I like to dart around the dial on my 1-hour nightly drives, from baseball to talk, and tonight during my 3-minutes of Hannity (it’s all I can stand…I try to stick around until I hear one of his insane gems, then I go away) Sean proved again how much of a clueless bastard he really is.
The topic (or course) was healthcare. Keep in mind that Sean – like every other right wing nut – has no solution and offers no ideas, he simply blasts the President and Congress unmercifully. He was berating a “liberal” caller (one of the shills he has call in with a predetermined comment that he then tries to blast away at), and said the following:
“America’s poorest citizens enjoy a higher standard of living than anywhere else in the world…they have toilets, they have clothes, they have automobiles, they have big screens”.
Yep, America’s poorest people ALL (according to Sean, since he didn’t qualify it) have big screen TV’s. And they ALL have cars. Sean then went on to add that “I’ve been in America’s poorest homes, and that’s what they have.”
Sean, I got a message for you, you weren’t in “America’s poorest homes”, you were apparently in “Malibu’s poorest homes”. Dude, you really, really, really need to get on some meds, and quick.
Hannity or Beck…who’s more insane? It’s pretty close right now, with Levin and Savage battling for the top spot with them. What a bunch of f’ing idiots. Kooks. Dangerous, evil, right-wing kooks. Period.
12 responses so far ↓
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vonster
// Aug 20, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Actually, to a certain extent, he’s right. But as usually he overplays the point. I don;t listen.
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BJ Stone
// Aug 20, 2009 at 6:19 pm
No he’s not “right” in this case. Far from it, unless you know of a few homeless dudes with bigscreens underneath overpasses where they “live”. THOSE are America’s poorest people, and Sean Hannity is way off base.
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BJ Stone
// Aug 20, 2009 at 6:19 pm
But, I should have added, to say “Sean Hannity is way off base” is redundant.
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Scott Jacobs
// Aug 20, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Actually, since pretty much every homeless person in the US have access to some kind of food program (soup kitchens, food pantries, etc) and health care (ERs treat the homeless routinely, and eat the cost), they do enjoy a higher standard of living. Just because they don’t have TVs doesn’t mean they are as bad off as most others in other countries who lack such services.
And while I’m no huge fan of Hannity (he’s one of 4 pundits I would pull of the air, the other 3 being O’Reily, Maddow, and Olbermann), he – and many others on the right – have time and again offered solutions and suggestions on how to make health insurance more affordable (because, while most might not know this, it is illegal to refuse to treat someone that shows up in the ER, thus everyone does in fact have access to health care). The fact that you don’t want to hear those suggestions – whether out of idealogical blind/deafness or the fact that they don’t expand the government one iota – isn’t their fault.
Heck, go read the Op-Ed writen by John Mackey (CEO of Whole Foods), and you’ll see an amazingly well presented list of things that would work to reduce insurance costs.
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Michael
// Aug 21, 2009 at 4:09 am
It is a pathetic society that publicly debates the comparative virtues of homelessness. Same goes for the Medical Mafia who profit by the extortion of pain, suffering and death. HMOs and health insurance companies provide zero value to health care … they simply extract profit as middle men bartering human misery for money.
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Scott Jacobs
// Aug 21, 2009 at 9:46 am
Actually, HMOs were a compromise with Dems in lieu of tort reform.
And the “value add” is the deduction in cost you pay to cover expensive illness and/or treatments/procedures. No, you might not ever need it, but when you do it is very nice to have. You can opt to not have it (a non-significant part of the “blah-blah number of Americans without Health Insurance” are in fact just such people).
And don’t forget that if you get rid of insurance companies (and end the employment of everyone they employ), the only people left to help with the cost of health care is the government. And no, that isn’t a great idea.
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Emtronics
// Aug 23, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Love It! Added you to my “Favorite Reads” Should have done it long ago.
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vonster
// Aug 31, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Mike: Docs should be unpaid?
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vonster
// Sep 4, 2009 at 8:43 am
BTW Beej – he said poor not homeless.
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Mazr
// Oct 4, 2009 at 6:40 am
B.J……what’s the story? Are you done with blogging?
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BJ Stone
// Oct 13, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Don’t think so, just taking a break during a major life change. But if my template keeps changing with me NOT being the one to do it, I probably will quit. Who keeps doing this?
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