READ BELOW...there has been an update (at the end of this posting)
This is weird.....I was in Pakistan! What is with this guy Stephen C. Webster? I don't mind getting criticized when I have done something..but this one - read below - is odd..or really sloppy journalism. (And thanks to the GretaWire blogger who tipped me off to this.)
Could someone please tell Stephen C. Webster (see below) that I was not anchoring ON THE RECORD at 10pm last night/Friday night? (see below) I was either in the airport leaving Islmabad, Pakistan when ON THE RECORD at 10pm Friday aired...or already in the air headed to Berlin, Germany.
So, to use a word used in this headline below, who is "phony?" Webster or me?
Before Webster writes his article - or even takes a shot at me - he ought to get it right....by the way, read his article and if you feel so inclined, email Webster and tell him to work on getting at least some of the facts right.
Fox News host resurrects phony ‘death panel’ claim
By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 -- 12:42 pm
Fox News host resurrects phony death panel claimFox News personality Greta Van Susteren wants you to know: the so-called death panels are not dead.
They're not real either, but the right-wing talker still cautioned her guest on Friday's broadcast that "granny is watching."
Adriel Bettelheim, a White House correspondent with CQ Politics, calmly panned the suggestion.
"I really wanna know," said Van Susteren. "End-of-life counseling as it stands in this 1,990-page proposal: does it mean pulling the plug on granny if the government decides?"
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UPDATE 5:51pm east coast time ( I don't know what time it is here in Berlin.) If you have any doubt how much power you all have, check out the text below from Stephen C. Webster. Your power pushed him to correct his stupid mistake (I was out of the country and not anchoring Friday night) ...but now he insists on insulting our guest host Jamie Colby. I have no idea what she said or did not but it seems clear to me by the reference below that Webster's way of dealing with his sloppy journalism is not a correction and simple apology but rather a slap at my colleague. Would you not think he would want to do the right thing? Does he need to be nasty to Jamie? Oh well..he must have a bit of a problem...check below the newly updated posting by Webster:
Fox News wants you to know: the so-called death panels are not dead.
They're not real either, but a right-wing talker sitting in for host Greta Van Susteren still cautioned her guest on Friday's broadcast that "granny is watching."
Adriel Bettelheim, a White House correspondent with CQ Politics, calmly panned the suggestion
I'm thinking maybe we should demand that the remainder of the the stimulus money be spent to purchase full-body Kevlar suits for each American taxpayer. That way, we might not feel the full impact when this administration throws us under the bus with their health care reform, cap & trade, etc.. Can anyone explain to me (and make me believe it) how we can spend $1.2 trillion that we don't have, and aren't currently spending, and "save" money? The "Lie-Meter" is pegged, I think!
What is this???? Distributing free candy to hundreds of **unemployed** Americans! Do these people have no shame?????
This Halloween party was just a precursor of the socialist agenda of the O administration. Next thing you know they'll be handing out free food and blankets to those non-working people on the street during Thanksgiving and Christmas! My tax dollars at work.
I don't think there are any old people who do not know what death panels are. When your doctor starts asking you if you have a living will or if you have a representative in case you are incapacitated, he is a so called "death Panel". I have written instructions for my children for what I want in medical care if I cannot speak for myself. I also have a living will prepared by my lawyer. I have experience with a cousin who lived for 20 years on artifical support systems.
Webster should be talking about the currently non-existent revenue source for reducing the budget in this bill that Congress wants to create. They have the bright idea of offering a payroll deducted(not mandatory at this time) long-term care insurance estimating it will generate $72B and they will apply it to the deficit. Are they looney? If you talk to anyone in the non-boomer generations, while we contribute to SS and Medicare and hope it will be there, we aren’t expecting it. Are we willing to buy into another government insurance that is saying they will spend the money now and cover later? No way. What happened to “no new taxes”, just because it would be voluntary at this point, (yes, I do expect it would become a mandate) if your using it to pay down the federal deficit, it’s a TAX. Calling it an insurance doesn’t change the reality.
