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'They May Not Know What's Good For Them'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/31/2009 5:45:43 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

The poor, benighted little people. They just don't understand what a wonderful hopey-changey world Pres. Obama is offering them . . .

Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them." [H/t reader Restless 1]

Mitchell made her condescending comment on today's Morning Joe.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; barackobama; bhohealthcare; condescendingliberal; elitism; healthcare; nbcnews

1 posted on 07/31/2009 5:45:43 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

A shame the little people can’t understand how great ObamaCare is ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 07/31/2009 5:46:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

@##$%#^$&)(*%$$$!!! )(*^&&^%$$#%!!!!!!

F)(*&^&*^$^&%# (*&^^&*%$&^$%#^%$#@!@#$.!!!!!!!!!!!

AND THEN DOUBLE IT.


3 posted on 07/31/2009 5:47:41 AM PDT by panzerkampfwagen
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Infuriating.


4 posted on 07/31/2009 5:47:49 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them."

Yeah! All those "little people" who have no standing to question "The ONE".

5 posted on 07/31/2009 5:48:58 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That liberal HAG! This is the Obama Kill Yo Mamma plan. They want to let your parents die to save money.


6 posted on 07/31/2009 5:49:30 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A little insight into that pin-brain substitute for a mind that lurks behind a once-attractive face.


7 posted on 07/31/2009 5:52:47 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

We just don’t know how GREAT wait and die will be...


8 posted on 07/31/2009 5:54:58 AM PDT by Camel Joe ("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a twit. She has no idea that there are millions and millions of people who soon are going to say enough is enough of elitist drivel like hers. Their reign will soon be over.


9 posted on 07/31/2009 5:55:46 AM PDT by mek1959
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Typical leftist elitist.

This is the TRUE enemy. The elitist that wants to substitute their goals & discretion for yours.


10 posted on 07/31/2009 5:57:08 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The scary part is that this woman is married to an economist.

The MOST scary part is that she is married to THE economist who was at the helm (and had a hand in the outcome) when the whole thing came off the tracks!


11 posted on 07/31/2009 5:57:52 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them."

Is she still on NBC/MSNBC? You know what my definition of horror is? Andrea Mitchell in HiDef!

12 posted on 07/31/2009 5:57:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is Mrs. Greenspan projecting her husband’s views on the merits of economic freedom?


13 posted on 07/31/2009 6:00:44 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I can hardly bear to read your headlines, governs..I absolutely cannot bear to actually view the MSM socialists.
May God help us preserve our Republic.


14 posted on 07/31/2009 6:01:34 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Andrea — you OK with your octogenarian husband going under the 0bamaCare system? You OK with government bureaucrats telling him he isn’t allowed treatment because he’s “had his run” in life and should shut up and die quietly?

STFU B*tch.


15 posted on 07/31/2009 6:01:41 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Are there any photos of her without the wig? Rush mentioned on his show that she wears a wig.


16 posted on 07/31/2009 6:03:44 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

.......people “may not know what’s good for them.”

Yes we do, Ms Mitchell.

Problem is YOU do not agree with our(conservative) solutions to many of this nations problems.

These solutions like less government and reforming the tax system strip YOU and your elitist comrades of influence and power which scares the HELL out of you.


17 posted on 07/31/2009 6:05:33 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

People were brilliant when they voted in Obama and now in 6 short months, they’re dunces.


18 posted on 07/31/2009 6:05:51 AM PDT by randita (Chains we can bereave in.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The #itch better hurry up and get that nose job before they start taxing plastic surgery.


19 posted on 07/31/2009 6:06:41 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea personifies the Peter Principle, at least, she will have a job in the new ZerO economy. Her only draw back is she gets paid too much, but, that will be remedied soon.


20 posted on 07/31/2009 6:19:45 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Idiotcracy has arrived 400 years early.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a CommuNazi DemboTard Bitch!


21 posted on 07/31/2009 6:22:12 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The only two places I ever see or hear this psychophant (CSP) is on some liberal love fest or Imus. Now, I don’t ever hear her on Imus because he finally figured out she is the epitome of moronic arrogance.


22 posted on 07/31/2009 6:22:42 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just like Waxman in the committee markup yesterday. The poor are unsophisticated so they won’t know how to choose a health insurance plan that is best for them. We need to make that decision on their behalf.


23 posted on 07/31/2009 6:23:21 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Somebody needs to remind Ms. Mitchell exactly whose opinion counts (at least for a little while longer) in this country.

If Obama’s “brilliant idea” doesn’t convince us unwashed masses, its called failure.


24 posted on 07/31/2009 6:24:30 AM PDT by rod1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I am going to send this one out to everyone I know. Mostly because nobody watches Morning Schmo.

They can see a elitist bit*ch in action.


25 posted on 07/31/2009 6:25:37 AM PDT by indylindy (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: All

B!tch....


26 posted on 07/31/2009 6:35:49 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You know... If I were to just say out loud what I think about doing to people most of the time- they’d lock me up.


