What’s Behind the Anger?

You have just lost a long-time viewer who has become more and more disgusted in how you run your show.
You have “guests” like Carl Rove, who should be in jail and Liz Cheney, who has no bona fides as far as I can see.
You let George Will ramble on as though he is an economist when you have a Nobel Prize winning economist you’re not listening to.
You contstantly interrupt your guests whenever you please, even in the case of the President of the United States but you don’t interrupt Peggy Noonan who loves to listen to herself talk. Instead you photograph Peggy mugging for the camera while Donna Brazile is talking

I suspect that Robert Reich would proudly carry around a bucket filled with feces and claim it to be Godiva chocolates for a Democrat president. He is totally incapable of giving a thoughtful personal opinion on public policy issues. The man is so predictable he is a bore.

The Mainstream “Elite” media is so dead wrong. Couldn’t you spend ANY time talking to regular people, you know, the 95% of protestors who are too normal and too boring to make your “news” cast? All you have to do is stop searching the crowds for the nutjobs and just pick a boring normal person.
It ain’t race you elitist snobs. It’s about our Republic and our Constitution. We are afraid of the extreme leftist agenda coming out of Congress and the WH.

George cannot afford to change the Round Table setup.
Any other people than those currently occupying the seats around that table might disagree with what Obama is putting forth.
And we all know that wouldn’t be prudent.
No, not very prudent at all.

Big fan of your Sunday Show from the beginning. Luv the hard questions & probing. Your Obama interviews have been spot on.

It comes down to government out of control, both on spending and on size. Obama inherited a mess and he is adding to it. Both parties are awful, and many of these folks are demonstrating against both sides because they have failed us. Why pay taxes to these fools when they are so corrupt. Me thinks Ron Paul is on to something.

All of the media sounds alike and no one is getting on the correct story. We are all upset because we have 20 million out of work and the economy is in the tank and the country is broke. So all we hear is non-stop noise about health care, guess what it is not what the vast majority of Americans are thinking about and dealing with. What we have is a large landslide victory for one individual over another and the Republicans have gone crazy. I have been a Republican for over 40 years of my adult life and now don’t know what to think. America is an idea and an agreement between us all to live by a code of the majority rules and the minority is loyal. It appears we are breaking that basic agreement and becoming something else, or is it just the cable TV and far right and left that we are hearing? Some of this is bordering on treason sounding stuff.
I see comments from all sorts on both sides criticize your guests. They are always far right and left and so are you guess and that is the problem.
We real Americans are interested in solving the real problems, jobs, economy and taxes and being a broke country. Countries are just like companies and both of them are just like people. We only have so much energy and capital that we can use and we must be focused if we are to be successful. The country is focused on the wrong things, i.e. Health Insurance is not an emergency, the other stuff is.
The real questions the media should be looking at is why are we not investing in ourselves in America and our people. Like High Tech Engineering and jobs for the future long haul. Instead we still have 50,000 troops in Japan after 60 plus years. What for? This is crazy. We do this all over the world and give away massive amounts of foreign aid. Guess what after all the past 65 years when we assumed world leadership we still have it wrong, non of this pays us a dividend of any kind. We should shut down all the wars and monies to other countries except for disasters and invest the money here on our people and America.
Solving the Health Insurance deal in America is like solving any big corporate problem. You don’t go change the entire process, you analyze and determine what is wrong and you implement incremental changes one or two at a time. Why, because you can only predict what small changes will produce a desired set of results.
Automation of Medical Records is a big key and will save everyone in the medical delivery chain a great deal of money. This should be the first incremental change and then when it is complete we look at what can next be done to save money and improve coverage for all citizens at 9 %.
Just my thoughts from an old corporate guy that has implemented a great deal of successful incremental change. They all saved a great deal of money and improved productivity and that is what it is about.

Lou Sims — I wish you were a Czar! We could use an “old corporate guy” that has implemented money-saving _incremental_ changes that will save our economy without throwing our Constitution in the toilet.

