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  • there will be a public option, there is no way around it. no matter how much the insurance special interests cry out and suck political dick, the mid/low class just cant afford not having a public option

  • i hope your protest gets rained out! some lightning strikes would be nice too haha

  • what you work for geico ? prick

  • is that a joke..i dont get it?

  • Republicans are dumb terrorists they destroy there own country.

  • We've done polls?

    Ohh, by the way saw your LA protest and it was huge...

    There was like 15 people there.

    Shouting" Americans want - "Public option"

    ROTFLMAO.

    TYT = A local Nevada Reid tool..

    You libs are so fucking dumb.

  • Once again Cenk is a lying sack of shit. I don't even know why I bother to look.

  • • Section 7203 misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

    • Section 7201 felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years. [page 3]

  • I uploaded my own video of the TYT protest in Atlanta

    watch?v=Wq7ZBygIgAY

  • TYT = Idiots

  • TYT is awesome!!! I am with them!!!

  • This is all bought and paid for buy the Progressive radical Democrats. Not even generated from Freedom.

  • So now I have to watch commercials to watch TheYoungTurks?

    No. I don't.

  • Hey Cenk,

    The Polls on your website are biased, you idiot. Polls can be skewed to produce any outcome you desire. Just like the pollsters here.

    We the People hate the public option. End of story.

  • Yeah, there was only 150 people at the tea party event. I don't believe your facts. lol Republicans are just plain anti intellectual.

  • Wanting a public option is not the same as passing the bill that has been presented. I want a public option but not that 2000+ page pile of bureaucratic garbage the liberals have presented. The day my tax money is used to kill unborn babies is the day I stop paying taxes.

  • Hey dude, every time you jack off you commit a spermicidal holocaust. How dare you!

    And every time someone preaches abstinence they are in fact preaching preemptive abortion, because the net result of an abortion is the same as abstinence; no baby.

    Abortion is impossible to avoid. You are aborting a baby every time you don't fuck your neighbor. You are aborting a baby every time you decide to not have sex.

    Pretty interesting huh?

  • Turk the jerk is so full of shit. Most trusted name in news, my ass. Thats why there ,what? 3rd or 4th. FOX having more viewers than ALL the others combined. This jerk is just another paid for mouth piece for the obama clan. How does this idiot still have a show?

  • A public option will do nothing for the high cost of medicine prices. It will only raise them. If we do nothing the insurance giants win, if we follow Romney's MassCare bid med industry wins. Either way, the government wins and we are taxed more and more.

  • people who support government health care are lazy and greety and dont want to work to pay for their health insurance, so they make working people pay it for them, liberalism is pure lazy filth

  • tehant1liberal...you are very ignorant

  • :( shit i found out about the protest too late....

  • commie propoganda channel

  • The only losers are the 44,000 Americans who the Republicans and their party let die every year just because they are poor.

    This is a moral issue but as usual the greedy republicans make it a money issue.

    They are not Christians and the churches need to kick out all republicans who support the deaths of the poor to continue.

  • I encourage all Democrats to support this bill, I hope it passes! It will ensure the elimination of a good 40 Democrats in 2010, and cast in iron a Republican President in 2012. Don't believe me, that's fine, it's actually better that way - we'll pretend NJ & VA didn't happen.... our secret =)

  • I see my insurance agent in the crowd! They are the only ones opposed to Universal Health Care as true Americans do not approve of 44,000 Americans dying every year just because they are poor.

    Traitors do!

  • O was Big Finances top recipient in 08 to the tune of $40 million. Might explain

    why 9 months later there has been virtually nothing done to reign in Wall St's excesses.

    do you need any more facts?

  • IF he is muslim, is he also of the relefion of islam? That aside the American people need to know this is to control population growth not about health care.

  • 77% Of All Americans Say Healthcare Reform Is "Quite Important" Or "Extremely Important. Not "We want the public Option. Thats SurveyUSA's own words. He blantantly lies, Google that shit.

  • TYT from Canada. Wish I could be there with you guys to protest!

  • I second that

  • I'm confused. Are these protests for or against the public option?

  • for

  • I watched CNN coverage of the D.C. protests against the bill. I was really disgusted. This is the queston I have about the "conservatives" that supposedly carry the tax burden for shiftless liberals: Why do you have time in the middle of the work week to show up at protests all over the country?

