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CNN Anchor Rips Into Health Care CEO Who's Funding Anti-Reform Effort By Rachel Slajda - August 6, 2009, 4:24PM
A CNN anchor today tore down Rick Scott, the founder of an organization that's been funding anti-health care reform protests and the former CEO of a hospital company that, as Sanchez pointed out, paid $1.7 billion to settle charges of overcharging Medicare and Medicaid.
Sanchez started simply, asking Scott, the founder of Conservatives for Patients' Rights, if he takes credit for the recent disruptions at health care reform events. Scott responded, "It'd be nice to, right?" before saying he thought everyone should go to meetings, but "oughta be nicer about it."
Then Sanchez started in on him, describing the charges and fines against Scott's company, the Columbia Hospital Corporation.
"Some would argue, and it would be hard to say they're wrong, that you would be the poster child for everything that's wrong with the greed that has hurt our current health care system," Sanchez said.
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Tea Party Town Hall Strategy: "Rattle Them," "Stand Up And Shout" By Brian Beutler - August 3, 2009, 1:33PM
The memo, authored by Robert MacGuffie, who runs the website rightprinciples.com, suggests that tea partiers should "pack the hall... spread out" to make their numbers seem more significant, and to "rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation...to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early.... to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda...stand up and shout and sit right back down."
in essence the plan is to disrupt any meaningful dialogue?
what's new?
if this tactic becomes the norm? democracy is over.
it's not long before somebody throws a punch in one one of these anyways.
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: Tea Party Town Hall Strategy: "Rattle Them," "Stand Up And Shout" By Brian Beutler - August 3, 2009, 1:33PM
The memo, authored by Robert MacGuffie, who runs the website rightprinciples.com, suggests that tea partiers should "pack the hall... spread out" to make their numbers seem more significant, and to "rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation...to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early.... to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda...stand up and shout and sit right back down."
in essence the plan is to disrupt any meaningful dialogue?
what's new?
if this tactic becomes the norm? democracy is over.
it's not long before somebody throws a punch in one one of these anyways.
Yeah, I cringe when I watch the behavior of some of these Town Halls. People have an excellent point, but some arent presenting it soundly.
However, this health care reform is one big gong show, nobody really knows much. I mean how many Americans know just exactly what they are going to get? Obama cant really explain that well.
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Tex, I wasnt around for Vietnam, but from what ive seen it seems the political scene on the homefront was more intense than now. If the hippies werent so stoned out of their mind or on LSD they probably would have gotten violent pretty bad.
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The class ahead of me was to get drafted. I knew a Communist, at UALR of all places. But he wasn't a hippie; he'd go to Klan rallies with a baseball bat...
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dunno where this goes, so here goes, kinda interesting:
quote:Jackson Browne Defeats John McCain
(McCain: Face the Nation, Karin Cooper; Browne: AP, Matt Sayles)
Updated, 9:35 a.m. (7/22): Chuck DeVore, the conservative California state assemblyman challenging Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in 2010, has written to us objecting to our comparison of the Jackson Browne v. John McCain case to Don Henley v. Chuck DeVore.
DeVore says the Browne v. McCain case, which was settled on Tuesday, is "very different." Unlike the pro-McCain video that used Browne's hit song "Running On Empty," DeVore's parodies using Henley's "Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" tunes don't actually use Henley's lyrics, he points out.
"Henley's voice was not used," says DeVore, who made up his own lyrics and changed the title of his parody of Boxer to "All She Wants To Do Is Tax." Furthermore, he says, his video used a karaoke track instead of Henley's band. "Our case is more like Nader v. MasterCard," he claims.
Original Post: Singer Jackson Browne has won his copyright battle against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), getting an apology and an undisclosed sum of money from the 2008 presidential nominee for a pro-McCain Web video that appropriated the artist's hit song "Running On Empty."
McCain, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party jointly settled the lawsuit and issued a statement Tuesday saying:
"We apologize that a portion of the Jackson Browne song 'Running On Empty' was used without permission. Although Senator McCain had no knowledge of, or involvement in, the creation or distribution of the Web campaign video, Senator McCain does not support or condone any actions taken by anyone involved in his 2008 presidential election campaign that were inconsistent with artists' rights or the various legal protections afforded to intellectual property."
McCain, the RNC and the Ohio GOP Party also pledged to get artists' permission in the future before using their work.
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