It’s not about racism.It’s about the PUBLIC OPTION. Everyone agrees that health care needs reform. The african-american population is only 14% of the U.S. population. President Obama would never have been elected if racism were a major factor.

The USA is significantly weaker with Obama after only 8 months. I’m glad I don’t live in a big city.

Does Obama think that we are brain dead. What kind of lame argument is “everyone has to buy car insurance, and no one calls that a tax increase?” Yeah, and I ONLY have to buy car insurance if I drive a car. His horrible health care plan will make it mandatory for everyone to buy health insurance, even if they do not go to a doctor or believe in traditional medicine, which I DO NOT!!!!
He thinks that we are too stupid to see that this desperate push of his to force mandatory health insurance down our throats is nothing more than his attempt to pay back the Jews for their support of him during the election of 2008, and to secure their support for 2012. He is NOTHING more than a typical politician. Everything that he has done so far in this first term is to get him reelect. He does NOT give a damn about the economy, the wars, etc. The ONLY thing he cares about is HIS OWN SELFISH AMBITION. Well, I hope and pray that should he and the Democrats force through this mandatory health insurance policy, the Republicans will challenge the constitutionality of it in court, and this is one African-American female voter who will be right along with them.

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Where was this anger when Bush and Chaney where passing stuff like wire traps, email intercept, and the ability to detain Americans without cause. No they sat back and did nothing me is keeping us safe now when someone is trying to make things better for those without health care and to curb unbridled corporate greed they fear big government or is it just the black President. FTW!
Posted by: C,Thompson | Sep 20, 2009 2:07:32 PM
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Yes, you are right. WE were too busy living our lives, raising our children. We were seeing the govt. growing and getting more corrupt. We did nothing. We talked amongst our friends and family, but remained silent. Bush woke up a lot of people with the TARP plan. Don’t you remember how Congress had been bombarded by their constituents before voting on TARP? That was the catalyst. It lit our fuse. Obama has taken the reins and blown Bush’s and everybody else’s spending out of the water. Congress is corrupt, filled with special interest purchasing and selling power. We don’t want to be silent any longer, before the damage is too drastic to repair. Only Voters can save the Republic.

i would like to suggest that every media personality working in NYC take a field trip to the America that lies between Manhattan and Malibu. find a normal looking individual on their way to the office and spend about 15 minutes discussing every day issues with that person. you might be surprised at what real Americans think and want for this country. i’ll give you a hint – it’s not what we are getting.

Its not about race. Joe Biden couldve been advocating huge government and people would still be protesting. Its about media bias and people being sick of one sided reporting. The “anger” has been there, its just the sides have switched and the media doesnt support this “anger”. The silent majority is tired of being silent.

You seriously have never witnessed government fraud? You must live under a rock. The federal prisons are full of politicians commiting fraud. And that is only the real stupid ones who get caught. Both parties have several candidates who should be occupying a cell currently. What the far left and far right do not understand is that we in the middle outnumber you both. This is how Bush and Obama got elected. We are fed up with the lies and using our money as your personal bank account. Once we in the middle put our foot down and run our own candidate, both the Lib. Democrats and Far Right Republicans can suck wind. Obama will be the straw that caused this country to say enough.

The redistributionist, big-government policies are behind the anger. Obama wrongly believes he won because of this platform. He knew what “Hope and Change” meant, but he cleverly avoided speaking the truth about it in his campaign and during the debate. He won by putting down the Bush administration.
So, his election was a vote against the Republicans. Most Obama supporters did not realize the meanings of the socialist/communist code-words “hope” and “change”. But now they are finding out and are getting angry.

