Olbermann's Pledge: I'll Go To Jail Before Buying ObamaCare Insurance

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Maybe Leavenworth has a TV studio he could use . . .

Keith Olbermann has vowed to break the law and go to jail if ObamaCare requires him to buy health care insurance. Keith made his macho boast in the course of his melodramatic Special Comment this evening.

View video here.

[Lou Budvis]

If this feces foccaia is going to pass, 0german going to jail would be an upside.

[Gabrial]

“It looks like the Obama is hitting the fan.”

I have to agree. I think Obama stepped knee-deep into a big steaming pile of Pelosi.

[American Constitutionalist]

This is to rich to even respond to, but, Keith ? go ahead, we know you want to.
At least Obama can't blame the right if the health care bill is defeated, Kieth is the main instigator now....

[babygene]

Now that’s funny!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

No one will arrest this blowhard because they’d have to be in an enclosed space with him.

They could cuff him and stuff him...plus duck tape ober his pie hole.

[RatsDawg]

Eh, we said the same thing about the left pre-2004, the lefts darling at that time was Dean, they ended up with Kerry.

[Senormechanico]

Did Hell just freeze over??
It must have if I agree with dildobreath olbermann.

[teletech]

The thought of Keith behind bars. I LIKE IT!!!

[JSDude1]

Wow I actually agree with Olberman for once!

[cranked]

lulz, right. =.=

[tophat9000]

Hey asshole Olbermann's in your beloved single payer idea they force you to "buy it" by taking it by tax and you go to jail if you don't pay your tax... so what the diff?

Do these numb nut lib really think it "free"?

[tophat9000]

The possibility of being in a jail cell with this POS scares the hell out of me.

No worries you just know he a catcher not a pitcher

[SFConservative]

Re: the notion of the government forcing you to buy health insurance is equivalent to the the government requiring you to buy car insurance ...

The car insurance the government requires you to buy is liability insurance, not personal injury, not collision, not comprehensive. You are not required to have insurance to cover damage to yourself or your car. In contrast, the health insurance the government is threatening to force us to buy concerns damage to yourself, not liability to others.

Some make the argument that if someone doesn't have health insurance he or she may become a burden on society and that is a liability to others. Somewhat akin to forcing you to buy uninsured motorists coverage in some states, basically forcing you to pay for the government's failing to enforce the law.

I have no problem with the government requiring people to carry health insurance to the extent that their income can reasonably support it. But people should have a choice to opt out of that by self-insuring, which would come with a stipulation that society will not pay for their medical care no matter what happens, i.e. you die in the proverbial gutter if it comes to that. That is not an easy one and may run counter to the Hippocratic Oath etc. But if your voluntarily-uninsured ass got saved on society's dime in an emergency, you ought to pay the cost of that back from your personal assets or income, however long it takes.

[soycd]

>He can play one the 70 virgins for the boyz.

Time to buy stock in Polygrip if he is going to assume that role.

[basalt]

awww..cmon keithie. .,as your vice-president said last year, “its time to get in the game..time to be patriotic”..(sarc)

[A Navy Vet]

Pfft! All hat; no cattle. He would make a lot of noise and then succumb to his marxist messiah. He’s a punk.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Keith, you ignorant slut.

Pick a good weight loss program and this time, stick to it.

[1000 silverlings]

lol, whatever takes him away from football

[Joe Boucher]

Olberbutt to Jail?
HOw about someone send this piece of crap to a hospital?

[BlueStateBlues]

Obermann on bread and water, in solitary confinement, a great picture. Or maybe he’ll have a cellmate who will teach him the finer points of jail sexual traditions.