Alan Grayson Town Hall Meeting - Orlando, FL - 8.17.09

[Meade556]

Footage please? He can't even remember whether or not if he is a veteran and most WWII veterans I know were actually in the Military and they know how good Govt healthcare can be, and they live on from VA and Medicare, they know it. Oh and before any of you blustering halfwits claim to defend veterans, you guys called into question the service of Kerry and Gore, Democrats on the frontline, while Romney was in Paris and Bush was deserting.

[goisermass]

to see this mudslinging between americans makes you sick to the stomach. Its not even a question who will, once elected, better America. The republicans are not good for america, however still better than the democrates... THATS sad

[funkyflights]

@HugoJCox

Well said .... It's very clear there just ignorant to the reality.... DO NOT support private insurance for the love of god ..... There killing your own country men and women ... Just look at what happened recently with and insurance company denying a war veteran his cancer treatment because of 2 cent's he was short on one of his payments....2 fucking cents short and they denied his bone marrow transplant!! The press got the insurance company to back off ... BUT COMMON people wake up.

[biry0501]

It is so sad to watch a mob of people renounce their own interests and the interests of their neighbors. :-( They are selling their lives to corporations and are too ignorant to save their own skins. God help them.

[biggerturtle]

@biry0501 off that trash grayson

[biry0501]

@biggerturtle Not sure what that was supposed to mean...

[gadfly450004]

@HugoJCox,You trust the government? It was that kind of mentality has led to the rise of Totalitarianism on both sides of the ideological spectrum.

The irony of all this of course if that Obama is now the most corporate-friendly president we have ever had. It is because I am capitalist that is reason why I absolutely despised the bailouts.

I have a question, how can progressives keep a strait face and and yet continue still support this guy?

[the07tour]

LMAO! Thats funny he's mad cause graysons way smarter than them lol. SOSAD!.

[mrREDBIRDFAN]

I never pick a fight with a one legged man in a butt kicken contest. You win.

[crusades0917]

Alan Grayson is vigorously supported & endorsed by Oliver Stone and actor Martin Sheen. This should tell you all you need to know about this arrogant, narcissist, buffoon. This New York shyster needs to go back to the slums of New York from which he came ASAP.

[Chocochoco3838]

Gee, sorry you were unable to stack the town hall with teabaggers to disrupt it and shout down anyone who disagreed with you. What a shame. As a vet, I guess you get socialist single payer health care from the US Government. That must be annoying too.

[mrREDBIRDFAN]

Alan and I went to school together way back when. I used to kick his ass every chance I had. I would then take his money. Laugh, call it wealth distribution. Donated it to the RNC. Thanks again Alan. Hope that shoulder heals well.

[likesspice73]

@mrREDBIRDFAN I can claim any nonsense I want to also, I remember when I used to stomp you every other day because it got tiresome to stomp you every day, then I would steal your money of which you ahd little and go out and get a whore...just like a teabagger would, lol

[mrREDBIRDFAN]

@likesspice73 At least I'm smart enough to come up with something on my own.Not using someones words,changing a few and calling it my mine. This just proves what I've known all along. Most libs can't think for themselves so they need a smarmy worm like Grayson to do it for them.

[likesspice73]

@mrREDBIRDFAN

nah you are just a clueless fool that listens to rush limpdick to much, lol enjoy your pathetic life trying to tear someone else down.

[likesspice73]

@likesspice73 nah you are just a clueless fool that listens to rush limpdick to much, lol enjoy your pathetic life trying to tear someone else down.

[NationalPopularism]

I notice how these complain about us needng to read the bill. Quote it.

[2242bzo]

I thought Grayson was a good one. Fuck him! The only good one is Ron Paul!

[ClaudeParish]

@berserkerkev Ladies first!

[knockiiing]

You lie... because Grayson truth hurts!!!

[vincevince801]

Why should they be let in when all they do is screem and shoute. They are going to their kkk meeting right after any way they can screem there.

[frankmarchant]

@vincevince801  Just because people don't agree with you doesn't mean they are a part of any "Hate Group". Maybe you just are not too informed on the issues that anger most 66% of Americans.

[huntforgold]

crybabys

[DGB228]

clearly he cant answer the questions, like Frank, and Pelosi, and Jackson-Lee, and David Scott, and President Obama. seems to be a trend, they say they want it, but they have no clue what IT is or covers.

[OdoX1988]

LOL! Grayson is always one step ahead of these bafoons. Serves them right.

[ClaudeParish]

You misspelled buffoon, you poltroon!

