Comments on: Vicodin For The Soul: Watch Betsy McCaughey Scream “I’m Melting!” As Dylan Ratigan Unhinges “The Woman Who Killed Health Care”

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:45:32 +0000

I watched this on a public PC in a hostel with the sound off – very informative. Sometimes the image does say more than a thousand words.

By: cult of skaro 24

cult of skaro 24 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:56:32 +0000

by the way…LOVED Going Postal

will recommend to all friends.

Some things in it about High School just really struck a nerve.

By: cult of skaro 24

cult of skaro 24 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:21:09 +0000

8. Yes but then you would have to find 2 republican women who were both angry AND articulate. Those two things are generally mutually exclusive. Any thoughts on who? I can think of one or two libertarian women who might fit that bill. Not so much republican.

11. Sasha Grey maybe?

13. Because she deserved it. Jon Stewart if anything let her off easy. Only went after that Death Panel crap. His rope-a-dope routine is satisfying, but sometimes leaves a feeling of incompleteness.

She wasn’t answering the question which was, to sort of paraphrase “okay tort reform doesn’t really do much what do you do?” she was just responding with attacks on her opposition. Say something positive, an actual policy proposal. Don’t need the nuts and bolts, just…I don’t know, some kind of tax credit-y….thing maybe?

By: cw

cw — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:58:31 +0000

I think Anthony Weiner would have been enough to take on McCaughey. Why did Ratigan have to pile on?

By: mijj

mijj — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:14:36 +0000

i think its shameful that poor Betsy McCaughey (who’s obviously intellectually and emotionally retarded) was invited onto the show to be asked questions she obviously didn’t understand instead of being allowed to do her party piece.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:02:01 +0000

I haven’t seen a gang bang that good since Belladonna stopped making movies.

By: Josephus P. Franks

Josephus P. Franks — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:14 +0000

All right, all right, I must admit, that’s pretty “make sweet love”ing funny.

But can I bribe you with a donation to keep from getting my posts fucked, er, “make sweet love”ed with? Or threaten you with a libel suit, because I can think of no worse fate than to be considered a groupie of this vampiric shill.

OK, the threat wouldn’t work, you all are probably judgment-proof, but how about that donation?

By: T. Hallman

T. Hallman — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:07:02 +0000

It’s always good to see McCaughey get bitch-slapped.

Her solution for Medicare coverage for so damned many seniors: redefine ‘senior’ as 70 years old instead of 65. The solution she’s slowly creeping up on is to define seniors as, say, 120 years old. Sure, retire at 65, then hang on for just another 55 years and get health care. That would actually wipe out the senior population overnight, just by redefining who seniors are.

By: Ardesio

Ardesio — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:58:19 +0000

McCaughey was outnumbered 2 to 1 in this interview, so it wasn’t a fair fight. Imagine Ames facing two angry and highly articulate arch-Republican women, and the result would likely be similar to what you see here.

(Disclaimer: I have no dog in this fight, myself.)

By: Josephus P. Franks

Josephus P. Franks — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:16:27 +0000

Just the thought of it making love with Betsy McCaughey is making me feel like Hugh Grant in Love, Actually. Say what you will about romantic comedies, that one really spoke to me.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:00:01 +0000

Betsy McCaughey is pure evil.

How amazing is it that she claims to be protecting seniors while endorsing a plan move Medicare eligibility to age 70 from age 65?

She wants to reduce competition with the private insurance companies. She wants to give the blood suckers even more customers (those aged 65 to 70) it’s a ludicrously awful idea.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:25:30 +0000

brian: It isn’t that tort reform is a bad idea, which is why Obama voted for it; the problem is that it’s such a tiny piece of the pie that it’s foolish to focus on it.

A public option would encourage price competition and we would see private insurance rates drop almost immediately. Keep in mind that one good outcome for the public option is for no one to actually use it (!) but for its presence to make private insurance affordable for tens of millions of uninsured Americans.

By: Josephus P. Franks

Josephus P. Franks — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:38:32 +0000

I would make sweet love to that dizzy milfabee with a 10-foot extension. I wouldn’t beat her with one, though.

By: WUT

WUT — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:37:27 +0000

HELL YEA FUCK DAT DIZZY BITCH

By: brian

brian — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:53:58 +0000

in the 2004 presidential election, especially during the debates, Bush kept repeating that line that it’s all the lawyers’ fault – that’s why health insurance is so expensive, so we should limit your ability to sue if the doctor amputates the wrong foot.
Unfortunately, Obama dutifully voted along with the GOP for tort reform.

You know you’re being screwed when the plan mentions “how many Nobel laureates” have worked in the US. I wonder how many of those Nobel winners worked in industry as opposed to universities. Oh that’s right, none.

Ames, write another book and get yourself on the Daily Show. They don’t just have you on for a chat, you gotta be hawking something. Better yet, run for president.

By: jaduncan

jaduncan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:24:40 +0000

Ah, that was indeed inspiring. It’s a rare interviewer in the US who will just flatly point out evasion.

It’s nice to see a functioning area of the media.