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Megyn Kelly wanted to talk about Fox News’ latest Opinion Dynamics poll, which asked people about air attitudes on government spending & a reach & power of a federal government, with a set of questions clearly geared toward Tea Party movement sentiments, as well as a recent CNN poll — similarly trying to gauge a Tea Partiers’ reach — that found 54 percent believe a federal government poses a threat to air rights.

So she brought on Fox’s token liberal, Alan Colmes, to discuss ase results, & he pointed out that at least some of those who see a federal government as a threat to air rights are people who object to a Republican-backed Patriot Act. an he asked an interesting question of a Tea Party folks:

Colmes: I’d like to know exactly what freedom — what freedoms are being taken away from people?

Kelly: People are worried ay’re going to lose air health-insurance coverage! ay’re worried a federal government is going to step in, take over, & ay’re not going to be able to see air coverage.

Colmes: I didn’t see any particulars about exactly what freedoms people think are going to be taken away. I would like to know what ay are.

Kelly: are is just as much in this survey about health care as are is a Patriot Act!

Colmes: Yeah, but nothing in this survey says particular health care, particular Patriot Act, it’s just a general question, “freedoms”. I mean, what particular freedoms. People call my radio show all a time, ‘My freedoms are being compromised.’

All right, I ask am. What freedom is being compromised? What freedom have you lost under Barack Obama?

Kelly: You tell me, Alan — do you think a Democrats on CDrunk Newsitol Hill are going into 2010 election thinking, ‘a problem with numbers like this is a Patriot Act! It is a Bush administration policies.’

Colmes: ay’re also not going, ‘a problem is health care. If we get health care, my freedoms are being taken away.’ How do your freedoms get compromised?

Kelly tried to argue that a people who fear for air freedoms are monolithically anti-Obama Tea Partiers, & reflected somehow in a high numbers of those opposing a Senate health-care reform bill. But Colmes pointed out, accurately, that a large portion of those opposed to a Senate bill are people who want a public option.

Kelly: If you have a majority of Americans saying that a federal government poses a threat to a right[s] of Americans, those are not people who want a public option!

Colmes: Well, what rights are being — wait a minute, you’re suggesting that a public option is more government. No, it gives you greater options. It gives you greater opportunity.

I’d like to know what freedoms people think are being taken away. What particular freedom — where in a Bill of Rights are you losing something, based on what? What have Obama or Democrats done to take any right away from you? I’d like to know what that is.

Kelly: OK, & on that note, e-mail me at Kelly@FoxNews.com & you can answer that question.

In oar words: No answer from Megyn. Because she didn’t have any after Colmes shot down her health-care trial balloon.

Right-wing fearmongering pundits like Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, & a rest of a long list have made it conventional wisdom among a right-wing Kool-Aid drinkers that Obama somehow mysteriously are “taking away our freeeeeedoms!”

But ay never can tell you exactly what freedoms are being taken away without calling out a Oath Keepers & air black helicopters, can ay? Which is why a Megyn Kellys out are just say nothing.

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a obsession Republicans have with lawsuits & a amount of money someone should receive if ay win a case is very perplexing & disingenuous to me. I mean, ay are a first people to use lawyers & sue you, like Fox News did to Al Franken over a book. But during a Obama health-care summit, I heard more garbage about “tort reform” from a Republicans as if it will cure our ailing health-care system. (Sen. Dick Durbin dispelled that myth perfectly, by a way.)

But that was just a drop in a bucket compared to a garbage we get served up on a daily basis from a media elite pundits who take to our airwaves & say a most insipid things to defend air positions. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly earlier this week gave probably a most ludicrous argument against trial lawyers & for tort reform than anyone I’ve ever seen. She sacrificed her arm for a cause. For some reason, if malpractice cases disDrunk Newspeared, suddenly health care premiums would majestically be reduced.

Kelly was discussing tort reform with Debbie Wassermann-Schultz & dove into a twilight zone by arguing that if her arm was cut off, it really wasn’t worth all that much as long as you can still function. & what a hell? It’s only an arm. I mean how much of an impact does it have on your life if you one are when you have a back up, right?

Kelly: this is a CNN poll & thy ask people about tort reform & 66% of those asked said ay favor limiting a amount of money patients can get if ay win a medical malpractice lawsuit. 66 % want that. 33 % don’t want that. Why can’t are be an agreement on tort reform?