[RustyTBone69]

Good for Alan Grayson! He saw all of the previous town hall meetings and the way these trash did nothing but be disruptive. Im glad that the town hall could be a discussion about health care and not a bunch of yelling screming garbage breaching the peace

[dwade1962eagle]

Really? I am none of those things, and I intend on voting for him again. He will be two term if for no other reason then the fact the Republicans are lost in the wilderness. If there is a GOP candidate out there that can beat him then we have yet to hear their name, it will have to be someone completely out of the blue. You cannot name ONE prominent Republican who can beat him. Not one.

[Drummerization]

It's all about fascade to make it look good. It's time to wake up.

[imbeachasbro]

BL Yellow man with a shirt.

[usucdik]

Cry, cry, cry... what a loser. He can't get in and start a yelling match, now he is bawling in the dark with his watery eyes glistening in the lamp-light.

A teamster, a vet, wheelchairs? Shut up and go away, because no one cares. You're an ordinary citizen just like anyone else there.

[MrVenezolano2020]

@usucdik oh grow up! We need a man like alan grayson!!! hey no one is perfect!

GO ALAN GRAYSON!! WE SUPPORT YOU!!!

[amsquare]

It appears that those critcizing Grayson are upset that he did not give them time enough to organize a disruption. Good for the Congressman.

[land4citizens]

Always found it amazing how the flag waving right wingers hate their government social engineering here in the USA but cannot wait to back our government social engineering overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, Central America, Africa, etc. The billions we pump into these countries so a corporation can secure a profit is fine but god forbid some child gets to see a doctor here in the USA.

[CmdrTobs]

People don't understand a big corperation IS a goverment only they don't even have to have you decide the board every 4yrs.

Microsoft alone is bigger than so many world governments.

[TheScaryStuff]

You can't understand why corporations are a better alternative to the government? Are you serious? That shows just how ignorant you are.. Government Failures: 1. Medicare 2. Medicaid 3. Social Security 4. Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac 5. The USPS 6. Amtrack 7. Citigroup 8. Cash For Clunkers 9. Education 10. The economy Can you name (ONE) Thing the government hasn't failed on ?

[CmdrTobs]

I love this anecdotal proof. I see so much of George Bushes fuck ups there is unreal.

If you believe government can't do any think I got the country for you... Somalia. 0% tax no gov in your way apart from an army...

Now how comes the people in capital are not thriving with the lack of government and taxs...

Sweden socialist... 60% or so tax. By most statistical measures the BEST country on earth.

Now think about that COMPLETELY anecdotal mantra that "Government fails in everything"

[TheScaryStuff]

If you believe that Sweden is the best country in the world, why not live there?

Ofcourse, only Anti-American Leftists will use this rhetoric...

I gave you a list of 10 things off the top of my head, that our government is failing at. You can't give me one thing they have actually done right? Maybe I'm right :) Have you thought about that?

[CmdrTobs]

Why should I produce a list to counter yours when it contains no evidence just mixture of things your favourite talk radio hosts have said without evidence.

The fact you can say there and pretend there is not one thing the goverment has succeeded on with a striaght face proves you are not sure really what you are talking about.

When it comes to clowns like you I remember:

"Never try and reason someone out of something they did not reason themselves into..."

[TheScaryStuff]

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are bankrupt. Since when was "Going Bankrupt" "doing a good job"?

Fannie & Freddie have contributed to $5 Trillion in our country's debt. That's more than "Bush" did ~,^

The USPS, which are unable to execute real business strategies because they are gov run, are losing $500 Million a year. Multiply $500 Million by 30+ years... Who's paying for that!?

Postmaster General John Potter-- "facing losses of historic proportion. Our situation is critical."

[amsquare]

Bankrupt? You mean underfunded. Make these free from the machinations of politicians whose ideology drive them to try to undermine them and you will see effective federally provided health insurance.

[TheScaryStuff]

If by "effective" you mean quantity over quality, than you're right.

[amsquare]

No, I mean quality and quantity. Insurance companies are blind to quality. They pay only according to diagnosis and procedure codes, not by quality of care or positive outcomes.

You will not get better care if you are covered by BC/BS vs Medicare.

[TheScaryStuff]

Amtrak was created by congress as a for-profit corporation in 1970. They've lost money every single year since. Despite over $30 Billion in federal subsidies(not including $1.3 Billion that they picked up as part of the 2009 stimulus bill) Amtrak has never figured out how to fullfill their politcally mandated mission and make a profit.

