Posted on 08/17/2009 1:34:02 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Colorado Student Zach Lahn - the young man who asked Obama a tough question the other day - on MSNBC being interviewed by Anchor Contessa Brewer. She got more than she bargained for!
Brewer did everything she could to defend President Obama's inadequate answer Saturday to Lahn's question. Lahn made it clear he was not satisfied with Obama's answer, especially his use of the UPS / FedEx success against the U.S. Postal Service as evidence that a Government-run Public Option will not harm private insurance companies. Brewer argued with him back and forth on that issue, and then at the end when Lahn asked if he could ask a closing question, he was curtly cut off by Brewer as she said:
"No, because I'm the interviewer and that's the end of my show."Zach Lahn handles himself well, and showed Brewer to be the MSNBC Obama shill that she is. Lahn was also interviewed on Fox News earlier today. . . . . . (Watch Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
bumparoo for a later view...
He has a Twitter account.
Isn’t he awesome?!? The first words out of my mouth as I watched the exchange live on Saturday were, “Blessed be the womb which bore you!!!” What a kid. I knew he had summed it all up and I knew his was the first “real” question asked about this whole mess. What a fine mind.
Yeah ,let’s see—she’s the interviewer, Obama brags that “I’M THE PRESIDENT “ ,every chance he gets and we all lose.. Sick of his brainwashed ,Kool Aid drinking talking heads.
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The Democrats think people are stupid.
Just saw him on Wolfie. Wolfie was asking him questions like who are you? I heard you worked for McCain etc. The gentleman said he came on board after Palin entered the pic. He is a conservative and asked why the media is trying to find out information about him when they didnt look into Bama’s background! BRILLIANT. He will be a player one day.
Funny thing about that line is that I'm pretty sure she was trying to hearken back to his challenge to Obama for an "Oxford style debate". Apparently, she heard "logical style debate". (Giggling over here, thinking of various "misheard lyrics".)
HAH! Contessa got bitch-slapped again, by someone half her age.
She is a perpetual loser!
Wow. What a stupid b—— that woman is. I am so glad I stopped watching television years and years ago. I don’t need that aggravation in my life. I would do something stupid if I had to watch that sort of thing all the time.
Compare to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's 1968 remark that, "the police are not there to create disorder; the police are there to preserve disorder."
dba Obama put his foot in his mouth and this haughty airhead propaganda goose swallowed her calf to her knee.
Contessa is more than barefoot, she is S t u p i d .
Have others analyzed the Fed Ex - UPS - USPS comparison?
I have some thoughts on that:
USPS has a monopoly on non-urgent letter mail. Almost without a doubt Fed Ex and UPS or some other private sector mail service could compete successfully against them in 90% of the from-to destinations in the US. It is likely they would be able to provide better delivery speeds and even a lower cost first class stamp. I would love to see it!
That leaves the 10% or so of places people are at that would be uneconomical to service. Those could be served by a federally subsidized rural delivery service (could be contracted, by private contractors bidding for right to serve a given market), at a MUCH lower expense then today’s US Postal Service.
As the student suggested this is not a valid comparison.
Why? Because in postal delivery the costly cases are limited by geography — all really rural persons are effected, and a subsidized rural delivery solution provided to them would not increase (significantly) demand for the service.
Not so with health care. If we provide Federal health care services (which we do with the VA) people tend to overwhelm them so as to avoid the expense of private providers.
Thus private mail carriers and a government subsidized delivery service can co-exist, because the government forbids the private services to delivery regular mail thus allowing it to price at a non-competitive level, and if we opened up regular mail they would still co-exist, because we can segregate by region.
It is possible that private health care systems and public ones can co-exist, but as the experience with the VA system shows, (1) US citizens are willing to accept very substandard care in order to avoid costs. (2) Political forces to improve “free” care for some are strong at times and tend to make the government care system for some bigger or better by levying taxes on all, weakening the private market for removing paying clients, and weakening everyone for the higher tax burdens. (3) Government systems, lacking competition degrade quickly even when they start out with great vigor and energy and idealism. Viz NASA. But the costs are forever. Bad mojo.
Myself — I tell Vets avoid the VA. Go private. But people make bad choices to save money.
I did not see the interview to which you refer but it absolutely frustrates me that Joe the Plumber is researched and this young man is researched but questions about Obama are forbidden and laughed at as if they were burped forth from the village idiot at the table of royals.
I think the media that perpetuates and supports this type of tyranny needs some serious (series...and hugh) come-uppance. It is one thing to have bias but to go well beyond bias to propagandizement, stonewalling, cheerleading and storytelling seems to beg the hand of truthful justice.
The political idiots in their musky and grotesque orgy with the fattened, orangened and sweaty lifetime elected royalty are happy to spill are content to spill crumbs off their overflowing feast trays to the great unwashed and unsophisticated to the wolrd of double-speak and political thievery as long as they don’t talk and shatter the image of helpless the overlords have worked so very hard to create.
has the USPS subcontracted it’s overnight to FEDEX???
More than overnight.
At least, iirc ...
The funny thing is USPS uses Fed Ex daily to move its mail through the skies at the present time...USPS uses UPS and private trucking firms to move mail from city to city and station to station currently. The USPS is heavily privatized. USPS also handles some of UPS’s volume on a daily basis for end-point delivery.
Right ... thanks for the further info. I remember I was told about the UPS-USPS cooperation but had forgotten.
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