Fox News host: Obamacare ‘touches so many people’s lives’ unlike ‘Katrina or the Iraq war’

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Monday suggested that President Barack Obama’s health care law was even worse than devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina or the Iraq War because it “touches so many people’s lives.”

In a segment on America’s Newsroom, MacCallum invited Fox News contributor Brit Hume to examine a recent conservative claim that the president was trying to “change the subject” from the health care reform law by negotiating to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

“That’s certainly part of it,” Hume observed. “But these are issues — Iran, immigration — that the president was going to have to address anyway, whatever his standing and whatever the condition of his health insurance reform plan.”

“What I keep coming back to in all of this is unlike other issues — Katrina or the Iraq war — that we’ve seen in [President George W. Bush's] second term, this is something that touches so many people’s lives across the country,” MacCallum opined. “And you don’t know whether the president is going to be able to successfully dodge it.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/25/fox-news-host-obamacare-touches-so-many-peoples-lives-unlike-katrina-or-the-iraq-war/

[Scuba]

1. 'Cause NOLA residents and GI's aren't "people"?????

[hatrack]

27. And all those people in Iraq - they're just sand-colored props, after all

Fuck Fox, fuck Brit Hume and FUCK MARTHA MCCALLUM.

Asshole.

[Ken Burch]

2. Because who can forget all those heartbreaking shots...

...of people watching their loved ones come home in flag-draped coffins after they were killed while signing up for ACA.

or all those folks huddled on then roofs of their homes holding up signs saying "SAVE US. WE'RE ABOUT TO GET HEALTHCARE!"

[CBHagman]

11. You really need to post that on the Fox site...

...and get it into a letter to the editor.

I try to be sparing with the word evil when describing politicians and pundits, but the attempt to depict increased access to health care as a negative thing, and efforts to create hysteria and exploit fear/ignorance really deserves that adjective.

[yurbud]

31. that's awesome

[Dawson Leery]

3. Fox again making up s**t. As with all right wing hate media, their audience will believe anything

they are told.

[liberal N proud]

4. Positively touching vs. negatively.

But that's not important when you are FOX.

[Stuart G]

5. Assinine beyond belief...what else to say??nt

[Wilms]

6. Where is SwampRat?!

This pix needs a bit of his highlighting to really bring out the soullessness.

[groundloop]

7. Yeah, it totally sucks that my son can be on my insurance while he's at college

It's devastating that I can drop in to my local pharmacy and get a flu shot at no cost. And furthermore, I don't know how I'm going to be able to handle getting yearly check-ups without having any out-of-pocket expenses.

[SnakeEyes]

34. Curious...

what was your experiencing signing up? Did you get through online?

[Beartracks]

8. They're not even trying to explain how ACA is supposed to be a failure. Rather...

... they just present it as a given that it is a failure, and the story now is how President Obama is going to dodge it, and how America is going to have to deal with it, etc.

Weird, too, is that they kind of admit that Katrina and Iraq War are actually problems...

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

30. that's the hook and it's what makes it so hard to introduce facts to these people.

They present a 180º fabrication as if it were common knowledge. To refute fuxheads you have to somehow take them out of the alternate reality they live in. Reshoot and redirect their entire internal movie.

:brickwall:

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Next up on FOX "News": Inside the sweatshop making the Super-capes for the Republicans.

[Moonwalk]

10. So? Ideas to make sure our thoughts on this get more news than this news?

Seriously. Let's get some ideas generated and executed here and now to give this absurdity more negative attention than Fox's attempt to give ACA negative attention.

Let's do it now. And let's do it fast. And let's make sure it sticks and embarrasses them for months to come.

[jimlup]

12. These people are insane.

It is up to us to point that out to the rest of rational America.

[maxsolomon]

19. It's not Rational America that needs convincing

Its Fox Viewers, AKA Fox Victims. Many are formerly rational people (AKA my 77 y.o. Dad) who have let propaganda disguised as news convince them to lose the last vestiges of their Empathy.

