he only responded after he began his trip to the Middle East, so no to offend some delicate sensibilities.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/23 @ 1:08 pm #
“#Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 12:17 pm #
SDN – A hammer to the noggin would probably be an improvement for Sammy.”
Reading the following comment, it looks like Sammy’s mom did a good job of it by repeatedly dropping him on his head when he was a baby.
Comment by geoffb on 6/23 @ 1:41 pm #
Wasn’t that referred to recently as a Phrenology based personality readjustment?
Comment by B Moe on 6/23 @ 1:49 pm #
Applied Phrenology, geoffb.
Comment by geoffb on 6/23 @ 2:11 pm #
Ah, good app that.
Comment by guinsPen on 6/23 @ 2:54 pm #
Ballpeenology, gb.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 6/23 @ 2:54 pm #
“You guys could actually watch the broadcast, and then form an opinion on how biased it is.”
Don’t need to. The ABC Nightly
NewsInfomercial promo already leaked on YouTube.Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 6/23 @ 2:57 pm #
HTML fail. One more time…
you’re all just being silly
Comment by RR Ryan on 6/23 @ 3:01 pm #
Nikkolai- Absoulutely. You, me and Elvis Costello, although I suspect Elvis is on the other side of the spectrum. For Imperial Bedroom, however, I will forgive him anything.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 6/23 @ 3:09 pm #
You wanna piece of my heart? You better start from the…
Nah. You can go ahead and have that little piece that’s small and shriveled, and has mostly written off the average American voting stooge as addle brained fuckwits that can’t be saved.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 6/23 @ 3:11 pm #
Goddamit. Sorry wrong thread ^^^
Jesus. I need a drink.
Comment by Sammy on 6/23 @ 3:49 pm #
Oh, in my list of local lunacy, I left out “Uighur’s will blow up the US.”
Uighur Terrorism Watch – DAY 11
Comment by JD on 6/23 @ 5:39 pm #
Doubling down on teh stoooopid today, sammah?
Comment by Rusty on 6/23 @ 7:23 pm #
So tell me ,sammy, if you were a betting man, ya think the reporting by ABC from the White House isn’t going to be at all biased?
One more thing. Is a government run single payer health plan going to be more efficient or less efficient than medicare?
Comment by Sammy on 6/23 @ 7:31 pm #
Oh. If I were a betting man, I’d say it will be left leaning journalist trying to ask “hard hitting right wing” questions, lest they be tarred as lefties. But who knows what will actually happen? Predictions are hard, esp about the future.
On your second question, how efficient is Medicare?
Comment by Pablo on 6/23 @ 7:33 pm #
Think of a train heading full speed down a dirt road.
Comment by B Moe on 6/23 @ 10:14 pm #
Thick as a fucking brick, this one.
Comment by Robohobo on 6/23 @ 10:28 pm #
Somewhere a while back there was a supposed ‘analysis’ piece about one of The 0bamanation’s speeches in an online magazine. It was linked at a blog I like with the comment:
“That isn’t analysis, that’s fellatio!”
That pretty much wraps up what this All Barack Channel coverage will be. A covert sex act.
The sticker for the opposition should be pointing out that Congress will not be using:
1. The same health care plans as the plebes.
2. The same retirement plans as the plebes.
Drill THAT message until they puke.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 12:17 am #
And right on topic, this made me giggle.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 12:58 am #
As opposed to predictions about the past, yes, I can see how predictions about the future might be difficult. Unless you are doing AGW modeling, in which case predictions about past activities are pretty damn tough as well.
Comment by Rusty on 6/24 @ 4:34 am #
#53
Must be a pony in there somewhere. Good luck, sammy. I hope you don’t have a job where you actually, you know, have to make a profit.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 6:07 am #
“But who knows what will actually happen?”
OOO OOOO I know! I know!
The reactionary leftist “reporters” will be licking Obama’s ass.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/24 @ 6:24 am #
Potemkin Forum.
Comment by apotheosis on 6/24 @ 7:45 am #
All Barack Channel coverage will be. A covert sex act.
Fallacyo!
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 7:58 am #
i predict..global warming!
wheres my prize? [ pulitzer)
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 10:22 am #
I actually own a business, which has done quite well despite the economic cockup.
Comment by Letitbeme on 6/24 @ 10:59 am #
To SBP @36 –
Seems Obama’s getting with the program. Getting tough! Looks like he’s NOT going to invite them to his barbecue! http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/iran.invitations/index.html
Comment by Letitbeme on 6/24 @ 11:00 am #
Maybe!
Comment by Letitbeme on 6/24 @ 11:15 am #
But he sidestepped questions on whether the offer to attend the celebrations still stand.
“That’s a choice the Iranians are going to have to make,” he said.
— Was CARTER ever this Carteresque?
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 12:19 pm #
I actually own a business, which has done quite well despite the economic cockup.
Weather like this, you are probably selling a lot of lemonade, huh?
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 12:50 pm #
Enough that I need to pay attention to Obama’s plans to tax the top 5%.
Comment by Rusty on 6/24 @ 3:25 pm #
#64
Don’t worry. The current resident will fix that for you. Medicare for everybody!
Comment by Darleen on 6/24 @ 7:53 pm #
Fixed that for you Sammy, because that’s the reality.
and it will not stop there.
Comment by Rusty on 6/25 @ 4:39 am #
ABC is now the official propaganda organ for the WH. BO plays a good Vince, the ShamWow guy.
Here’s a buck sammy. Call yer mom and tell her you’ll never be a critical thinker.
Comment by Rusty on 6/25 @ 3:29 pm #
Right on both counts
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