    It is because they go and get people off the street who could give a flip about politics, bus them in, and pay them to show up at rallies to make their numbers look bigger. They are just FALSE.

  • cent what is the address for the nyc location???

  • its on the website

  • Its on the website and a video from a little while ago.

  • Here's a short clip from the Atlanta protest of the TYT army

    watch?v=Wq7ZBygIgAY

  • TYT From Texas!!!

  • Tea bagger fail! They only got 4000 to show up in DC. And they had to have a GOP billionaire pay for the buses.

  • Tea Bagger protesting = Zombie walk U.S.A.

  • Um latest poll was 42% for and 54% against Pelosie's plan, so what the fuck are you talking about...?

    Facts..?

  • Willsbanan..... tons of people showed up at the Atlanta protest. Almost 10 people

    watch?v=Wq7ZBygIgAY

  • so tyt did a lunchbreak protest. problem is most people work on weekdays.

    next time do it in the weekend. its not like news stops over the weekend.

    except for tyt mabe :)

  • uhu "news" in general.

    lets classify tyt as best opinion show then.

  • It does not claim to be. It claims to be editorial.

  • Ummm I don't think they calim to be.

  • DownLow..... here's a clip of the big turn out at the Atlanta protest

    watch?v=Wq7ZBygIgAY

  • can i join you in the dimension your living in?

  • TYT got about 70 people which is actually really good for about 2 days notice in the middle of a weekday. You guys should plan a new one, more organized and more time in advance. If you could manage to get 250-300 people at one of these things, attention will come.

  • This has to be the best clip ever! :)

    "Chaaaarge!!!"

    Pure ownage Cenk!

    All I want to hear now is the post-event clip where you give us the "elbow from the sky" on how it went:P

  • I just watched the protest video. Cenk and 10 people chanting in front of CNN. lol! Who are they trying to be seen by? Someone stuck in an airport terminal or an old lady waiting to get her hair done? Those are the only people watching CNN anymore.

  • No one watches CNN anymore. They're in last place. The rest of the network and cable news stations aren't any better. CNN is the last in bunch of losers.

  • Cenk, tomorrow is a bad idea for NY. The gay Yankees are having their parade.

  • given when this video was done/posted, I'm assuming tomorrow's over

  • HAHAHAHA

    Complete FAIL FAIL FAIL!

    No one showed, no one covered it! Lot's of coverage of anti-government take over though.... sweeeeet!

  • the jews in the concentration camps in nazi germany had "government health care" too. maybe if you people read about history or had brains, you would know that the government cant do anything right, and when you put an incompetent buerecrat in charge of health care people DIE

  • You have to be stupid. Do you have any idea how long the United States has had government run health care? I can count 3 programs that started around 1965. And in fact all three programs are widely popular and more efficient than private insurance. So what the fuck does Nazi Germany have to do with that? And as far as government not being able to do anything right, I guess you're too young to drive, or fight in our military, or know about the FDA, police, or firefighters.

  • You do know that it's an option right?

    Also, people are already dieing, even if they bought private insurance.

  • I'm not trying to look at a tard i don't watch CNN whats with this public option plz awnser my question

  • I wish i could help you guys. But im from Sweden. I feel your pain and anger. If i lived in America i have a feeling i would go nuts. Dealing with ignorance day in and day out would be to much for me. Especially if that ignorance affected my wellbeing. I cant imagine myself turning on my TV and seeing a guy like Glenn Beck crying and drawing arrows like, Akorn, Obama, socialism or whatever. Like WTF is that? Do adults watch that and go AHA!? Jebus lord have mercy :P

  • @Shaggice I have heard htat Sweden is a socialist country but some of my teacher have told me that socialism does not exist, but of what i have heard Sweden has some "socialist" policies so how does it work?

  • Well its like our socioeconomic gaps here are very small. We dont really have a ''ghetto'' here even if one could argue about that. We also dont let our citizens suffer. If your sick, you just get the help you need and leave. You dont fill out any forms or anything like that. You certainly wont be denied healtcare. That would be very inhumane. Its kinda hard to be rich here id have to say. And some people misuse the system. But i like it overall, especially when i look at the USA.... :P

  • WOW compared to where i live thats sound utopic, really i mean it

  • I'm from Norway where we also use the "Scandinavian model".