ErnstNM-If you aren’t aware of fraud in gov’t then maybe you should go to a 2005 report that the Heritage Foundation published using government reporting documents the 2004 gov’g spending habits. They list the top 10 wasteful areas. #1 was an admission that there was $25 billion that the gov’t new had been spent but couldn’t figure out who spent it and what it was spent on. As for Medicare, there were billions that were paid for fraudulent claims. And at a rate that greatly exceeded the loss by private insurance companies due to fraud. The reason is the puny enforcement budget by the gov’t. That way they can say they keep admin cost much lower than private companies. Private companies do spend more on reducing fraud and, of course, with much better resultss. Industry standard show that for every dollar spent to reduce fraud the savings is $8.00. A truth lost on the managers of Medicare. Oh, also in the top 10 list was the misuse of gov’t credit cards that are issued to thousands of gov’t employees to make purchasing needed supplies easier. When the auditors did a spot check they found millions used for things like cruises, concert tickets, strip joints, liquor, massages, and all manner of items that had nothing to do with gov’t work. Another intem was hundreds of millions of dollars in airline tickets that had been bought by depts in gov’t and not used but were never turned in to get a reimbursement for the gov’t.
For Obama or any congressman or senator to say that we are going to save billions by correcting waste is Medicare and Medicad is simply not believeable. They have no capacity to do so!
Obama has told so many obvious lies the White House should be called the home of the Whopper. He and his team have committed so many gaffs he has lost credibility. Once he gets off the teleprompter he makes foolish statments. Such as saying the police officer acted stupidly right after he said he didn’t know the facts. Or that the press shouldn’t get “all wee wee’d up”. If “W” had said something that tasteless we would have heard about it on every mainstream outlet for weeks. Hardly a ripple except on talk radio and Fox when Obama offered that jewel.

So, where was this anger during the Bush years? Seems to me these same people who are so angry are the same ones who supported Bush’s march to a foolish war in Iraq and who excused his incoherence by blaming biased media. I suggest those who have so much anger re-direct to something more constructive than shouting down opposing views…And, those who want to continue to express such anger do not feign innocence when the same anger gets re-directed to you. It is human nature to spit back in a person’s face once they have spit in yours..

Welcome to the world of being a real journalist, George. Next time don’t let Obama wiggle off the hook on tough questions regarding ACORN, the organization under investigation in a dozen states and where Obama learned his community organizing.

Posted by Yolanda – And Peggy Noonan is terribly boring and condensending, just like a white Republican woman. Hmmm… Why is THIS not racism?
The fact is “We the People” don’t want bigger government. And this man wants it all.

You have just lost a long-time viewer who has become more and more disgusted in how you run your show.
You have “guests” like Carl Rove, who should be in jail and Liz Cheney, who has no bona fides as far as I can see.
You let George Will ramble on as though he is an economist when you have a Nobel Prize winning economist you’re not listening to.
You contstantly interrupt your guests whenever you please, even in the case of the President of the United States but you don’t interrupt Peggy Noonan who loves to listen to herself talk. Instead you photograph Peggy mugging for the camera while Donna Brazile is talking
Posted by: Deborah Kvande
Hmm, nothing about Robert Reich,…the ONLY member of that panel who has made openly racist comments!

George, YOU are behind the anger. You almost salivate when given the chance to malign the president or report something negative about him. You pander to Republicans, and it is disgusting to watch. I realize you have sold out and your one objective is ratings, therefore ensuring you your fat salary from your corporation, but, really!
What happened to the idealistic, enthusiastic man who raved about how when President Clinton won the election people were finally going to get decent health care. Now you seem bent on making sure you promulgate the lies that the Republicans are telling.
Your demeanor towards the president was inconceivably rude. You threw your hand at him, interrupted him, and acted like a snot-nosed middle school protege when you read him a definition from the dictionary. Unbelievable!
I commend the president for keeping his control no matter how much you baited him. Why oh, why don’t you just give it up and get a job at Fox?

I am a person who will likely not benefit from Health Care Reform. I am Insured by a rare insurer that does not discriminate for preexisting conditions and does not cancel people when sick. I do however have to file appeals to get payment often, I am lucky it has not been life or death treatment. This appeal process can be a death sentence in, Cancer Treatment for example.
Insurance Companies have too much authority in claim denial.
I do favor a public health option, but would be happy if congress simply eliminated their government health care and enter the real world of Health Insurance. This would lead to meaningful reform.
Point is just because I don’t think these reforms will not benefit me does not mean I don’t support them.
Note to G Will: The Republicans are the ones who have been doing the fist pounding and the no one said everyone is a racists who opposes reform. Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh are racists, if you don’t see the proof you are blinder than I ever thought.

