That said, I don't take this particular clip as serious.
Posted on 08/23/2011 4:18:47 AM PDT by i88schwartz
Comedian and actor David Cross appeared on Current TV's "Countdown" program Monday evening to promote his upcoming movie and other gigs when the conversation turned to a recent study that watching one hour of television shortens your life by 22 minutes.
Cross was being very serious on how this would benefit his pocket because that would mean he would not have to pay for medical care of the elderly who are "not contributing anything." Keith Olbermann, the host of "Countdown," believes this is a Darwinian idea. Transcript below:
David Cross: "I don't mind, I like the idea -- or I'm comfortable with the idea that TV watchers are having their lives shortened because then you're talking about just hundreds of millions of really elderly people who are just going to watch TV anyway. And that's just a medical care that I'm going to end up having to pay for and they're just watching TV, they're not contributing anything.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
He is a comedian and this is NOT the most outrageous thing he has said or done. Move along.
That said, I don't take this particular clip as serious.
George Bernad Shaw appeals to the chemists to invent a “humane gas” to kill the parasites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpaKkrZex4
Yet sadly, way to many senior voters think that Obama and the Dems are going to “save” Medicare and Social Security and that the Republcians are just going to gut it. They don’t understand that the end result of the Dems’ plan is death panels. If you are 70 and get cancer; well, that’s too bad. You had a good life. Now do your duty and die so we can allocate healthcare money to AIDs research.
I’d smack his little face.
Just in case anyone would like to FReep Fox, here's the phone number of Chris Petrikin, SVP of Corporate Communcations:
310-369-4781
IF you let it. I spent 4 years in undergrad and going on 2 years now in graduate school and still hold fast to my beliefs. It depends heavily on the area of study, but most college professors lean left if not FAR left.
I apologize for questioning you friend's piety, but his/her convictions must not have been strong enough if he/she was spewing this garbage.
So you aren’t entitled to your savings, so you should blow through all your money while you can.
Economically stupid.
What is also stupid is encouraging people to think that the Government will take care of them in their old age.
I see that Olbermann is attracting nothing but A-list guests to his new show. </sarcasm>
I guess if he called getting rid of gays that would be called a suicide attempt?
Spend more than a dollar...
“Fabian socialism.”
You nailed it.
I thought that he was fantastic in Arrested Development but other than that I find him annoying and lacking of social skills.
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/amber-tamblyn-28-engaged-to-david-cross-47-2011178
I know some “elderly” who could run circles around David Cross and kick his ass!
I don't either. He was just joking in bad taste, which is pretty much what his act is.
When he’s old enough for SS in about 15 years, lets hold him to that. I’m sure his elderly parents are real proud of him.
Paraphrasing a prominent Democrat, old people never die, they just get in the way.
Obamacare, it clears the way.
He’ll use the excuse that he was just joking.
“Never naked” syndrome...
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