Right Online interview: Melissa Clouthier
posted at 2:55 pm on August 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
For my first interview from the Right Online, I chatted with my friend Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who writes at John Hawkins’ Right Wing News. Both Melissa and I enjoyed John’s opening remarks that kicked off the conference, which challenged the people to get better at organizing than our counterparts across town at Netroots Nation. Melissa and I talked about the conference, what brings her to Pittsburgh, and the challenge of conservative organization.
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Fraudbama to appear in moments. I am not going to watch a single word drip from his lying, defrauding, evil mouth.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM
OMG, the mouth is on the tube again! I hope I have enought batteries to keep the mute button going.
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letget on August 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Enough with the uninspired nicknames please. It’s getting less funny than before, when it wasn’t funny at all.
The Calibur on August 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Ed, are you flying a plane or talking into a microphone?
Dude, its the 21st century.
lorien1973 on August 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Hope he read the bill this time. Hope their are no AARP or AMA slip ups. Perhaps this time he can say that doctors routinely remove brains to get extra Medicare money. It might be true with all the air headed plants he puts in these gatherings.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM
What’s going on here? This chick looks very much like MegMac.
Do the people running this site have a thing for zoftig young blondes? (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
UltimateBob on August 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.
If all else fails, hit it with a big hammer.
Murphy9 on August 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Is Barry getting paid by the number of appearances he makes?
The sad part is that we, the taxpayers, are footing the bill.
GarandFan on August 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM
How does Ed manage with all the hate and racism that must be oozing out of coservative conference?
WashJeff on August 14, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Is that Maggie Mac? Whoa!
Lance Murdock on August 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Any man who doesn’t is un-American.
MadisonConservative on August 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Obama is so dreamy
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Dang, I was so hoping to see a column on Palin’s great comments on healthcare today.
We get another bonde column.
AnninCA on August 14, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Is Barry getting paid by the number of appearances he makes?
The sad part is that we, the taxpayers, are footing the bill.
GarandFan on August 14, 2009
If Barry can’t get enough of Barry, then by extension, neither can we.
SKYFOX on August 14, 2009 at 3:12 PM
If Barack would undo those top 2 buttons those two women behind him would faint (so would AnninCA)
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM
O/T: Obama (in Montana) just said that we were losing 700 jobs a month when he took office.
Look at us now!
VibrioCocci on August 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Obama has “saved tens of thousands of jobs”
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:15 PM
“Let me be clear. This house was already on fire when I got here. I wouldn’t have dowsed it with gasoline had the Bush people not lied to me. They told me the house was inflammable. Turns out it was flammable!”
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM
How do you save a job?
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Decouple health insurance from employment, you twit.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM
What is happening? I’m allergic to Obama and can’t watch.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Dear Leader just got a lie caught in his throat…
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM
I had to turn it off. I don’t have a strong stomach.
VibrioCocci on August 14, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Coming up: 12 year old girl in a wheelchair with cancer and 2 limbs missing – “Why are all the racists after you Lord Obama?”
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Health insurance reform principles.
Ah, consumer protections: no cancellation.
Wasn’t there a John Grisham novel about this? I thought Matt Damon won that case in the movie version.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM
What the &^%$ is a “double vascectomy”? My lord, both ends?
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM
I had to about choke, when he stated “as long as you pay your premiums…” line… and that’s different from private insurance how?
And yeah, the “we saved tens of thousands of jobs” line just jumped RIGHT out at me…
DaSaintFan on August 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Yeah if it weren’t for her obvious intelligence, I’da had a WTF moment myself.
Patrick S on August 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM
And we believe in Santa
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM
I believe that is when a batter has four balls on him.
Patrick S on August 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM
turned it back on and …
“if you are one of 46 million people who don’t have insurance …”
What? No Spanish subtitles?
VibrioCocci on August 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Wow this sure looks like a first come first serve crowd. So I guess there is no one in Montana that doesn’t totally back Obama and his health care scam.
sandee on August 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Obama: “I dont want government bureaucrats meddling in your healthcare”
Eureka! We have found common ground
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Free money. Blah blah blah.
