Fox guest cites "Bruno" to argue against health care reform

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from THinkProgress:



Fox guest cites Bruno to argue against health care reform.

On Fox News this morning, host Megyn Kelly hosted Dr. Robert Goldberg of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest to help her scaremonger about Democratic plans to reform America’s health care system. In order to attack the plans, Goldberg cited a scene in the movie Bruno, in which Paula Abdul was tricked into sitting on Mexican workers made to act like furniture:

GOLDBERG: I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie Bruno, but there’s a scene there where Sacha Baron Cohen invites Paula Abdul to be interviewed on chairs made out of Mexicans. And that’s exactly what the Obama or the congressional plan does. It balances, tries to balance the budget, the expansion of this new entitlement on the backs of people.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/17/health-care-bruno/


At the end of the segment, Kelly’s co-host, Rick Folbaum, remarked, “He worked Bruno into the health care debate, did you notice that?” “That was impressive,” replied Kelly.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/17/health-care-bruno/

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1. "chairs made out of Mexicans"

:scared:

[On the Road]

2. Well, the Mexicans May Have Experienced a Little Back Pain

but otherwise seemed none the worse for wear.

[Eric J in MN]

3. So a bunch of right-wing slimeballs got together and decided to form an organization...

...with a name (Center for Medicine in the Public Interest) which makes it sound like they care about the pubic, when they're trying to hurt the public?

Our current health care system is based on people paying premiums for years and then getting treatment rejected by the insurance company when they get cancer.

Health care CEOs get rich while sick people go bankrupt.

Our current system fits his analogy better than the reform legislation.