Monica Crowley: Obama "Willing To Starve" Seniors "To Death"

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107150022

Monica Crowley: Obama "Willing To Starve" Seniors "To Death"

July 15,
2011 2:51 pm ET by Simon Maloy

Monica Crowley, the Fox News pundit and panelist for The McLaughlin Group, has a piece up on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com this afternoon purporting to "point out the ironies, hypocrisy, madness, and lies of President Obama." Specifically she writes:

July 13, 2009: Obama speaks at a rally for ObamaCare, and in response to a question, claims that his plan won't "pull the plug on Grandma." Hear it here (at link).

Two years later, almost to the day:

July 12, 2011: Obama threatens to withhold Social Security checks if a debt deal isn't done by the Treasury's artificial deadline of August 2. He told CBS News' Scott Pelley: "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," he said. Hear it here.

Crowley concludes: "In two short years, he's gone from being unwilling to 'pull the plug on Grandma' to being willing to starve her to death."

Actually, if you listen to what Obama said closely -- or at all -- you'll see that he really doesn't want the government to go into default and put entitlement payments at risk. He's not "willing to starve" seniors. No rational person would be. And no honest person would so grossly twist his words to make such an accusation.

Crowley's interpretation of Obama's comments to CBS as betraying a willingness to let senior citizens die is less an example of Obama's "hypocrisy, madness, and lies" than it is a reflection of her own capacity for lying and ugly, reflexive partisanship. Of course, that's nothing new for Monica Crowley; she once accused Obama of lying about being black. :wow:

[vaberella]

1. Can you post a link to calling or contacting CNN about Crowley's statement, please.

Thanks for the post.

[babylonsister]

5. Wrong Crowley; that's Candy. This is the r/w blowhard who is on

McLaughlin Group often. She's vile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McLaughlin_Group

[Ikonoklast]

2. Crowley is a pig.

I said it.

[Politicalboi]

18. She always reminds me of

John Candy in drag. LOL!

[Kahuna]

3. I HATE that vile species. I watched the McLaughlin group since the

80s until she became a panelist. After that, I just couldn't do it anymore.

[yardwork]

4. Crowley is loathesome. I remember her during the 2004 election. She's vile beyond words.

[66 dmhlt]

6. Just for the record: Monica Crowley is a female cur

[Cereal Kyller]

7. Who the hell listens to Monotone Crow?

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

8. Know the enemy; just sayin'. And she is, obviously. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. When Fox goes what will she do?

[treestar]

10. So why not say the same about the Republicans?

They are willing to "starve senior to death" rather than raise taxes.

[Forkboy]

11. She's such a smeghead.

[Whisp]

12. 'catfood commissioners' say Obama wants to choke old people

with stuffing catfood down their throats. they choke faster than die from starvation I suppose.

that Crowley seems like a piker compared.

:crazy:

[Fire1]

13. babylon, why would you post this stupid shit? You're

instigating and you know it! LOL!!

[babylonsister]

14. No, I'm not. I think it's important to know what's out there, and

was frankly appalled when I read this. I knew about Crowley, but thought this was really bad for a supposed 'journalist'.

:hi:

[MadMaddie]

15. Wow! President Obama never said that and he was

responding to a question...and if I remember correctly, he said, something like "It is possible that checks could be delayed because of the impasse".

Wow she is an idiot...

[ClassWarrior]

16. She's a worthless tool.

NGU.

[AtomicKitten]

17. Dramatic. Bullshit but dramatic bullshit.

>>> Monica Crowley; she once accused Obama of lying about being black. <<<

I was so taken aback by that I had to look it up ... x a lot

[rasputin1952]

19. The Teabaggers have been the one's to push for the...

infamous, "Death Panels".

In a predictable twist of events, as usual, the RW brought about the creation of events that would dreadfully harm Sr's and the infirm. To them, it a feudal mindset, "produce or die".