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Megyn Kelly asks Burton if White House is "Purging" Emails of ObamaCare Opponents - Video 8/12/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 12, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 08/12/2009 8:10:56 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of Fox News' Megyn Kelly tenaciously questioning White House Spokesman Bill Burton on whether or not the White House is purging email information being forwarded to them of opponents of Obama's Health Care Plan. Burton absolutely refused to say they were deleting that email information.

Megyn Kelly would not let him off the hook, repeatedly asking that question while Burton repeatedly tried to change the subject and refused to answer her question. Finally he said in frustration that he was "flabbergasted" at her line of questioning.

He also later said that opponents of ObamaCare are "people showing up with Swastikas." . . . . (Watch Video)

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KEYWORDS: billburton; megynkelly
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1 posted on 08/12/2009 8:10:57 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

Burton is scum.

I watched it, and he wouldn’t shut up and wouldn’t answer a question.


2 posted on 08/12/2009 8:12:34 AM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: Federalist Patriot
Burton absolutely refused to say they were deleting that email information

My understanding is that there can be no good answer.

To purge the email is illegal.
To collect the information is illegal.

I'm not an expert on the precise legal issues, but that's what I heard.

3 posted on 08/12/2009 8:13:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
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4 posted on 08/12/2009 8:15:56 AM PDT by Always Right (The Brown Shirt Media © is coming!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What you are saying is true according to attorneys who have been on FOX.

The key here is to not collect the email info....therefore, there would be nothing to purge.....


5 posted on 08/12/2009 8:15:56 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: illiac

Exactly so. But now it’s too late.


6 posted on 08/12/2009 8:16:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

we are going to miss Ms Kelly when she goes on maternity leave!!


7 posted on 08/12/2009 8:19:00 AM PDT by Ceoman
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To: ClearCase_guy

I do think is this was challenged by attorneys, the inital act of gethering the information (illegal) would take precedence over the second (illegal to purge).


8 posted on 08/12/2009 8:21:28 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Federalist Patriot

The more I see of Megyn Kelly the more I like her.


9 posted on 08/12/2009 8:21:46 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Federalist Patriot

10 posted on 08/12/2009 8:22:33 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
He also later said that opponents of ObamaCare are "people showing up with Swastikas." .

If that is true it is because the conservatives are accusing the liberals of being national socialist thugs because of the left's insistance on deciding who lives and who dies under the plan.

I've even been "guilty" of some of it here by asking whether the S in SEIU stands for Schutzstaffel or Sturmabteilung.

11 posted on 08/12/2009 8:23:27 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Megyn owned him!!! Just like all politicians and administration official you cannot get a straight answer. The American folks know something is “fishy” that is why they are having problems with the folks. BTW there is nothing better than Megyn grilling the like over morning coffee I do love that often.


12 posted on 08/12/2009 8:25:24 AM PDT by vicar7
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To: KarlInOhio

Megyn does her homework and smiles while she inserts the knife she is a very good journalist, and her first child will have not a chance to get away with anything. lol


13 posted on 08/12/2009 8:28:06 AM PDT by vicar7
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’ll second that. They’re in violation either way.

Whatever emails they receive, they cannot delete.
If the emails just kinda showed up and were reasonably put in the “crank file” (not deleted, but otherwise ignored), they’d be OK.
However, the information has been solicited, demonstrating malicious intent - and that’s illegal.
They _could_ somehow demonstrate (good luck) that they’re backing off from the illegal solicitation and, having no other recourse, sending them to the crank file. That _might_ keep them out of hot water (to wit: “sorry, didn’t know I couldn’t do that, I’ve repented, won’t happen again...”).

Time for a judge to review this.


14 posted on 08/12/2009 8:29:54 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
CNN Uses Pro-Communist American to Tout Cuban Health Care
NewsBusters.org ^ | August 8, 2009 | Rich Noyes


Gail Reed

There’s something deeply wrong with journalism that scrutinizes and criticizes the institutions of free and successful nations, but produces puff pieces on the supposed achievements of totalitarian dictatorships. On Thursday, CNN aired a piece of Communist Party propaganda about how Cuba could serve as “a model for health care reform” in the United States, complete with an authoritative sound bite from an American medical expert, identified only as someone “who’s lived and worked in Cuba for decades.”

But the expert, Gail Reed, is a longtime admirer of the Cuban revolution, married to the Cuban official who served as ambassador to Grenada in the early 1980s when U.S. troops liberated the island from hardline communists who had executed the leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. She's also worked at Granma, Cuba’s official communist party newspaper.

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As for Reed, she was profiled in the Miami Herald back in 1983 after she and her husband returned to Cuba after American forces liberated Grenada. She talked about the fear she felt at seeing U.S. Marines surrounding the Cuban embassy, and told the newspaper, “I feel I have a very strong identification with the Cuban revolution.”

“When I first came to Cuba in the ’70s, I was very impressed with their efforts in building a new kind of society,” Reed explained.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/08/08/cnn-uses-pro-communist-american-tout-cuban-health-care

15 posted on 08/12/2009 8:35:25 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Federalist Patriot

IMPEACH NOW!!


16 posted on 08/12/2009 8:36:54 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: sauropod

home


17 posted on 08/12/2009 8:39:34 AM PDT by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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To: Federalist Patriot; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


18 posted on 08/12/2009 10:59:32 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Federalist Patriot; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


19 posted on 08/12/2009 11:02:55 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Federalist Patriot
Megyn is a REAL journalist in a severe drought.
20 posted on 08/12/2009 11:04:35 AM PDT by 444Flyer (They have their ACORNS, WE have AMERICANS!)
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