Invitation to Keith Olbermann

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Invitation to Keith Olbermann

February 13, 2009

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is from Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., the author of the recent Bloomberg.com article, "Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan."

If Keith Olbermann of MSNBC could defend the health provisions slipped into the stimulus bill on their merits, he wouldn't be resorting to personal attacks on me. Olbermann calls me a shill funded by the drug industry (2-12-2009). That's not true.

I am not paid by the pharmaceutical industry or by the Hudson Institute. I hold only an honorary Fellows position at Hudson, and take no money or benefits from it. If Keith Olbermann has the courage, I invite him to debate me on his program.

The Obama administration promised transparency, but gave us a sleight of hand. Slipped into the stimulus bill are provisions that change healthcare in major ways. If these provisions are so good for us, why are they hidden in a stimulus bill and rushed through Congress?

[M Kehoe]

Tell Betsy, if she goes on his program, then 0lbermann will have two viewers, which will raise his ratings.

5.56mm

[JSteff]

“They will be among the first to feel the lash for leading lifestyles which are not medically cost effective.”

Are you sure of that? History and politics has shown that homosexuals are just a couple of levels above the average citizen and a slight level below the D.C. politico's.

Barney Frank ran a prostitution ring from his house in D.C. and it just made him more powerful and acknowledged as an important person in the government.

No they will be the last group to have their health care adversely affected because of their life style.

[muawiyah]

Barney Frank is an exception to the rule. While he’s enjoyed great medical care as a congressman if he were just a run of the mill homosexual he’d been dead decades ago.

[JrsyJack]

What chance do you think Betsy has of geetting face time with Olby on his show?

Partisan politicos and strategists interviewed by Keith Olbermann on Countdown (MSNBC weeknights, 8:00 pm Eastern), identified by party:

