Diane Sawyer to Kurtz: I’m super-proud of our Obama health-care infomercial
posted at 9:05 pm on June 22, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Except it’s not an infomercial, you see. It’s a “serious conversation,” even though (a) no one from the opposing party is invited to converse and (b) no one who opposes Obama’s agenda is allowed to advertise during the program. Whatever, though. Either they’ll be tough on him or the criticism will be ruthless. Should have invited Stossel and Tapper to moderate, suckas.
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Carolina Kat on June 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Yep, in it’s “fair-minded” style, it also did a piece on 20/20 showing how the idea of students being able to legally carry on campus was a fool’s errand and would not provide any benefits. They staged a mock attack using students who were considering firearms training as students in the classroom. One student was armed in their demonstration. The attacker, a police firearms instructor entered the classroom, “shot” the teacher and then was always able to shoot the armed student who was ALWAYS seated in the middle of the first row. Of course, they provided the breathless documentary dialogue of how Dianne, did get a shot off and hit the assailant, but was also shot.
To be purely fair, they should have demonstrated a mock attack in which no one was armed.
Buncha tools
AZfederalist on June 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
The Brits call them newsreaders
We call them journalists
I call them…um…overpaid….um…strumpets
guntotinglibertarian on June 22, 2009 at 10:43 PM
I was listening to Monica Crowley talk today about Belinda Stronach, Clinton’s Canadian girlfriend, who flew to the US when she needed surgery even though she was one of these big rah rah Canadian healthcare types.
One healthcare for us, a different better type of healthcare for the super rich and politicians.
Blake on June 22, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Will you Diane, or Charlie, or both, be Obama’s fluffynutter?
Kini on June 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
She’s so soft and cuddley. . . .Where’s my damn barf bag.
Texyank on June 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM
“All sides will be represented”? or some such nonsense, whatever she said. I really didn’t think it could get worse. Worse is looking palatable, as unimaginable is just around the corner.
sybilll on June 22, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Check out this related Onion-style parody entitled “White House Press Corps Struggles to Maintain Objective Distance from President While Sharing His Teleprompter”: http://www.optoons.blogspot.com/ (June 22 entry)
Mervis Winter on June 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
“vital and robust debates” usually have people from both sides of an issue. Clue to Diane!
This is infuriating to me because it is such a lie.
They must be feeling the heat to even bring this up, and show Hannity’s clip. I know President Ice Cream is feeling the heat because I received an email from the enemy saying they need help in signing a petition which is to be delivered to Congress. It said, “Now or never!”.
We need to keep up the pressure on Congress to defeat death care! As Rush says, if health care is passed the nation could possibly never recover.
freeus on June 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I guess this is now a “dialogue” in the age of Obama.
No one who disagrees can participate.
Animal Farm, here we come.
Hawkins1701 on June 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
FIXED!!!
landlines on June 22, 2009 at 11:23 PM
American
Broadcasting
Company
Wait…no…
whitetop on June 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
The steps to Fascism…
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system.
5. Harass citizens’ groups.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
7. Target key individuals.
8. Control the press.
9. Treat all political dissidents as traitors.
10. Suspend the rule of law.
popularpeoplesfront on June 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Criticism by whom? MSNBC? CBS? The New York Times? The only media outlets that will criticize ABC will be Fox News, the WSJ, and conservative blogs. The rest of the MSM will just praise ABC for putting on such a brave panel and for being “tough” on Obama by providing him with “hard hitting questions” that allow him to swat around straw men with the greatest of ease.
Outlander on June 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Heh. Top of the line.
a capella on June 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I can’t think of any “normal” organization that would tolerate
an employee in that condition.
diogenes on June 22, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Has Diane Sawyer ever considered changing careers and going into journalism?
Crusty on June 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Tom Sawyer issued a statement today:
“I don’t know that woman.”
Limerick on June 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Does anyone listen to these twats anymore?
byteshredder on June 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
So we’ve got the:
American Barrack Channel
National Barrack Channel
Columbia Barrack System
and FOX.
I feel like I’m in any one of a dozen Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies where the fascist state takes over the duped people.
Mojave Mark on June 23, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Is this what is meant by The Fairness Doctrine? Sheesh!
Thank God for Tivo.
