First heard about this video on Rush Limbaugh’s show. Definitely worth a look-see.
Make sure you check out the comments too.
Hey folks, check out this little tid-bit! Now, anyone with any sense can see the stunning amount of bias and hostility towards President Trump. I mean the guy can’t catch a break from fake news, lies and negativity from the major media. It really chaps my ass when I see the media report stuff like 22 million people will be left without health care and thousands of people are going to die. These are nothing but out right lies and they know it. But what it does is create doubt and fear in the people because they aren’t going to research anything for themselves, they’ll just believe what’s told them. Anyway, didn’t mean to get off topic. Take a few minutes and check out this video and you’ll realize that CNN among the other news outlets are using President Trump for ratings and $.
A miracle perhaps, that CNN finally admits they published an untrue news article?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
https://scatterwisdom.blogspot.com/2015/04/king-solomon-journalism-bias-hypocrisy.html
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It really chaps my ass when I see the media report stuff like 22 million people will be left without health care and thousands of people are going to die.
That number stems from the Congressional Budget Office report.
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But the number (projected for 2026) does not tell the full story.
At present for most people “covered” by the ACA, it acts more like a catastrophic cap than insurance because the monthly premiums are so high a family is unlikely to ever reach the point of needed it on an annual basis unless there is some serious medical crisis.
Most families, when weighing the cost to gains of 15 percent of their income that only pays off after 10,000 dollars in medical treatment for each of them annually are unlikely to think that’s a good deal. Furthermore, healthcare communities are increasingly refusing to accept it.
So, overall, the “22 million uninsured” is a misleading estimate when taken in the big picture scheme of things…which is, at present they are shelling out so much money annually and without benefit they essentially ipso facto uninsured anyway.
Per the topic, I tend to agree with you on creative edits. In general, I’m not a fan of partial information because it can be taken out of context.
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And that number means what? And how good is the CBO at predicting these things?
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Given that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”, the CBO seems to have done reasonably well with predicting the effects of the ACA in the past.
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Depends upon what one thinks they are predicting.
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Oh, that James O’Keefe, of creative edits to Planned Parenthood and the ACORN nothingburger footage.
Let me check out this video anyway. Okay, the same kind of cutting-off in mid explanation type of cuts you’d expect, if somebody is quotemining. Given O’Kefee’s history, I’d like to see the unedited version of this hidden camera footage. One omission standing out is that John Bonifeld is not covering core politics at CNN, but is supervising producer for CNN Health. Going by the videos shown on his CNN profile page he is covering health aspects, not political aspects like healthcare reform. So we have a higher up member of CNN – not involved in the Russia investigation – who in private conversation responds to leading questions.
The thing about Russia is, we have Russians hacking and releasing DNC emails, hacking and not releasing GOP emails, Russians targeting voter registration databases in 39 states and Russian intelligence agents hacking a US voting systems manufacturer. Thankfully it looks like there was no direct interference with vote counting … this time. At the same time we have a POTUS who has surrounded himself with people who “forget” to disclose their Russian ties in their applications for National Security clearance and can not recall what they are talking about with Russian officials and liasons a few months ago. Now imagine the roles of Democrats and Republicans reversed. Would you advocate for forgetting about this and moving on? There is no smoking gun, but IMO there is enough “this is not normal” kind of stuff to warrant further digging.
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Speaking of failed disclosures by Trump staff, this just in via WaPo
A consulting firm led by Paul Manafort, who chaired Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for several months last year, retroactively filed forms Tuesday showing that his firm received $17.1 million over two years from a political party that dominated Ukraine before its leader fled to Russia in 2014.
Manafort disclosed the total payments his firm received between 2012 and 2014 in a Foreign Agents Registration Act filing late Tuesday that was submitted to the U.S. Justice Department. The report makes Manafort the second former senior Trump adviser to acknowledge the need to disclose work for foreign interests.
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Proving what? Trump’s campaign has been investigated and investigated. So far the most glaring thing we have is that Obama, not Trump, supposedly had evidence Russia was doing something, and he did nothing about it. Moreover, Obama appointees, if the news media is to be believe, are leaking classified information purely to serve their personal political ends.
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It is proving that Trump had two people on his inner team (Manafort and Flynn), who have worked as agents for foreign countries in the past without disclosing this fact.
Change of subject: Given your focus on voter fraud you have displayed in the past, I am surprised by the utter lack of reaction on your part to the obeservation that “Russians targeting voter registration databases in 39 states and Russian intelligence agents hacking a US voting systems manufacturer”.
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An agent for foreign country? Yeah, those guys were intelligence agents.
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Keep in mind Flynn was an Obama appointee. There is no good reason to think he did anything wrong, but if he did, he worked for Obama first.
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An agent for foreign country? Yeah, those guys were intelligence agents.
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Blame the 1938 Congress for the choice of the technical term. Nobody claimed intelligence was involved.
Flynn got appointed and kicked out prematurely by the Obama administration, accounts for the reason vary.
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Nobody claimed anything except Russia colluded with Trump to steal the election, and that would not be an intelligence operation?
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Tom, context matters. Do reread this thread.
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Did the Russians get anything juicy from the GOP? Are you certain they succeeded hacking the GOP. They did get something from Colin Powell, BTW.
I think the focus should be on the protecting our Internet systems.
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Here’s what your intelligence community was willing to offer in open session.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/comey-republicans-hacked-russia/index.html
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate committee, examining the cyber breaches, that the intelligence community concluded with “high confidence” that Russia hacked the election to “denigrate” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and contrast her unfavorably to Republican Donald Trump.
“We have multiple high-quality sources that contribute to that assessment,” Clapper said. “Attributing cyber operations is difficult but not impossible.”
Comey later added that “there was evidence of hacking directed at state-level organizations, state-level campaigns, and the RNC, but old domains of the RNC, meaning old emails they weren’t using. None of that was released.”
Comey said there was no sign “that the Trump campaign or the current RNC was successfully hacked.”
Asked by Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, whether the hacker had the ability to selectively leak that old information, Comey indicated that they did.
So they got enough info to selectively decide to only leak against the DNC, while there is no public evidence they got the “current” (how many years is that?) RNC or Trump communications. Keep in mind, that classified information may or may not show wider and/or more successful breaches against the RNC / Trump, but that’s pure speculation.
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Well, given the example of Hillary Clinton’s private email server……..
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It would not have mattered if the RNC were hacked.
It might have even helped Trump….they were vocally and adamantly against him, remember?
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Assange stated they had nothing on Trump because he
1) Didn’t use e mail.
and
2) Had no history in government.
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Nothing on Trump. I thought he was colluding with the Russians. Oh. Our intel people could not find any evidence of that. Well, I guess you are right then. Nothing on Trump.
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I just heard that video today, so amazing. Yet really not if you think about it because those of us not he right have known for a long time what fake outfit CNN is. Will anyone on the left care or will they just attack the videographer James O’keefe like they always do? I think we know the answer to that!
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I was astounded recently when CNN actually retracted their story and said some people were going to be fired. Woah. Like, suddenly printing stuff that has some basis in truth actually matters? When did that start?
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Darned if I know. I am not certain what motivates CNN.
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I hate it when that happens!
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Sure you do.
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I’ve been busted telling too many lies not to feel deeply for my comrades at CNN.
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Comrades. Ahhh yes! Comrade silenceofmind. Somehow I have trouble picturing that.
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