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  • what's Olberman up to these days?

  • @Vyna80 still doing Countdown, but it's on Current TV now.

  • Do you think Sen. Thune might be repeating what his voters want, and the same could be said of the others.. Olbermann is an ass.

  • Drat. I clicked on this video thinking Olby was actually on fire. Voted down....

  • @krohmer2

    No, not this time. This time he was away while his father was sick in the hospital and nearly dying. (Nice going, jackass!) He really _was_ on VACATION! (Tho a "vacation" to your father's deathbed is hardly a vacation in my book.)

    No, it was a year...and a half...or so AFTER this that he was suspended. Then 3 months later he left the network because he had problems w/the network's management. (MSNBC didn't fire him -- he left.)

  • vacation, funny...he got suspended

  • firing olberman biggest fucking mistake in the world for msnbc

  • @myw67 Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC was the reason Cenk Uygur got a show on the network... so there was absolutely no mistake in that decision from my vantage point.

    By the way, MSNBC didn't fire him, he decided to leave because of his problem with the networks' management.

  • @LibertyInProgressNOW his last show would beg to differ. He returned from break and told his viewers he had been told this was his last show. sounds like a firing to me and a dumb one at that.

  • Keith Olberman is the absolute baddest fuckin guy on the news.

  • love me some Keith Olbermann.. tell em like it is..only problem is some of those that call themselves democrats are republicans they just hide under the democrat label

  • Olbermann got fired like a bitch. Cenk should be in Gitmo.

  • @axeman196822

    You should be in gitmo. America is to be secular, not a conservative cesspool of ignorance. It's not ment to be a liberal cesspool either. These two are about as center as they can be, which is where the country SHOULD be.

  • @NUTCASE71733 Olbermann and Cenk are center ?!?!? Too funny. Olbermann was fired for his bias, it's bringing the already down msnbc, further down.

  • @axeman196822

    Yeah, because secularism is work of satan... (end sarcasm)

    BTW, I just found out Olbermann is coming back in a couple of months, only this time he's in charge of his show so he gets to choose the material he comments on.

  • @NUTCASE71733 Yep, Blubberman went to Current TV, owned by Al Gore. They are only in a few markets and have about 17 or 18 viewers, maybe 20 now that Keiths friends are watching. What a loser, fired from ESPN, fired by msnbc, and now working at some basement station, probably uses flip video to record. Keith is done.

  • @axeman196822 As opposed to a neocon propoganda network that insults he name of a famous species of wild canine, given the choice between the two most people are going for secular news as opposed to right-winged propoganda.

  • "that old " you must be gay if you dont like gays" is kinda weak, dont you think. i hate muslims, according to you, that makes me a terrorist"

    The point the guy was trying to make, is that those who try to hate on gays, by killing them, by persecuting them, usually end up being closeted gays themselves. So when you start telling me about taking away the rights of gays, not allowing them to have something analogous to marriage, you kind of sound like one of those...You know....

  • TRUE STORY: laura ingrham dated KIETH OLBERMAN. she walked in on him ,on his knees blowing a former NFL player. she dumped him. yes he says "im not gay, no one in my family is gay" however he is mid 50's ,feminine, no girlfriend, never been married, ya hes not gay, ha-ha fuken homo he is!!! oh btw- a muslim assliker too.

  • @salem293 Ok if he were gay... your point is ISSS............... and the muslim ass licker is ridiculous and just pointless and needs not even be addressed.

    I don't understand he was never married so.... what........ He's gay sooo...... WHAT? I honestly don't even understand what point your're trying to make.. I don't even think YOU know what point you're trying to make.... Interesting story if it's true though... has no bearing on his political observations though.. Myabe your just stupid IDK?

  • Keith KO knockthemthefuckout Olberman!!

