Conservative Charles Gibson hates American people

[justfollowingtheelections]

I almost puked when I read this:

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Basically what he's saying is that he doesn't give a damn if people die as long as he doesn't have to wait in line.  What an a-hole!

[Lief 🗽]

Yeah, it was kind of hilarious how the Republicans complained for a week that last night's thing was going to be an informerical or pro-Obama propaganda, and they instead spent the entire night asking him a bunch of right-wing trash questions.

[Landslide Lyndon]

This guy is really hilarious.

Last year, during a time when there was a full blown credit crisis and a house market meltdown, he was obsessed with capital gains taxes. There wasn't a single debate or interview with a presidential candidate where this clown wouldn't demand from them to take an oath about not raising the capital gains tax, a burning question I assume for high-maintenance media morons like him and his bosses.

To use Bugs Bunny's immortal words: "What a maroon".

[Vepres]

I almost puked when I read this:

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Basically what he's saying is that he doesn't give a damn if people die as long as he doesn't have to wait in line.  What an a-hole!

*Shakes head* He was pointing out that it was a concern. He didn't say they should die, or not receive coverage.

By the way, NOBODY dies because they don't have coverage. In case you didn't notice, hospitals have to take the uninsured.

Yeah, it was kind of hilarious how the Republicans complained for a week that last night's thing was going to be an informerical or pro-Obama propaganda, and they instead spent the entire night asking him a bunch of right-wing trash questions.

What did you expect him to do? Say, Obama you're so amazing and perfect, how do you handle your absolute awesomeness?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This guy is really hilarious.

Last year, during a time when there was a full blown credit crisis and a house market meltdown, he was obsessed with capital gains taxes. There wasn't a single debate or interview with a presidential candidate where this clown wouldn't demand from them to take an oath about not raising the capital gains tax, a burning question I assume for high-maintenance media morons like him and his bosses.

To use Bugs Bunny's immortal words: "What a maroon".

In a credit crisis you have a shrinking Capital pool, the last thing you want to do is raise taxes on capital and risk Capital flight to escape those taxes.

[Landslide Lyndon]

This guy is really hilarious.

Last year, during a time when there was a full blown credit crisis and a house market meltdown, he was obsessed with capital gains taxes. There wasn't a single debate or interview with a presidential candidate where this clown wouldn't demand from them to take an oath about not raising the capital gains tax, a burning question I assume for high-maintenance media morons like him and his bosses.

To use Bugs Bunny's immortal words: "What a maroon".

In a credit crisis you have a shrinking Capital pool, the last thing you want to do is raise taxes on capital and risk Capital flight to escape those taxes.

Is that supposed to mean something to all those people who lost their homes and their jobs?
Gibson doesn't give a sh**t about the "Shrinking Capital Pool". He only cared about his own pocket when he made those questions.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I almost puked when I read this:

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Basically what he's saying is that he doesn't give a damn if people die as long as he doesn't have to wait in line.  What an a-hole!

*Shakes head* He was pointing out that it was a concern. He didn't say they should die, or not receive coverage.

By the way, NOBODY dies because they don't have coverage. In case you didn't notice, hospitals have to take the uninsured.

No, they just can't pay their bills and have to declare bankruptcy, and since the hospital has to eat the expense, it gets passed on to people with insurance.

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Gibson makes $8 million a year to claim that middle class professors at a small NH college where the average faculty salary is around $60k have to worry about a tax hike for those who make over $250,000 a year. All this during a Democratic debate. Total waste of human DNA.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Gibson makes $8 million a year to claim that middle class professors at a small NH college where the average faculty salary is around $60k have to worry about a tax hike for those who make over $250,000 a year. All this during a Democratic debate. Total waste of human DNA.

Yeah, that was another classic by Mr. Capital-Taxes-Increase-Will-Hurt-the-Middle-Class.

[Smash255]

I almost puked when I read this:

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Basically what he's saying is that he doesn't give a damn if people die as long as he doesn't have to wait in line.  What an a-hole!

*Shakes head* He was pointing out that it was a concern. He didn't say they should die, or not receive coverage.

By the way, NOBODY dies because they don't have coverage. In case you didn't notice, hospitals have to take the uninsured.

No, they just can't pay their bills and have to declare bankruptcy, and since the hospital has to eat the expense, it gets passed on to people with insurance.

Not to mention all the people who die as a result of finding out about an illness too late because of lack of insurance.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I almost puked when I read this:

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Basically what he's saying is that he doesn't give a damn if people die as long as he doesn't have to wait in line.  What an a-hole!

He rised a fair question.  People die if they can't get in for a doctor's appointment.

[??????????]

I almost puked when I read this:

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Basically what he's saying is that he doesn't give a damn if people die as long as he doesn't have to wait in line.  What an a-hole!