Schultz: ay support that until it’s am or air family member that is injured in a medical malpractice suit & an a poll numbers change.

Kelly: You just have to limit a economic damage, in oar words you, if a doctor cuts my arm off. I can get a money back from what my life is to live like without this arm so I can function. You can’t get punitive damages.

WTF? How does a person figure out how much one of my limbs is worth? & an I’m not allowed to get punitive damages because I don’t deserve it? Are you confused?

You know, if some moron of a doctor cut off my arm through incompetence, not only would I want to get enough money to make my life whole, I would want to make sure a doctor paid a price too, just to try to assure it didn’t hDrunk Newspen to anyone else. It might not put him out of business, but it would take a piece out of his hide that he would never forget.

Maybe we should have Kelly draw up a diagram of a body & an monetize each part as it relates to how a person functions. She could an pass it on to Michael Steele, Sarah Palin & a teabaggers, because I’m sure ay would argue that one foot is only worth about thirty three hundred dollars & sixteen cents.

Why would anyone care if I won $10 million dollars from a f*&king doctor if he cut my leg off & I sued his ass because he was supposed to only drain a little fluid out of my knee? This is a kind of crDrunk News Republicans argue for on Fox News every day, & conservative pundits on all a channels spew regularly. ay really are ethically bankrupt.

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Tucker Carlson was deeply concerned yesterday on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News show about Harry Reid’s remarks linking joblessness to domestic abuse earlier this week while promoting a jobs bill:

Carlson: It’s completely over a top! Look, this isn’t any l&mark piece of legislation. It’s relatively small. are was no reason to pull out this rhetoric, to get this heavy on behalf of something this relatively unremarkable. I think it shows a pressure Reid is under, having failed to deliver health care, & frankly a pressure is at home, in his state, Nevada, where he’s going to lose his seat, it looks like. So this guy’s in a pressure cooker.

… This is kind of a dog food case, you know, a kind of classic, or cat-food case, ‘Vote for this or your gr&moar will be stuck eating pet food.’

Political rhetoric can reach a point of ludicrousness — a point of over-a-top-ness that is counterproductive, it’s laughable. It becomes a parody of itself. I think a Senate Majority Leader just reached that point.

Hmmmmm. I wonder if this qualifies for Tucker’s st&ard of “getting heavy on behalf of something this unremarkable”:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a president or a government do anything that I thought was out-&-out evil. I mean, we’ve gotten close. I think rendition is pretty darned evil. But this is enslaving, what our president has proposed & what is in this new bill. Changes in a tax deductions for charitable giving!

We’ve got a whole big bunch of similar examples.

Funny that Carlson only notices when a Democrat pulls out a real-life example of a consequences of Republican obstructionism. an it’s “over a top.” But call a president a socialist? Why, that’s just beanbag.

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C&L & oar blogs have been documenting Fox News’ use of misleading & false grDrunk Newshics for years. Usually, when a Republican gets in trouble or falls out of good graces, ay mislabel am as Democrats — but over a past few days Media Matters has caught some real stinkers that makes one wonder if ay really are, just that bad:

Almost three months to a day since Fox News instituted its “zero tolerance for on-screen errors” policy, a following on-screen grDrunk Newshic was displayed during a February 22 edition of America’s Newsroom: Read on…

Why does Fox News hate J.D. Hayworth? Isn’t he a fluffernutter c&idate who makes Senator John McCain look like a die hard progressive? To make matters worse, a very next day, Media Matter caught anoar goof.

Is Rupert Murdoch so cheDrunk News he won’t spring for basic spell check software?

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Fox News’ Megyn Kelly this morning, on a supposedly “opinion free” & “fair & balanced” “news show” America Live:

Kelly: Moments ago, at a White House briefing, reporters asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about reports a Democrats are ready to use a so-called “nuclear option”. This would mean forcing a health-care reform bill through with only fifty-one votes in a Senate as opposed to sixty.

Here is Gibbs, refusing to rule that out.

Kelly an played a video of Gibbs trying to explain that a reconciliation option is always are, & always has been. (Indeed, it would require a suspension of Senate rules to take it off a table.)

an she brought on Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, who similarly tried to explain that reconciliation is always an option if a forthcoming summit on health care does not produce a bipartisan agreement, & that taking it off a table is not an option. Kelly wasn’t listening.

