Right wing parrots Rush’s attacks on health care provisions in the stimulus.
Right wing parrots Rush’s attacks on health care provisions in the stimulus.
Taking their cue from Rush Limbaugh, right-wing pundits have launched a massive misinformation campaign mischaracterizing the economic recovery package as a socialist government takeover of health care that would result in Big Brother watching over Americans’ shoulders:
MEGYN KELLY:This Coordinator is supposed to monitor your health treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what’s the Feds deem appropriate and cost effective. You can see the controversy over this.
Watch a compilation:
In fact, the position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology already exists. It was established by George W. Bush in 2004. What’s more, the Wonk Room notes that far from monitoring doctors or requiring private physicians to abide by treatment protocol, the two provisions will reduce health care costs and improve the quality of health care treatments.
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I wonder how Drudge feels about the MSM taking their talking points from El Rushbo.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:32 pmPizza the Hutt wallowing. And all the nasties trying to scarf up on the stray pepperoni.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:34 pmIt’s not false, because he decided it was true. In his reality, it is.
Isn’t that clear?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:36 pm“I detailed it for you and now it’s all over mainstream media.”
So Fox is now a member of the MSM. Thanks for confirming that, Rush. Now the wingnuts will have to concoct a new meme.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:37 pmMEGAN KELLY:This Coordinator is supposed to monitor your health treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what’s the Feds deem appropriate and cost effective. You can see the controversy over this.
Yeah, you sure don’t want your doctor doing what’s appropriate.
I can see the controversy.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pmThe Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget
I think the little title blurb on the video pretty much says it all…Right Wing Launches Fear.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pmThe more the lunatic fringe regurgitates Rush’s putrid speeches, the better for the Democrats and all sane people in America.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pmWhy does Rush hate America?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pmOriginal thought — get some.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pmUn-fkin-believable… these wingtards really do mimic Rush. Wonder if they would jump off a cliff if Rush told them them to do it.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:45 pmWho elected the drug addled gas bag to office?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pmBecause there’s big money in it.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:48 pmHi atsegga:
February 10th, 2009 at 4:48 pmI am really interest in the fine works of the Borgen Project. I would very much like to get involved. I will soon be receiving a substantial return on the sale of some valuable pieces of art and would like to put those monies toward something I can really feel good about. Might you give me more information about this noble cause? I look forward to hearing more than that same post I have seen so very many times.
Thanks-
News flash: Rush the Racist Junkie et al are preaching hate and misinformation to the same people who think Saddam was behind 9/11 and are positive Obama is a Muslim. Those weak-minded zombies aren’t part of the solution anyway. This is just the wingnuts entertaining themselves while making money off their nutty viewers/listeners.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:52 pmZooey – we all know that the “R” in Republican means repeat, redo, and regurgitate and not in any particular order.
Republicans have no original thoughts. Now that the boy Bush left Washington DC and moved onto his next destruction, the Republicans had a find a new leader and wow, what a leader they found in “porkulus” Limbaugh. As the Republicans hang onto his fat butt, they will all go over the cliff together.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:53 pm“cost-effective” WTF!? are these guys in-sane!!!
[and, isn't "parroting" really all those righties ever do anyway?
take for instance our ms deldin of late - yet another transcriptionist for the righty talk-machine, dutifully pantagraphing today's shows...]
February 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pmThese were the same old tired excuses that were being dragged out when it was the doctors and hospitals who were railing against “socialized medicine” back in the ’70s and ’80s.
Then they saw their payments whittled down to nothing, saw each new “health” plan with it’s overly burdensome requirements and paperwork, and now it’s the providers begging for a single payer system. Even the AMA came on board years ago.
Face it, it’s the health profiteers who are against universal care not because it would put those employed in the industry out of work, but because those bloated executive salaries, bonuses and profit sharing evaporate.
Sound anything like the financial sector?
PEACE
February 10th, 2009 at 5:01 pmMe thinks Megan has been polishing Lush’s anal cyst.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:02 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
dixie blood Says:
Why does Rush hate America?
Because there’s big money in it.
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DING*DING*DING* WE HAVE A WINNER!
Big money trumps the loyalty to ones own country!