You don't think the additional burden on the medical system will exist? How the hell do you think that's not a fair question? What should we do, sit down, shut up and get fed whatever the president wants without protest? What the hell do you think this is a tyranny?

Anyway, enjoy what President Stupid is going to do to this country. Just don't come bitching to me when it's all f'cked up 10 years from now.

[dead0man]

To be fair, a lot of those 46 million are healthy 20 somethings and they aren't likely to start going to the doctor in droves even if it's near free.

[they don't love you like i love you]

To be fair, a lot of those 46 million are healthy 20 somethings and they aren't likely to start going to the doctor in droves even if it's near free.

Exactly. Also such people are the types who are used to NOT running off to the doctor everytime they get a sore throat or start coughing a bunch. People who don't realize doctors can't cure your common cold or even make much of a difference and rush off to the clinic every time they get it are part of the reason getting an appointment can be difficult.

[Keystone Phil]

I am outraged that Gibson did not flat out wrap his lips around "The Big O" (if you know what I mean). Outraged. And this man calls himself a journalist?

[Mechaman]

All I hear is "This man questioned Obama, he must be a far right wing extremist!"
Seriously, this is almost as bad as the conservitards were acting during the the first term of George Bush, ie "anyone who questions Bush's actions is a Sadaam sympathsizing traitor!"
Because anybody who questions whoever is in power must hate Muricah, right?
This mentality is really starting to piss me off, anybody remember the time when people could have honest political discourse without being labelled at hatemonger, fearmonger, racist, America hater, gun grabber, gun totter, socialist, far right winger, extreme leftist, ect? I sure as hell don't!
It's time people stop acting like children about politics and started acting like adults, ie backing up statements with intelligent analysis and maybe even evidence. Show me well thought out, researched, documented, background checked proof that Gibson hates American people besides your bias on issues. Seriously people. And when I say evidence I mean more than just "Gibson doesn't like people down on their luck", show me a source where Gibson actually said "I hate American people." If said source doesn't exist, you can't prove anything.

[Beet]

Wow I agree with Mechaman. I support universal health care insurance (provided it doesn't blow the bond market), but Gibson asked a tough question, which is what reporters are supposed to do.

The fact of the matter is that as the cost of healthcare continues to rise, a portion of that is due to improvements in technology. Making easily accessible the latest, most expensive technology to all people will no longer be feasible. Some health care will have to be increasingly rationed as time goes on. We will increasingly see the rich be able to afford better care than the poor or middle class, even if universal coverage extends basic insurance to all.

[pogo stick]

Charles Gibson is a idiot (But his question was a very good one). Barack Obama is a idiot. And all you Obama-freaks are idiots.

[bullmoose88]

Seemed like a fair question to ask.  It is Obama's job to sell this thing, don't you want him to have the opportunity to directly say that adding 46 million people to the rolls will be sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops...no problem mmmkay?  Because there's no possible way he could answer otherwise, right?

(Insert hyperbole here)

[Landslide Lyndon]

Seemed like a fair question to ask.  It is Obama's job to sell this thing, don't you want him to have the opportunity to directly say that adding 46 million people to the rolls will be sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops...no problem mmmkay?  Because there's no possible way he could answer otherwise, right?

(Insert hyperbole here)

The problem is that Gibson and his ilk are always asking questions straight from the Frank Luntz Talking Points manual. If he wanted to be objective then he should also ask why the US doesn't have, and isn't even taking under consideration, a single payer system, just like all the other western, industrialized nations.

[bullmoose88]

Seemed like a fair question to ask.  It is Obama's job to sell this thing, don't you want him to have the opportunity to directly say that adding 46 million people to the rolls will be sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops...no problem mmmkay?  Because there's no possible way he could answer otherwise, right?

(Insert hyperbole here)

The problem is that Gibson and his ilk are always asking questions straight from the Frank Luntz Talking Points manual. If he wanted to be objective then he should also ask why the US doesn't have, and isn't even taking under consideration, a single payer system, just like all the other western, industrialized nations.

See, I can understand asking that of say...Tim Pawenty or whoever the face of the Republican Party is...perfectly fair, but that's not a tough question for Obama...what that question does for Obama or someone like him is put a baseball up on a tee, hand Obama a bat and tell him to swing away.

I enjoy when the press makes their interviewee squirm in his/her seat some...thats what they're supposed to be doing...pointing out flaws...Obama's more than capable on his own on telling the country why singlepayer is fantastic etc...just as a Pawenty can easily say...adding 46 million will cripple us.

Gibson had an opportunity to make Obama squirm and answer something he'd never talk about, in his right mind, on his own.

Good for him.

[King]

We can always improve our education system and produce more doctors.

And with all the extra time on their hands with less insurers, insurance-hospital hybrid companies like Kaiser Permanente will probably end up having to build more hospitals as a way to replace the lost revenue.