    Most political "-isms" don't exist in it's purest form. But countries can still be socialist - especially if you compare them to non-socialist countries.

    The "socialist" scandianvian countries actually try to find the right balance of political "isms" to get a prosperous society. Socialism is only one of the positive tools we use to shape our society. It seems that some americans in some cases confuses socialism with hardcore communism.

  • I agree man. Im from Ireland, and while we have our fair share of political problems, seeing what people have to deal with in America makes me sick sometimes, the propoganda is rediculous. But i really wish i could be in America at this time, i just get the feelin that something will change...soon

  • looks like Fort Hood stole your thunder.

  • Yeah, looks like tough shit for TYT, too bad really.

  • u should protest in front of Fox News headquarters. that should get the right wingers attention

  • u should protest in front of Fox News headquarters. that should get the right wingers attention

  • Damn , i live in UK :( can not come and protest but i would love to.

  • I used to live in Atlanta...now I live in Ireland. Goddammit....

  • every silver lining has a cloud around it.

  • Let's CRUSH that Michelle Fucking Backman RepubliCUNT.

  • Don't need to she crushes herself by opening her mouth.

  • Thanks for fixing the volume problem TYT.

  • email sent!

  • I had a class at high noon... so I sent mine in a little late. Oh well.

  • Freekin' Brilliant!

  • That's the point...

  • haha tea baggers. =p

  • This is going to be great.

  • Done.

  • lol....his impression of the "tea baggers" was priceless....

  • done :0)

  • The old ones say we Young Turks are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Cenk gives testament to our bloodline. His roar is long and loud.

    You have many slaves, Bachmann, but few warriors. It won't be long before they fear our spears more than your whips.

    TYT

  • Epic.

  • Email sent!

  • Wish I would have known about the tweet/email bombs yesterday... Can't wait to see the coverage about this tomorrow!

  • The name for this so-called Republicans should be;The Nationalist Puritan Party as for the Democrats; The Corporative Protectors Inc.

  • emails sent

  • E-mail sent. :)

  • TYT!

  • Raaaawwrrr !

  • i did my part

  • CNN is FAUX news anemic brother.

  • E-mail sent . Go gettem' guy's !

  • CNN has some of the lowest ratings out of the major news channels.

  • WASICTA!!!!

  • i emailed bombed it was fun

  • God bless The Young Turks!

  • Tweet bombed CNN!

  • i forgot to email bomb them darn I'm sorry

  • who cares if something is popular with 55% or 75%. what matters is if it is popular with YOU. if your opinion of something changes because you think its disliked by a majority of other people...you are a fool. stick to your guns.

  • a government supposedly representative of the people should damn well care what's popular with the people. i'm not advocating direct democracy, but for them to misrepresent the will of the people as justification for denying us real health reform is heinous.

  • How about the people losing their homes? losing their jobs? What does the govt do - free money for banks, Gm, free cars from Japan and free houses for the lucky people who have money to buy one. We need govt reform before we can move forward with healthcare reform.

  • And how about people losing their lives every single day because they don't have health care? We've already waited 15 years since the last time we "put off" real reform. Every other western nation has better health care than we do, and pays less for it. This is part and parcel to fixing our economy.

    And we've already dragged this out for months, to say that we should postpone it now is either severe procrastinator's denial, or a deliberate attempt to kill reform.

  • But I do agree that we need to reform the system wherein companies get bailed out for being "too big to fail." I didn't want any of those bailouts to happen. I liked the direction of "Cash for Clunkers" more because it actually gave money to the people. Dunno what you mean about "giving people free houses."

    But none of that doesn't mean we should scrap all efforts we've made over these past months for healthcare reform. It's not like Congress (and America) can only consider one issue at a time.

  • er, "But none of that means we should.."**

  • The whole country wants wall street and lobby reform. This will make the whole country work together. Public option puts more money in the govt - this is a divider. and wasteful since govt takes forever to do something. Less govt more people working together.

  • Thats what Obama ran on. So you better think again. Only in America will people be against this. Its such a shame damn.

  • its only the republicans caz they lie and the rich people r usually selfish basterds

  • Only in america Ha! Look at Canada my friend and tell me if they are pushing for a private system now, and look at France, and tell me their system is successful. Read a book on the role of government.

