Video: National ObamaCare debate reaches awesome conclusion
posted at 6:50 pm on December 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
A hallucinatory palate cleanser to clear your mind ahead of The One’s speech. Remember that Muppet cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Not the most surreal video to appear on Hot Air in the past week, as it turns out. If you’re curious about how this came to be, HuffPo’s got you covered, but I recommend skipping the link and enjoying it on its own mysteriously magical terms. How’d they meet? How’d they end up discussing this subject? Who picked out the chairs? Is this the Holodeck? The only limit is your imagination!
I had a dream just like this once, actually, except I was debating an Orion girl on social security. I won.
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SHATner is Canadian and he lives the USA….next question.
RobCon on December 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Sheezz AP, get out much? He’s only had the show for like furever! Checkout his interview with John Voight. JV dismantles him!
MechEng5by5 on December 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
If they want good health care, they will NOT let the government decide for them. If they want health care for everyone, let people decide their individual policies and carry it with them for life regardless of where they live. Let companies compete for the best service and offerings, and provide tax rebates to be applied to the expense for those earning below select thresholds. If people want expanded coverage, they can buy it.
Simple, supportive and no fracking government control and rationing. It also ensures continual investment in improving products and procedures for all.
It almost seems like the leftists want to depopulate by ensuring people live shorter lives through rationed health care, and providing unlimited abortions on demand. Democrats, the party of no… no people that is.
ray on December 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Here’s a corrected answer:
“But how do you know?”
“I don’t HAVE to know, you’re the one that wants to change everything and force your ideology on me! YOU’RE the one that has to not only know, but convince ME!”
The leftist starting point is with them pulling everyone else’s strings – that’s their base assumption. They think you have to prove to THEM that they should leave you alone.
It’s a mind-boggling conceit.
Merovign on December 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Dead on. +1
shick on December 1, 2009 at 11:06 PM
I love Shatner. Sure he’s a bit arrogant but that’s the norm in Hollywood. But he’s a nice guy and he’s nice.
shick on December 1, 2009 at 11:07 PM
It’s debatable that health care is wrecking the USA. What’s NOT debatable is that Obamacare WILL wreck the country.
JimC on December 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM
OMG! The screen capture made me think that Rush and Captain Kirk were actually sharing an intimate moment on the love toilet.
GrammarPolice on December 2, 2009 at 12:19 AM
We have a crisis! A man as wealthy as Rush cannot even afford a pair of socks? What has this country come to? We need a sock subsidy.
liberty0 on December 2, 2009 at 12:33 AM
“Spock, you’re out of your Vulcan mind!”
Big John on December 2, 2009 at 1:08 AM
[dons nerd glasses]
Actually, Kirk only emerged from the Nexus into the 24th century long enough to help beat Soren, before his fateful experimental verification of one of Galileo’s theories…
Good thing, too. Considering the uses to which Kirk would doubtless have put the holodeck, it would probably have earned him a visit with the “Goddess of Empathy.” (and we all know how *that* would have ended)
[doffs nerd glasses]
Actually, I can’t see this as anything but a highly entertaining interview (emphasis on “entertaining.” I don’t expect any profound insights into policy to emerge from it, and that’s not really the point anyway). Can’t wait to see the whole thing.
And I quite like the idea of these guys disagreeing with each other, then going off to watch football. We need more of that kind of thing, IMHO.
Noocyte on December 2, 2009 at 1:23 AM
The holodeck was first mentioned in an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Which included Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura, etc.
Of course, it was nothing like what it became in Star Trek:TNG
There Goes The Neighborhood on December 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM
Shatner is as economically literate as he is musically talented.
Sharke on December 2, 2009 at 2:42 AM
Don’t be hatin on Shatner’s music. He’s a genius.
virgo on December 2, 2009 at 3:35 AM
“How do you know?”
Um, how does Pelosi and Obama and Reid KNOW? THAT’S the question. 6 TRILLION of OUR money and their boondoggle doesn’t cover 12 million of their beloved uninsured????? THEY DON’T KNOW!
marklmail on December 2, 2009 at 7:42 AM
When someone asks you “how do you know?” tell them, “I read. Would you like to borrow some books?” Then trot out about 4 or 5 thick tomes. Shuts them up every time. And they rarely borrow a book.
Disturb the Universe on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Who the hell asked T.J. Hooker’s opinion anyway? Anyhow he’s a canuck who won’t even try to become a citizen because he’s afraid of failing the citizenship test. Not trying is IMHO worse than failing.
Greek Fire on December 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM
True, dat
Good comeback, too.
Wind Rider on December 2, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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