I am thoroughly disgusted with blatant racisism that never ends! We’re so used to hearing it, we gloss over it and no one mentions it…. but, here…. read it again:
“….. And Peggy Noonan is terribly boring and condensending, just like a white Republican woman. She has nothing of value to contribute to the program, please replace her with someone who has sincere and intelligent information. Thank you,”
Posted by: yolanda | Sep 20, 2009 1:17:07 PM
Is anyone else tired of this crap?

The irrelivance of the mainstream media knows no limits. Just like their tone deafness when it comes to hearing the voices of the American people. No wonder these guys are so chummy with the politicans they cover… They BOTH do NOT have a freaking clue!!!

Georges’ interview with President Obama was much better than most. However, no one that I have seen specifically has called him out on medicare advantage plans. He continues to claim that to move those currently covered to regular medicare gives them equal coverage. In fact medicare covers 80% and most advantage plans cover 100% (subject to small deductibles) The plans also provide coverages for dental and health clubs. Most of the 20% of retired persons now covered save several thousand dollars per year. To eliminate is not a tax??? And, why is it the insurance companies are making a profit with these plans, while the claim is that Medicare cannot?

Did Pelosi use good judgement when she used nazi and other inflamming words??,,, Did Dowd use good professional jouirnalism when she added the ” boy” word in her opinion piece regarding the Wilson outbutst?
Not a peep from you Beltway wizzards and Left wign elitist,, press and journalist included.. And you have to ask why the hatred,,, just look at yourselves…..

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FOX news spent the entire Bush administration misinforming its viewers. A great many of them are still convinced that Iraq and september 11th are connected. they also believe that Bush only spied on ‘terrorists’. They also believe that Obama is a Muslim (which is where the racism comes in)…for some reason being Muslim is bad???
FOX is now gladly telling all of its viewers that Obama is spying on them. what they fail to mention is that Bush spied much much more. It doesnt make it right that Obama is doing it but FOX never told its viwers the truth about Bush and so now they get angry (just as democrats were under Bush).
The problem is that Bush was much worse than Obama. Im still open minded and hopeful about Obama. Bush policies of corporations and wealthy first led to the financial collapse. Obamas policies have brought our country back.
The Republicans always side with big business. Consider the recent house proposal to increase education subsidies (grants) by cutting subsidies to bankers. Nearly all the Republicans in the House voted against increasing student aid by cutting subsidies to bankers. Who’s side are they on??
They are on the side of corporations and the wealthy but apparently most of their supporters dont know it. thats why they are angry now. They are being told lies by everyone they listen to.
All you have to do is look at the actions of theose people. Who is it that wants to privatize Medicare like they did with Medicare Part D? Its not the democrats. Its the Republicans who want to do the same to all of Medicare what they did to Medciare Part D. They want to privatize everything. They dont care if you cant get or afford health care. Just so long as insurance companies keep making profits.
Unfortunatley we also have to contend with ‘blue dog democrats’ who are basically republicans.
Only the Progressives have the people best inetrets in mind.

To huh blogger:
Perhaps you don’t have the facts. There is no health care bill and as for the health care bill Obama my president has been trying to sell, maybe he should read it and you should. It gives a government beaurocrat too much power and that will of course be some incompetent that knows nothing about health care or health insurance. Some elected Czar who only answers to his highness.
By the way all the things he pitches you in the health care bill are not in it!
That is why they have to go back and keep remaking it.
A dead fish is a dead fish.

Where was this anger when Bush and Chaney where passing stuff like wire traps, email intercept, and the ability to detain Americans without cause.
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Actually, Obama decided to continue all these practices. He didn’t stop torture, in fact he expanded and outsourced it so Americans have no oversight whatsoever, who knows today the horrors being done today in your name. He took it a step further by deciding he could regulate pay for any American he sees fit. Along with nationalizing financial institutions, banks, car companies and now setting his eyes on nationalizing the newspapers… do we really need a state run newspaper? Pravda anyone?