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Obama's Deal (LIVE: Frontline examines the backroom deals behind Obamacare, TV & Streaming)
Frontline on PBS ^ | April 13, 2010 | Frontline

Posted on 04/13/2010 3:18:08 PM PDT by unspun

"A sobering look at the push to reform health care, revealing the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups and the role of money in policy making."



WATCH THE FULL PROGRAM ONLINE


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; obamacare
For being on PBS, Frontline can be remarkably objective (in at least a conventionalist, inside the beltway fashion).

I'm going to watch this and suggest you keep an eye on it too.

Remember their program on John P. O'Neil, of the FBI and what happened to him? "Path to 911" was squelched, but that was not.

1 posted on 04/13/2010 3:18:08 PM PDT by unspun
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To: unspun

bttt


2 posted on 04/13/2010 3:21:00 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: unspun

"PRESIDENT OBAMA: And this week, .... we're going to be doing is bringing some of them into the White House and --
JIM LEHRER: To crack heads?"


"To crack heads?" Lehrer asks.
"Oh, I don't know about cracking heads," Obama said, "facilitating a discussion that solves these problems." "


"PBS's Lehrer Badgers Obama from the Left: What About Banks' 'Huge Profits?'
By Matthew Balan | July 21, 2009 - 11:56
"PBS's Jim Lehrer ... urged the executive to "crack heads"
to get his health care plan passed, and inquired if "taxing the wealthy" was an option to fund it.
Lehrer later pressed Mr. Obama on the "huge profits" being made by "big Wall Street banks.""


3 posted on 04/13/2010 3:24:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: unspun

I have never seen Frontline be objective.

Especially with the housing bubble, no mention at all of the role of government/Congress.


4 posted on 04/13/2010 3:24:23 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: unspun

I can think of no better way to waste time. There are things of import that take priority. I feel the urge to take a dump....


5 posted on 04/13/2010 3:37:36 PM PDT by Born In America ("O.B.A.M.A.: One Big A** Mistake, America....")
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To: Born In America; roses of sharon; Diogenesis
Maybe. I'm going to watch and find out.

Remember their program on John P. O'Neil, of the FBI: "The Man who Knew," pre-9/11/2001 and what happened to him?

6 posted on 04/13/2010 3:41:39 PM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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Is it on tonight and I am in the Pacific Time Zone. Do you know what time it comes on here?


7 posted on 04/13/2010 3:52:16 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: unspun

.....”A sobering look at the push to reform health care, revealing the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups and the role of money in policy making.”....

NOT QUITE:

obama is NOT reforming heath care, but destroying it.

...”revealing the realities” of obama’s dictatorial politics, and of one-party rule of Congress.

obama paid off special interest groups with money STOLEN from us, and from future generations, while leaving us with substandard health care!!!!

The purpose of the whole effort is a weak, Third World America, which will be ripe for the Fateh (islamic conquest) in fewer years than we can imagine!!!!


8 posted on 04/13/2010 3:52:30 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Thanks unspun, I didn't see that one.

I watched about 15 min so far of the healthcare episode.

Lot's of iconic imagines of the Messiah and how great he is, all interviews with Democrats, bad stuff on the deals Republicans made to get the prescription drug deal passed, and bad stuff about Max Baucaus and his deal making, bad Insurance co, bad Pharma, Rahm is a genius, so far the Kenyan escapes any critism.

I see where this is going, all about deal making (yawn), and nothing about the Congress stealing our earnings and our private healthcare. The premise is that this national healthcare is a fine idea that no President has accomplished.

I don't like the direction of this, nothing about socialism, big gov, the constitution, freedom, Marxism. But I will continue watching.

9 posted on 04/13/2010 4:00:08 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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Don’t know the time, sorry. Hearing from Roses here that the program is propaganda.


10 posted on 04/13/2010 4:12:15 PM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: roses of sharon

If it only takes that direction, they’re laying themselves open for being too negative on Obama, with their story’s lead.


11 posted on 04/13/2010 4:15:16 PM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: Honorary Serb; roses of sharon

This program may be presented from the point of view of the socialist, but 22 minutes through, it is doing a very good job on its level, of showing the Obama regime’s cynicism and the fascist nature of their working in “partnership” with big insurance and big pharma.


12 posted on 04/13/2010 4:40:58 PM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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Their slanted, manipulative use of photos is pretty comical.

“Bugga bugga! We’re working these nasty black and white photos on you!”


13 posted on 04/13/2010 4:59:23 PM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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Read the comments section. Disgusting. So many people are blind and just being lead around like little children watching Barney. They so child-like in their idea of “healthcare for all” and such. Our society has become so infantalized.


14 posted on 04/14/2010 6:18:34 AM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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Yes, the PBS audience is literally retarded when it comes to American principles, and many, very willfully so.


15 posted on 04/14/2010 3:11:20 PM PDT by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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