Cokie Calls Jon Voight “Cringemaking”

Jon Voight is a has been looking for some credibility,even his daughter doesn’t pay him any mind,perhaps he should do Infomercials to get some attention selling BS

Just another example of our morally bankrupt “media” acting as though it is offering thoughtful, objective observation, when it’s really nothing more than an ongoing public relations operation on behalf of the Democrat Party.
Cokie Roberts, a dyed-in-the-wool, old school Louisiana democrat, pretending to be a “journalist” is what is cringemaking.

Cokie Roberts is a has been looking for some credibility. Perhaps she should do infomercials to get some attention selling BS

Voight is entirely correct about Obsma and it is that truth that is making the leftists cringe.

Yvonne, regarding Jon Voight and daughter, are you referring to the daughter with numerous tattoos, one who wore her last husband’s blood in a vial around her neck, embarrassed the public immodest displays of affection, etc.?
You’re so right, Jon Voight doesn’t have much credibility — his daughter, a very credible person, should know.

I cringed when Cokie said we should just “shot him”, that’s the “good old boys” mentality .. Cokie is getting more and more cranky since the Republicans dropped in popularity.. she yarns for the good old days .

I dunno, it seems like Miz Roberts is something of an expert on “cringeworthy.”

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We are all patriots who love our country. Our country is us. We are our country.

Where have all the moderates gone? Where the independents have gone,sickened by the partisan war that makes politics a sewer.
Let’s try to get some facts and objectivity back, beginning with the health care debate.
There is a consensus that 20% of ALL the healthcare costs are FRAUD,pure and simple. Medicare mills and checks to dead people and riduculous #s of tests by 1 doctor for every patient.
THAT IS NOT A FAILURE OF OUR HEALTH CARE system!!!!
Another 10% comes from Defensive medicine. I am a diabetic so I need blood tests every 90 days. I have been gong to the same doctor for 10 years. He likes me and he is honest. He runs 50 tests on me EVERY time instead of the 10 that are relevant. The ONLY reason he does this,he tells me, is to protect himself in the future from lawsuits if I should suddenly die or go into a coma. State medical malpractice insurance clearly shows, when a state puts an absolute cap on (infinite possible) “pain and suffering” above ALL the true costs of the medical care and wage losses, premiums fall like a stone. WOW!!!
The fact that the US population has gone from 13% OBESE in 1962 to 34% in 2000 is NOT A FAILURE of the US Health System!!! Our diet and exercise habits are awful. I happen to travel outside the US and it is amazing, the people in Europe and Asia (and my doctors) all seem to be much more fit and trimmer the average American.
We constantly hear that our medical system does not give us good care. One of the “statistics” used to “prove
this”, is our “high” infant mortality rate. We try to save every possible baby, no matter how pre-mature, or how small they are, or how little they weigh. Virtually EVERY other advanced country does not even count newborns who are under a certain weight, or are too short, or are “born” before so many weeks of pregnancy. Also, I am sure in the US the totality of reporting might be higher than some other countries. Let us compare this (how to lie with statistics) stat with the laxer standards of virtually all the “advanced” european and asian socities. They do not have to cover nowhere near the area of the US.
The “best” infant mortality rates come from wealthy “city sates” like Singapore and Andorra and Monaco etc..they have great hospitals and no one lives more than 1 mile from them.
Why don’t we try to address these real issues instead of telling “YOU SHALL” in a 2000 page bill no one has read? and trying to ram it through congress OBAMA “by Aug 30 then Sept 30 then Dec 31″. As time goes on people support it less and more “practical questions” arise. Goverment cannot deliver “swine flu” on time as promised, they cannot pay virtually ANY of car dealers in the “cash for clunkers” auto program the $4500 they advanced. (this was unusual, it actually did well as planned). Now we learn that that “successful” stimulus cost $24,000 per $4500 granted, and the long term demand for cars goes right back to the 9M per year as before..Stimulus? or gimmick? Suddenly we need as second stimulus package? The GDP grew 3.5% last quarter, the recession is over. We printed 23% more money in 2008 alone, that is an all time record!!! Iam glad Bernacke did so. We do NOT want another 1929,but, now we happily far from that.
To show I am non-partisan, look how Bush handled Katrina “great job Brownie”so goverment incompetence is completely non-partisan.
A full 30% of our health care costs have to do with “end of life” issues.Do you really want the government meddling with THAT? That is for families and doctors to deal with. It is amazing. In the US we can keep people “alive” even in comas for years or decades. Remember Terry Schaivo? Do you REALLY want YOUR family to be subjected to THAT? I do NOT!! My father had a living will. He was clear. He had a massive stroke one morning and told my mom “No ambulance” and went into a coma. She called ambulance. He had “successful” neurosurgery but remained in the coma. He stated he did not wish any “extrodinary” measures but both of us ( my mother and I) to agree before the “plug” was pulled. I am pro-choice,libertarian and I loved my father. I wanted to give him EVERY chance. Pressure was put on me. Talk about your “irreversible” decisions!!!After one month I ‘gave up”. I was told he might have “lived” in that coma for years. A colleague gave me another example. He had a friend who knew of someone who went into a coma. He spent two years and $3 million dollars in the coma. Then his medical insurance ran out and the “special care” was stopped. He died 2 days later. I am not judging ANYONE. There are no “right” answers. Do you think government really belongs in this picture AT ALL??!!! It is a delicate complex matter for family and doctors! We can start to have government health care and rationed care so you have to wait in line for care or for organs so you “die” while waiting in line!!! I know we have the same issues here but most I have spoken with prefer our “ad hoc” rationing approach for organ donation to big brother.
There are lots of actual facts but NO ONE on either side of this great debate seem to care about them.
Sorry for making this so long but NO ONE seems to be addressing the real issues here while redefining our complex health care system.