February 10th, 2009 at 5:06 pmWell rush said no to the stimulus……so far since the election he’s 0 for 1
don’t see much chance of that average getting better for him and the goppers will soon distance themselves from him. If they are smart….maybe they won’t
February 10th, 2009 at 5:06 pm#19, ew, please, I just ate…
February 10th, 2009 at 5:08 pmspencers mom Says:
These were the same old tired excuses that were being dragged out when it was the doctors and hospitals who were railing against “socialized medicine” back in the ’70s and ’80s.
The real point of this campaign, from Rush and his little piggies, is to obstruct, period. Anything the Right can do to prevent success with any Obama program, they will do, because they live in mortal fear that the permanent Republican majority has really come to a screeching halt.
Rush has been remarkably open about this — he’s terrified that a successful liberal administration will mean Americans turn their backs on the “conservatives” completely. And, of course, that we turn out backs on him and his bloated perception of himself as a “leader.”
They’re just poking sticks in the spokes of progress, with no thought or concern about the potential for crashing the whole country. Most of them probably believe they’re insulated from a crash. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:10 pmWith the system we have now, physicians are under the thumb of for profit health insurance companies. These companies already exclude coverage, find ways of not paying for covered procedures and have and still are rationalizing health care for seniors.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:17 pmRush and Meagan wouldn’t be concerned about having their medical records, say perhaps about suspicious prescription drug purchases, scrutinized by anyone – would they?
February 10th, 2009 at 5:32 pmgummitch,
I agree. They are not interested in being right, they are interested in winning. And they really don’t care how many lies they have to tell in order to win.
I do believe that if we can keep up the pressure, the people who listen to right-wingers like Rush will realize that they have been duped all these years, and they will reject Rush and his ilk in a heartbeat. Our challenge will be to have a comprehensive, valid answer for them when they start looking for alternatives. Thanks to the help of a fellow Critter, I am trying to find that answer to give them. Right now, for me, it’s a matter of “Cracking the Code”. I am hopeful.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:44 pmThe cells of the Limborg hivemind really are made up of the stupidest people imaginable.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:45 pmEugeneDebs Says:
The cells of the Limborg hivemind really are made up of the stupidest people imaginable.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
You mean Rush is really the Borg Queen? Well, that would explain some things.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pmAs with the FOX issuing GOP talking points verbatim I think its the same with Rush.
He doesnt fill the water buckets he carries them.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:00 pm#13, ralph the wonder llama,
So, how is that being an American? A patriot? How is getting rich the right thing to do for this nation? If you love Democracy you would pay almost anything to get it, have it and keep it.
More important, who are these traitors to our nation? How do you propose we put an end to their idiocy and/or hatred?
Are they looking to live elsewhere or stay here with us not around?
February 10th, 2009 at 6:04 pmBernie Ward was the best in giving arguments pro single payer health care. Because his wife is a physician he was able to give in detail the corporate health care screw job to physicians.
What he was charged with is disgusting… but I will always feel the corporate powers that be singled him out because of his knowledge and talented ability to get the message out. Not only is he imprisoned but transferred to TX where no progressive talk is to be found…. they silenced him.
According to Christine Craft an attorney and KGO radio fill in, there were at least 100 involved with photo exchanges and not one except for Bernie ward was investigated.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:25 pmLast night and again today, Drudge linked to a Bloomberg piece by Betsy (used to be: Elizabeth) McCaughey. If that name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you remember her discredited article 15 years ago in The Atlantic, and it’s fall-out. She wrote total fabrications that were soon picked up by George Will and other right-wing media types, and the result was soon false urban legend. McCaughey was a rabid critic of the Clinton Administration’s stab at health care reform, and—she’s baaaaack.
But why should we believe her this time, either?
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2009/02/much-of-problem-for-plan-seem.html
February 10th, 2009 at 6:27 pmThis story was on Bloomburg this morning and c-span callers (elderly) were frantic.
On the face of it, the old and infirm are denied treatment due to their age. “praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system. “
“Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt. “
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..zfDxfbwhzs
February 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pmWhat is cool about this is that as FoxNews because more & more the MSM blow horn for Limbaugh is that they make more & more fools of themselves. Because, as is the case here, Limbaugh does not have anyone research things fully and in most cases he is wrong or just misrepresenting things. It is pretty easy, as TP did very well here, to simply point out that they are wrong.
