Posted on 10/06/2009 12:23:07 PM PDT by TheDailyChange
Shepherd Smith is interviewing Wyoming Senator John Barrasso who believes Obamacare is all about a Government takeover.
Shep said WHAT? Government takeover, no it isn't. Then he reiterated what Obummer has said over and over.
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
blah..blah...blah.. What a bunch a cra! that is!
Someone needs to ask Shep WHY an employer would choose to keep paying for insurance plans (especially in this economy) for employees when he/she could simply elect not to and direct the employees to the public option plan?
Saying it doesn't make it so SHEP! WAKE UP!
Beck would be a good lead-in to O’Reilly. They’re both news analysis and commentary programs. But I’d miss the 7-8 hard news slot. I just don’t have time to catch any earlier newscasts, and that means Shep for the 7-8 spot. I wish it were someone else. Jim Angle always does a capable job when subbing.
I Turn Fox when He’s on..
Shep is lost in la-la land,
Sure would like to see him hike over to pmsnbc or cnn ...
What a miserable lead-in to Cavuto / Beck
We were watching that, as he was getting his ownself all worked up into Drama Queen mode.....and telling him to STGU and let the guy answer.
Shep has been defending the Obama talking points aggressively for the last week or so. My wife watches, while I prefer to keep the music loud enough to ignore him....
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Fox has plenty of smart, hot women who’re a lot smarter and better looking than Shep. They ought to give the job to Martha MacCallum or Megan Kelly and can him. He’s the absolutely weakest player on an otherwise generally strong team where there’s a lot of good backup. No excuse for keeping him, unless it’s AA for fools.
I’m with you on this. I go from Fox to Speed Channel for an hour.
I have been watching FoxNews since it first came on the air and I have never liked, or watched, Shep Smith. I was waiting for O'Reilly to come on one day and my hubby had just arrived from work and looked at the t.v. Seeing Sheppie, he asked, "Who's the Ken doll?"
That about sums it up for me. Also, maybe about a year ago, he was interviewing someone (I can't remember who) and the conversation somehow got around to people shopping at J.C. Penny's. He and his interviewee (another gay guy) were laughing about that, and Shep asked "who buys their ties at J.C. Penny's?" Well, I'm shouting at my t.v., me and my husband do, you dufus. And they usually have a nice sale on shirts and ties sometime in January.
Anyway, that solidified my bad opinion of Shepard Smith. I simply haven't, and will not watch his show.
The Beck vs. Shep figures are really telling because Beck has the far weaker time slot. They ought to be reversed.
I like how the supporters trot this one out, while contending (recently) that the plan will “help the economy, and create jobs.” The questions that Shep and no one else will ask are:
What current sector of the job market is the only one growing? (Government workers)
If the healthcare bill will increase employment, how will it happen? (Government takeover)....
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!
Best idea yet!!!!!!!!!!!
In my market Glenn Beck comes on too early or too late for my schedule. But I try to watch him as much as I can.
I can take Shep at 3pm. Mostly because I don’t watch TV at that hour. But he takes up valuable space at the 7 block.
Why Ailes keeps him around is beyond me.
I have no idea why FOX double-pumps Smith’s show. Considering his numbers you’d think they’d dump at least one of his airings for Beck.
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President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services had sought to dismiss the suit challenging so-called POMS rules that say seniors who withdraw from Medicare Part A must also surrender their Social Security benefits. (Part A covers hospital and outpatient services.) The judge ruled the plaintiffs have standing to contest their claim on the merits.
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In her ruling this week, the judge said that "neither the statute nor the regulation specifies that Plaintiffs must withdraw from Social Security and repay retirement benefits in order to withdraw from Medicare." Article I of the Constitution gives Congress sole power to legislate—so when agency rules conflict with federal statute, the statute takes precedence.
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Judge Collyer rejected that notion, noting that one plaintiff had sought an administrative hearing but "received no response from the SSA for approximately three years." Exhaustion of remedies was therefore "futile." A three-year wait is precisely the kind of bureaucratic hassle, or deliberate stonewalling, that government is famous for.
The response of the Obama Administration to this lawsuit is revealing about its principles, as opposed to its rhetoric. President Obama says his plan for a "public option" wouldn't be coercive, saying that "If you like your health-care plan, you keep your health-care plan. Nobody is going to force you to leave your health-care plan." But here is a case where federal bureaucrats are using their power to force Medicare on seniors. Let's hope the courts restore a genuine right to choose.
Cheers!
Smith continues to prove that there’s not a conservative bone in his body. The longer it takes for him to move on the more suspect Fox News becomes as being a haven for ‘moderate’ (stands for nothing) to liberal news readers.
I watched it. He sat there and hit every RAT talking point and interrupted the Doctor all the time.
The crowning touch is when Shemp said, and now we will get the democrats side.
Geesh, what a douche.
In the interest of fairness..Shep made a good case against gov't run health care..
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Shep is a blithering, hissy fit throwing idiot, and I refuse to watch him.
What nonsense will Sheppie spout next? And why does the normally fair and balanced FNC allow such a statement to go uncorrected?
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