Jamie said “her” granny was watching, in a way that would imply granny wants the facts and to understand and Jamie wanted to get it for her. Was Jamie pricking the ears of the viewers as a lead in, yes, it is television and everyone does it. It isn’t like CNN hasn’t covered the subject in much the same manner. Again, Webster is twisting in an attempt at sensationalizing to stir up some folks.
November 1, 2009 at 4:50 am
Funny Representative Says It All ... short sweet and to the point..
*******October 31, 2009 at 10:26 pm ******SOME HAVE SAID THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE IS THE "BIGGEST BUNCH OF CRY-BABIES".___________ That would be Chris Wallace, many are agreeing with him. Here is a funny one in the House from a Represetative called La Tourette......Go to you tube and copy this title in..........
Rep. LaTourette Mocks Democrats for "Big Lie" About GOP Opposition to Health Care
TO ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO CHANGE AMERICA...WHY ARE YOU HERE????? IF YOU HATE THE WAY IT IS...THEN LEAVE...SIMPLE...MOST ARE HAPPY WITH THE FREEDOMS,SO WHY AREN'T YOU????....
TO THE MUSLIMS THAT ARE TRYING TO CHANGE OUR WAY..WHY ARE YOU HERE....
WE HAVE SO MANY FROM THE WORLD THAT COME HERE AND THEY DO NOT INSIST WE ACCOMMODATE THEM...THEY ASIMULATE...I KNOW MOST FROM ASIA WHO DON'T WHINE OR HATE...THEY GET ON WITH THE FREEDOM AND SUCCEED...
THAT IS FREEDOM.....
In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted “present,” effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.(nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html) By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and CHRISTOPHER DREW Published: December 20, 2007
From your post: "Finally, there is the unusual propensity of the Obama administration to blame its predecessors for "inherited" problems, economic and otherwise."*************SOME HAVE SAID THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE IS THE "BIGGEST BUNCH OF CRY-BABIES".
Could obama decide on a Halloween costume to wear tonight as he handed out candy to about 2,000 kids at OUR White House? GOD BLESS ALL THE MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN IN HARM'S WAY!
The last time I got high, it wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t tried to do it legally.
Lords, hang on for this one. But where to begin? I guess you could say it all started at a gas station in Arlington, Texas. But, let me start over.
So, there’s been a lot of talk lately about the prohibition of marijuana. A lot of talk in favor, too. It seems that in today’s America, nearly half of my fellow citizens would agree when I say: it’s about time.
He should stop whining about Bush
The near-term outlook for the US economy has improved substantially since the spring, with a sharp upturn in the stock market and the return of positive growth in real GDP. The probability of a depression, which I estimated to be 25% last March, has now fallen to a low level. The principal policy that avoided a meltdown was the massive governmental assistance to large financial institutions as a way to prevent a repeat of Lehman's failure of September 2008. This policy, started under Bush and continued under Obama, involved the US Treasury and, increasingly, the Federal Reserve.
In comparison to the intervention, Obama's well-publicised programmes – the fiscal stimulus package, bailouts of carmakers, cash for clunkers, curbs on imports from China – have played minor roles. These have wasted money and were mistakes and have had little impact on the short-term turnaround.
The medium and long-term economic outlook is not promising. My main concern is that the Obama administration's remedy for nearly everything is more government. And some proposals involve lots more money over much longer periods. Prominent here are bad ideas about dealing with healthcare, energy and the environment. Also worrying are proposals for additional income redistribution, featuring higher taxes on the "rich" and removal of more people from paying any income tax at all.
Put all this together with the already accumulated budget deficits and you get a serious long-run fiscal problem. The only possibility I see for raising sufficient revenue is a European-style value-added tax, which is comparatively efficient but still a drag on future economic growth.
