Health Care....wasn't the press conference about health care?

[Plausible]

You know, health care as in Americans without it are dying because they are without it. Health care, as in you can't have any for a pre-existing condition, as in if you get cancer and can't work from the hospital bed, you lose your health care, if you were so fortunate to have it?

Turned on the NBC news...omg, their lead story was what Prez Obama said about the Gates incident...switched to CBS...omg, lead story the President's comments on the Gates incident.

So the corporate news media turned the President's health care news conference into a debate about his comments on the Gates incident.
Had I been Mr. Gates, I, too, would have been upset to get arrested inside the door of my own home. I am not discounting that situation but it was used to punk health care reform.

Does anyone else get that?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. It's our fault. If we landed on the media like vultures and made damned sure....

the assholes stopped making scandals out of things that aren't (like his comment), they wouldn't do it. But we don't care.

[Plausible]

2. I care Sarah

I'm angry. I was going to email CBS and NBC, like they would care, so I came here instead.

It is like the corporate media seized on this golden opportunity to start racial trouble in a country that has for the most part grown past such idiocy. President Obama was elected by many white voters. Don't try to divide us Katie.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Thank you.

I know you care.

I get so frustrated with the media. :(

[liberal N proud]

3. But Lynn Sweet was a right wing hero

She changed the subject and maybe single handedly killed health care discussions.

It worked here on DU.

[BlueIdaho]

4. Health Care?

Health care reform is dead. Everyone in the game got a nice little payday from the insurance cartel - all that's left is a little public hand wringing about just how truly awful they all feel for the sick and the poor.

Gates is a convenient little distraction.

Nothing to see here, just keep moving along.

[Kat45]

5. I get it.

This is pissing me off too.

[timeforpeace]

6. Cuts both ways. Media made health care the top story for quite a while.

[Plausible]

7. You may have missed the point

when the corporate media, sitting on their multi-millon dollar salary, did mention health care it was mainly about Medicare and Medicaid being too expensive for their taxes or the COST of health care for all being unaffordable. Well, not for them.

When President Obama goes on national TV prime time to talk about health care reform, the lead story is about the Gates incident.

Just thinking about this makes me madder and madder.

I know people who don't go to the doctor when they are ill because they can't afford to go. Don't we all know people in that position???
Are we willing to change that public discussion to the Gates incident?