Hannity And Bachmann Team Up To “Tell Nancy Pelosi What She Can Do With The Pelosi Health Care Plan”

[Ardent15]

Sean Hannity announced at the beginning of his show last night (10/30/09), “We have spent the last 24 hours analyzing this massive (health care reform) legislation.” But he offered his viewers almost no information about it other than political spin that just so happened to be Republican-centered. Instead of an actual analyst or expert on health policy, he chose extremist and conspiracy theorist Michele Bachmann as the only guest. No Democrat got comparable time. It was soon clear that Bachmann’s real qualifications were her willingness to spew anti-health care reform talking points – truth be damned – and that she had a tea party-like protest planned in the halls of Congress. With video.

Just as he and Jamie Colby (guest hosting On The Record) did the night before, Hannity had the pile of papers that he claimed was a printout of the bill on his desk as a prop. Demonizing the bill over its length just so happens to match current Republican talking points about it. Hannity held up pages from what he claimed were the only five pages that mattered. The pages he held up had large block letters saying, “ABORTION,” “HIGHER TAXES” and “DEATH PANELS,” among two others, that were obviously not part of the bill. Laughably, he called the actual bill “smoke and mirrors.” Hannity added, “Those five pages are the only ones that Americans really need to read and these are the things they need to know about.” So much for “we report, you decide.”

Bachmann wasted no time getting to her attack. “This is the crown jewel of socialism… what Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have wanted from the very beginning.”

She and Hannity went on to insist that Page 92 of the bill provided that people will not be able to keep their private health insurance. “(Page 92) says specifically that people can’t purchase private health insurance after a date certain,” Bachmann said. Actually, Page 92 says nothing of the sort. Hannity and Bachmann seem to have been thinking of Page 94. As Media Matters reported in its debunking of the very same claim by Rush Limbaugh (what a coincidence!), “the provision at issue states that private individual policies can be sold, but only through the Health Insurance Exchange and subject to its regulations.” It also allows the purchase of current plans to be grandfathered in under certain conditions. Furthermore, the Exchange specifically includes “a Premium Plus plan through which people will have options to purchase coverage for additional health care benefits that are not included in the core benefit standards.” For two people presenting themselves as experts on the bill on a news network, it’s astonishing how much they didn’t know.
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These dangerous psychotic right-wingers need to be constantly exposed for the lies, disinformation, and overall bullshit they represent.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Hannity and Bachman - THERE'S a power-duo...

:rofl:

[ixion]

2. unfortunately, this time they have a point: a mandate IS socialism. Corporate Socialism

there is simply no other way to define it.

I think health care should be affordable and accessible to everyone, at any time. However, forcing people -- at penalty of fine -- to purchase insurance is not reform, and will not go over well in the long run, in my opinion.

[emulatorloo]

3. I don't think they were talking much about mandates, at least from what the article said.

EOM

[ixion]

6. yeah, they don't deal in facts

that they had a point was pure luck, because they're generally just talking out of the a**.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. They report, I deride.

[Bitwit1234]

5. I am so embarassed

that bachman comes from my state. At least she is from the Minneapolis district and only republican butts live there.