  • true story" laura ingrahm dumped KIETH OLBERMAN because she walked in on him sucking the cock of a nfl player. now you know why he is so pro-homo, pro-black and muslim asslicker

  • @salem293 and if everything you said is true.... except the muslim ass licker part since that is ABSURD thing to say to begin with..... what is your point... he's pro gay and pro black and isn't racist against muslims... your point BEING???? He is a decent well thought intellectual human being??? Yeah I guess you're right.... you hear a story about a gay person and you get upset because you hav confused feelings so in order to convince yourself you don't you convince yourself you hate gay people

  • @upplsuckimcool16 that old " you must be gay if you dont like gays" is kinda weak, dont you think. i hate muslims, according to you, that makes me a terrorist

  • @tonytwister18 No, that would make you a muslim.. duh!

  • COMCAST is taking over NBC, parent company of MSNBC.

    Comcast moved swiftly to reshuffle MSNBC’s top staff.

    On Sept. 26th of this year, Comcast announced dramatic shift, replacing MSNBC chief J.Zucker with Comcast executive Steve Burke.Burke will preside over MSNBC once the Comcast merger is complete. Burke served as a key fundraiser to President Bush, and served on Bush’s Council of Advisers.

    Hmm... before Bush Donor Takeover Of MSNBC, Network selectively applies rules to suspend Olbermann?

  • damn!!!i clicked on this because i thought they ment he was "really on fire" ;^)

  • space from work is necessery sometimes and never ask why ....

    republican and democrat should work together the same term exiist all the time , republican should solve issue of politics and democrat should solve issue of people issue . why they give that mon to people andthen they will win their election

  • space from work is necessery sometimes and never ask why ....

    republican and democrat should work together the same term exiist all the time , republican should solve issue of politics and democrat should solve issue of people issue .

  • space from work is necessery sometimes and never ask why ....

  • Never been a fan of Olbermann. But Damn. You have to give the guy credit. That was fucking BRUTAL

  • I thought Joseph Goebbels was dead.

    alive and well at msnbc.

  • OMG Great message but look how many views this got....music videos and makeup tutorials make more...THAT'S whats really wrong with society, if more people were actually informed about politics instead of pop culture..we could really take a stand against this corporatist "capitalist" government.

  • I've gotta disagree with "Every single Republican is bought" unless it is followed by "Every single Democrat is bought." Both parties require campaign contributions to be elected. Singling out one party, or a faction of the other party, out to make a point ignores the fact that it is common to both parties, all factions, all politicians.

  • this is funny because Fox doesn't give one single flying fuck about MSNBC. It's basically only MSNBC that talks about it's counterpart.

  • @JimFromWaterford Hi Uberrepub's alter ego!

  • @zoomerlawns -Wrong. Olberman is a cunt.

  • i REALLY dont like olberman but nicely done

  • Love Keith Olbermann!!! Now it's time to keep on eye on Sen. Chuck Shumer(D-NY) during the Wallstreet Reform debate; Check out how much he's getting from big banks.

  • question is was it the truth and if it was how do we get rid of those tainted polititions

  • See NWO Solution

  • @desertkev: Olbermann states facts and challenges both dems and repubs. You on the other hand just resort to personal attacks and call people idiots. Some idiots seem to be too idiotic to realize how idiotic they sound. (No offense to other idiots of course).

  • according to the new yorker magazine(a liberal magazine)tells of how olberman will not drive a car and how he locks himself in his office for days at a time.Notice how olberman is gone part of every other week-locked in his office on "vacation".Also notice how he never has a person on that disagrees with him(cause he would be made a fool of)Also maddow was on meet the press had her ass handed to her twice by conservative.Dick Army destroyed her

  • Did you notice the fact that the reason that Keith doesn't drive is due to a loss of depth perception that occured thanks to a head injury sustained in an accident boarding a NY subway?

    As for his being locked in his office, they could have been referencing the period during or after his Mother's death of cancer or during the months he has been facing his father's extreme health issues. Some people are not the type to be the life of the party when people they love are surffering.