27 posted on 07/31/2009 6:45:19 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

STFU you commie B****


28 posted on 07/31/2009 6:49:15 AM PDT by Charlespg (The Mainstream media is the enemy of democracy destroy the mainstream media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All

29 posted on 07/31/2009 6:50:31 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sung to the tune of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

Grandma got run over by Obama
Walking to the doctor’s without leave
You can say there’s no such thing as rationing
But as for me and Grandpa we believe

She’d been seeing Doc quite often
For her heart and lumbago
But one day she got a letter
Saying “sacrifice yourself; it’s time to go”

They found her DOA that mornin’
At the scene of the attack
“Rejected” stamped upon her forehead
And an incriminatin’ O upon her back

Grandma got run over by Obama
Walking to the doctor’s without leave
You can say there’s no such thing as rationing
But as for me and Grandpa we believe

Now we’re all so proud of Grandpa
They don’t have him on the run
See him in there watchin’ NASCAR
And clinging bitterly to God and guns

It’s just not the same without Grandma
She was too young to be whacked
Only 70 on her next birthday
But too old according to The One’s contract

Grandma got run over by Obama
Walking to the doctor’s without leave
You can say there’s no such thing as rationing
But as for me and Grandpa we believe

Now the funeral is over
And the family’s steeped in gloom
And now ACORN’s at the front door
Taking stock of Grandpa’s empty extra room

I’ve warned all my friends and neighbors
Better watch out for your health
We should never have elected
A man whose main concern is spreading wealth

Grandma got run over by Obama
Walking to the doctor’s without leave
You can say there’s no such thing as rationing
But as for me and Grandpa we believe!


30 posted on 07/31/2009 7:18:20 AM PDT by DFG (1 useless man is called a disgrace, 2 are called a law firm, 3 or more are called Congress)
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To: DFG

THAT’s classic. Original?


31 posted on 07/31/2009 7:22:30 AM PDT by Desdemona (True Christianity requires open hearts and open minds - not blind hatred.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"They may not know what's good for them."

Maybe not. At one time 52% of them voted BHO into office.

32 posted on 07/31/2009 7:32:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: screaminsunshine

LOLing here...the Obama Kill Yo Mama plan. Too frickin funny.


33 posted on 07/31/2009 8:14:33 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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To: mek1959
"Their reign will soon be over."

YA THINK?

Here is a partial list of media dinosaurs I want to never see or hear of again:

Andrea Mitchel, Eleanor Clift, Helen Thomas, Amy Goodwin, Katie C.,several whose names I can't think of, and some baby dinosaurs like the CNN bevy of bovine beauties sans brains.

Replace the above with Anne Coulter, Bernie Goldberg types.What a wonderful media world that would be.

vaudine

34 posted on 07/31/2009 8:38:49 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

AM = useful idiot


35 posted on 07/31/2009 9:06:45 AM PDT by ASOC (Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And now, the transcript of a secretly taped conversation between Sen. Chris Dodd (D. CT) and his doctor, upon learning he has prostate cancer:

Dodd’s Doctor: Chris, I hate to break the bad news to you, but you have prostate cancer. The good news is, we caught it in the early stages and it’s treatable. We expect that with some conservative treatment, the effects will be minimal and you should expect to continue leading a full life.

Sen. Chris Dodd: Gee Doc, I’m really upset at hearing this but I’m glad this was caught early. Will the cancer affect my continued screwing up the economy for the American people? After all, they elected us on a mantra of “Change.”

Dodd’s Doctor: No Chris, we’re going to begin some treatment over the next few days, after which you’ll be fit enough to return to the Senate and pass these mind-numbingly horrendous bills that impede on people’s daily lives. For your treatment, we’re going to use a course of drugs and radiation seeds implanted in your prostate to halt the cancer’s growth and prevent it from spreading. The drugs we’ll give you are very costly, however they’ll shrink your prostate so you’re not pissing all over yourself at night when you’re trying to sleep.

Government Health-Care Coordinator enters room: Hello, I’m your government appointed health care coordinator. I’m sorry Mr. Dodd, but you’ve lived a full life according to the Government’s charts, and the treatment your doctor is prescribing is awfully expensive. Our recommended treatment for you is the blue pill, which is half the cost of the red pills and radiation seeds your doctor is prescribing.

Dodd’s Doctor: But the blue pills don’t work for this type of cancer, everyone knows this, what are you trying to do, kill Senator Dodd?

Government Health-Care Coordinator: Senator Dodd is 72. His life expectancy according to our government charts is 77, that’s only another 5 years or so. Additionally, he’s overweight, which will cut that down by a few years and he’ll likely have a stroke which is also expensive. Therefore we recommend a course of palliative treatment and mandatory end of life counseling.

Senator Dodd: End of life counseling?

Government Health-Care Coordinator: Yes Senator Dodd, it was in the bill you voted in favor of.

Senator Dodd: But I don’t WANT to die!

Government Health-Care Coordinator: I’m sorry Mr. Dodd, but the Government of which you yourself were a part of has decided that it’s just not cost effective to treat your prostate cancer to extend your life a paltry five years. Therefore we’ll only approve your doctor prescribing the blue pill, and some end of life counseling for you.

Senator Dodd: But, But …..

Government Health-Care Coordinator: Mr. Dodd, allow me to introduce your end of life counselor ….

(Wouldn’t it just be too sweet if this actually happened to that bastard? Make them live under the same laws they pass on the rest of us ....)


36 posted on 07/31/2009 10:38:01 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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