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Obamacare: PBS's Jim Lehrer suggests to Obama: "start cracking heads", CNN trots out communist
PBS and CNN | July and Aug, 2009

Posted on 09/03/2009 7:39:34 AM PDT by ETL

From PBS.org, July 20, 2009...

"Communicating health reform goals"

JIM LEHRER: As you know a lot of the commentary over the weekend was that nothing’s going to happen getting from here to the final hurdle here unless you really start cracking some heads, and really say, “Hey, this is the Obama plan, this is what I want. So much for what this committee wants and what that committee wants. Here’s what I want. I’m going to push and go.” Are you ready to do that?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, the interesting thing is we’ve actually been very clear on what we want. I’ve said that I want to make sure that if you have health care you’re going to keep it. I’ve said that we’ve got to reform the insurance industry so people aren’t being excluded for preexisting conditions, that it’s not as easy for insurance companies to dump people when they change jobs or if they lose their job. I’ve been very clear about the fact that it has to be paid for. I’ve been very clear about the fact that we should have a public plan.

So we’ve laid a whole bunch of markers out there. And this week, as members of Congress have worked their way through this process and examined what all the options are, what we’re going to be doing is bringing some of them into the White House and —

JIM LEHRER: To crack heads?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Oh, I don’t know about cracking heads — facilitating —

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec09/obama_07-20.html
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CNN Uses Pro-Communist American to Tout Cuban Health Care

NewsBusters.org ^ | August 8, 2009 | Rich Noyes


Gail Reed

There’s something deeply wrong with journalism that scrutinizes and criticizes the institutions of free and successful nations, but produces puff pieces on the supposed achievements of totalitarian dictatorships. On Thursday, CNN aired a piece of Communist Party propaganda about how Cuba could serve as “a model for health care reform” in the United States, complete with an authoritative sound bite from an American medical expert, identified only as someone “who’s lived and worked in Cuba for decades.”

But the expert, Gail Reed, is a longtime admirer of the Cuban revolution, married to the Cuban official who served as ambassador to Grenada in the early 1980s when U.S. troops liberated the island from hardline communists who had executed the leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. She's also worked at Granma, Cuba’s official communist party newspaper.

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As for Reed, she was profiled in the Miami Herald back in 1983 after she and her husband returned to Cuba after American forces liberated Grenada. She talked about the fear she felt at seeing U.S. Marines surrounding the Cuban embassy, and told the newspaper, “I feel I have a very strong identification with the Cuban revolution.”

“When I first came to Cuba in the ’70s, I was very impressed with their efforts in building a new kind of society,” Reed explained.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/08/08/cnn-uses-pro-communist-american-tout-cuban-health-care



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; communistnewsnetwork; jimlehrer; obamacare
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1 posted on 09/03/2009 7:39:35 AM PDT by ETL
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To: Diogenesis

Thanks for alerting me to the Jim Lehrer quote about “cracking heads”.


2 posted on 09/03/2009 7:40:38 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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3 posted on 09/03/2009 7:41:03 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: ETL

PBS is simply a taxpayer-funded, wholly owned and operated OBAMA PROPAGANDA MACHINE.


4 posted on 09/03/2009 7:44:24 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: ETL
Did someone say Obama Crack Head?


5 posted on 09/03/2009 7:44:27 AM PDT by scoobysnak71 (Just a National Security Threat, trying to get a nut.)
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To: ETL
Crack heads? If there was ONE American who had died because of lack of medical care - that person would be on the front page of every newspaper. This issue is bogus - and PBS is sooooo elitest they are clueless about medical care in their own country.

The poor get $600 a visit care at emergency rooms whenever they want it. The fact that it clogs up real emergency care isn't even on the radar for these folks.

Yeah, crack heads - they'll all be treated...

6 posted on 09/03/2009 7:44:38 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." - - Adam Smith)
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To: ETL

“Jim, did you say “crack”, ‘cause I need a hit...”- OBarry


7 posted on 09/03/2009 7:45:12 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: ETL

52.9% of the voters had to have cracks in their heads to vote for this moron in the first place.


8 posted on 09/03/2009 7:46:49 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: scoobysnak71

The true face of Obama and the Democrats is slowly coming out. COMMUNISM!


9 posted on 09/03/2009 7:56:53 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: ETL

Presidents serve a max of 8 yrs, Congress critters for life, if they can. Congress will go along with the president as long as they see:

1. He is popular
2. What he wants is popular.

Lacking these things the congress critter throws the president under the bus and does what every self serving official has done since the invention of dirt, they vote THEIR OWN INTEREST which happens to be what the most people at the time want. Odumbo has no chance of getting anything done by “cracking heads” and Lehrer is a moron for not realizing this.


10 posted on 09/03/2009 8:00:22 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: GOPJ
"The poor get $600 a visit care at emergency rooms whenever they want it"

I went to the Emergency Room for the 1st time a couple of years ago (and the last, I hope) because I stupidly sliced my hand with a razor knife. The wound was not even sutured, they use a liquid band aide and gave me a shot, tetanus I believe and the bill came to almost $1400.00. It was paid in full by my ins but I was stunned by the amount.

11 posted on 09/03/2009 8:06:14 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: ETL

Start ‘cracking heads’ and I’ll guarantee you someone will start ‘poppin caps’!!


12 posted on 09/03/2009 8:09:15 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
OOoooooh, looks like they are starting to talk about trying to open up a can o' whoop ass on America.

Hmmmm.... what's up with THAT!!??

13 posted on 09/03/2009 8:12:06 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (When reality hits us that it's not "Incompetence" but rather "Intentional", what are we going to do?)
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To: ETL

I detest that beady-eyed little $hit Lehrer.


14 posted on 09/03/2009 8:13:49 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"Hmmmm.... what's up with THAT!!?? "

It will be their bloody end. Count on it!!

15 posted on 09/03/2009 8:17:09 AM PDT by blam
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To: ETL

Jim Leherer called Obama a Crack Head?


16 posted on 09/03/2009 8:28:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GOPJ
The other day in my hospital we had a young illegal woman return with an active case of refractory TB.

It was refractory because every time she was released, she refused to take her medication. Her last admission was for a month back in July when she racked up a bill of over $160,000.

Did I mention she was an unemployed illegal with no insurance?

Not only did all the citizens of Arizona pay for her care, she was also walking around in between hospital admissions exposing everyone to TB.

Are we really this stupid? FGS, seal the borders!

17 posted on 09/03/2009 8:31:54 AM PDT by Prince of Space (UPS and FedEx are doing just fine... it's the post office that's always having problems.)
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To: ETL

While the lefties accuse Obama’s critics of inciting violence, they openly advocate it. Do they really think no one is going to notice??


18 posted on 09/03/2009 8:33:46 AM PDT by Spok
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To: ETL

bump


19 posted on 09/03/2009 9:06:22 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: ETL

I can’t wait until they do.


20 posted on 09/03/2009 9:07:55 AM PDT by sport
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