• Republicans say health care reform would put Medicare at risk, but is it true? Alan debates the issue with music legend and conservative activist Pat Boone.
• Kentucky State Rep. Tom Riner wants God’s protection written into law. He’ll tell Alan why.
• It’s the Friday Night Free-For-All!
You mean “jackasses” like Brad Pitt, or Alec Baldwin, or Rosie O’Donnell?
What on earth could Pat Boone possibly contribute to the health care debate?
THIS is what’s wrong with media today. We make celebrities out of jackasses like Joe the Not Actually a Plumber and let celebrities who are already jackasses who bring nothing to the table open their big mouths.
I haven’t heard the show yet, but it seems as if you have a guest on, you must accord them so much courtesy, or you will be unable to get guests.
The problem is that they come with their talking points, (often saying the same things on different shows), and unless you know exactly what they will be and have prepared to counter them ,they pretty much get to say what they want to say.
I’m sure I will be corrected, if I am wrong, but I assume that is why people like Limbaugh don’t have guests from the other side on, like Alan has.
That one caller giving Alan a hard time about his debating Pat Boone, saying Alan was too soft on Pat Boone, was overreacting (the caller sounded overly agitated anyway). Alan stayed friendly in tone, but came back with enough examples of “death panel” decisions in today’s system that Pat Boone admitted there’s problems with the status quo. Good sparring, Alan!
Pat Boone claimed on tonight’s show that 85% of Americans with health insurance are happy with it, but didn’t have a source for that figure. (Wishful thinking?)
But during a discussion of whether there were “death panels” in the health care bill, Alan got Pat to say, “I agree that there are all kinds of things that are wrong” about insurance company bureaucrats making decisions denying patient treatment in the present system.
Makes that 85% figure even harder to credit.
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Writing “God’s protection” into law is like Gen. Patton praying for good weather so he can slaughter the enemy.
Hey, it makes great TV.
August 28th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Why the wingnuts still want to talk about Chappaquiddick is beyond me.
Well, it’s not that far beyond me. They keep coming back to Chappaquiddick because that’s all they’ve got to hang on to. And, I think they derive some sick enjoyment out of it.
“She’s dead, Jim”. (Oblique Star Trek reference.)
It was an accident. It was 40 years ago.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Colmes let Pat Boone get away with several truthiness things during his interview but one sticks out: that “tens of thousands are leaving AARP” over the even weak AARP support of healthcare/insurance reform.
Well, kind of but not exactly.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200908180038
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The approximately 60,000 number represents members who specifically cited AARP’s stance on the health overhaul debate in canceling their membership between July 1 and mid-August, Nannis said. He said that on average AARP loses some 300,000 members a month, but he couldn’t say how many more members had quit for other reasons in that time period.
He said AARP gained some 400,000 new members during the same period and that 1.5 million members renewed their membership.
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Boone made it sound like AARP membership is drying up over the tea-baggers leaving, but it’s not. Not at all.
Don’t let these wingnuts get away with this stuff. That’s the only way they’ll win but this nonsense can be smacked right back in their faces if you swing and connect when they serve up a good pitch.
August 29th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Better yet, even the 60,000 people reportedly quitting AARP over government involvement in health insurance should all on Medicare.
“Keep your filthy goverment hands off my Medicare!!!”
We live in crazy times.
August 29th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Pat Boone claimed on tonight’s show that 85% of Americans with health insurance are happy with it, but didn’t have a source for that figure. (Wishful thinking?)
But during a discussion of whether there were “death panels” in the health care bill, Alan got Pat to say, “I agree that there are all kinds of things that are wrong” about insurance company bureaucrats making decisions denying patient treatment in the present system.
Makes that 85% figure even harder to credit.
August 29th, 2009 at 4:48 am
That one caller giving Alan a hard time about his debating Pat Boone, saying Alan was too soft on Pat Boone, was overreacting (the caller sounded overly agitated anyway). Alan stayed friendly in tone, but came back with enough examples of “death panel” decisions in today’s system that Pat Boone admitted there’s problems with the status quo. Good sparring, Alan!
OldLefty Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I haven’t heard the show yet, but it seems as if you have a guest on, you must accord them so much courtesy, or you will be unable to get guests.
The problem is that they come with their talking points, (often saying the same things on different shows), and unless you know exactly what they will be and have prepared to counter them ,they pretty much get to say what they want to say.
I’m sure I will be corrected, if I am wrong, but I assume that is why people like Limbaugh don’t have guests from the other side on, like Alan has.
August 29th, 2009 at 4:55 am
What on earth could Pat Boone possibly contribute to the health care debate?
THIS is what’s wrong with media today. We make celebrities out of jackasses like Joe the Not Actually a Plumber and let celebrities who are already jackasses who bring nothing to the table open their big mouths.
Daddio Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
You mean “jackasses” like Brad Pitt, or Alec Baldwin, or Rosie O’Donnell?
August 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pm