Ah, 46 million again. One-fourth, illegal aliens; one-fourth, won’t pay for it; one-fourth, qualify for existing programs; one-fouth, insurable and for whom a solution is needed.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Free money. Blah blah blah.
AMA doesn’t represent many doctors. He fudged that AARP comment.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM
“AARP supports this policy and agrees that we must have reform this year”
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM
according to Major Garrett.. it was ’70% of the tickets determined by lottery, and 30% were tickets passed out by Democratic leadership in Montana”…
DaSaintFan on August 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM
What? You’re both liars?
BPD on August 14, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Sounds like a friendly crowd again…lottery ticket holders don’t ya know.
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Look at all those racists in the crowd.
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Is it off Fox yet? Surely that wouldn’t still be covering love fest. And he still made the AARP comment with one word changed? Stupid Obama, the presidency isn’t for kids (or crack heads).
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM
“We haven’t pre-selected anybody.”
VibrioCocci on August 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM
POTUS is in campaign mode…taking off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves. When does the beer start flowing?
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Carol Wilder laid off and uninsured
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM
OMG! If you play it backwards, he says “DEATH PANELS”
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Have you looked at the Canadian and British health systems to pick and choose from those systems that work?!!
Their systems work?
VibrioCocci on August 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Softball…………!
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Translation: Under my plan you won’t have any healthcare.
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM
damn…not to mention the first question is a softball and he’s lying and choking on it…
DaSaintFan on August 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Max Bacchus is watching his career going up in flames…
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Question 1: some female sychophant.
Laid off, two kids on medicaid. Compare his plan to Canada and Britain.
We pay $5K more per person than any other country.
Those countries have a socialized system.
He wants a uniquely American system. Max isn’t workin’ on that.
No, Obama. Let’s separate insurance from employment.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM
I knew they wouldn’t let in any “trouble makers”, but this is ridiculous.We’re supposed to believe that in all of Montana, there is no opposition at all? Please.I can’t believe anyone would not think this is a bunch of plants.Standing ovations? I mean his numbers are in the tank.unbelievable.
sandee on August 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM
What is his response? Is he choking because of the smoking?
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Question: Under your plan, can I get both my foot amputated and my tonsils removed?
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Question: Under your plan will I get to keep my cable TV with premium channels?
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Health care exchange…blah blah blah.
Just open up the market for interstate competition.
He fillibustered this answer. I have to go leave one of my teeth under my pillow for the Tooth Fairy.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Somebody throw a shoe….with a foot in it.
Patrick S on August 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Questioner: “Medicare is one of the best social programs this country has ever put together”
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM
What is his response?
He also stated something along the lines that the Canadians were healthier than we were (something that the Stanford study disputed).
DaSaintFan on August 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM
“I wanna be clear about that”
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM
He says he is going to pay our mortgages, put gas in our cars, and feed/educate our children for free…if we will pledge our allegiance to this Health Care bill.
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Question: Under your plan can I still sue my Doctor for malpractice? And if I can, isn’t that like me suing the government? Also, what provisions do you have in place to protect malpractice lawyers?
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
No, as he said, he wants people who are outside of the normal political system to do it. So there is no accountability.
See how that works?
lorien1973 on August 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Please tell me you’re joking. He didn’t say “double vasectomy,” right?
powerpro on August 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
But they don’t pay for a physical.
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Now he is attacking all auto mechanics…rise up!
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM
DID HE SAY DOUBLE VASECTOMY? PLEASE CONFIRM.
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Second question: middle-aged man.
Re Medicare, what will be the expense if we open up coverage to all.
Obama’s lying. Eliminate practices that will net saving. He’s dumping on Medicare Advantage.
He’s giving an example that’s absurd–second and third visits to the hospital to correct the first procedure. I think most people call the malpractice lawyer after the first mistake.