Another mystery is how the Federal Reserve will unwind its massive infusion of liquidity and corresponding expansion of credit. The Fed's balance sheet has ballooned remarkably. (A private institution would likely be declared insolvent.) If the economy grows in a sustained way, with subsiding fears reducing the demand for liquidity, the Fed's stance will become highly inflationary. Although chairman Ben Bernanke is well aware of this threat, the necessary unwinding of positions – engineered to minimise inflation while avoiding contractionary shocks to GDP – is unprecedented and scary. The likely outcome is high inflation within a few years, coupled with a financial system influenced more by politics than economics.
Finally, there is the unusual propensity of the Obama administration to blame its predecessors for "inherited" problems, economic and otherwise. Although I am not a fan of most of Bush's economic policies, he did begin the intervention that likely staved off a financial implosion. When I think back to Reagan, who began with a legacy of high inflation and interest rates in 1981, I recall a president who was more interested in fixing things than in blaming Carter, Nixon, etc. And when Bush came to office in 2001, he did not spend a lot of time blaming Clinton for the stock market crash of 2000. It would be nice if Obama and his team stopped whining about Bush's supposed failures, accepted the economy as their responsibility and focused on implementing sound policies.
Robert Barro is a professor of economics at Harvard
*******THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR THE CONTINUED INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA (AND THE AMERICAN DOLLAR WILL STAY IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOBS WILL BE CREATED, AND WE WON'T BE "AT THE MERCY" OF THE OTHER tOIL-RICH COUNTRIES)********
How the trolls try to stop real debate - the misinfo on here tonight is ridiculous. ACORN is alive and well obviously. If they can't shut FOX down, hijacking the blog is next best tactic.
Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and all the Marxist/Socialists in congress, are frauds.
They all should be impeached.
They are stepping all over the "Bill of Rights"
and the Constitution.
If this keeps up, it might be time for another
Revolutionary War. When government no longer serves
the people of this great country, it is the right of
the people to change that government.
See the "Declaration of Independence"
We should be understanding. Fewer than .4% of Americans ever watch OTR, so it is understandable than not many people recognize Greta. Remember the woman at IAH who thought Greta was the local weather girl? /s/ Brick
October 31, 2009 at 9:55 pm
*****AS YOU KNOW, FNC LEADS ALL OTHERS IN THE RATINGS*****
This Great U.S. of A. needs people in authority who will LEAD this country forward without apologizing to anyone - domestic or foreign. We need DECISIVE LEADERSHIP which arises from substance/decency/morality and EXPERIENCE. We need LEADERSHIP where the interests of the MAJORITY are of the highest, not the lowest, priority. We need LEADERSHIP OF THE MILITARY, DEMOCRACY, FREE ENTERPRISE, CAPITALISM, SMALL GOVERNMENT, LOW TAXES, DOMESTIC DRILLING, AND ALL SUCH GREAT AMERICAN VALUES.
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I'm thinking maybe we should demand that the remainder of the the stimulus money be spent to purchase full-body Kevlar suits for each American taxpayer. That way, we might not feel the full impact when this administration throws us under the bus with their health care reform, cap & trade, etc.. Can anyone explain to me (and make me believe it) how we can spend $1.2 trillion that we don't have, and aren't currently spending, and "save" money? The "Lie-Meter" is pegged, I think!
T & T at the WH---More Porridge please?
What is this???? Distributing free candy to hundreds of **unemployed** Americans! Do these people have no shame????? This Halloween party was just a precursor of the socialist agenda of the O administration. Next thing you know they'll be handing out free food and blankets to those non-working people on the street during Thanksgiving and Christmas! My tax dollars at work.
Wanda Ellis
I don't think there are any old people who do not know what death panels are. When your doctor starts asking you if you have a living will or if you have a representative in case you are incapacitated, he is a so called "death Panel". I have written instructions for my children for what I want in medical care if I cannot speak for myself. I also have a living will prepared by my lawyer. I have experience with a cousin who lived for 20 years on artifical support systems.