[TheScaryStuff]

Citigroup, along with every other major bank, opposed "cram downs" --which would give bankruptcy judges the discretion to modify a borrower's loan. As of 2009, they had changed their minds, they would support cram down legilation after all. Why the One-Eighty? I can give you 40 Billion good reasons. That is how much money Citi had taken in federal bailouts at the time they "Changed their minds." When private companies start making decisions based on poltical relationships, we're in big trouble.

[TheScaryStuff]

By the way, I didn't ask you to produce a list to counter mine. I asked for ((ONE)) thing that the US Gov. hasn't failed on. Which you can't even do..

This is not made up facts. This is what is really going on. If you are dependent on the mainstream media to spoonfeed you "Sunshine and Lollipops", and you can't even find out anything on your own, don't call everyone's evidence "made up". Research it yourself..

[dwade1962eagle]

Shut up you fucking dumbass. Here is your list. And the things that are not a failure and good for America. 1. 2. 3. 5. 8. 9. 10. .......is that enough your own list is bullshit. Private industry does NOT run things better for the middle class or lower class, which in reality all that is left. The problem is corperations constantly getting in the way with lobbyists and idiots like you. OMG you are 17? You don't know shit. Stay offline until your finished cooking butt munch.

[TheScaryStuff]

Barrack Obama has been pretty fond of Lobbyists :). He appointed 17 Lobbyists to major government positions in the first two weeks that he was in office. That is over one lobbyist a day. "A Lobbyist a day keeps accountability away" :)

How is my list of government failures bullshit? If you call the USPS "Doing better than Private Industry", you are very ignorant to the facts. How is a business doing good if they are losing $500 Million a year? Adding billions to our country's debt.

[bfayer]

LOL

[RightWingBashers]

Great. but the Left has tried to be the nice guy it's not working. Kind of like a school bully nobody really like them so they keep beating on people. than when someone gets the nuts to punch him in the mouth .They go crying to the teacher saying he did nothing wrong. the Right have lost florida for the next 10-20 years because they sat back and allowed the crazy right to envoke hitler and nazi time and time agian. and said nothing

[kaliamalia]

i hope you die from lack of affordable healthcare. the irony would be so sweet.

[OrlandoTeaPartyVideo]

This scumbag Grayson needs to be sent back to his shyster shack in November 2010. Wake up, Orlando! Is this the kind of jerk you want to represent you?

[kaliamalia]

yes. now fuck off you stupid piece of shit.

[atobiajfe]

Ha ha, look at this stupid mob. Right-wingers are dumbasses who have to shout people down.

[64bolts]

@atobiajfe Hey jackass, did you listen to the video? Yeah, SEIU, teamsters any of you union punks would never do that, would you? Keep drinking the kool-aid and vote democrat and vote often...asshat!

[musicblogs]

It's so sad to see you moronic tools being used by the insurance industry. In Canada we have free universal healthcare for everyone and it's awesome. We don't have death panels and Canadians are healthier and live longer than Americans. Why are you so scared of government health insurance? Stop acting like whiney babies America....

[Piercetp]

Too many AmeriKKKans are drinking the cool aid. These are the same people who would have joined lynch mobs. Of course the majority of people in the US support health care reform. But the media only shows inbred morons like these.

[spooderdoggy]

I wife worked in your crappy system for three years. Pour some maple syrup on your waffles...Ay.

[Buc1G59]

@musicblogs my friend, the problem is the damn REPUBLICANS, who are rich, arrogant, racist, hate being taxed ,love to carry guns and fuck human beings for profit. Also, we elected the first blck president and white america can't swallow it, what a hypocrite nation we are. Just venting my frustration with the republicans.

[Aviatrixxx]

@musicblogs

Okay...why did one of your representatives come to the US for heart surgery? From his own words....the Canadian HC system didn't offer the speed, efficiency or technology that the US did. Sure, let's make our HC system like yours and dumb it down a bit...

[timray99]

Vietnam Veteran, by now you should know what the democraps are all about

[timray99]

look, just because he is gay does not make him a bad guy. he likes dogs and has been seen fondling several

[kaliamalia]

not nice to speak of your mom that way. she is fun to fondle though so i'll give you that much.

[spooderdoggy]

I still waiting for Liberals to come forward and say they'll commit to starting NONPROFIT HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Oh...Is that the sound of crickets I hear..

Hmm....Just what I thought. The liberal taking point of pointing to Healthcare Insurance CEOs is a ploy to get people to bit the poison apple, namely freedom reducing Govt. run healthscare.

*Remember that healthcare is the BIG ENCHILADA.

CONTROL OUR HEALTHCARE AND LIBERALS CONTROL EVERYTHING!

DEMS ARE CONTROL FREAKS!

