Watch Betsy McCaughey Lie to the 9/12 Teabaggers |
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| By: Teddy Partridge Saturday September 12, 2009 6:19 pm | |
Really, this person is absolutely shameless in the lies she will tell people about health care in America. Thanks, Andrew Sullivan, for granting her such undeserved credibility during your stint atop the masthead at TNR. America owes you a huge debt for gifting us this powerful orator and truthful health care expert, Sully.
Very nice touch at the end, getting "played off" by the upbeat bagpipes after you exceeded your allotted five minutes, Madame Former Lite Guv.
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But she is a twisted slunk.
Rec’d.
I wonder what happened to her to make her that way. She is way wrong. And to think she actually got elected statewide in New York!
I love the idea that we can pay to provide insurance for 20 million uninsured by using the $500 billion of stimulus money that hasn’t been spent, because it’s just sitting in a pot in Wash. D.C.
I’ll bet there weren’t 20 people in the crowd who had a clue what she was saying.
Calling what comes out of her mouth an “idea” is exceedingly generous, ‘Crow.
She’s a firebrand, a screamer, a rabble-rouser — and a blonde lady in a skirt who isn’t afraid to haul that damn binder up on stage today after Jon Stewart made such fun of her over it. She’s everything the teabaggers love with none of the Tundra Todd baggage that comes with their other honey.
I give her a real shot at the Veep slot in 2012, with Huckabee, Romney, or Newt. But “ideas?” None, not really.
Well, I think we can use this clip to prove that Betsy McCaughey supports a half-trillion deficit spending bill to subsidize health insurance for poor people — because that’s what she just advocated. And we should do that instead of allowing states not to fire thousands of teachers, policy and fireman, pay for unemployment insurance or repair schools/bridges/roads, etc.
But the crowd didn’t seem to notice.
Yeah, I thought that crowd was pretty much anti-stim, but they sure liked the idea of using the “pot” of half a trillion on health care for poor people, didn’t they?
I wonder if there were cheerleaders in the audience to ensure the speakers got applause in the right places in their speeches. Because otherwise I think most speakers would be greeted with blank incomprehension or “You Lie!” which is never easy to deal with onstage, even if you know they don’t actually mean, you know, YOU.
Which is the entire reason why she can still bob to the top after having her ass handed to her when confronted with, you know, facts.
Lucky for her the intersection of teabag attendees and Daily Show viewers is approximately none at all. Because anyone who saw Jon interview her, with her silly binder full of “half the bill!” (that she can’t ever find anything she quotes or any page numbers she refers to) would laugh her off the stage.
But I think she has a great future in the Teabag Party (formerly GOP).
I was hoping her Daily Show appearance would have killed any future speaking engagements for her. Apparently that was too much to hope for.
Why don’t the teabaggers just make their tea in a douchebag?
Tempest in a douchebag!
Douche tea,anyone?
Anyone who belives anyone on either side is mentally retarded. The Congress could vote on a simple one page bill that states medicare for all, and we will set up new ways to pay for it without taxes. This is not a foolish dream, if we had a Government that worked, and had some intelligent people in it. They have not thought of one way to pay for anything except our taxes. There are millions of businesses that make money and pay for things everyday without taxes. Our Government has the money, the people, and the power to make what companies do look sick, but they have such pea brains, and a steady flow of dollars from us suckers, why even try to think of other ways to pay for things?
What do you think are the chances of infiltrating some of these supposedly grassroots organization? Getting firsthand exactly how they organize and cook up the strange ideas they spout. Or could that be dangerous to one’s help or God forbid even one’s life?
Sorry, meant health, of couse, not help.
She spent the whole time wagging her finger at the crowd and the camera
She keeps lugging that crap around, but there is no bill. I don’t get it.
It’s her Big Prop.
And it’s the only way she gets props for what she’s doing.
I really thought Stewart had puntured her Prop on The Daily Show, but it’s almost a badge of honor for her. I wonder if she’ll carry the same binder around on Cap-n-Trade and Financial RE-Regulation when the Congress gets around to those?