Posted on 08/06/2009 8:52:23 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Listening to Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC’s Countdown, is like is receiving multiple layers of anesthesia at the dentist: each inane phrase and assault on facts and logic he utters progressively numbs his viewer to the next. David Horowitz has noted Olbermann’s underwhelming evidence for “health care riots” at townhall meetings, as Democrats try to sell an unpopular plan to constituents who have the audacity to speak up. Olbermann also expressed astonishment, shock, and outrage that most of those people opposing socialized medicine already have health insurance.
While mocking attendees at a Texas Democrat’s health care meeting, Olbermann sputtered, “Whether public or private, the overwhelming majority of protesters at Congressman [Gene] Green’s townhall meeting already had health care coverage.” He later fumed to The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, “Should we surprised, or is it ashamed, or is it both, that these are the people who are actively shilling on behalf corporations — Big Money corporations –who are trying to derail an effort to bring the millions of Americans who do not have the insurance, the benefits that even those people in that room do, into the fold?” Robinson responded, the “message that your health insurance is at risk if something isn’t done somehow has not penetrated” the American psyche.
As CNN has reported nearly 85 percent of American residents have health care coverage, and the message that has “penetrated” their minds is that their coverage will be threatened if something is done. Hence, polls show a majority of Americans — the vast majority of whom are, in fact, insured — oppose this bill with its introduction of a “public option” that will bankrupt their health care providers, introduce Canadian-style rationing, and discourage new generations from entering the health care field (or encourage older generations to make a hasty departure).
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There is something disingenuous about a socialist shill with a million dollar salary deriding the “little people” for not being satisfied with government scraps and hand-outs.
Olbermann is still hiding behind his dead mother, using her as an excuse every time he gets caught lying. Remember Tony Perkins in “Psycho”? Pretty soon Olbie will be wearing a dress and a wig and having long conversations with himself.
Is Olbie one of the favored who will not be forced into “Universal Healthcare”? Just asking.
If you’d told me in the early Nineties that both Olbermann and George Stephanopoulos would be doing (more or less) serious news in fifteen years, I probably would have been a little surprised about Stephie but I could have seen that.
If you’d told me that of the two, Stephie would be the less painful to watch...I would never have believed you.
History will repeat. This guy’s desperation for ratings and his huge ego are going to get him canned at even MSNBC before too much longer.
What are the ratings for his show? He is so irritating, I can’t imagine anyone watching him for more than a few seconds.
If that network (if that’s what you wanna call it) had any intentions of canning this irrelevant dolt, they’d have done it long ago.
Let Doberman keep up his hate because he will take the entire down with him.
It’s a slow process but it’s imminent.
No wonder KO has erectile dysfunction . . . he’s made of the wrong kind of wood
Keith Olbermann....AKA Mr. Tiny.
Oberman was smacked around by girls when he was a kid. He has some real deep seeded issues to deal with.
I wanna give Olberdouche some end of life counseling.
These lib journalists are our enemy, the enemy of all America.
They should have smacked him around harder & more often. As for his worst person in the world comments I think he ought to look in the mirror. He is just such an a$$hole.
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