MSNBC Insurance Industry Defender Apologizes to Congress Lady

[clb09]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_ratigan_apology


Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz was explaining Friday on Ratigan's show "Morning Meeting" why she supported health care reform. Ratigan, who said he has "incredible frustration" with the way the bill treated insurance companies, asked her to explain why stocks for insurers were going up.

http://www.televisioninternet.com/news/pictures/dylan-ratigan.jpghttp://www.forward.com/workspace/assets/images/articles/092807-shultz.jpgYouTube - MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Yells at Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8R8baHPr2E)

[lester1/2jr]

?? he was criticizing her for HER defense of the industry via this bill

[Met Income]

He was rude. He didn't let her finish. The message gets corrupted when the messenger acts like a self-important douche.

[Epic]

This is a misinterpretation. Ratigan is the "principled" left guy who says that the bill coddles the insurance companies because it guarantees them new customers with the individual mandate, but doesn't subject them to "competition" with public option.

Wasserman-Schultz was essentially defending the corporatist bill.

[BenIsForRon]

Your title is wrong, Ratigan was criticizing the insurance companies.

He shouldn't have apologized. He could have let her speak, then smacked her down, but she was just spouting too much bullshit.

[SelfTaught]

On the one hand, Dylan's right. She's spouting the same Democratic "this will revolutionize healthcare" talking points, so why bother talking to her?

On the other hand, what else can she say beside talking points? If she concedes that insurance companies will benefit, the whole fraud will be exposed in plain sight.

[clb09]

Your title is wrong, Ratigan was criticizing the insurance companies.

I was trying to be sarcastic. I should have put quotes around the word defender.

:cool:

[DocGrimes]

It may be that she was going to just spew some BS but Ratigan is just an A#$. That sort of interviewing is freakin annoying and is become all too common on the various networks.

[HOLLYWOOD]

I suggest doing some research on that foamed mouth skank Debbie Wasserman-Schultz first.


She heads the Operations budget for the legislature in Washington DC... not only did her committee just increase the FY2010 Legislative budget by 14.5%, they deleted funding certain sections of the capital budget by $100's of millions. She runs these tricks of increasing funding for THEIR own gilded ops, then slips the rest of the budget into supplemental bills during the FY, like OMNIBUS, middle east perpetual war bills, etc.

She's a sneaky sly thieven bitch. The capital operations budget has over doubled in this decade. Debbie Wasser-Schultz IS a big cause of the gilded government in these trying times while people lose jobs and go hungry.

May Dylan Ratigan ride the sneak up one side and down the other. She's all BS when she opens her mouth and is one of the more destructive house members to our republic.

[lester1/2jr]

a year ago at this time people were so completely psyched that george bush was gone they could not fathom how bad the democrats would suck. what planet are they living on?

yeah lets start a massive new spending program while everyone else is cutting back if not starving! great timing dems.