  • the new yorker magazine printed story on olbermann about him locking himself in his office long before his mother even got sick.I have nothing to say about his father except that I hope he gets well

  • namtesyalp is an idiot. (for those of you who haven't figured that out already.)

    look up a video called "the story of playsetman" if you want to know the truth about this loser.

  • Olbermann = Complete idiot.

    Your mother should have exercised her Pro Choice right and had your head sucked flat with a vacuum when you were in your third trimester.

    It's not because you're a Democrat that you are an idiot. It's because you are an idiot that you are a Democrat. (No offense to other Democrats of course)

  • Typical racist fox news watchers.

  • @TheInfamousCanadian 1/2 of the country watches fox,..and votes Rep. does that mean that half of the U.S. is racist? I dont think you actually believe that

  • Cenk was born and reared in Turkey....hence th title Young Turks. I wish you could exercise your right to remain silent while typing racist banter. You are an insult to humanity.

  • Too bad his ass-hole isn't on fire.

  • -Olbermann looks like Eugene Levy's older unfunny brother.

    - JFK CUT taxes

    - ww11 got us out of the depression, wall st. crashed in 1929, economy improved 12 yrs later......ww11

  • The economy picked up when FDR's New Deal put people to work building back our infrastructure. I oughta know. My grandpa worked with the WPA after he was laid by Brown and Root back then. He's long gone but his work and the good will of that era lives on.

  • unemployment, the year after new deal, 1934 was 22%, 1935  20.1% 1936 16.9% a slight improvement. the year after ww11, 1942 4.7% 1943 1.9% 1944 1.2% 1945 1.9% case closed

  • I like how Olberman cries on his show when his mommy dies, but then uses shit like "tea bagger" like he is funny. How did he get on ESPN? I know sports fans are better than that. What a worthless hack.

  • What do the Young Jerks have to say about this political ass whipping they just got? Well... I'm waiting! How do you explain this complete rejection of Obama by the most liberal state in the country? Obama and the progressives are a tiny minority of this country and will be quickly brushed aside as complete failures in the very near future!

  • I was thinking more along the lines of Max Headroom

  • Is it just me or does Keith Olberman bears SOME...some physical resemblence to (in my opinion) one of America's greatest presidents ever: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, who helped helped he American people thought the aftermath of the worst financial crash of the 20th century: The Great Depression.

    FDR was one of the FEW presidents the actually gave a SHIT, and cared about the well-being of the country.

  • @markman99 lol no jfk was the only president that cared about this country and tried to warn america with his speech about secret societies look it up and listen to his words and tell me this man wasnt trying to tell us all something and dont comment unless u listen to it cause u wont know what he said in it. fdr was a hack that is like every other president. you people keep believing the shit they say on these news stations that are baught and payed for and only let you know what they want u 2

  • If you could spell, you would have far more consideration. Maybe you have read Cliff Notes but many of us actually attended colleges and read books about the New Deal. Real brains do homework, they don't just sit there ingesting what the TV plays.

  • fdr is a joke just like every progressive president that has been trying to tranform this country since Woodrow Wilson. there have been republican and democratic progressive presidents since. For over 100 years we have been straying away from our original form of government. we want to blame it but hasnt been used in over 100 years. look California and New Jersey Exct...... there is only 1party big government. Mitt Romney , Mccain, Lindsay Grahm, olivia Snow exct.... rep. who r progressives

  • damn this nigga is ruthless, if I ever run an empire I definately need this motherfucker as my spokesman.

  • @thefriendsociety Is your everyday INBRED piece of white trash trailer park honky hillbilly white Cracker. :))))

  • how is that/?

  • @thefriendsociety You can have him now. He is unemployed just like hundreds and hundreds of DemocRATS around the country. Or you could wait two more years and get a choice of hundreds more including dear leader Maobama.

  • @Deeked okay? do you know how stupid you sound?

  • @thefriendsociety Not stupid, just correct! lol

  • @Deeked Maobama........may I ask why you are calling Obama Maobama as it is an incredibly stupid thing to do. 