He doesn’t know this areas; his examples are always entirely irrelevent.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Wouldn’t a double vasectomy be a penectomy? I think he meant mastectomy but flubbed.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Didn’t bill Clinton have two? Or a double header or something?
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM
One time I had my hair done and they let me come back so they could fix it. They made it worse, so I don’t think I would let some Doc have a second stab a me.
bloggless on August 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Vasectomy means the severing of the vasa deferentia of the penis so as to render a man sterile. Bill Clinton had heart bypass surgery.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Are those bite marks on his leg?
/ pitbull
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM
I heard “double”. Can anyone confirm?
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Only one – second one was a cigar.
dpierson on August 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Uh Oh
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Billionaire Ted Turner owns hundreds of thousands of acres in the area and his local buffalo burger joint has already created their $10 Obama burger in anticipation of our burger loving president’s visit.
From what I understand, it’s more than you can stomache, and it is shoved down your throat.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM
“you cant tell us how you are going to pay for this. The only way you can pay for this is to raise our taxes. You said you wouldnt do that.”
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM
And then layers and layers of bureaucrats
tessa on August 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Obama got asked about paying for it.
He claims two-thirds it can be obtained by savings from insurance companies, which leaves $30 billion. He reiterates the taxes on the rich. The crowd cheers wildly.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM
So what I’ve said is……
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Nobody’s available to challenge him on his numbers.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:48 PM
“We’ve got to get over this notion that we can get things for nothing.”
Winner
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM
One plant here and another plant there Here a plant there a plant everywhere a plant plant. Old Obama had a farce Eieio!
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Blaming Bush for the prescription-drug bill.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Softball….
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Another blond porker.
Wade on August 14, 2009 at 3:50 PM
She should be thanking us, we paid for it. She is so much more important than you or I because she works at a non-profit. I hope you all know that.
tessa on August 14, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Is anything new here?
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:52 PM
andy ,same old crap from Obama.
sandee on August 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Menu:
1 for Socialism
2 for Marxism
3 for Death Panel
4 for Racists and Cable watchers
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Obama is bringing to light one of our problems: We don’t see the real cost of employer-provided insurance and, by extension, the real cost of medical care.
As he describes portability in the same manner as McCain. In this regard, if you lose your job, how do you “keep” your policy?
Ah, the public plan–the USPS plan. He’s trying to address the driving out argument.
He’s lying.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:55 PM
faraway.. you forgot the first option ..
Press 1 for English
Press 2 for Spanish
DaSaintFan on August 14, 2009 at 3:55 PM
The Big Lie
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 3:55 PM
He is now at the public option…he claims the public option will not take over health care.
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:55 PM
They won’t suddenly stop, it will take about a year.
tessa on August 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Wow, you know after listening to the “truth” I have changed my position and fully support this “plan” now. I’m so glad I got to see and hear a “real” town hall meeting. Just think I almost fell for those screaming, white, nazi loving teabaggers at those other “Staged” meetings…………
sandee on August 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Fox is going to pillory Obama tonight. O’Reilly was already chastising Obama for not making any sense at all and attacking Fox. Talking points memo is going to be juicy. Obama only had plants here, we are going to find out some of these questioners worked in the Obama campaign, and we are going to see pictures of Obama fishing. Furthermore, we shall see numerous reports of the multiple errors that Obama made, both numerical and policy-based, and we shall see Gibbs flubbing around to explain Obama’s lies. Sooner or later we have to just call Obama what he is, not a mistater but a bold-faced, unapologetic liar. He makes Bill Clinton look like a priest.
andy85719 on August 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Question: will public option pay for itself unlike Medicare and Medicaid?
He’s providing a nonsense answer. Everything is solved by savings.
This is fantasyland.
Another useless townhall.
BuckeyeSam on August 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM
He just picked up a note from someone…I hope it is not a crisis…
d1carter on August 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM
He just insulted everyone in Montana
faraway on August 14, 2009 at 4:00 PM
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