  • Look at America my friend,,,, do you think that system works ? Im from Sweden and the system works here. U cant let private systems run healthcare DUHHHHHH. They are only after your money. THEY ARE OFFERING YOU AN OPTION YOU FOOl. Its an option, an option an option. Its an option, do you understand? If you dont want it then dont sign up for it. Jesus Christ give my patience, damn some people are so stupid i cant understand it.

  • Are you seriously retarded, It's an Option. I have an option of thousands of different providers, and with the public option my choices go down to essentially two different things. I agree that healthcare needs to be reformed but not like this. Gosh damn understand the bill instead of getting your information from the huffingtonpost you moron. You can say there is a lot of corruption in healthcare, but there is more innovation in the private sector. So enjoy Sweden and your "amazing" System.

  • AARP is in favor of the reform being put through Congress. What now Republicans? You can't run from it any more, people want this reform.

  • I heard of a tweet bomb Cenk. You mentioned it earlier in the week!!! :)

  • Tweet bomb'd :3

  • like most people I just want to be able to go to the doctor if I need to, currently I have a very high deductable in case I get into a car accident or something.

  • email sent....

  • we ride tonight!

  • Some Idiot keeps marking normal peoples comments as spam.

  • E-mail sent.

  • You're an idiot.

    Go watch Rush Limbaugh pop some oxycontin and Bill O'Reilly sexually harass his co workers.

  • One poll shows this, all the other other shows support for the public option so maybe rather than fine picking the ONLY poll which is in you favor you could try to be a little more intelligent and see the other side has far more supporters (but less money)

  • btw, do you have an insurance plan, how much do you pay, how many time did you had a severe injury requiring high care costs ?

  • Ha and also, do you have a preexisting condition ? (whatever than means, it can be acnee when you were young, hmm maybe you allready have acnee because you are a stupid teenager who dont know shit about the real world)

  • You didn't even read my post.

  • yes i did and you are an idiot. And you have not replied to my question.

  • Since when is a public option the "gov't controlling health care..."?

    If you wanna keep your private insurance, NO ONE IS FUCKING STOPPING YOU...

    Jeezus get that through yall thick skulls...

    And btw, I googled it... and Cenk was right! All the polls either say "Most ppl want public option" or that "Even republican voters want the public option"

    Stop making shit up and propagandizing like Edward Bernays, your obvious idol...

  • Really?!?! You're going to try to sell me the "you can keep your health insurance" lie? So, in the bill it says my employer is not allowed to drop health care coverage? This is guaranteed constitutional right to keep my insurance now? Again, let me type slow for you... polls show that more Americans do not want any health care reform, with or without the public option. OK? So, it doesn't matter how many cup holders they want, they don't want the mini-van. Get it?

  • CNN 10/30 - 11/01 2009 "From everything you have heard or read so far, do you favor or oppose Barack Obama's plan to reform health care?

    45% Favor, 53% Oppose "

  • Where do you get your polls from?

    Nov 6, "In the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this morning, the poll found 55 percent in favor of the public option -- a government-run plan to compete with private insurers -- though that support was down from 61 percent two weeks ago. Support for President Obama's health care plan has also declined to 45 percent from 49 percent in mid-October."

  • Whatever, exact same result. Stenk is arguing about what color shoe laces people prefer while the people are saying we don't want the shoes. Why isn't Stenk arguing that Americans don't want this reform? It doesn't fit his ideology and he couldn't care less what American Citizens want. Typical liberal.

  • Wow, you just won't look at the polls right?

    We have a public option in Sweden, it works great. :D

  • dont you have a pure public health care system?

    In Austria, we've got one, and we have pretty decent health care

  • Yes, and most of the major advances in medicine you are enjoying were discovered on American soil in the American system. What are you going to do when we kill research and development incentive in America? You aren't paying those costs right now. I have no problem contributing so all Americans can be insured, that's not at all what this is about.

  • First of all: Most of our medicine advances are from the Bayer AG, the american pharma-industry isnt as important as you are claiming it to be

    Second: Why would you kill research if you've got a public option? I'm kinda missing your point, why the public option would affect this.

  • What?!? You know nothing about medical advances do you?

    You would be hard pressed to find a major medical advance that wasn't discovered on American soil in our for profit system. Say good bye to our incentive to advance medicine.

  • most famous: Aspirin?