  • Do you have any arguments? I been reading comment after comment and you have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY.... I can do it to... Mc Caine is a whiley old white man who crashed 9 planes in the air force and was still allowed to fly because of daddy's military ranking. all you guys who want Mc CO caine (see I made a word play on his name aren't I so clever. don't you want to get into a group with me and pick on someone smaller than us for no reason at all except sexual repression/confusion? HUA

  • The blue dogs are spies for the conservaturd party they are not libs. The conservaturds in congress and the senate dont want you to have govt health care or socialist health care thats what they call it but they have it. Than you conservaturds should ask the conservatruds in the congress and senate to give up their socialist insurance and pay for it themselfs not the tax payers. I bet they wouldnt do it.

  • Whoa, another example of knuckle-dragging loons on the left. I am impressed that such and idiot could reach down deep come up with the term, "conservaturd".

    You and nobody you know have any clue what is in the junky 'healthcare bill' because not even the senate knows--the idiots.

  • No retard. When someone is on fire that is generally positive. If someone is under fire that means they are getting burnt...or under pressure. Fuck.

  • He won't because he's an obama butt kisser!

  • Did i miss something? When a politician gets money or benefits from a interest group this is the very definition of corruption! When you (in the US) know about that, why don't get this assholes some jailtime or at least get kicked out of the party? Obviously it's not even a secret that they are corrupt. What the F? Where i live, when a politician is getting money from any privat sector, all eyes are on this person. Because it's fucking ILEGAL. This behaviour in the US makes no f. sense to me.sry

  • ahhh....slowly drifting into complacency....this is how a nation drifts into the neverending depths of hipocrisy under the disguise of "free press" it is free press as long as you report on the weather and traffic....a freight train is coming and I hope everyone is prepared when the hipocrisy bubble bursts...Good point keith!

  • Go Keith!!!!!

  • Yes, go Keith! I wish we had a Keith Olbermman during the summit of the Bush "regime", around 2003 and 2004. I could not stand the right wing media with their retarded rhetoric and the rest of the media afraid to say anything and be seeing as a wuss.

  • This shows why his ratings are down 63 percent from the same time last year.

  • Old MacDonald Oberdick Cornell Dickhead is a sportsguy/communications major at fake Cornell (farm campus) AND I AM SICK OF THE OLD TURD WITH A FAKE ROLEX AND A POLYESTER SUIT FROM SEARS.....WHAT A PATHETIC LOSER, maybe the old turd can get a job at the Men's Warehouse and sell cheap ties...maybe not....

  • lol a warbound trying to act straight

  • looks like we have some Republican wankers in the room!

  • GO AWAY, KO. Find a job you can do.

  • you must watch fox news, dontcha?

  • Gee, that's original.

  • yeah I remember that day when he went after that asshole crook John Thune all these bastards in congress taking money from corporations and selling out the people to get their nasty worthless asses reelected stupid bitch Ginny Brown-Waite.. this was a great show.. the main stream media won't call em out like this at least a few dems haven't been bought...CBS NBC ABC CNN are all bought by corporate america.. too bad nothing came of this knowledge

  • chuck knoblock is my hero

  • Mommy, the big bad prepubescent boy on the internet is calling me a homo. Haha, God, I love when kids try to troll. You're gonna have to do a bit better than that little man. :P

  • lol, a 16 year old trying to troll.

  • Nice, Olberman!

  • He looks pretty relaxed to me. Especially with all the angry conservatives he keeps around.

  • he was screaming?

    what was o'reilly doing? whispering?

  • MSLSD is over...the ratings are sooo pathetic

  • Sports must be more important than health reformation, ammirite?

  • no... why would you think that? and why not spell correctly?

  • When will the American public will understand the saying "Follow the Money". There should not be any corporation envolved with the makings of policy. Just like any product has a useful life so should many Corporations. Companies are all about money only and have no souls. Name calling only shows your own ignorance. If you don't know the history of the Federal Reserve bank and the people behind it then you just need to shut the hell up and do your research.

