Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Republican Rerouting on the Healthcare Summit
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by Jeffrey Joseph
As President Obama prepared to watch the Super Bowl over the weekend, he presented a challenge to GOP leadership to meet with him on the subject of healthcare reform. Hoping that he was just posturing, FOX's Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy responded by maligning the president's efforts thus far in a preemptive attempt to undercut any potential summit.
Discussing the GOP approach to the bipartisan effort, Steve Doocy mentioned that Reps. John Boehner and Eric Cantor have already expressed a lack of interest in the healthcare reform process unless the president concedes to "start over." Rather tellingly, the FOX chyron briefly read "PRE-SUMMIT POSITIONING," which described the GOP predisposition toward circumventing any ideas but their own quite aptly. Yet while identifying a need to participate in some way in the meeting lest the "party of no" criticism rang too true, Carlson went on to say, "I understand that the Republicans want to start over and start from scratch because they were basically sidelined through the whole discussion initially."
Someone apparently failed to inform Carlson about the bipartisan "gang of six" that shaped so much of the Senate's healthcare bill. Through an unnecessarily bipartisan effort, the Finance Committee allowed three senators from each party to deliberate what reforms made it into their version of the bill, even when people like Sen. Enzi made it transparent he had no intention of compromising on, only obstructing, reform efforts in the end.
Carlson went on to dub the president's effort a mere "PR stunt" and compared it to his previous meeting with doctors on the topic of reform at the White House. She complained, "They were all in favor of his healthcare reform plan, [but] he did not invite any doctors -- a tremendous majority of the doctors in the U.S. -- who were against the healthcare reform." Whether Carlson bothered to find any research to support her theory that "a tremendous majority" of doctors opposed healthcare reform seems doubtful, but she certainly failed to mention that highly influential, nonpartisan groups such as the American Medical Association happened to endorse healthcare reform.
In addition, Carlson reiterated the likelihood that "mainstream media" outlets would turn any refusal to attend by the GOP leadership as a perfect example of the party's lack of ideas besides blaming the nation's woes on the Democrats. Once again, Carlson reintroduces the concept of the right as a victim of the "mainstream media," a meme only noteworthy because it suggests FOX can hardly believe the "most trusted name in news" and ratings gloating that its CEO, Mr. Ailes, so loves to repeat. If FOX really thought that it had the nation's trust and the most viewers, would not FOX's rantings against the mainstream media become tantamount to self-criticism?
Republicans recognize the president's commitment to healthcare reform and how a refusal to attend his summit would solidify the perception that they are the "party of no." Hence, FOX's Doocy and Carlson try to rewrite history to make President Obama seem like he has forced his ideas onto the GOP as they try to feign the appearance of some noble opposition. For the sake of the country, with so many in need of real reform, people should ignore the biased misinformation of the conservative media arm -- and choose to Turn Off FOX.
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Steve Doocy
Back in the early/mid-nineties we were living in the Washington, D.C. area. There was a young, smart-alec reporter for one of the local TV stations (I think it was the NBC affiliate) named Steve Doocy. One day he interviewed Mr. Fred Rogers about his trip to Russia to meet with a woman named Tatyana who hosted a children's program there. As the parent of two young children, I tuned in. Doocy made lewd comments about Tatyana to Mr. Rogers and tried to get him to comment. Mr. Rogers tried to distract Doocy by directing the conversation to the purpose of his trip and the children's programing that Tatyana provided. Being the unrelenting "newshound" that he is Doocy would not be distracted and asked Rogers if he didn't, indeed, have some lustful feelings for the young woman. At that point Mr. Rogers became rather curt with Doocy and told him that he was only interested in children's programming. Doocy is the only person that I ever heard that gentle soul, Mr. Rogers, lose his patience with. In other words, the man was and is completely obnoxious. He is not interested in news--only sensationalism. Another good reason to TURN OFF FOX!
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Lets hope the Republicans refuse because this televised debate is a stupid idea. 1st of all, it involves waiting at least until after February 25 to take action, and more delay is about as stupid and timid looking as you can get. 2nd, the Republicans don't even need to hold their own at the debate, so long as they don't gaffe too hard they'll win by default. 3rd, the Republicans will absolutely become instant-populists and hypocritically criticize the bad bill from the left - they can talk about the mandate and the $1500-3800 IRS-enforced fine - they can talk about the "middle class is a Cadillac" tax-hike on the middle class - as if they had been the populists all along - and it will work for them. 4th, Obama is going back to the well because it worked for him last week, but the dynamics are different this time - it's a 6 hour debate from which the media can pick and choose which clips to play over and over - there's no element of surprise so the Republicans can downplay expectations and frame the terms of what constitutes winning the debate. 5th, the only people you could possibly convince are the people who are not Conservatives, so the whole thing has no point. F--- the Democrats in 2010.