Younger sister
Webster should be talking about the currently non-existent revenue source for reducing the budget in this bill that Congress wants to create. They have the bright idea of offering a payroll deducted(not mandatory at this time) long-term care insurance estimating it will generate $72B and they will apply it to the deficit. Are they looney? If you talk to anyone in the non-boomer generations, while we contribute to SS and Medicare and hope it will be there, we aren’t expecting it. Are we willing to buy into another government insurance that is saying they will spend the money now and cover later? No way. What happened to “no new taxes”, just because it would be voluntary at this point, (yes, I do expect it would become a mandate) if your using it to pay down the federal deficit, it’s a TAX. Calling it an insurance doesn’t change the reality.
Younger sister
Jamie said “her” granny was watching, in a way that would imply granny wants the facts and to understand and Jamie wanted to get it for her. Was Jamie pricking the ears of the viewers as a lead in, yes, it is television and everyone does it. It isn’t like CNN hasn’t covered the subject in much the same manner. Again, Webster is twisting in an attempt at sensationalizing to stir up some folks.
Funny Representative Says It All ... short sweet and to the point..
*******October 31, 2009 at 10:26 pm ******SOME HAVE SAID THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE IS THE "BIGGEST BUNCH OF CRY-BABIES".___________ That would be Chris Wallace, many are agreeing with him. Here is a funny one in the House from a Represetative called La Tourette......Go to you tube and copy this title in.......... Rep. LaTourette Mocks Democrats for "Big Lie" About GOP Opposition to Health Care
Jane/Atlanta
TO ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO CHANGE AMERICA...WHY ARE YOU HERE????? IF YOU HATE THE WAY IT IS...THEN LEAVE...SIMPLE...MOST ARE HAPPY WITH THE FREEDOMS,SO WHY AREN'T YOU????.... TO THE MUSLIMS THAT ARE TRYING TO CHANGE OUR WAY..WHY ARE YOU HERE.... WE HAVE SO MANY FROM THE WORLD THAT COME HERE AND THEY DO NOT INSIST WE ACCOMMODATE THEM...THEY ASIMULATE...I KNOW MOST FROM ASIA WHO DON'T WHINE OR HATE...THEY GET ON WITH THE FREEDOM AND SUCCEED... THAT IS FREEDOM.....
VOTING "PRESENT", "PRESENT', AND 128 MORE TIMES THE SAME...
In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted “present,” effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.(nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html) By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and CHRISTOPHER DREW Published: December 20, 2007
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From your post: "Finally, there is the unusual propensity of the Obama administration to blame its predecessors for "inherited" problems, economic and otherwise."*************SOME HAVE SAID THAT THIS WHITE HOUSE IS THE "BIGGEST BUNCH OF CRY-BABIES".
Decisions...Decisions...Decisions
Could obama decide on a Halloween costume to wear tonight as he handed out candy to about 2,000 kids at OUR White House? GOD BLESS ALL THE MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN IN HARM'S WAY!
Stephen's Drug Dream
The last time I got high, it wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t tried to do it legally. Lords, hang on for this one. But where to begin? I guess you could say it all started at a gas station in Arlington, Texas. But, let me start over. So, there’s been a lot of talk lately about the prohibition of marijuana. A lot of talk in favor, too. It seems that in today’s America, nearly half of my fellow citizens would agree when I say: it’s about time.
