Rachel Maddow interviews Tim Phillips, Pres. Americans For Prosperity

[JLRoberson]

Good lord, he has fangs.

[petalofhope1]

You need to go to College and get a decent education. Politics is for the big boys not you.

[Proteus311]

I know that it's easy to take this snake oil salesman at his word instead of doing some research on his claim that 89% of AFP's money came from individuals. Who are these individuals...are they terrorists? We don't know, and why is that? Do any proponents of AFP know? Probably not. Google David Koch and there's part of the answer. Interesting that the Koch name comes up an awful lot when it comes to political issues and candidates....maybe they're just concerned citizens...maybe, but not likely.

[darwincity]

Cheap, abundant energy? Does he believe in secret oil reserves under the German soil or what?

[nvieira100]

Hate to say it but Americans are the dumbest people on earth. They prefer to listen to scaremongers working for corporations who's only interest is to profit from healthcare by charging exhorbitant rates for coverage and then denying that same coverage, than to people who are trying to HELP THEM stay healthy and alive without going bankrupt. Americans the world is laughing AT you!!!

[GodandLiberty]

Maddow, owned on funding issue (89% from private individuals).

[m371514]

These two men should stop arguing and just go out and have a beer.

[ckj377]

"the buses are a prop and a way to deliver our message" he said w/a straight face.

[Zooni2]

Corporate funded lobbyiest pretending to be a grass roots movement and suckering the christisn right to back corporate interests. Welcome to the new America. Deciet based politics.

[maganz]

Why are Maddows not interested in the issues? Because the liberal tactic is to deflect attention from the issues and the arguments by undercutting the credibility of and psychologizing the proponents of those arguments.

[pepperleg]

@maganz Without agreeing to what you just said, aren't the credibility of arguments extremely important to their validity? Exactly what 'attention from the issues' are you referring to?

[maganz]

@pepperleg The issues of the Tea Party movement. Their views and arguments.

You have to distinguish between credibillity of an argument and the creditbility of any proponent of it. The intellectually corrupting strategy of bigotted media democrats and other political mass media manipulators and masters of eristics, is to deflect attention away from those views and arguments of their critics, by poisoning the well and smearing the proponets of those views and arguments.

[grandysfunction]

Tim Phillips is what I like to think of as a "corporate condom". He works to protect them, while keeping them from the messiness that occurs while they screw you. AND, he does it using uninformed citizen groups to hold you down during the rape.

[MisesPieces]

Maddow and Phillips never actually talk about the health care bill. Maddow can't attack the issue, so she just attacks the man. Its called "Argumentum ad Hominem," and the GOP does it just as much as statists like Maddow.

Just as Maddow is foolish for distracting the argument in this way, Phillips is wrong for entertaining her for so long... he should have just shot her down and talked about the important issue at hand.

[loonmaniac]

Wow. He really is a parasite.

[ActaNonVerba71]

Wow. Wow. That guy has a dark soul. His strategy is obvious. Just keep smiling and one-upping. You say I give head to corporations, I smile and say I give them rim jobs too. I bet used car salespeople have altars of him they worship. Wow.

[catonic]

what was the point of this interview? to see if this is a grass roots organization or corporate funded? We all know what it is....and she did try to sneak those hannity gotcha games in there...except she "tries" to be "polite" but looks more like a snake....Dude straight up made her look like a fool...Leave those games for Sean Hannity....She did an interview like this before and came off looking shady

I agree with Rachel on a lot of things but these faux investigative interviews need to stop.

[flury51]

This is the difference between a liberal debate and a conservative debate.

Conservatives: Did you notice how she let the guest complete his statements? Did you notice how everything she said was factual? Did you notice that even when he had legitimate rebuttals she didn't cut him off or divert the topic? She let audience hear the whole story. Now thats truly "Fair and Balanced" commentary.

[filmictenor]

Rachel is not a journalist. She's a left-wing commentator and a good one at that. She also took cheap, petty shots in this interview and Mr. Phillips came out looking better in the end.

[jcdstorm]

I remember this interview. I promised to never see Maddow again. What an embarrassing interview for her.

[angelcitynut]

Everything Madcow hammers Phillips on,is the same crap Obama,Soros,etc..Actually DO...And get away with because the media does not do its Constitutional Duty and has taken sides with a political party in the US.

[99lookingsouth]

angelcitynut: Dear Nut: How many ways can Ii say "Bull" to you, let me count the ways: Bull feathers, Bull poo Bull frass Bull mass Bull pee Bull turd ...and you are full of it all Put that in you pipe and smoke it

[NwZ2]

not really. only in your small world.

[TheLeftyGrove]

Holy crap, Republicans are sick, disgusting pigs.

Republicans = Taliban

[pmnichols10]

no exxon money...  Fucking liar!

[YuraJagov]

Rachel lowered the boom on this right wing returd.....This phony pile a shit Phillips is obviously making a living lying to the retards of America who suck this shit up AKA Republicans.

She basically called this Repuboturd a slimy pile a shit..