Fear and slander are powerful manipulators, and the truth is complicated. Hearing, and understanding that one has been blatantly lied to, is impossible for people when their self-image is involved. After all, admitting they believed propaganda means admitting they are dumb.

So much easier to let the dulcet tones slip through one's mind, validating your fears and predjudices, hour after hour.

[yuiyoshida]

13. Its even worse to THEM because they DID NOT implement it..

REPUBLICANS are sore losers. Let them cry...

[tofuandbeer]

14. Bleh. I've learned so much from this ACA thing:

Our press is very much under the control of money.
It's disgusting and it's scary.

[maxsolomon]

20. Fox is not "The Press"

It's Republican Propaganda.

In the disguise of Journalism.

[tofuandbeer]

23. Agreed. But so many others seem to be following suit.

It gets tough to find which sources are truthful.

[maxsolomon]

25. You're right. NPR vacillates wildly.

Giving open mics to GOP shills mouthing Talking Points, then today a Kaiser Foundation report on people in CA getting better coverage for less.

[Major Hogwash]

15. This is so sad, just think, Massachusetts has suffered a health care program like ACA for years now

Damn you Obama!!

*shakes fist at ceiling*

[bluedeathray]

16. ...MacCallum opined. “And you don’t know whether the president is going to be able

to successfully dodge it.”

??

Yessiree Bob! President Obama is just searching for a way to escape the public's knowledge of 50 million more Americans with health insurance.

[locks]

17. At least 135,000 killed in Iraq war

Can you even imagine how many lives "have been touched?" Crazies MacCallum and Hume might schedule an interview with a vet who lived through 5 or 6 deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan and ask him about the "horrifying devastation" caused by Obamacare.

[maxsolomon]

21. But Fox Viewers don't know any Iraqis.

And they certainly don't know any of the poors in NOLA. They didn't see the bodies, so they don't care.

They're Republicans; its not real unless it happens to them.

[Ian_rd]

18. Just keep talkin ...

The more stupid shit you say, the more people will have their Fox News Moment of Clarity.

Imagine the uninsured Republican guy whose brother was killed in Iraq hearing that.

[maxsolomon]

24. Do you really believe that?

I imagine your hypothetical GOP guy would be more likely to never visit the website and see his options, like that Libertarian jackhole in Utah with 10 homeschooled kids on Medicaid.

The fine will be his badge of honor.

[Botany]

22. Tell that to this Iraqi girl

Her family was shot and killed by American troops as they drove their car on
Iraqi roads because the GIs were scared of being car bombed.

Heartless peroxide Fox News blond.

[Sunlei]

26. more republican disrespect to the thousands of Vets, living with the 'devastation' of Iraq war

I don't understand how anyone could vote R, especially people who have friends, family who are dead or maimed for life because of that stupid bush & buddie$ war.

[rock]

28. When perfectly sane people spout nothing but insanity

You can figure their (political) position is completely untenable.

[valerief]

29. Another freakin' Fox waste of oxygen. nt

[BlueToTheBone]

32. They just conflated * with President Obama.

“What I keep coming back to in all of this is unlike other issues — Katrina or the Iraq war — that we’ve seen in second term, this is something that touches so many people’s lives across the country,” MacCallum opined. “And you don’t know whether the president is going to be able to successfully dodge it.”

What the Fuck is That? Our President has ended 2 wars, avoided 2 or 3 others, enacted health care that can only get better and put Janet Yellen in charge of the Fed. May they all rot in hell.

[Martin Eden]

33. "touches so many peoples' lives"

Well, yeah ... people can't be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition, they can keep their children on their policy until age 26, they have access to good policies at a reasonable price ... that's the gist of their commentary, right?

[GoCubsGo]

35. In the worlds of Keith Olbermann...

That woman is an idiot. Yeah, it "touches so many peoples lives", but they aren't dying from it, like they did in Katrina or the Iraq War. Quite the contrary, you fucking imbecile.

Logic was never the strong suit of these assholes...

[KamaAina]

36. Excuse me?

[Skittles]

37. the horror of just SEEING the aftermath of Katrina will stay with me all my life

I seriously doubt that Obamacare will cause me that kind of trauma