Obama stop Whining--Dumb A*ss
He should stop whining about Bush The near-term outlook for the US economy has improved substantially since the spring, with a sharp upturn in the stock market and the return of positive growth in real GDP. The probability of a depression, which I estimated to be 25% last March, has now fallen to a low level. The principal policy that avoided a meltdown was the massive governmental assistance to large financial institutions as a way to prevent a repeat of Lehman's failure of September 2008. This policy, started under Bush and continued under Obama, involved the US Treasury and, increasingly, the Federal Reserve. In comparison to the intervention, Obama's well-publicised programmes – the fiscal stimulus package, bailouts of carmakers, cash for clunkers, curbs on imports from China – have played minor roles. These have wasted money and were mistakes and have had little impact on the short-term turnaround. The medium and long-term economic outlook is not promising. My main concern is that the Obama administration's remedy for nearly everything is more government. And some proposals involve lots more money over much longer periods. Prominent here are bad ideas about dealing with healthcare, energy and the environment. Also worrying are proposals for additional income redistribution, featuring higher taxes on the "rich" and removal of more people from paying any income tax at all. Put all this together with the already accumulated budget deficits and you get a serious long-run fiscal problem. The only possibility I see for raising sufficient revenue is a European-style value-added tax, which is comparatively efficient but still a drag on future economic growth. Another mystery is how the Federal Reserve will unwind its massive infusion of liquidity and corresponding expansion of credit. The Fed's balance sheet has ballooned remarkably. (A private institution would likely be declared insolvent.) If the economy grows in a sustained way, with subsiding fears reducing the demand for liquidity, the Fed's stance will become highly inflationary. Although chairman Ben Bernanke is well aware of this threat, the necessary unwinding of positions – engineered to minimise inflation while avoiding contractionary shocks to GDP – is unprecedented and scary. The likely outcome is high inflation within a few years, coupled with a financial system influenced more by politics than economics. Finally, there is the unusual propensity of the Obama administration to blame its predecessors for "inherited" problems, economic and otherwise. Although I am not a fan of most of Bush's economic policies, he did begin the intervention that likely staved off a financial implosion. When I think back to Reagan, who began with a legacy of high inflation and interest rates in 1981, I recall a president who was more interested in fixing things than in blaming Carter, Nixon, etc. And when Bush came to office in 2001, he did not spend a lot of time blaming Clinton for the stock market crash of 2000. It would be nice if Obama and his team stopped whining about Bush's supposed failures, accepted the economy as their responsibility and focused on implementing sound policies. Robert Barro is a professor of economics at Harvard
********WE MUST DRILL DOMESTICALLY, EVEN IN ANWR*********
*******THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR THE CONTINUED INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA (AND THE AMERICAN DOLLAR WILL STAY IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, JOBS WILL BE CREATED, AND WE WON'T BE "AT THE MERCY" OF THE OTHER tOIL-RICH COUNTRIES)********
Mary H
How the trolls try to stop real debate - the misinfo on here tonight is ridiculous. ACORN is alive and well obviously. If they can't shut FOX down, hijacking the blog is next best tactic.
***********GOD BLESS AMERICA***********
************GOD BLESS THE BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS MILITARY, THEN, NOW, AND IN THE FUTURE*************
Oh bumah trick
Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and all the Marxist/Socialists in congress, are frauds. They all should be impeached. They are stepping all over the "Bill of Rights" and the Constitution. If this keeps up, it might be time for another Revolutionary War. When government no longer serves the people of this great country, it is the right of the people to change that government. See the "Declaration of Independence"
The Marshall At the Cleveland, Texas, Worm and Live Bait Festival Is More Recognizable
We should be understanding. Fewer than .4% of Americans ever watch OTR, so it is understandable than not many people recognize Greta. Remember the woman at IAH who thought Greta was the local weather girl? /s/ Brick
*****AS YOU KNOW, FNC LEADS ALL OTHERS IN THE RATINGS*****
No wonderment by any rational person - FOX PRESENTS THE REAL NEWS, FAIR AND BALANCED.
"that gives gays any rights"
ANY? What kind of rights?
2010 and 2012...the REAL years of "Hope" and "Change"!
This Great U.S. of A. needs people in authority who will LEAD this country forward without apologizing to anyone - domestic or foreign. We need DECISIVE LEADERSHIP which arises from substance/decency/morality and EXPERIENCE. We need LEADERSHIP where the interests of the MAJORITY are of the highest, not the lowest, priority. We need LEADERSHIP OF THE MILITARY, DEMOCRACY, FREE ENTERPRISE, CAPITALISM, SMALL GOVERNMENT, LOW TAXES, DOMESTIC DRILLING, AND ALL SUCH GREAT AMERICAN VALUES.