FOX’s Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham Fight Healthcare Reform by Mocking the Sick
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Jeffrey Joseph
After the healthcare summit, President Obama hoped to have ascertained all the common ground liberals and conservatives have on the healthcare reform the nation so desperately needs in order to push legislation forward. Unfortunately, one basic assumption bipartisan progress would require, that both sides have compassion for the uninsured, simply does not hold. Now the movement to stop healthcare reform has taken a new low -- denigrating the afflicted.
Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham, who even O'Reilly considers an "ideologue," talked about the summit on O'Reilly's show Thursday evening, but Ingraham made it clear that she had no sympathetic sentiments and preferred to be snide about the whole event. Referring to the stories Democrats presented of real sufferers of the lack of healthcare reform, Ingraham wrote off Louise Slaughter's constituent by saying she had "won the Olympics of sob stories by saying...[she] had to wear her sister's dentures, okay, it got so bad with the healthcare system." To prove she could, in fact, take her dislike for the disenfranchised a step further, Ingraham continued to say, "You had Harry Reid on the cleft palate with his [constituents] . . . I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous."
While Ingraham prominently features a cross on her chest during most of her television appearances, nothing about her attack on the story of someone with a cleft palate as "ridiculous" sounds remotely Christian. Nor does Ingraham's attempt to make light of an elderly woman in any way resemble a call to aid the literal or metaphorical "orphans and widows" of the world, a movement defined Biblically as "religion clean and undefiled."
Instead, Ingraham's derision came across as a crass attempt at humor used to avoid the substance of the issue, something her conservative colleagues like Glenn Beck and his radio sidekicks continued. Beck himself ridiculed the condition of Slaughter's constituent by saying, "I am wearing George Washington's dentures right now. I'm wearing his teeth right now. Over my teeth." Beck's sidekicks took the attacks a step further, derisively imitating the voice of a two-year-old presumably writing in to President Obama to tell him, "I have no healthcare, Mr. Pwesident, and I have no feet and no tonsils because doctors took 'em out." It seems only a member of Beck's show could find humor in a small child missing body parts. Somehow, he appeared entertained.
Regardless of how many times FOX tries to portray healthcare reform as against the will of the nation, its contributors and their associates prove just how out of touch they are with the people who need help. People around the country deserve better than to be ridiculed by FOX personalities for their suffering and to have some kind of help in the form of healthcare reform. To get there, viewers deserve a compassionate presentation of the news rather than the facetiousness of Ingraham and Beck -- and to choose to Turn Off FOX.
Please send in tips and success stories to turnofffox@gmail.com, look out for us on Twitter @turnofffox, and join us at BuzzFlash in the Campaign to Turn Off FOX News. And please forward this article to a friend.
Also don't forget you can drive the message home with a TurnOffFOX bumper sticker.
Originally posted at Turn Off FOX.
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
»
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version


gucci sneakers
Now, I would be the first to admit that I am not a willing shoppergucci sneakers. I don’t run true to female type on this mattergucci outlet; normally I need to be dragged kicking men gucci shoes and screaming to the shops as my clothes fall off me in rags, so dilapidated have they become. Why gucci handbags sale? Frankly, I just can’t stand the disappointmentcheap gucci handbags. Not that there are no clothes to buy, oh nogucci accessories; I live in London for goodness’ sake gucci wallets, close to both the Kings Road and Westfield Shopping Centregucci jewelry. It isn’t that there are not enough clothes to choose fromgucci clothing, rather that there are too many and – more to the point – they all make me look like a sack of potatoesgucci shoes for women. A sack of potatoes in a pair of well-cut jeans, perhapsgucci skirt, or in a pretty patterned shirt , but – to my jaded eyes – still a sack of potatoes.
www.topguccistore.com
Women in summer would like
Thanks for posting this one.
Thanks for posting this one. This is very nice posts an informative.
Many people will gonna read this one.