  • The federal reserve?Okay, I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads up.

  • Max Baucus is a piece of American scum.... he's a dirty bastard... he's putting corporate profit and self gain ahead of the greater good of his own country.... I guess he thinks were all stupid sheep .... got news for ya buddy... your political career is coming to and end

  • Im so glad Republicans are tired, decrepid, fake, sell outs, ignorant, hypocritical, selfish, and most of all, freakin' losers.

  • hahahaha..You summed that up very well =)

  • You're so stupid - If you're a Republican move to France because we're sick of your ilk ruining our country. Every time you get your guy in office he screws the entire country-the world

    France has the best healthcare while we're like #37. It's appalling -my point

  • Whatever - Just deal with the facts

  • Wow your situation sounds exactly like the one my dad is in. Now they need 5-6 people to do the job 2 people were doing before, and they don't even do half as well.

  • god i love keith...

  • you NAZI right wing nuts ..are the st...st..st..st...stupidest living creatures on this planet !..you can think, your read BS and then you spew BS..get a brain..as in buy ine, cause you dont have one.

  • Yeah Olbermann sucks, he should just stick to regurgitated talking points like every other commentator instead of reporting facts no other network will dare talk about. No one will listen to these facts anyway cuz he covered sports when he was just getting his foot in the door of career journalism.

    Focusing on corruption? Man, those libs just don't get it...

  • I'm so glad you're the minority in the country.

  • Methinks someone's sarcasm detector needs a little fine tuning...

  • You are the minority - also you numbers are dwindling because you use Liz Cheney & Sarah Palin as mouthpieces which is a huge mistake. The insane attacks against our President & his cabinet members. Then there' all the scandal such as Sanford. I'm surprised there' any true Americans supporting the radicals after everything they've done to the country.

  • Ok, the person I was replying to with my first comment deleted his statement, so I'll cut you some slack for not getting my point, but you missed it twice...

    I was being sarcastic, I.E., saying the opposite of what one mean, in an exaggerated tone, to point out the flaws in SOMEONE ELSE'S logic.

    Why do you think I kept saying Olberman reported facts and addressed corruption? Do you think I would even bring it up if I didn't LIKE the man?

    I'm guessing you've never listened to Steven Colbert...

  • Cool beans! Keith is blunt & to the point. In this clip he called Thune a "bold face liar" and rightly so. He would never do that unless he could back it up. I love Keith! I hope you're being honest because Keith keeps them straight. I have watched Colbert a couple of times and he' funny.

  • Yep, Olberman and Rachel Maddow are some of the few commentators left doing any real reporting on network news. It's mind boggling how all these crazy communist/birther accusations get so much airtime, yet the constitutional violations committed by the Bush administration are hardly talked about by anyone other than Maddow/Olberman.

    Thom Hartmann is one of the few other commentators I think is credible. You might want to look up his radio show or webcast if you ever get the chance.

  • I owe you an apology -I thought you were attacking President Obama which I am sick of of their twisted assaults. I worked on his campaign in Virginia & took Mom to see him in Leesburg last October w/a crowd of over 30K. I can't say enough nice things about the man. If Bush/Cheney get away with everything they've done it will be the greatest injustice in this country for all Americans. Outing a CIA op, lying for reasons of war, and war profiteering are very serious crimes-never mind all else

  • I have not listened to Thom Hartmann but will check him out. I love Ed Shultz -he's always fighting for the middle-class & keeps it real as well. Have you seen his "psycho talk?" haha It' great. I think that's Michelle Bachmann' second home.

  • What about the fact that Obama is continuing the same policys?

    It's sad Olberman now comes accross as A simple white house shill.Maddow isnt much better but I have heard her call out Obama on his umlimited detention law he wants in place.

    That is for crimes that have yet to be commited.Patriot Act expanded under Obama HLS expanded under Obama

    Warrantless wiretapping keep in place

    along with voting to give the tellicoms immunity.He now wants to give the fed more power to fuck us for A buck.