May 22 (2006): Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
May 30: Rep Barney Frank (D)
June 9: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
June 15: Bob Schrum (D)
June 16: Rep John Murtha (D)
June 19: Al Gore (D)
June 20: Sen Jack Reed (D)
June 20: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
June 23: Al Gore (D)
July 5: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
July 12: Barbara Boxer (D)
July 13: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
July 26: Bill Richardson (D)
August 8: Daily Kos (D)
August 9: Joe Trippi (D)
August 30: Howard Dean (D)
August 31: Barbara Boxer (D)
August 31: Rocky Anderson (D)
September 5: Tom Kean Jr (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
September 6: Richard Ben-Veniste (D)
September 7: Sean Maloney (D)
September 8: Mack McLarty (D)
September 11: Max Cleland (D)
September 20: Jane Hamsher (D)
September 22: Bill Jefferson Clinton (D)
September 26: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
September 28: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
October 16: John Ashcroft (R)
October 18: Joe Trippi (D)
October 20: Barack Obama (D)
October 26: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
October 31: Joe Trippi (D)
November 6: Howard Dean (D)
November 22: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
November 30: Joe Trippi (D)
December 6: Russ Feingold (D)
January 3 (2007): Barney Frank (D)
January 4: John Murtha (D)
January 4: Jay Rockefeller (D)
January 11: Russ Feingold (D)
January 18: George McGovern (D)
January 23: Hillary Clinton (D)
January 24: James Webb (D)
January 24: Hillary Clinton (D)
February 20: Tammy Duckworth (D)
February 21: David Boies (D)
February 27: Patrick Murphy (D)
March 21: Charles Schumer (D)
March 22: Patrick Leahy (D)
April 2: Joe Biden (D)
April 3: Russ Feingold (D)
April 6: Madeleine Albright (D)
May 15: Lanny Davis (D)
May 29: Al Gore (D)
June 5: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
June 20: Wesley Clark (D)
June 26: Rahm Emanuel (D)
July 6: Wesley Clark (D)
July 12: Wesley Clark (D)
July 20: John Kerry (D)
July 26: Wesley Clark (D)
August 6: Wesley Clark (D)
August 8: Joe Biden (D)
August 14: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
August 30: Wesley Clark (D)
September 4: Wesley Clark (D)
September 12: Chris Dodd (D)
September 13: Joe Biden (D)
September 27: Jim Webb (D)
September 27: Bill Clinton (D)
September 28: Elizabeth Edwards (D)
September 28: Bill Clinton (D)
October 3: John Edwards (D)
October 11: Hillary Clinton (D)
October 12: Bill Richardson (D)
October 24: John Garabendi (D)
October 29: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
November 19: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
November 29: John Edwards (D)
November 30: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
December 11: Tim Roemer (D)
December 14: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
December 14: Markos Moulitas (D)
December 27: Chris Dodd (D)
January 4 (2008): John Edwards (D)
January 10: Bill Richardson (D)
January 11: Rush Holt (D)
January 23: John Edwards (D)
February 25: Dee Dee Myers (D)
March 14: Barack Obama (D)
March 21: Bill Richardson (D)
March 31: Chuck Hagel (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
April 9: Elizabeth Edwards (D)
April 21: Hillary Clinton (D)
April 25: James Clyburn (D)
April 30: Chris Kofinis (D)
May 1: Joe Andrew (D)
May 9: Harry Reid (D)
May 9: James Webb (D)
May 28: Scott McClellan (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
June 6: Chris Kofinis (D)
June 9: Scott McClellan (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
June 11: John Kerry (D)
June 20: Chris Kofinis (D)
June 23: Markos Moulitsas (D)
June 25: Robert Wexler (D)
June 30: Jim Webb (D)
July 1: Chris Kofinis (D)
July 17: Chris Kofinis (D)
July 21: Chris Kofinis (D)
July 22: Chris Kofinis (D)
July 25: Bob Barr (L)
July 31: Chris Kofinis (D)
August 8: Chris Kofinis (D)
August 12: Chris Kofinis (D)
August 20: Chris Kofinis (D)
September 8: Barack Obama (D)
September 9: Barack Obama (D)
September 10: Chris Kofinis (D)
September 12: Markos Moulitsas (D)
September 15: Chris Kofinis (D)
September 18: Chris Kofinis (D)
September 24: Chris Kofinis (D)
September 25: Rahm Emanuel (D)
September 26: Robert Gibbs (D)
September 30: Chris Kofinis (D)
October 2: Chris Kofinis (D)
October 2: Claire McCaskill (D)
October 7: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D)
October 8: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
October 13: Chris Kofinis (D)
October 15: Chris Kofinis (D)
October 15: Rahm Emanuel (D)
October 16: Chris Kofinis (D)
October 17: Robert Bauer (D)
October 23: David Axelrod (D)
October 27: Chris Kofinis (D)
October 31: David Axelrod (D)
November 3: Chris Kofinis (D)
November 5: Chris Kofinis (D)
November 13: Chris Kofinis (D)
November 13: Robert Reich (D)
November 14: Chris Kofinis (D)
November 24: Robert Reich (D)
December 5: Robert Reich (D)
December 12: Chris Kofinis (D)
December 23: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
January 14 (2009): Scott McClellan (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
January 15: Scott McClellan (R) [speaking against Bush policies]
January 23: Stephen Cohen (D)
January 28: Lawrence O’Donnell (D)
January 29: Jerrold Nadler (D)

[rmlew]

There are time’s I really love her. She helped KO Hillary Care and the NY Liberal Party (unintentionally, she was their candidate). And now she’s back!

[Trajan88]

Now that’s a Rogues Gallery of limp wrist’ed fools.

[April Lexington]

Olbermann is a talking rectum...

[smokingfrog]

The video is not the most interesting, but the information is good.

One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

[April Lexington]

Wow! Looks like we need some Fairness Doctrine over there!

[publana]

bookmark for posteriority

[pankot]

I didn’t know Keith was a man? I thought it was Rachel Maddow who was a man. My bad.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Was that “Fairness Doctrine” relating to MSNBC or did you mean a “Fairy Doctrine” for Keith Overbite?

[Cyropaedia]

Come on, Phil... quit beating around the bush. What are you really trying to say?

[Cyropaedia]

Ann Coulter said that Keith was clearly a woman trapped inside a man’s body. As soon as I read that, I realized that it made perfect sense.

[Cyropaedia]

He actually had John Ashcroft on his show...?? Wow.

[wideminded]

“Since 2006, Olbermann has dated and lived with Katy Tur, a reporter with WPIX-TV, in New York City.” - Wikipedia