"Hell Froze Over" ...way to go, CNN!!! Political Play of the Week

[LynnTheDem]

WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST: That's right. This week there was an issue that hit home with voters and forced the candidates to rethink their scripts. It even walked off with the political play of the week.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SCHNEIDER (voice-over): They're standing in line in Florida and Michigan, in New Jersey. The line goes around the block. Eager swing state residents lining up to vote? Not exactly. They're lining up for flu shots.

DR. CHARLES GONZALEZ, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST: It's incredibly serious. We have half as much vaccine as we should have.

SCHNEIDER: How did that happen?

BUSH: We relied upon a company out of England to provide about half of the flu vaccines for the United States citizens.

SCHNEIDER: Uh-oh. Sounds like outsourcing. The president had a solution.

BUSH: We're working with Canada, hopefully they will produce a -- help us realize the vaccine necessary.

SCHNEIDER: But hasn't Bush expressed problems with drug imports from Canada?

BUSH: My worry is, it looks like it's from Canada, it might be from a third world. We have to make sure before somebody thinks they're buying a product, that it works.

SCHNEIDER: President Bush made a plea to the public.

BUSH: If you're healthy, if you're younger, don't get a flu shot this year.

SCHNEIDER: Sounds like rationing, something the president said would result from Kerry's health care plan.

BUSH: Government sponsored health care would lead to rationing.

SCHNEIDER: The government has the situation under control the president says.

BUSH: The CDC responsible for health in the United States is setting those priorities and allocating the flu vaccine accordingly.

SCHNEIDER: Isn't that government control?

BUSH: My opponent wants the government to run the health care.

SCHNEIDER: Maybe the answer is legal reform.

BUSH: Vaccine manufacturers are worried about getting sued, and so therefore they have backed off from providing this kind of vaccine.

SCHNEIDER: Kerry says the issue is the whole health care system.

KERRY: There still aren't enough flu vaccinations. What's the president's solution? He says, don't get one if you're healthy. That sounds just like his health care plan to me, hope and pray you don't get sick.

SCHNEIDER: The flu bug has infected the campaign. The side effect was the political play of the week.

And then this:

WOODRUFF: You know it's serious when you read that some states will fine or jail doctors and nurses who give flu shots to people who are not at high risk.

SCHNEIDER: Right, and that sounds a lot like rationing.

ROTFL!!! WAY TO GO, CNN!!!

(emailed to me, don't have a transcript link yet, am looking...)

[fearnobush]

1. Get this to Kerry camp Now!!!

Do it!!!

[coloradodem2005]

2. I hate Bush.

Of course you all knew that.

[budkin]

3. Holy shit!

I can't believe they actually called Bush on something!

[Aunt Anti-bush]

7. It is about time!

Hell must have frozen over, seriously.

[Vadem]

4. What has happened to Bill Schneider? I have noticed in the...

last two days, a definite trend towards Kerry from Bill Schneider! I know he is PNAC and a conservative from the AEI... so it is very interesting to hear Schneider pro-Kerry! What is going on with Schneider????

[w13rd0]

5. Kerry can win...

...and the whores are worried about losing access to their tricks...

[MADem]

6. I heard he was gay, so maybe

...the whole WE LOVE AND ARE ASHAMED OF OUR DAUGHTER business is getting to him.

[shelley806]

14. Bill Schneider is PNAC? AEI?

How truly depressing. He has been one of my favorites on CNN. I ahd no idea of his political leanings. Are you certain?

[Bongo Prophet]

15. Yep. Schneider, PNACer and AEI fellow.

I think at least SOME thinktankers like AEI/PNAC/etc are pissed at how badly Bush misplayed the plans they carefully set up over the past several years, and are looking to retrench for another day. Whether that's 08 or longer, who knows. They DO need Executive power to accomplish their "100 year plan" of Empire, yet we will have to watch their positions as they spread through the political/business landscape. They are indeed very Hydra-like, as we know.

[nolabels]

8. The only reason you can make sense out it......................

Is because it is BUSH NONSENSE

[Polemonium]

9. Thanks, I enjoyed that n/t

:)

[nonconformist]

10. WOW! 'bout damn time. Now keep it up CNN! nt

[girl gone mad]

11. I caught that piece on CNN this afternoon.

I'm so glad you posted this. It was EXCELLENT. He really nailed Bush. I think he could have gone a bit further, but it definitely got the point across that our health care system is in serious trouble, and an overhaul is in order, but Bush is in denial.

[Clovis Sangrail]

12. link

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/ip.01.html

[VoteJohn04_com]

13. Well... Sh*t!

:wow:

[shelley806]

16. Has this been forwarded to the Kerry camp, as someone suggested?

If not, I'll do so if you tell me how to. I also think that we need to bombard CNN about this very truthful commentary from Bill Schneider, PNAC and AEI member that he is. Let the media be praised when they speak the unbiased truth. Until this election, I trusted the media. (Big mistake with Rove at the helm.) But the big lies of omission are just as harmful to a free press as are the lies of commission, and because they are hidden with intent and more difficult to prove, they are probably more pernicious in the long run.

[Mizmoon]

17. Yesterday I posted that I liked Bill Schnieder

and DUers almost tore me a new one.

Told ya so :evilgrin:

[BootinUp]

18. Great post

nominating for homepage. I think any dems that need a lift will enjoy this.

[leftofthedial]

19. you must be shitting me

Schneider said that?

Overt, unabashed GOP shill Bill Schneider?

[leftofthedial]

20. why is it the repukes can nail the lies of the little bushturd

better than the Kerry campaign can?