Fed45 on June 23, 2009 at 12:53 AM
The steps to Fascism…
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy. I think an economy meltdown will replace this step.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens. ACORN (COI)
4. Set up an internal surveillance system. Warrentless Wiretaps, Health Care Central Database, ACORN (COI) Census, Cameras, Monitoring of energy usage.
5. Harass citizens’ groups. ACORN (COI)
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release. Already suggested by Obama in a recent speech.
7. Target key individuals. Already done (Rush, etc.)
8. Control the press. Already done.
9. Treat all political dissidents as traitors.We’re getting close to this.
10. Suspend the rule of law. Not official, but Obama has been breaking the law with impunity.
Daggett on June 23, 2009 at 1:41 AM
OBAMA Fascist kool-aid drinkers, acornbots, boot lickers and *ss kissers, pry THIS from my cold hands!!! If only the IRANIAN people had a 2nd Amendment. oh, yeah, now i’m a domestic terrorist.
however, let me point out that once upon a time, and a very good time it was, a moo cow came walking down the road, and i as a young lad in an ARMY uniform took an oath to protect and defend the dear United States Constitution.
AND I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN MY SWORN PLEDGE!!!
falderal on June 23, 2009 at 2:26 AM
Why not??? The stimulus package has done wonders for
everyone, don’t you agree?? Don’t let Biden’s poor comment on the subject of trillions upset you. (”We guessed wrong”.) Besides, those trillions of wasted money that
no one knows where it went. Well poofff. Long gone, and forget it, for apple’s sake. To bring up the subject is sooo entirely old fogey, entirely. We’re fresh and onto
something new and exciting. We’re re-doing health-care
thingy.
Now focus on this: THE 43 MILLION, I SAID MILLION, WITHOUT INSURANCE WILL BENEFIT GRANDLY WITH THIS MODERN
IDEA; WE’LL SPEND TRILLIONS, (DO NOT LET THE IMAGE
OF THIS HORRIFIC NUMBER UPSET YOU IN THE LEAST, WE’LL MAKE IT UP HERE AND THERE. NOT A PROBLEM, AT LEAST IN MY LIFETIME). Anyway, it’s there, and Diane Sawyer says so.
betsyz on June 23, 2009 at 2:26 AM
Anyone slightly sick to their stomach after watching this clip?
I think I need a good palate cleanser right about now.
demotheses on June 23, 2009 at 4:53 AM
Okay. We are seeing some–some, that is–cracks in the media support for Obummer.Here and there. Classical liberal support, of course, was NEVER there for Obama–whoops!–Obummer, I mean.Not that I am mean,but the Bummer IS cuz he trying to mess with our Liberty. No friend of John Mills and the reverse, have we in this president.I suspect even illiberals will feel the pain once it soaks into their brain(s).And it will.I hope we see a crack or two during this so-called dialogue.**Sawyer says what she says because she either believes it, or wants to keep her job. The former makes her very suspect. The latter makes her a closet capitalist and they number many among the . . . uh . . . elite. And once again she is just suspect. All around. Illiberals can`t see the real world unless it smacks em upside the head. And I fear it indeed will. Reality? The real world? That is what is happening in Iran . . . . and many many other places.
I recommend the illiberals get a strong cup of joe to wake up. Maybe, just maybe, they can ameliorate the bushwhacking that awaits. Right now, I, like Obummer, can only hope.
**Could be both, but my mind boggles and I leave that possibility for others with higher IQs to examine!
Sherman1864 on June 23, 2009 at 5:40 AM
Comrades, you are commanded by lord high Obama to watch this completely fair and objective performance that will no doubt prove to you, if you are a good comrade, that his health plan must be enacted.
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 6:48 AM
A- All
B- Barak
C- Channel
Rumor has it that Walter Cronkite is on death’s door. Even in his glory days as the CBS resident socialist would he have imagined a network so biased that their programming is nothing but propaganda for a dictator in the White House. I mourn for our once great nation and pray that one day in the future our children will be able to break the oppressive shackles of the Democrat junta and restore America to it the freedoms it enjoyed prior to January 20th 2009.
highhopes on June 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Not for long, at least in its current state. Even a new dictator like Obama understands that the first rule of oppression is to silence any dissenting voices. The “communication czar” will shortly order Fox off the air (about the same time Rush, Hannity, et. al. are sent off to the re-education camp at Gitmo).
highhopes on June 23, 2009 at 7:19 AM
Will Diane drink in the atmosphere like she did at the inauguration?