It is unfortunate that FNC’s guests and Senators did not know about this when confronted, however.
February 10th, 2009 at 7:05 pmIf all the RepubliCons have to rely on is the Criminal Druggie, Limpballs; they are finished.
February 10th, 2009 at 7:16 pmPay attention Ditto Kids - Your “moral messiah” cold hard FACTS:
LUSH has (0) ZERO actual experience in Politics, Govt, Law, Medical or Military services.
LimpBong has not served (1) ONE single day working in Politics, Govt, Law, Medical or Military operations.
PIG-Baugh has 6 divorces, arrests, visits teen prostitute markets and is a deranged hallucinating heroin addict
YET, you ditto-Shaivos actually pay big money and get hard by suckling his pretend-to-be-important fake voice and faxed-over RNC talking lies for the day!
The Bush “have mores” paid well to hire Rush to train you Ditto-brains to march in step with exactly all the (proven) wrong Dumbya and RepubliCON policies
and actually had you HATING “Spread the Wealth” (to You) but rather have you craving to “funnel the Wealth“(to Elite) with continued Spending BIlls for 8 years totaling $5 TRILLION in Tax Cuts, incentives and policies to benefit mostly the wealthiest ( Royalism, not Socialism ) ..!??
Are you Dittos really so Evil or simply Stupid?
Wasn’t this Country actual formed to escape Royalists?
choose fast
February 10th, 2009 at 7:26 pmMEGAN KELLY:This Coordinator is supposed to monitor your health treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what’s the Feds deem appropriate and cost effective. You can see the controversy over this.
Yeah I see the controversy. I sure don’t want the government monitoring my doctor to insure my treatment is appropriate and cost effective. I’m used to that being the right and responsibility of the for-profit insurance bureaucrats who must pre-certify my treatment. For goodness sakes, it’s not like the insurer has a conflict of interest.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:24 pmLTDan:
February 10th, 2009 at 8:40 pmGood job. When it is obvious you are beaten dodge the charge.
Gunner’s post left you no other option. I respect the good sense you displayed
Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress are among those that do.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:32 pmLTdan Says:
I know. Several of my conservative friends feel the same way. Unfortunatly too many conservatives do.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:52 pmStoned on Oxys and reelling from his latest viagra induced orgy with third world youth, Limbaugh appears to be staggering in semi-concentric circles, and at high risk of running head-long up his own asshole! What a delight!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:27 pmLet me see if I understand what’s happening here.
In 2004, the lobbyists running the Bush administration got the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Act passed through the Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by arch-conservative Bush.
This right-wing lobbyist-crafted legislation was solely meant to facilitate the profit making of HMOs and health insurers by setting up a national health database, from which HMOs and health insurers would be able to glean information about what doctors were prescribing and patients were receiving…to cut back coverage and make more profits for the HMOs and health insurers.
One of those sadly unfortunate side-effects of what the Republicans did, however, was that people DIED because their doctors were blocked from treating them for whatever was ailing them.
And the Republicans in Congress and the Bush White House, through the passage and signing of this act in 2004, “dictated treatment,” but not necessarily to the benefit of desperately-ill patients but to the benefit of the HMOs and health insurers who have used this national database to “dictate” to doctors what “treatments” are allowed, with the goal being to cut out expensive and long-time treatments that might cut into the profits of HMOs and health insurers…just let the patient die.
Now that Democrats control Congress and the White House, this Bush/right-wing-lobbyist crafted act from 2004 will actually go toward helping U.S. citizens who are ill to get much-needed treatment and medication, on the advice of their professional doctors, while possibly bypassing (or at least not taking into account first) the profit-making desires of the HMOs and health insurers.
Which is really upsetting the money-making schemes of the culture of corruption Republicans, the right-wing industry lobbyists, the HMOs and the health insurers, leading them to make the false claim that the federal government is going to “dictate” what treatments patients will receive or not receive from doctors and health providers, essentially accusing the Democrats in Congress and the White House of what the Republicans, HMOs and health insurers have been doing for the past five years, “dictating treatments” for maximum profit.
Geez, Louise. These conservative crooks just never quit, do they?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:39 pm.
(R)ushpublicans unite!!!
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February 11th, 2009 at 12:52 amOh! So it must be a-ok then.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:37 am