Death Threats Are SOOOOO Unpleasant!

[Pamela Troy]

I keep wondering how this happened, I mean, those pictures you showed earlier of all those yelling, screaming people, it’s just, it’s so unpleasant, and I just have to believe it has to do with the shortage of nuns, because anybody raised by nuns would not behave in that way… Cokie Roberts

It’s not her obviously facetious reference to nuns that’s infuriating, though that’s certainly annoying as all Hell. It’s that look of dignified bewilderment and horror. Yes, like much of the mainstream media, Cokie is shocked, I tell you, shocked that the Republican base, incited by inflammatory and irresponsible claims by healthcare reform opponents, is now shrieking threats, insults and accusations at Townhall forums and effectively shutting them down.

It must be the lack of nuns. Yeah, that’s it…

Or, as Sam Donaldson says, the fact that there’s “no bill to talk about…”

Or is it because there are five bills instead of just one, as George Stephanapolis says? (“Exactly!” says Donaldson. Huh? But I thought you said….Oh, never mind…)

No, no, I got it! It’s because Obama trying to pass healthcare reform is just like Bush pushing the Iraq war! Yeah, that’s it! Remember all those Town Halls that opponents of Bush disrupted so completely that at least one Republican had to be escorted to his car under police protection?

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with a media that long ago threw away its responsibility to actually inform, now could it? Couldn’t be related to the press treating, say, creationist crackpots with the same level of seriousness they treat respected biologists and scientists? Couldn’t have anything to do with a “he-said/she-said” approach to reporting that has left informed viewers wondering what exactly some beltway reporters do to earn their high salaries other than pointing a microphone and transcribing sound bytes?

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with an unprincipled political party exploiting the laziness and incuriousness of our DC press corps, stepping into the vacuum to spread rumors about war heroes not being war heroes, or elected presidents not being native born Americans, or healthcare reform including a plot to euthanize old people?

Nahhhh.

It’s the lack of nuns… Or sunspots…or

[RagAss]

1. Nuns my frigging Ass ! Call the FBI on these balls of shit !!

[Barack_America]

2. Yes, Cokie. It's unfortunate we are not a nation of Catholic orphans.

:crazy:

[ccharles000]

3. k/r

[WheelWalker]

4. I couldn't agree with you more, comrade....it's nun of the above n/t

:kick:

[Truth2Tell]

5. Recommended. nt

[geckosfeet]

6. coKie - repblican npr shill pos.

[me b zola]

7. It gets tiring to hear people equate activism of the left

with the lynch mobs of the right. And Cokie's solution is more nuns? Cripes.

Nice to see you posting again, Pamela. Recommended.

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Look, I'm no Cokie Roberts fan, but it seems to me she had something to say ...

... at the end of this clip.

"The people who are there (in between the doctor and their patients) now are the insurance company."

It sort of supported the larger point these talking heads were trying to make about all the noise coming from these town hall meetings being nonsense, with people getting in an uproar about - what? Legislation that hasn't gelled before going to the Senate?

Why the yelling when the congress can't seem to get support behind the single payer/universal health care model?

They should have moved on to why that really doesn't happen. No one in Congress has asked the CBO to even score a single payer health care model.

Maybe we should send nuns to Congress so they can ask a damn question on behalf of the American people? No, I think we should have more people like Dennis Kuchinich and John Conyers to take HR 676 (Senate version 703) to fruition.

[Pamela Troy]

9. It's awfully nice that they acknowledge the fact that it's nonsense.

What angers me is their elaborate, oh-so-innocent "bewilderment" about where this nonsense comes from and why it's become endemic.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. Yes, that is disengenuous, isn't it?

Cokie Roberts, after all, should know better, but she forgets what she is supposed to be.

Everyone forgets what they are supposed to do!

[Libertas1776]

10. With all those

yelling and screaming and violent people, hell, I could of sworn they were raised by penguins.




Probably by Sister Mary Stigmata herself.

[Politicalboi]

11. Calling Sister Bertrille

Just give her 30 minutes and she will fix everything.

[defendandprotect]

13. Of course, nuns WOULD behave that way . . . and brothers, as well-!!!

[defendandprotect]

14. Cokie found it impossible to recognize this is GOP-inspired, right-wing propaganda???