TYT Interviews: David Sirota on Beck, The White House, Healthcare & More

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 06:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fVD7Yf9yMY   Posted on YouTube: September 10, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 12, 2009 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1261

 
Note: After you watch the above video make sure you check out this important interview (and the terrifying SC clip in the '5 Clips' section below): .

Summary: This video is from TYT's new YouTube Channel, . Cenk talks to David Sirota about Glenn Beck and the Van Jones 'resignation' as well as the politics of Democrats/Blue Dogs/The White House WRT the healthcare debate. You can .

Also Watch These 5 Clips You May Have Missed:

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[OhioChick]

1. Rec. n/t

[ProSense]

2. Sirota needs to lay off the media spin.

Q: Madam Speaker, are there any non-negotiable demands that you have for this legislation" And in particular, is a public option that you have long supported one of them?

Speaker Pelosi. Well, what the President said last night is what he has said over and over again. He thinks the public option is the best way to keep the insurance -- well, he said originally at the summit the best way to keep the insurance companies honest, to increase competition so that we can lower cost, improve quality, expand coverage, and retain choice. If you like what you have, you can keep it.

If somebody has a better idea, put it on the table, that's what the President said. Well, in the month of August, while people were complaining about the public option, they only put on the table -- they hit us with their best shot: distortion, misrepresentation, and obstruction.

So, so far, we haven't seen a better idea, but it could be there. So this is about a goal. It's not about provisions. As long as our goal of affordability and accessibility and quality, meeting the four -- which you don't want me to repeat again -- goals that we have in the legislation, then we will go forward with that bill.

Speaker Pelosi. But you never go -- I don't think you ever really go into a negotiation and say that some things are non-negotiable. One of those would be that we not pass a bill, and that seems to be the goal of many here. But as the President said, the status quo is not sustainable.

It's not sustainable for individuals. It's not sustainable for businesses. It's not sustainable for our economy. And it's certainly not sustainable for our budget. And the cost to Medicare and Medicaid and -- and their -- the increased cost will take us so deeply into debt, we must pass a bill that is paid for, at a certain limit, establishing priorities, that bends the curve, that lowers cost as we go into the future.

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Pelosi's statement

[NecklyTyler]

3. Excellent TYT

[MedfordTim]

4. David Sirota: Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Speech

Read it at http://www.openleft.com/diary/15024/reviewing-president-rahm-emanuels-speech">Open Left. Here's a sample:

"Not to be too much of a downer, but I found Obama's speech tonight a big O-bummer. Really, other than his very important reminder that "we're all in this together," it was disappointing (although that's probably not the right word, because it implies I expected something more). And remember, while I have at times been critical of Obama, I've been very supportive of him on health care...up until tonight. Here's a list of my basic problems:"

[GivePeaceAchance]

5. Yep, it's time for lines in the sand. K&R

[kayakjohnny]

6. Damn, that was good.

Those two operate well together. I wish I knew as much about the nuance of politics as either one of them. Thanks for the post. Cheers!

[ChromeFoundry]

7. K&R n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. kick and recommended!!

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. kick and recommended!!

[sabrina 1]

10. 'Rahm Emmanuel thinks the Progressives will roll over

but the Blue Dogs won't'. Sirota is so right. That's exactly the problem we have. They cater to the most negative, uncooperative members of Congress, and ignore Progressives, or worse threaten them, because they believe in the end they will cave.

And progressives do not have a president who respects them. But they do have the power to stop any bill that does not benefit the American people. If only they will use it. Time to start calling them again.

[pleah]

11. K& R

[20score]

12. How true. K&R