Jimmy Kimmel Savages ObamaCare and Uninformed Young People Who Support It

Newsbusters ^ | 1/15/14 | Noel Sheppard

[SoFloFreeper]

As NewsBusters has been reporting for months, late night comics have been tearing the atrocious rollout of ObamaCare apart.

Conceivably the best job done to date was by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel who during his opening monologue Tuesday evening absolutely savaged the law whilst ridiculing the uninformed young people in this country that have ignorantly supported something that clearly harms them (video follows with transcript and commentary):....

Really delicious stuff.

However, this raises a question: with the exception of the penis pump issue, everything that Kimmel addressed was known before ObamaCare was enacted.

Certainly, America’s youth are woefully uninformed – but why is that?

Assume for a moment that as this bill was being crafted, and well before it was rammed through both chambers of Congress without one Republican vote, America’s media had actually informed the public about what was in the legislation.

[SoFloFreeper]

Let the crushing of Democrats in November be extreme.

[RaginRak]

I know several old Democrat sheep who support it

[bray]

But they are so cool voting for a Blackman.

Pray America is Waking

[grania]

Many Republicans in the US Senate are equally complicit for not standing firm and refusing to "fund the federal government" until the Obamacare mandate was stopped. They're so choked by the DC fog that they don't even get it that it was the administration's infantile closures of monuments, etc that people were getting upset about.

RINO Republicans will end up getting the blame for siding with the insurance companies.

[cherry]

we shouldn’t make much of a few little outliers going against the obamanation.....its too little and too late...you trust people when they speak out loud and clear when danger first strikes, not after the damage is done....

[Grampa Dave]

“I know several old Democrat sheep who support it”

There are probably millions of them in the greater Gay Frisco area.

[12th_Monkey]

“Certainly, America’s youth are woefully uninformed – but why is that?”

Public education and distracted parents

[Old Yeller]

Lets hope they don’t think its cool to vote for an old hag lesbian murderer.

[sickoflibs]

Very good,
especially the mock Obamacare ACA commercial Kimmel played with the older couple basically calling young people suckers.

[alancarp]

"A newspaper, FYI, is like an iPad made of trees."

Great line, that... but the rest of it is totally on point.

[9422WMR]

“But they are so cool voting for a Blackman.”

He is a HALFRICAN.

[MrB]

“Wait... Obamacare was supposed to mean free medical care for everybody for free. Whataya mean we have to pay for it?”

[Grampa Dave]

"“Wait... Obamacare was supposed to mean free medical care for everybody for free. Whataya mean we have to pay for it?”

[MeshugeMikey]

Barrys gone to the mat with this...

whitehous.gov...now features a promotional video for obamacare starring Magic Johnson...

[sickoflibs]

You misunderstood Dems, when they said ‘everybody’ they meant everybody who the law gives it to for free, not everybody in USA.

Its like keeping your policy if you want to.

They meant in October 2013 you can keep any policy that has not been changed at all since early 2009, which happens to be NONE of them. So they kept their promise.

Read the fine print.

[WinMod70]

I trust Jimmy has all his tax related records in order.

[sickoflibs]

Correction, ‘since early 2010’

[MissTed]

Is that for real or a parody????

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Seems that ObamaCare’s primary demographic and Jimmy Kimmel’s primary demographic are (a) the same and (b) battling each other.

Pass the popcorn, please.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Certainly, America’s youth are woefully uninformed – but why is that?

They don't know anything that cannot be expressed in a 140 character tweet?