Obama is having success. One must understand the stragic thinking if this character. Obama must continue to destroy the middle-class (a traditional enemy of marxists) so “change” can happen more throughly. So he needs a weak dollar, illegal immigrants, high unemployement, confiscatory taxation, big brother policies, etc. Now that Obamacare passed the House more attention will be to implement land-reform (but will be hidden as environmental regulations). And look for more anti-freedom laws (hate speech laws, anti-gun laws, etc.) Obama is not failing he is doing very well if you consider the goals.

Actors don’t take roles they don’t want. Including bottoms in Deliverance.

This bill is a disaster; Jon Voight is correct. As a Louisiana native myself I can say that Cokie Roberts and her entire family are cringeworthy.

Jon Voight PATRIOT!!!!!!!!!!!! aND NOT AFRAID TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!!

Cokie is very liberal and she does want our country to become socialist. She is smart and she knows what is happening to our country. She is very protective of Obama and she believe by going socialist is a lot better than capitalist. She doesn’t know what’s like. I used to like her but not anymore because all of the ABC staffs are bunch of idiots. I’m glad Joe Stossel left and went to join Fox news. ABC, NBC, CBS and MNBC are bunch of liars and most unethical journalism I have ever seen in my life. But they are losing their viewers more and more. What goes around comes around. They are bunch of losers..

There has to be a Cokie Roberts joke in there somewhere.

I cringe whenever I see comments sections like this sprawled with people that can’t apparently think for themselves and just swallow without question the whackjob talking points that are all lies devoid of any basis in reality, and have all come from TV and talk radio mouthpieces that people are too stupid to realize make million$ stirring up hatred and paranoia regarding our President. Then they have the gall to talk about being patriotic Americans when they say vile lies (that they’ve never fact-checked outside of the echo-chamber) that divide the Country in ways that our Nation’s true enemies could only dream of, and act like angry parrots repeating cute things like that “Dear Leader” propaganda meant to delegitimize Obama, all the while too blinded by their own hatred and bitterness to see plainly that the people telling them these things either screwed everything up the previous 8 years, and they NEVER SAID A THING when our rights and freedoms, economy, and national security (9-11, Iraq..), etc. ad nauseum were all going down the drain. Your not only wrong in your comments on the facts; your not even original, incapable of thinking on your own and looking at both sides honestly. None of you even try to help keep our Nation together. You only truly care about whether or not your winning the popularity contest, cloaking yourself in the language of patriotism but with a hatred for anyone who actually practices freedom and doesn’t believe what you do. Screaming down what’s left of civility and decency in our Country, even if it means our Country divides and is surpassed by other nations that don’t waste all their time fighting amongst themselves so nothing gets done. And if you believe for a second that Obama wanted to have to bail out Wall St., car companies, etc. in his first year, and lose time and support on such unpopular things, you truly are lost.

To Julie Runco… you clearly have no understanding of the root cause of our current economic crisis.
Check out The Community Reinvestement Act…and just exactly who its sponsors were, and who voted for it.
But then… you may be “in over your head.”

Truth hurts you said, “You only truly care about whether or not your winning the popularity contest, cloaking yourself in the language of patriotism but with a hatred for anyone who actually practices freedom and doesn’t believe what you do. Screaming down what’s left of civility and decency in our Country, even if it means our Country divides and is surpassed by other nations that don’t waste all their time fighting amongst themselves so nothing gets done. And if you believe for a second that Obama wanted to have to bail out Wall St., car companies, etc. in his first year, and lose time and support on such unpopular things, you truly are lost.”
Since I never read long posts because they usually sound soooo stupid, I thought I’d reprint the last half of this long post because, before I knew it, it was such a smart read. I figured those who really needed to read it wouldn’t have gotten this far.

How sad to see a formerly great woman like Ms. Roberts resort to lashing out at people who don’t agree with her. Her lunches with Sally Quinn and Peggy Noonan have rendered her capable of nothing more than cocktail party babble.

Posted by: TX_MBell | Nov 8, 2009 1:14:45 PM
Cokie Roberts, a dyed-in-the-wool, old school Louisiana democrat, pretending to be a “journalist” is what is cringemaking.
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My sentiments exactly!

Cokie Roberts is a mouthpiece for the liberals – she is not a reporter.

It’s interesting that they make Jon Voight out to be the extremist because of his comments on Jeremiah Wright, but they didn’t play Wright’s comments on goddamning America so that we could decide who the real extremist is.

Cokie Roberts avoids the debate by attempting to discredit Jon Voight. Once again, another so called journalist who reports her liberal opinion any way she can instead of answering Jon Voight’s claims with facts