Next up: A vital and robust debate on the future of Israel from Hamas headquarters in Gaza!
Then: All sides will be represented in a lively debate on election reform live from Teheran!
RadClown on June 23, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Diane Sawyer: Obama Government Media Harlot
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 7:40 AM
Careful, you’ll make Ann Compton angry. She’s been breathlessly reporting about Obama since the beginning.
highhopes on June 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM
So…..for the first time in her life, Diane Sawyer is “super-proud”? Didn’t Michelle Obama say something like that?
olesparkie on June 23, 2009 at 7:44 AM
…and i as a young lad in an ARMY uniform took an oath to protect and defend the dear United States Constitution.
AND I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN MY SWORN PLEDGE!!!
falderal on June 23, 2009
There are many of us out here, falderal. We are trained and willing but we need organization and a strong platoon leader. A focused army of a million can do much more than a million armies of one.
The term “militia” has been demonized in recent years but it’s still appropriate. Like the militia of old, we should fight for a common goal. When we achieve it we will disband and go home to mourn our dead and take comfort in the knowledge that we stood for something far greater than ourselves.
Where is our George Washington?
SKYFOX on June 23, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Always
Barack
Channel
Comrade
Barack
Station
National
Barack
Channel
Manlovin
Shizzle my leg tingly
Nizzle
Barack
Channel
FOX <- Propoganda
It’s the mirror universe…and spock has a goatee
BillaryMcBush on June 23, 2009 at 7:58 AM
What we need is Iranian-style protests in major cities. Not the stone throwing part but the masses of ordinary Americans showing up in one place to clearly send the message to this out-of-touch and out-of-control government that they are in the wrong.
highhopes on June 23, 2009 at 8:02 AM
ACORN-
BAMBI
COMINTERN
viking01 on June 23, 2009 at 8:29 AM
“All dialogue is equal… but some dialogue is more equal than others.”
mankai on June 23, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Shaping up to be a fine infomerical. Will it be paid for per inquiry?
I will put it right next to the next Billy Maze screech fest.
tarpon on June 23, 2009 at 8:43 AM
When the folks get strong enough they will boycott these communist media outlets and start voting the cronies out of office. These are foolproof and will work. We need a new contract for America.
bluegrass on June 23, 2009 at 8:51 AM
ABC??? ABC???-”present”-…..this is all what my grandmother would call, dreck…….first there was williams now sawyer….CBS must be burning up the lines asking for fair play.
imperator on June 23, 2009 at 9:08 AM
When first talked about, the infomercial was called a debate on health care. Now it’s called a dialogue. Must have looked up the meaning of debate in her Webster.
Kissmygrits on June 23, 2009 at 10:07 AM
LOLOL
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM
The White House blasted the plan when the $1T deficit forecast circulated. What plan is Obama talking about? Has anyone seen it or has the CBO analyzed it?
These points can’t be answered, therefore, they are just pushing hot air. (Sorry for the pun)
djaymick on June 23, 2009 at 11:03 AM
I thought Diane Sawyer was a barf bag
hamradio on June 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Tell us how you really feel !!!!!
Seriously I agree with you.
73
hamradio on June 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM
‘Our’ obama. Who chose that pronoun? He’s not ‘my’ Obama.
jeanie on June 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Like this rich moron’s going to ever need to use a health care program ran by the government. Hey Dianne, how about you STFU!
TrickyDick on June 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Diane Sawyer was the typical useless affirmative action hired news person that prays at the alter of feminism because without quotas forcing employers to hire woman, she’s be home doing the ironing.
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM
The best of public whore-TV
bluegrass on June 23, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Shame on you Sawyer. Your job as a journalist is to challenge and ask tough questions and no matter how hard you try to sell this as an open dialogue town meeting, it is not. The cozy exclusivity of the environment reeks of an unethical arrangement between your organization and the White House. Appearances speak volumes in our industry, and this one begs for stinging dialogue and criticism. As an old comrade of mine once reminded me on the reporting trail: “If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.”
Goldy1 on June 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM
I once saw Diane Sawyer on a telethon. They were collecting to stamp out crotch crickets.
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 6:30 PM
I hate it when someone puts that lilty ‘this is so important’ twist on their words. One time passes as annoying, twice begins the you are kidding… right feeling, but over and over becomes stfu you hyperbolic tart.
RalphyBoy on June 23, 2009 at 8:11 PM
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