  • I can't really take issue with your assessments of the two of them, but Maddow has definitely shown a little more guts in the past about pointing out Obama's flaws.

    The most important issues always seem to fly under the radar. Such is the fate of corporate-controlled news. There's still a lot of questionable policies and behavior that Obama is continuing from the Bush administration.

    I'm still waiting for that change I can believe in to come along...

  • The sad part is Bush also ran on change. When they say change they just mean in appearances. Presidents are now nothing more than bird cage liner. It is very sad that people still buy into this false left right paradigm.

  • MAddow is excellent , she is already o the sunday shows , i wont be surprise to se her step into Russel shoes

  • Barton is from Texas.

  • bullshit a health system that allows people to die is not a health care system... its a death camp they hold your health for ransom

  • Not true - World Health Organization placed the US @ #37 while France is #1.

    The only Americans who have great insurance are government employees, and guess who pays for it?

  • My dad is in the lowest level of politics and you would not even imagine the corruption and level of ineptitude that is present.

    Imagine federally or nationally, it is exponentially worse.

  • Excellent.

  • Awesome!!!  Job Well Done!!!

  • So much for Keith Olbermann.

  • Look, you can jerk around all you want talking in philosophical terms about France´s culture of dependence, how lower life expectancy in USA is due to crime (wow, nice save!), antitrust legislation and the like. The the facts remain. USA spends far more than any other country but tens of millions dont get the care they need. And you can´t deny that. That government is evil thing is just a prejudice. Good luck with that fake free market of yours (more like corporatistan).

  • Wow, no idea what to think. Seems it's pretty clear that Ron Paul (Rep) is not bought off and LIKE EVERYONE ELSE ... this show tried to discredit him. If TYT know that most DEMS are bought off and ALL REPS are ... y don't they say something more about it? I'm so tired of all this BS. Ron Paul seemed like an awesome dude and a lot of people (such as TYT) said he was not a good person, even tho RP suggested voting Kucinich (DEM) over any other Rep. I mean, what is really going the fuck on?

  • Universal Healthcare should be mandatory!

    Insurance should be Banned from our shores; it is destroying humanity.

  • didles,

    Why USA spends far more than any european country, but gets worse health outcomes?

    Maybe because health care industry CEO´s are getting filthy, filthy rich while their companies wreck people´s lifes?

    Why you dont trust the government but you trust private corporations? Dont trust either! try to make one check and balance the other!

  • "Why you dont trust the government but you trust private corporations? Dont trust either! try to make one check and balance the other!"

    Well stated, I must say so myself.

    This is one of those rare, unbiased opinions that ring true...

    Don't fear one or the other, fear BOTH

  • I trust this administration even less though. There is footage of Obama claiming to want a single payer system. It's obvious to me that the intent of this public option is to get the foot in the door so that universal health care can be implemented

  • Why do you keep ignoring the fundamental facts?

    USA Life expectancy is NOT NUMBER ONE...

    it SHOULD be, given the AMOUNT we spend on healthcare (more than anybody else on this planet I reckon?)...

    What is broken? This, I would like an answer to.

  • Healthcare is not the only thing that affects life expectancy. Things like crime and even culture can affect life expectancy.

    The reason why we spend so much money is because costs are high. A major cause of the high cost is due to FDA regulation. Remember when people were going to Canada to get cheaper medicine? Pills are a healthcare expenditure.

  • I agree with you that certain idiosyncrasies within a society might alter the expected life expectancy rates... But you'd be a fool not to realize that the high cost (hence lower number of insured) has more to do with administration costs bordering on 10-15% compared to the gov'ts great track record of only 3%... When it comes to health, I'd like every dollar that can be spent on health, not on fancy cherrywood desks and new hottubs.

  • Government workers get paid quite well. They also would be much more indifferent to fraud because no one has a problem giving out public money.

    One of the big problems with the public option is that it will let already sick people in. That's on the same level of letting someone get car insurance AFTER they got into a car accident and paying for repairs. How can the public option viably do this?