Rachel You rock babe.....

[anthonymarlow]

YOU DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS!!!

What the fuck is wrong with you people... why would you be so happy that America lost the bid to the Olympics?!? Yeah the international Olympic committee has problems with the United States on licensing rights and what not... but at least our president went to represent our people So burn in hell you unpatriotic pieces of shit...

Why celebrate an American loss?

you're just a bunch of racist, ignorant, possibly mentally retarded animals that need to shut the fuck up

[jcdstorm]

Bro we didn't want to win the bud because Obama is an egomaniac. Valerie Jarret was going to get a huge payday to convert her slummed out apartment building into the Chicago Olympic headquarters. I'd finish but I gtg

[TSquared2001]

@anthonymarlow Uh did you forget the COSTS associated with the Olympics? It took California well over 2 decades to recoup the costs and ATL is STILL reeling from the '96 Olympics.

[andy4251]

Get em Rachel!!!

[artvandelay3911]

Q: What's the difference between the GOP and Al Queda?

A: The GOP gets tax breaks for trying to destrοy America.

[turban26]

Yeah somehow I don't think he or the people who represent Patients First are patients just like me. Cause I'm a patient who is interested in making sure birth control and abortion remain accessible & legal.

[cmfluteguy]

Timmy boy is helping to destroy the privileged class. Thanks go to him for that. His pathetic glibness is so transparent. Rachael has no trouble with him.

[crumbtrey]

In the meantime a million more Americans fell into poverty. There's even a tent city in my medium size town. And foreclosures continue to rise.

[phuture101]

Special Interest turd!

[cajunmuscle]

Nice try Rachel. Unfortunately the truth is a pesky impediment to the liberal slander. Your rhetoric just doesn't stick when your victims appear live on the show. You are much more convincing when talking to yourself.

[mysticman725]

He is smooth as heck!

[gaystereotype]

A glib fucktard

[blind913]

they're both remarkably well prepared for this.

[reformedcynic]

He's very good at twisting the truth. I would have loved to see him up against someone like Ari Melber. Rachel kind of let him off easily.

[friction6]

I would pay to see him against bill maher on hbo where they don't have to be so polite

[reformedcynic]

Well, I can't stand Bill Maher -- he's become a little too arrogant for me and to ready to insult people on personal level rather than sticking to the facts. Have you seen Ari Melber at work? He was amazing for how he doggedly pins his opponents down to the facts of the matter rather than letting them get away with glib talking points that mean nothing. He should have his own show (and no, I'm not his mother, lol)

[whiteliberal1]

Just this past week, while interviewing Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), she went on and on about him referring to the holocaust in relations to how Americans are losing their lives and family members because of the poor health care coverage. Instead of focusing on the entire address to congress, she kept harping on one particular word. Hence between 9:01-9:10, she allowed this weasel to call her out as asking "gotcha questions". Go on the attack Rachel! Stop reacting to what these clowns say.

[MsGreenrocks]

Tim was fantastic and he held his own with this very biased reporter. Thank God for AFP. I back you 100%.

[Zodiac266]

"fantastic"?! lol hmmm I think you have some issues. This character was exposed over and over again by this clever Rachel. But I guess it went over your head. This guy is nothing but a deceitful scumbag lobbyist ( a used car salesman)using idiots like you to serve his employers: insurance companies that will discontinue your healthcare coverage in a heart beat if their profit is undermined. Also, pls, don't use "God" in your claims. That's hypocritical.

[GodandLiberty]

@Zodiac266 He was not exposed at all! He stated that his funding is 89% private. He also stated that Obamacare is financed and part drawn up by the healthcare companies (where is the protest from Maddow on this). On Eric Cantor, they are friends and they are campaigning together. Maddow's tactics are called the 'red hering fallacy'. Look it up.

[GrampieBob]

She couldn't bear the "conflict of interest with Tim's corporate sponsors"? Let's see MSNBC is owned by GE who has a vested interest in universal healthcare because of their position as the leader in electronic medical records. No conflict there!

[Coenfan]

What a slick slimy man this is. People like him are the ones ruining our country and our democracy. Rachel, you go girl...keep up your great investigative work and keep exposing these people for who they really are!!

[GrampieBob]

A nice "civil" debate. Tim won by sticking to the issue at hand. We can contain healthcare costs through private industry, tort reform and competition.

[Mystapitt]

While she was trying all sorts of "gotcha" accusations, I appreciate that she allowed a well spoken person with an opposite view on. He held his own and made his points well. Thank you Rachel for some balance.

[utube9000]

I definitely think she was playing "gotcha" politics. When she couldn't brand the town hall protests as paid shills of the insurance companies, she whipped out the race card and implied that Tim Phillips was somehow connected to anti-semitism.

It's an old tactic of the left -especially among Jewish leftists like Maddow. They encourage and promote racial solidarity among minorities while simultaneously demonizing racial solidarity among the white majority.

It's a form of divide and conquer.

