Fox News Bias on Health Law Constitutionality?

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More Fox News bias on health care reform at http://bit.ly/nj4E4i

Fox News bias on health care reform, or "Obamacare" as they like to call it, has been extensive over the years and, most recently, has failed to prepare viewers for the likelihood the US Supreme Court will find the law constitutional given that Congress had a rational basis to believe that the practice of self-insuring for the cost of health care, in the aggregate, substantially affects interstate commerce, as I show in this video.

The clip I use of Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace comes from a longer segment of Fox News' August 11, 2011, broadcast of the GOP Presidential Debate from Iowa available online at http://bit.ly/r8stTb

The clips I use of Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera and Florida's Republican Attorney General, Pam Bondi, come from a longer segment of Fox News' October 2, 2011, broadcast of "Geraldo at Large" (which I haven't found available online)

The clips I use of former Michigan Governor Granholm and Bill Maher come from the "Overtime" segment of HBO's September 30, 2011, broadcast of "Real Time with Bill Maher" available online at http://bit.ly/qHnpyC

The images and quotes I use from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama comes from the page at http://1.usa.gov/qCFLK1

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[ronjonsurf39]

bill maher is more accurate than fox news.....and he gets stoned as fuck.....in the words of jon stewart BOOM!

[GaolisVideoLog]

@BillyJoe1305 This is why you should never rely on one source only. That's the basis of scientific work. This is also the reason why I find it funnny that when AlJaazeera English started off, the US cable companies didn't want to air it. Because it would be interesting to see what Arabs think about US policies in the Middle East, no?

[BillyJoe1305]

Don't you think the other news channels may have their own bias towards the healthcare debate & that by pointing out only 1 of these channels you increasing the production of biased news?

[teoeo]

@heatbucspies55 The Commerce Clause doesn't JUST apply to things that are directly commerce. It also applies to a whole host of things that affect interstate commerce. There is a fairly strong originalist argument you could make that the healthcare law goes beyond the commerce clause's authority (which I actually might agree with).

The problem is that this law clearly falls within the Taxing power. The penalty provision is basically just a tax on those who don't buy health insurance.

[heatbucspies55]

@teoeo

The commerce clause applies to interstate commerce, international commerce, and commerce with Indian tribes. If the healthcare law only applied to people whose healthcare involved those types of commerce, you could use that argument, but it doesn't,.

And it's more than just a tax too. So in both cases, it goes beyond that power, therefore it violates the tenth amendment.

I haven't studied Con officially, but I have read the constitution and I speak English, so that works.

[FistyCarrera]

@FistyCarrera Oh, right, Geraldo. 

[FistyCarrera]

"Again, Heraldo was basically just a straight man for his republican guest there.." Muahahaha, I'm loving this!

[teoeo]

@heatbucspies55 Uh, under the taxing power and the commerce clause? Have you studied con law at ALL?

[heatbucspies55]

@sonicdoommario

What, they are whackjobs for making the correct decision?

For actually assessing the law based on it's constitutionality, I thought that was their job.

[ballparkfrank33]

@atheistphilosopher no sweetie, " what i got now" are options- the kind of health care options that the Fed. Gov. would like to take away. He'll win a second term because the GOP is aloof and can't find a winner in that whole bunch of fucks, except for Ron Paul-who has too many enemies to be elected. (Even though he is an honorable man).