  • Look, we spend a gajillion times more (yes, I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit) on F-22 bombers that we don't even use anymore (it's just to keep the industry going)...

    If we took like 1% of that budget, it'd probably cover all the "already sick" as you refer to...

    Btw, do you not think it is a human being's moral duty to help another in need? especially if they are already sick but not insured? If not, then you must be a nihilist! (yes, another ad hominem)

  • Government workers, specially government management, wouldn´t have an incentive to commit fraud, unlike private insurers, whose sole motivation is profit.

    Of course they would let in people with preexisting illness, thats the whole point. Imagine your chid gets a life threatening illness, and your insurance wont cover it. No other insurance company would let you in, because of preexisting condition. Your child dies, because you dont have money. That´s freedom for you?

  • "The reason why we spend so much money is because costs are high."

    Btw, it seems you agree that costs are too high to be sustainable in the future (100% increase in avg premium in 10 years? PUH-LEEZE try to spin THAT one LOL) And it goes back to the lack of competition... Insurance companies (like many other industries) have unwittingly formed a "fiscal pact" that keeps rates high with slight variation so as to fool the consumer into thinking these are competitive rates (again, lol)

  • This country had dealt with monopolies before without creating public companies to effect psuedo-competition.

    I do not support monopolies in any way, shape, or form. If they arise and cause problems, they should be dealt with. I simply do not believe that public options are the appropriate method of doing so

  • Well, then, what would be an appropriate alternative in your opinion?

    You mentioned anti-trust laws (I will lol at you sir, for that one) which obviously are about as useful as my butt hair...

    The public option is touted so much because other countries use it and it works... It has a proven track record... France has supplemental insurance for those who want better coverage, but the basics are provided for EVERY CITIZEN...

    The USA should be able to say the same... shame it can't...

  • The USA does not share the same culture of dependence that France does. We have a much freer market.  That is why the public option will not work for us.

  • The alternative would be cutting down on FDA overregulation and stopping things like frivolous lawsuits. We got to do things we can to eliminate market failures in the health care market.

  • C'mon, this is the FDA we're talking about here, bought and paid for by Big Pharma... If anything, they UNDER-regulate! How is it that they're telling people to use Chantix to quit when it's caused hundreds of PROVEN cases of suicides while trying to ban E-cigarettes (no deaths/suicides/health incidents in 3 years) on the other?

    Frivolous lawsuits I can agree that they add an unnecessary burden to the insurers, but that would hardly reduce their exorbitant administrative costs.

  • Probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births:

    USA: 8

    France: 5

  • senseimilla,

    I have to agree with your opponents' claims that life expectancy is a poor measurement of the quality of a country's health care system, and I don't know why you keep harping on it.

    Statistically speaking, the people who live the longest are the same people who least seek medical care in their first 75 years of life.

    People who live the longest have opted for healthy personal lifestyles. How can you credit their nation's medical care services when they rarely use them?

  • Queef Olberwomann vacationed in Bangkok where prepubescent boys fed him deep-fried kitten meat in a jacuzzi. He sent Rachel Madcow a picture postcard that he secretly glazed in his own seminal fluid. Guess the joke's on him/her, huh?

  • Everytime I realize I clicked on a video from The Young Turks I rage alittle.

  • I'm glad Keith Olberman (KO) is back.

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  • Coorperations run politics through lobbyist. The Senator recieved over a million dollars in contributions, by the health sector. These guys should be thrown in jail. Bribery is illegal, isn't it?

  • You're talking about campaign contributions, not personal money. These senators can't use those contributions for anything other than getting elected.

  • Thats Bullshit; they use it for whatever the fuck they want, douchebag. Dont be so naive.

  • No they can't. Even if they could, which they can't, it doesn't make me a douche bag.

  • Actually, yes.

    You are extremely naive to assume that this money goes directly to campaigns.

    Google Sarah Palin and Shopping and you'll see how the RNC handles campaign contributions.