Car Crash Compensation
If you want to buy Omega
If you want to buy Omega Watches Omega Watches For Sale discuont Omega Watches Prices on My Watches Store
Designer handbags - Real
omega watches
winni2078 07 30
Juicy Couture is a fashion [url=http://www.rolexwatchesblog.us/]rolex watches[/url] brand which was founed in 1997 form California, [url=http://www.omegawatchesblog.us/]omega Watches[/url] by Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy.[url=http://www.newstyleomega.com/category-198-b0-Breitling+Watches.html]Breitling Watches[/url] applying bright colors to show vitality and ooze feminine charms.[url=http://juicycouture4u.com/Juicy-Couture-Handbag.html]Juicy Couture Handbag[/url], Juicy Couture tracksuit, Juicy Couture Suit, [url=http://www.burberryblog.us/]Burberry Handbag[/url], [url=http://www.balenciagablog.us/]Balenciaga Handbag[/url], [url=http://www.weddingdressblog.us/]wedding dress[/url], [url=http://www.watchesblog.us/]Wrist Watches[/url],Juicy Couture Jewelry,[url=http://www.tagheuerblog.us/]Tag Heuer Watches[/url], [url=http://www.pursesblog.us/]designer handbag[/url] Juicy Couture Shoesthe [url=http://www.newstyleomega.com/category-218-b0-Cartier.html]cartier watches[/url] extension of the line's [url=http://www.newstyleomega.com/category-76-b0-Chanel+watches.html]chanel watches[/url] fabulous and [url=http://www.juicycouture4u.com/]juicy couture[/url] fun-loving persona. [url=http://www.edhardyblog.us/]ed hardy[/url] Juicy Couture Tracksuit and [url=http://www.louisvuittonblog.us/]Louis Vuitton Handbag[/url],raising a campaign of luxury pursuing [url=http://www.juicycouture4u.com/]juicy couture suit[/url] in sports clothing.[url=http://www.newstyleomega.com/]Omega Watches[/url] Juicy Couture [url=http://www.juicycouture4u.com/Juicy-Couture-Tracksuits.html]<strong>Juicy Couture Tracksuits</strong>[/url] Jewelry is another way for the true [url=http://www.guccihandbagblog.us/]Gucci Handbag[/url].Juicy Couture Bracelets,necklaces,rings, and [url=http://www.handbagblog.us/]handbag[/url] earrings all have [url=http://www.juicycouture4u.com/]juicy couture handbag[/url] a light-hearted and whimsical [url=http://www.juicycouture4u.com/Juicy-Couture-Jewelry.html]Juicy Couture Jewelry[/url] take on style. winni2078 07 30
We have smart hermes bag
4
idea
omega watches
Nike has used the
handbag
We hear that jimmy choo handbags or some people say the Jimmy choo bags always be a classic and timeless accessory for every handbag enthusiast. with the Jimmy Choo brown Beautiful handbags for women to fulfill their dreams Chic and beautiful,I think the ladies could choose the famous handbags such as Jimmy Choo black ,as we all know around the handbags especially the Marc Jacobs handbags.Having gone through a hundred years of fashion trend developments.when people talking about the Mulberry bags the first bag they regraded is the Marc Jacobs Wallet this handbag looks very beautyful,many people think so .we've seen a special edition Miu Miu tote which I think still counts because they're from the same designer.There are many ways to find handbags. One thing you can do, is look for seasonal 2010 designer bags.like Marc Jacobs ToteYou are sometimes able to buy a discount hermes bags, because it was last season's pattern. For example, I managed to buy a beautiful, well-made Mulberry Satchel once for because it was a seasonal style.This black leather Mulberry bag is an absolute classic and Mulberry black is a staple piece for your hermes handbags wardrobe.
Gucci bags The company of Gucci handbags sale started out quite small before earning its top place on the fashion market except the Fendi bags. When shopping for a gucci on sale , you may select from Gucci babouska, Gucci Abbey, Gucci Tote, Gucci hobo, Gucci classic or Gucci Cruise.All this bags can be purchased at local shops or at online retailers like Gucci New Jackie Gucci bags The products at www.beautyaf.com are sold at quite cheap prices if you compare them to other bag retailers.now,you can grab this chance to choose the cheap and high quality handbags!
How will health care reform
How will health care reform effect wages of health care workers?
Mary - dentist equipment
Healthcare reforms are
Healthcare reforms are compulsory for building a healthy community.In these days many people are involved in health organizations.World needs to develop new health standards in humans life specially WHO.
Fiona
TX
Mario Games
These statements clearly set
a codicil to my last post
Those mockers of ailing people should be afflicted with the same illnesses and the hope that their opposition to health care succeeded.
Fish is rich in Omega-3
Fish is rich in Omega-3 which is good for your heart as well as eyes.
baby ultrasound
Fox
I am amazed that the left wishes to censor anything or anybody. Freedom of speech used to be what we were about. Somehow the left has lost it's way.
Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham
Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham have the emotional development of 12-year-olds. This goes for the cases of arrested development who comprise their audience too.
ET Spoon
Worse than that...
It's worse then arrested development. People like this are very close to the definition of sociopath. They feel nothing for any one else, and they want to win in whatever game they are playing. There is no right or wrong in whatever they say because they have no conscience. They are not really human.
Ingraham sure can do snide
and make herself look ridiculous in the process.