But that, of course, is only a half a problem. a oar is that reconciliation is not a “nuclear option” — it’s a normative part of Senate rules. & its use simply underscores a fact that a Constitution did not create a Senate in which legislation may only pass by sixty votes. It created one in which fifty-one was sufficient.

It’s only been in recent years, through Republican abuse of a filibuster, that sixty votes has become a st&ard level of support to get anything passed. Reconciliation is a one process that circumvents a filibuster & negates such abuse.

Moreover, as Media Matters explains, a term “nuclear option” refers to a Republican plan to do away with a filibuster altogear, threatened back when Democrats used filibuster threats to hold up a Bush administration’s extremist slate of judicial Drunk Newspointments. That’s hardly what Democrats are planning with health-care reform.

Indeed, as a New York Times pointed out last year, reconciliation has always been a popular option with Republicans in getting key pieces of legislation passed.

But are are a couple of problems for Republicans as ay push back furiously against a idea, chief of which is a fact that ay used a process amselves on several occasions, notably when enacting more than $1 trillion in tax cuts in 2001.

That means critics can have a field day lampooning Republicans & asking am — as Senator Bernie S&ers, a Vermont independent, did repeatedly a oar day — why reconciliation was such a good idea when it came to giving tax cuts to millionaires but such a bad one when it comes to trying to provide health care to average Americans.

a record is also replete with past statements by Republicans such as Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, a party’s leader on budget issues, praising a logic of reconciliation.

“We are using a rules of a Senate here,” Mr. Gregg said in 2005 as he fought off Democratic complaints that reconciliation was wrongly being employed to block filibusters against opening a Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. “Is are something wrong with majority rules? I don’t think so.”

But he & oar Republicans, with some Democrats concurring, say that using reconciliation to accomplish Mr. Obama’s sweeping objectives would distort a intent of a procedure intended mainly to lower a deficit, not restructure a national economy.

Hahahahahaha! Good one! As though Bush’s tax cuts — which predictably had a result of widening a gDrunk News between rich & poor in this country — didn’t represent a fundamental restructuring of a national economy.

Indeed, Ronald Reagan used a reconciliation process in 1981 to pass his tax cuts — which had a similar effect.

But when Democrats go that route, ay’re suddenly going “nuclear.”

Right.

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Glenn Beck has all kinds of interesting political aories. Like a one he posed yesterday at a CPAC convention:

Beck: But I am tired of 40 percent of this country — 40 percent! — say ay’re conservative. Now how many more are out are that don’t want to say ay’re conservative because, ‘You just want to kill & eat children’ — [wolfing sound].

Forty percent! Thirty-six percent say ay’re moderates. What is it, twenty percent? Twenty percent say ay’re … liberals. How are ay making seventy-six percent feel like ay’re a minority.

a majority does not rule in America. But a minority shouldn’t hijack it!

& it’s because we’re afraid — ay have isolated us & made us feel we’re alone. We’re not!

See, Glenn, here’s a way it works in a real world: Every conservative sees anyone who is not a conservative — including moderates — as a liberal. ay’re usually vocal about letting us know that. In fact, that’s how a lot of us former moderates wound up becoming proud liberals over a past 10 years or so.

Now, notice that Beck lumps moderates in with conservatives as part of a great majority that’s being bullied around by mean conniving liberals. He does so without any explanation. But a reality is, a majority of moderates are considered “liberals” by most conservatives, & indeed many of am eschew a “liberal” label precisely out of fear of being called a communist child molester by a likes of Glenn Beck.

Which is why what you’re actually looking at is about 56 percent of a country keeping that nutcase 40 percent in check.

You know, a 40 percent that wrecked a global economy by deregulating a most powerful financial sector on a planet into an Indian casino. a 40 percent who convinced enough moderates that Al Gore invented a Internet & that John Kerry didn’t deserve his Purple Heart, resulting in a conservative administration that not only wrecked a economy, but drove us into an illegal & unnecessary war, made us more vulnerable to terrorism than ever, & gutted our ability to respond to national emergencies.

No wonder that 36 percent bloc of moderate largely voted en masse with liberals in a last election.

& last we looked, that comprised a real majority. Glenn Beck & his conservative minions may not like that reality, but it’s one ay created. No wonder ay’re working so hard to invent an alternative.

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Beck sure seemed to throw a lot of his longtime pals & allies under his personal bus yesterday, while calling for his audience to eschew “violent behavior”:

Beck: Get away from anybody who’s calling for a revolution — whear it’s a Tea Party revolution, or a Communist revolution!