[Rickyrab]

maybe liberals ought to be fighting right-wing astroturf with left-wing astroturf. As for anti-Semitism, I'm not sure how antisemitism relates to right wing astroturf.

[burnew]

utube9000 needs to be more careful. Rachel Maddow is Chatholic not Jewish.

[utube9000]

Ah yes, my Jewdar failed me on this one. Thanks for the correction.

[MRB0ND007]

It's great to know that the folks that are rallying against the Public Health Plan are not a grass roots movements but employees of Americans for Prosperity or Patients First

These individuals are PAID volunteers, sort of Mercenaries

[MRB0ND007]

Americans for Prosperity are actually reducing unemployment in the US but employing these Grass Roots Employees

[creatingbliss]

Rachel , Tim totally kicked your a** ... Sorry. Im a big fan though.

[busylizzy77]

Rachel is a pig!

[forwardmover]

Hey Obamaites, have you heard 2 million Americans LEFTthe USA last year. Anybody know WHERE they went and how much CAPITAL they took with them to avoid the socialists? Tax the rich to pay for Single Payer? Belly laugh!

[forwardmover]

Hey all you commie pinko punks, keep watching real TV. watch for all those 1000's of irate "insurance companies" trying to scam the Collectivist media. This commie dyke's days are numbered,

[xylin3]

I like where she finds her cue at 8:39 to completely dismantle and destry him for the rest of the interview.

this is one of the things I love about her.

[Ediva75]

Very insightful interview. Fck his ass and what he ASSumes are gotch tactics. She asked questions that needed to be asked. If he wanted softball questions he needed to have taken his ass to Fox news!

[policeeatdoughnuts]

i'd like punch out the blatant smirk off that guys face this interview was extremely predictable as soon as Keith Olbermann mentioned he was going to be on Rachel's show i knew he was going to lie during the entire interview which of course is exactly what happened

[btwall60]

I'll tell ya, all of a sudden rachel's an "investigative reporter" & wants backround on everyone, and what TIES THEY HAVE TO OTHER PEOPLE. She never gave a rats ass when other groups protest. But now, SHES GONNA FIND OUT. bunch of friggen' hippo krits

[Staticnz]

Well she wants a public option, obviously.

[xylin3]

she's been doing this for years.

and she's not a reporter she's a commentator.

[forwardmover]

Get to know the Statist / Collectivist underground, including Moveon! Understand the tow-faced hypocrisy! Stalinist descendants

[forwardmover]

MOVEON Dear MoveOn member ... " ...President Obama's health-care reform plan—the public health insurance option—is under attack. "Call [pelosi] right away and urge her to sign the Progressive Caucus letter demanding a strong public health insurance option.

[Staticnz]

How is that the same as spamming town hall discussions?

[forwardmover]

Its the George Soros Hillary / Clinton collectivist mob trying to steer the left. Coffee's on. Have some!

[forwardmover]

So, "big companies" are bad, but "big government is not?

[alien13ufo]

I don't think thats at all what she was getting at. She was arguing that they were misrepresenting themselves on their website as being just "regular people" when in fact they are mouthpieces for corporate interests. If they just came out and said "I speak for the health insurance industry" or "I shill for big oil" there wouldn't really be a conflict.

[forwardmover]

Maddow is a leftist mouthpiece. 100% propagandist. Of course, being a fringe type, she knows who her niche is, many of whom are also freaks.

[Staticnz]

Yah, yup, gotta go to the right sources, like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

Blow it out your ass, everybody is bias, everybody is bought in some way.

But what is at stake in the healthcare debate is having your wallet and very health raped to death by private corporations, or being provided a wider variety of options and choices.

[forwardmover]

And, of course, sometimes we are helpless. So, have to pray for a less painful death. If this were 100 years ago, most of us would be dead by now. say your prayers

[Staticnz]

I've completely lost track of what you're talking about.

[forwardmover]

In that case, have a good night sleep!

[beelz3333]

You don't believe that this plan will increase competition do you?

The gov't will drive competition away because they're not afraid of making losses, as they can cover them with taxpayers money. This is a trojan horse for a single payer system.

You also have to understand the reasons that prices are so high; it's because of gov't fixing prices and subsidizing the insurance industry. If they weren't involved at all, prices would be so much lower.

[xylin3]

No way, she comes up with all of this ALL BY HERSELF !!!

Believe me the white house isn't passing notes. She actually works for a living.

[xylin3]

I shouls say THE SHOW comes up with it, I am by no means saying she puts this together single handed.

[forwardmover]

Quite a few "corporate mouthpieces" out there protesting. Extremely good actors, all those middle-aged types. Glad they can still get acting work. Obama looks like a one-termer, not to mention dems leaving washington in droves. Americans aint that stupid. They know who O is now.

[Staticnz]

Bad companies and bad government are bad.

Good companies and good government is good.

I'm sick of all this company good, government bad talk.  Why government bad.

Is police bad? Is fire station bad? Military bad?

[forwardmover]

I agree with you!  Right on to that!