Guest Karl Rove and host Bill O'Reilly discuss the happenstance of numerous faintings recently occurring at B.O. rallies and B.O.'s plagiarism of Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick's phrases.
Then, beginning at about 5:15 of this 8:54 clip, Karl Rove reports that B.O.wrote in one of his books that progressives should have the courage to end government spending programs that don't work, but when B.O. was on Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked him for an example, B.O. went in vain search of a thought.
Transcript:
Rove: ... I think one of the earliest times I saw this was on Meet the Press a year ago (2007) when he (Obama) was asked about his book in which he said that "...progressives had to demonstrate their fiscal responsibility by having the courage to end government spending programs that don't work ..." and Tim Russert threw the quote up and said, "Give me an example...", well, he'd supposedly written it in his book, supposedly you'd think would have thought through what the answer to that was and he didn't have an answer. So he finally said to Tim Russert, "... well, I think what we ought to do is we ought to use electronic billing in Medicare and Medicaid and it would save us hundreds of millions of dollars if we required physicians and health providers to bill everything electronically ..." Well, starting about 2003, the federal government has a rule in place that says that everybody has to bill Mediaid and Medicare electronically, so less that 0.001% of all transactions with Medicare and Medicaid come in paper, all the rest is done electronically. He'd written it in his book but he didn't have the answer, and when he came up with the answer it was a completely phony one.
O'Reilly: (crosstalk) Yeah, but he didn't write it. No ... very few politicians write their books.
Rove: (crosstalk) ... but at least his name was on it, so you'd think he would have read it, and say what's the answer.
O'Reilly: (crosstalk) I'm not defending. I'm just clarifying that we don't know any politicians that write their books.
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