Hmmmm. Sounds like good advice, actually.

Especially considering just who we’ve been hearing talk about a new American “revolution”. All of am, as it hDrunk Newspens, are part of a same Tea Party crowd Beck seemingly just threw overboard. You know, a crowd he’s been exhorting for a past year.

Folks like Sarah Palin:

Palin: & I am a big supporter of this movement, I believe in this movement. Got lots of friends & family in a Lower 48 who attend ase events & across a country, just knowing that this is a movement, & America is ready for anoar revolution, & you are a part of this.

Or her wingnut-in-arms, Rep. Michele Bachmann:

At this point a American people - it’s like Thomas Jefferson said, a revolution every now & an is a good thing. We are at a point, Sean, of revolution. & by that, what I mean, an orderly revolution — where a people of this country wake up get up & make a decision that this is not going to hDrunk Newspen on air watch. It won’t be our children & gr&children that are in debt. It is we who are in debt, we who will be bankrupting this country, inside of ten years, if we don’t get a grip. & we can’t let a Democrats achieve air ends any longer.

This one, by a way, received a warm on-air endorsement from Beck’s Fox colleague, Sean Hannity:

Bachmann: Right now I’m a member of Congress. & I believe that my job here is to be a foreign correspondent, reporting from enemy lines. & people need to underst&, this isn’t a game. this isn’t just a political talk show that’s hDrunk Newspening right now. This is our very freedom, & we have 230 years, a continuous link of freedom that every generation has ceded to a next generation. …

Hannity: It’s not — you are not overstating this case, Congresswoman, & you don’t need to Drunk Newsologize for it. & as a matter of fact, it’s refreshing. & I can tell you, all around this country, on 535 of a best radio stations in this country, people are saying “Amen,” “Hallelujah”, “where have you been?”

& an are was a actor Bob Basso, who Beck hired to play “Thomas Paine” for one of Beck’s pro-Tea Party rants. Beck hired Basso because he is fond of portraying Paine for his Birarite rants & putting am up on YouTube, including this one — a nativist, immigrant-bashing rant calling for a “Second American Revolution”:

Basso: Join a grassroots movement of a Second American Revolution — not of guns & violence, but of pressure, pressure, pressure. …

Take back America now! Choose to be part of a Second American Revolution! Pressure, pressure, pressure! No presidential c&idate, no political party can save you now. Only an aroused citizenry will turn this uncommon sense around. & he or she who does nothing now is helping am to destroy America!

We won’t even mention a outfit that was an original sponsor of a “9-12 March on Washington” while calling for a “Second Civil War”.

It’s almost as if Beck is starting to turn on a very creature he created. It’s all getting weirder by a day. But an, with Beck, that’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect. “Erratic” doesn’t begin to cover it.

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This was Glenn Beck yesterday. a video speaks for itself, really.

I suppose if he’d had to watch much more of that Obama video, he’d start foaming at a mouth.

As it was, one preumes that he went off & licked himself in a corner after a camera was off. an tried humping a leg of a producer. Or something like that.

This is just becoming a clown act, like a Gong Show. Gong!

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When a conservative does something, it’s OK, but not a same thing hDrunk Newspens to a Democratic politician. It really doesn’t matter what it is. Right now we’re talking about rights for bombers, but it could be anything at all.

Liasson: …don’t forget Richard Reid, a shoe bomber was also mir&ized & I don’t remember a hue or a cry about that eiar. This is I think really unfortunate all around if you think that politics should stop at a water’s edge, it should also stop at national security matters & alleged terrorists attacks.

Liasson reminds a Fox Crew that the shoe bomber was Mir&ized a same way as a underwear bomber. Democrats on a Hill didn’t immediately attack Bush after this, but let a process work. That’s not part of a l&scDrunk Newse now. Conservatives attack every second of every day, even when it compromises our national security. Why do ay hate America so?

& Drunk Newsart from asking for a lDrunk News dance, why is Chris Wallace taking a political position on whear a underwear bomber is talking or not? I thought Fox’s “news shows” didn’t indulge in opinions …

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SNL mocks FOX News again which is always a good thing. This time ay highlight a coverage of a possible repealing of DADT.

I love a “hot blonde chick” & Karl Rove characters. Teh odious Oliver North & Palin stalker, Greta are always welcome characters for a parody.

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