    WOW, I found one.

  • most major advances in medicine came from..... UNIVERSITY ! Two i think of are PET Scan and MRI.

    And do you know where and when the flue virus was found ? It was from France PUBLIC Institut Pasteur... around 1918

    Not from the private sector. The private sector is great to make drugs but many time they rely on the public not for profit sector researches.

  • Me? No, YOU! The polls say more people want a public option AND more people don't want Obama's health care reform. That's my whole point. Stenk lies by omission. Why argue that more people prefer blue shirts when they are saying very clearly they don't want to buy the outfit?!?!

  • Sweden is a lesson on the failure of government controlled health care. Your country is rationing health care and rejecting life saving medicines based on cost. You have also been drifting back towards privatization for decades. All that being true, we have cities with bigger populations then Sweden and it's a completely differant challenge to force insurance on 320 million citizens and 25 million illegal immigrants.

  • 77%

  • No, this clearly show my previous checkmate !

    People oppose the current plan but want the public option... You lose again.

    One side of Americans (republican) do not want any plan at all because they have been brainwashed by Glenn Beck.

    Part of the other side do not want THIS plan because it does not have a strong public option.

  • Actually, all of the current plans DO have a public option so your point is... well... pointless.

  • you lose again because you cant read. As i said the plan does not have a STRONG public option.

    Do you know what strong means ? It is the opposite of weak like : weak as the current public option which will be available to less than 20 millions persons.

    A strong public option would have been "available to everyone"

    If you want a public option, you would not support a plan with a public option you will never have access to, would you ?

  • 20 million? All studies by the census bureau show that there are less than 12 million Americans who can't afford health insurance and don't already qualify for a government run insurance.  Why would we want to cover 20 million?

  • You really do not get it... More than 50% of the population wants the public option because they know that with it they will never go broke because of medical expense which is not the case for private HC insurance...

    Why is it so difficult to understand ?

  • I totally get it.  You want all people insured and no limits. We don't need a public option to get that. If there's 500 billion a year in fraud and waste in medicare like Obama says, that alone is $25,000 a YEAR for every American citizen who can't afford health insurance and doesn't qualify for current government run insurance. Don't you see this is a huge rip off? It has NOTHING to do with covering the uninsured and EVERYTHING to do with a power grab.

  • Can you point me where Obama said that there is 500 Billion in fraud ? This figures seems so absurd that i have hard time believing anyone would even think it is accurate.

  • no, no, not fraud... "fraud and waste". Fraud is a mere 68 billion. Do you know what the "waste" is? Those are the tests that you won't be able to get anymore on medicaid because the death panels.... I mean bureaucrats don't think you need them because they cost too much. You and your doctor's opinions won't matter anymore. It's not "rationing" though, it "waste". It's like "Jobs saved or created" when unemployment is skyrocketing. It's make believe.

  • Please stop this death panels nonsense. This makes you look more stupid than you are.

  • On September 9th he claimed 622 BILLION in "fraud and waste" in a speech. That's how he plans on paying for the new behemoth! I mean, come on, who is he kidding. There's no way they are going to save 622 billion and no way they aren't going to get taken for 10 times that if they pass this with a public option.

  • interesting, i have the speech in front of me and all he says is : "The only thing this plan would eliminate is the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud"

    Where did you came up with 622 billions ?

  • Ask yourself this. Why haven't we allowed health insurance to compete across state lines, reformed frivolous law suits, banned annual or lifetime caps, banned precondition limitations, allowed individuals and small businesses to ban together to get group rates, and all of the other FREE things we could have done to reduce costs and protect patients. Why spend a trillion that we all know is going to turn into multi-trillions? POWER. That's all it is. POWER.

  • now, this is smart talk finaly

    All these options should have been included in the plan along a public option.

  • Well... Actually, nevermind. both polls mention the 45% on that question. You're right. Public option, that's another thing...

  • OK so here is a poll where the question is not clear at all.

    Here the question is about Obama's plan to reform health care not about the public option : CHECKMATE idiot...

  • What POLL?? WHERE?? SHOW ME!!!! haha, tsss, ideological buffoon!

  • Um... CNN? MSNBC? Rasputin? NBC? CBS? CNBC? ABC? Pick one, they all say the same thing: More Americans do not want Obama's health care reform than want it. It's pretty simple to look up.