[metrozebra]

Gee the hospitals, 10,000 medical lobbyists and the Republicans do not want to change a thing. That fact alone is enough for me demand healthcare reform.

[becky50]

These are the real monsters, not Grayson: * Aetna Ronald A. Williams: $23,045,834 * Cigna H. Edward Hanway: $25,839,777 * Coventry Dale B. Wolf : $14,869,823 * Health Net Jay M. Gellert: $3,686,230  * Humana Michael McCallister: $10,312,557 * U.Health Grp Stephen J. Hemsley: $13,164,529 * WellPoint Angela Braly (2007): $9,094,271 L. Glasscock (2006): $23,886,169

[gregorija1]

I know you have good intentions and your numbers may be accurate, you make a good point. But remember, my friend, this is all about power. And once the govt. has control of our healthcare system, they can control every aspect of our lives, and they will.

[becky50]

My friend, the health insurance companies control our lives NOW and it is nothing but a money-hungry ruthless business that is bringing in huge profits. If they want to cancel you for whatever reason: you're gone. Mr. CEO raking in $24million/YEARLY could care less about your ailments.

[richiez7]

i agree with everyone having a right to protest, but i love asking people what they are protesting. SERIOUSLY, how many people actually know how the healthcare industry operates. YOUR PROTEST IS NOT WITH THE GOVT, OTHER CITIZENS OR GRAYSON ITS WITH THE VERY HOSPITALS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, DOCTORS OFFICES AND THE PERSONNEL THEMSELVES. the entire purpose of this healthcare bill is just to separate us from eachother. MISINFORMATION PROPAGANDA PERIOD

[enddafed]

Grayson is doing great things with exposing the Fed, to hear him supporting this Health Care reform, is interesting to me. I thought he would be against this type of govt intrution. He has his constituents i guess.

[thisaintsweettea]

The two positions are not mutually exclusive. He is a populist/progressive. Making health care affordable is a progressive cause as is strong regulatory oversight.

I just can't figure out why anyone would stand on the side of unaccountable health insurers instead of democratically elected officials.

[MegaBoDiddly]

There is confusion about Health INsurance Reform (something everyone can get behind)and a transformation of the health care system (something we cannot afford and which most of us do not want)

[mac9641]

He is also probably not responsible for the seats the were fill with obamabots. Media Matters and Move on are the two groups that are organizing these sheeple to represent the administrations agenda. Both groups are funded by George Soros, an international financeer and supporter of the NWO. Don't let them fool you into taking out one of the few voices on the DEMS side that truly represents the people.

[mac9641]

ALan Grayson is a good guy. He is one of the only DEMS along with Dennis Kucinich that are supporting HR 1207 the bill to audit the federal reserve, he is one of the only democrats questioning the FED . This is the institution that robbed us, that caused this recession, and the institution responsible for the coming depression.

[mrcool011]

Vote out Alan Grayson, its that simple and anyone who goes against the will of the people. Maybe if we hold the politicians accountable they're do what is best for us not them. Make every politician scared of being voted out and we'll have a better government.

[Hellpig]

no actually I dont ,but liberals like you kinda go hand in hand with pedophilia...

now bigstuffed dont molest your kids too much...we dont want them turning out to be treasonous liberals

[thisaintsweettea]

Hmm.... You mean like Mark Foley? OH! That's right he is a Republican.

[Hellpig]

LMAO Foley was a homo not a pedophile but nice to see the hypocrisy homophobe

[NiemandBinich]

They are bussing the same union thugs from meeting to meeting. Yes, they are stacking the deck against the American people.

[thisaintsweettea]

You're an idiot. There is virtually no union in Florida because it is a right to work state.

[NiemandBinich]

That's why they bus in the extra thugs, you know, the ones from Chicago, Detroit or New Orleans.

[Hellpig]

pfft considering only 20% of dems are liberals and conservs outnumber you 2 to 1

you are now and always have been the minority in America...

100 million bitter bible clinging gun owners..will never bow to a treasonous liberal ......

as for laughing that all your pathetic party can do is laugh....you had a shot with Comrade Obama ...40 years in the making and you idiots blew it....what you are seeing today is the death thralls of liberalism.....

[Hellpig]

actually treasonous liberal if I'm pissing in my backyard it will be over your shallow grave...

I picture you molesting your daughter while she sleeps ...the all american liberal passtime....that or hugging a terrorist....

I also suggest you google "watering the tree of liberty"

might help you prepare for the future

[GrilloJ123]

BAHAHAHA !!

