Hello again out there in TV land, it's your old buddy Anthony back with another shot at health care.
I just finished watching last Thursday's episode of "The Daily Show". It featured an interview with a large breasted woman (Betsy McCaughey) who is an outspoken opponent of the new health care bill insofar as, in her mind, it is designed to kill old people.
The interview went so long that they had to air only the first 15 minutes or so and put the rest out on their website. It was a really awkward interview mostly because she would read a passage from the bill (that sounded like ordinary English) and somehow twist and morph it into something altogether alien.
Jon Stewart kept trying to point out the crazy in her argument, but she was not to be dissuaded. She also mentioned that President Obama wanted to cut 500 billion dollars from medicare in the next ten years which would almost guarantee that old folks would no longer receive quality health care.
It was the first time I can remember that Jon Stewart seemed genuinely frustrated and angry. He played it off pretty well, however.
I know exactly how he feels. I've got a lot of friends who are conservatives who are convinced that Obama is creating a socialist state and that their guns are about to be confiscated sometime in the next 6 months or so. I try to reason with them, but it's the same situation where, although it sounds like English to me, somehow it doesn't translate correctly on the other end.
Normally, I just laugh (because they're dumb), but it's also frustrating to try to point out the obvious to someone who is absolutely dead-set against seeing it.
Granted, I've been married for most of my adult life (to women) so I realize that some people (half the population) just can't be reasoned with. (I'm looking at you, ladies...) Even so, it's still really annoying to have all the facts, come to a sane conclusion based solely on those facts, and yet still have somebody argue the opposite. It's maddening.
And yet, that's what I deal with on a regular basis.
Thank the gods for Barnie Frank. He recently smacked down some retard in a town hall meeting who was talking about supporting Obama's Nazi programs (or some such horseshit). [It's funny, but I've read "The rise and fall of the third reich" and I don't remember anything at all about Nazi health care.]
Anyway, he basically told her she was stupid and there was no point in arguing with somebody like that. Naturally, he took a little heat for it, but I was wholly impressed. I wish more politicians would follow his example.
As for Jon, he eventually got her off his show and didn't lose his shit. I don't know that she'll be making any repeat appearances, if only because it wasn't particularly entertaining watching the stupid dripping from the set.
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I remember once when I worked for an insurance company that a certain bill was being considered that would make it easier for people to sue their health insurance companies. They set up phone banks down in the cafeteria and offered a free brownie to employees who would make a call to their congressman and read a script deriding the bill. You may think that I took the bait because there was a brownie involved, but I didn't. I think that similar tactics are being used at these town hall meetings. I don't think these are merely concerned citizens, but are paid thugs bussed in from out of town to make it appear as if their numbers are greater than they are.
I also have spoken to many people who are against reform, but repeat the false arguments used in the town halls and in right wing media. They don't really understand that they would actually benefit from having a public option, because the private insurance companies would be given a run for their money.
Of all the arguments they bring up, the "death panels" one is the one they understand least. In fact, if they would think about it, they would realize that their private insurance companies already have their own death panels, because they have more of a motivation to deny care (profit), than the government does.
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