Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan Will 'Kill Half the People Who Watch My Show'

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[Sub-Driver]

how his producer let's him get away with this is beyond me...

[Ann Archy]

He’s got two stupid viewers, and my poor ignorant FIL is one of them.

[Thrownatbirth]

This country would be a better place if half of Chris’s viewers actually DID die.

[ncfool]

It would be easier if Chrissy would just leave the air. His voice and comments are just killing his audience.

[DeaconRed]

The mere thought sends a tingle up my leg. . . .

[Hardraade]

Only half? And not TinglyLegs?

[flaglady47]

One half down, one half to go.

[PalmettoMason]

Oh no! Not all two of them!

[Da Mav]

so, a Holocaust of seven viewers...

[AlexW]

I would say that ALL of his audience is already BRAIN dead.

[NTHockey]

I thought only his mom watched the show. How do you kill half a person?

[knarf]

You came close, Al ... but what everyone has missed is, half his audience is so screwed up, any attempt to get it right would kill it.

[Joe Boucher]

Sooo Ann, you get in to political discussions during family get togethers???

[Nekman]

I wonder if Rep Ryan can tweak his plan a little so that we could kill ALL of his viewers?

[tanknetter]

If it exempts people 55 and over, why should it scare seniors? Exempts means they're not impacted by this whatsoever. Why should anybody be scared by something that doesn't impact them?

I had my 70-year-old father-in-law, who's turned into a HUGE Lib in his old age, explain this mentality to me recently.

It's not enough that they're "protected". It's their duty to see that their children and grandchildren are "protected" as well.

Counter-argument #1 was that each generation should get to make up it's own mind over policies like this. Response was paternalistic: "you'll know better once you're my age, in the meantime it's my job to save you and my grandkids from yourself"

Counterargument #2 was that if things stayed the same the country was going to be broke and there wouldn't be anything for us anyways. Response was off-topic distractive belligerence: don't lecture on the current deficit and debt because it's needed to clean up the mess left by Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 42.

[tanknetter]

Ok, question: how many die because they can’t get medical attention, vs how many drop dead on the spot from shear outrage.

[MayflowerMadam]

It would kill half of Matthews’ audience? If only...

[Scanian]

Kill half of Chrissy’s viewers?

All the more reason to adopt the plan!

[grobdriver]

That's OK, Chris.
Everyone who watches your show is brain dead, so this is a pretty good survival rate!

[DrC]

“Ok, question: how many die because they can’t get medical attention, vs how many drop dead on the spot from shear outrage.”

Fineman clearly will die from outrage. As an earlier poster noted, Matthews only has 2 viewers, so it’s Fineman’s death that apparently will account for the 50% mortality rate.