[Ratturd3]

bigstudfft, put down the crack pipe, get out of your pajamas, and help your Grandmother by going out and finding a job.

Leave the serious Politics to us.

[GrilloJ123]

btw just to piss you off bigstud pffft, I just bought a "Thank You President Bush" Bumper sticker! God Bless!

[GrilloJ123]

You want my facebook or myspace? You want to video chat? I'll show you a pig face.

[GrilloJ123]

you'll be sorry, you just dont realize it yet because you brain is clouded with liberal bullshit and bong resin. damn hippie

[kjdudek]

How sad...I heard it was bad but I had no idea it was this bad. Only 31 people! What a debacle.

[Hellpig]

because when you communist bastards impose obamacare on the real Americans we are going to water the tree of liberty......

any more questions treaonous liberal?

[GrilloJ123]

REVOLUTION!!! GATHER YOUR ARMS!!!

[Hellpig]

lots of guns sales happening now..take advantage while you still can

[dkkght46]

Ive lost count of the times Obama has said something like this:

The ___________(your organization here) is in favor of ______________(plan of the day here).

It seems like we find out after these statements that they werent for his plan.

[FLPolitics1]

Great video documentation. Please do more of these.

[Sonny9257]

Face it Folks, The Communists have taken over our Government and are stacking the Deck against us, as they try to grab more control over our Lives and our Liberty!!!

What are you going to do About it?

[sbartelski]

Come back McCarthy - your country needs you!

[SAYESTOHEALTHCARE1]

this guy is full of crap ,,there were lot of loudmouths inside,,,it was about 5050

[sbartelski]

Actually 94 dems, 31 from the line. The 31 were a mixture of pro and against

[Cash2112]

Typical dim stunt. . . busing in their paid obot sycophant fellators just like the nazis did to stage their propaganda rallies in the '30's.

[caraclaudel]

Alan Grayson is a disgrace! The tyrant class has got to go.

[terpis]

Hey, truth is it was a pretty good discussion for those who got in.

Bitters who get there early--i queued up a little after 5--were given a straight third of the questions taken.

Was it fair and democratic to pick a half-filled, already small space? No way.

Would it have been a fair outcome had a larger venue allowed for a bunch of carpetbagging wingnut yahoos from outside the district to disrupt what in fact was a good informative discussion? No. Not that either.

[mstyle183]

No crazies allowed.. get used to it whitey

[Cindi3847]

mystyle183

Thank you for indicating your true agenda.

[1zeppfan]

Who is John Galt?

[stinky125]

Great vid....I sent it to Drudge

[bhyneman]

So a Democrat Congressman has a town hall meeting in a pre-loaded room and the state-run media reports that health care "reform" supporters greatly outnumbered opponents. There's a real shocker.

[Cindi3847]

2687243

Alan Grayson is an "empty suit".

[Cindi3847]

Congressman Grayson's treatment to his constituency is an abomination. He lies, cheats and if the smirk on his face is any indication, he is proud of those actions

[parrotat40]

Only one thing to expect from a clown like Grayson - a circus. This fool is one and done.

[er20092009]

I guarantee you 100% that Grayson does not lose to a republican in 2010.

[Cindi3847]

er20092009

I agree with you. Grayson will win in 2009 because he can buy the election like he did in 2008. It's good to be fabulously wealthy.

[Cindi3847]

parrotat40

I would refine you statement to say that "Big Al" is a rodeo clown that couldn't fit completely in the barrel and took one to many hits to his head by the bull.

[writersblock77]

31 of us got in. I was one of them. What a sham. I got to ask my question, and so did my husband

[Cindi3847]

writersblock77

Alan is THE "Sham Master". Alan Spector's town halls were legitimate but Grayson had to control the attendees.

Doesn't Grayson understand he can still lie to people that oppose him, not just lie to his adorers.

[TheAvi8or]

Very accurate depiction of the "town hall" meeting. I agree with the 20% supporter figure. The media reporting on this paints a ridiculous pro-support picture. Extreme yellow journalism. Reminds me of China's media slanting. Nice job PorkChop!

[Cindi3847]

The Avi8or

What do you expect from the incredibly biased Orlando Sentinel who loves this fool. Everything he says or his his staff say is a lie or partial truth.

[parrotat40]

I stopped getting the Slantinel when they endorsed Kerry/Edwards. They have become a liner for the cat box. Will he win in 2010? Probably. It takes brains to vote.

[Cindi3847]

parrotat40

Please beware that using the Sentinal as a liner for the cat box may be "cuelity to animals". If Grayson's picture was in the paper, the cat may have a heart attack from fright.