Fox News and Mike Huckabee celebrate Veterans by denying them healthcare
Gianluca D'Agostino
December 06, 2011
How can Fox News support Veterans day while being the most fanatic supporters of private healthcare?
On November 11 Fox News opened its news show with the headline "California Mayor Snubs Veterans to Attend Occupy Rally". Indeed Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin sent an email to the San Jose Mercury News in which she stated the city of Richmond did not sponsor a Veteran day salute sponsored by Chevron featuring the launch of a World War II-era ship at the Richmond shipyards. McLaughlin noted that the city is not sponsoring the event, and said that the Occupy rally will honor Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran injured while protesting with Occupy Oakland.
"I choose to honor our veterans, not only on Veteran's Day, but daily, by supporting an end to military warfare to prevent further fighting and dying in needless wars," McLaughlin wrote in an email. "I am a strong supporter of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Vets Against the War."
In fact this patriotic outbreak suffered by Fox News comes not only out of the blue but at least out of place, if not strange….
Indeed Fox News is the national flagship of private healthcare supporters, they were and are at today the biggest opponents of the Obama Healthcare plan that aims at providing free healthcare for the uninsured American Citizens who cannot afford private healthcare insurance like most part of US military veterans.
Indeed some of the country´s 24 million veterans face unaffordable health insurance premiums and lack of access to government-run hospitals and clinics far from the hero´s welcome they expected. A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School estimated that 2,266 uninsured military veterans under 65 died in 2008 because of limited access to health care. They´re among the 45,000 Americans who Harvard researchers say die each year because they lack health insurance.
So our question is: "how can Fox News support Veterans day by one side and private healthcare at the same time?"
This is really a great mystery that can only be solved by Fox News Executives.
Organizations such as VoteVets.org and the AFL-CIO have given veterans struggling with medical care the opportunity to post their stories online.
Many of these veterans are unemployed, and no longer can afford private insurance and have found difficulty in getting Veterans Affair healthcare.
Ashwin Madia a former US marines asks in a post on votevets.org "we need more veterans in elected office".
It would be very interesting to ask those veterans what do they think of Fox News position about free healthcare. Some friends of Fox News already made it clear, as on Veteran´s Day GOPs candidate Mitt Romney stated: "we should privatize veterans' health care" (we are talking about Mitt Romney, the most liberal among GOPs candidates).
Friday, the GOP presidential contender sympathized with the service members' difficulties obtaining treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which one vet described as "adversarial."
Romney, who has already proposed privatizing Medicare, suggested that maybe giving wounded warriors an outside option would force VA health bureaucrats to be a little more responsive. "When you work in the private sector and you have a competitor, you know if I don't treat this customer right, they're going to leave me and go somewhere else, so I'd better treat them right," Romney said. "Whereas if you're the government, they know there's nowhere else you guys can go. You're stuck."
This entire speech would sound absolutely funny if it did not describe a tragic reality. These people still pretend to impose a capitalistic vision of welfare. Shame on you. That's the only comment they deserve. Nowhere in the world neither in the history of humankind, private healthcare has ever worked, as private healthcare is a self-denying statement, a logic contradiction.
How can a Presidential candidate could survive a primary election by founding its entire policy upon a false statement? Another American mystery. Although for what I can see happening these days, I would rely upon a new statement: "in people we trust". The American people are really in an awakening process that is turning out not only in social initiatives like the Occupy Wall Street movement but also in more people registering to vote.
To use an euphemism Mr. Romney and Fox News look and sound like blind leading the blind. Not the best metaphor for a Presidential candidate and a major American news network. These people really believe what they say?
On the other side if the majority of the people is against Fox News position they wouldn´t make enough audience to appeal advertising investors. Although there´s another explanation for Fox News successful ratings: what they say is so ridiculous that the audience perceive it as entertainment. Indeed you can notice on the funny old fashioned faces of its anchors and the female anchors dressing like streetworkers.
What those geniuses at Fox News struggle to understand is that America is really changed and that their Plutocrat position about welfare is pushing them backwards to that dark abyss where only less of the 1% are. Fox News support for Veteran´s day sounds like Al Qaeda supporting The White House
Fox News seems to ignore that Occupy Wall Street is attended by many veterans all over the country and that they really represent the 99% of the American people.
Yesterday I watched Mike Huckabee celebrating Veterans Day in Branson, Missouri with about 5000 veterans. I would be very curious to know if those veterans knew that Mr. Huckabee back in January 2011 called for Congress to repeal the Obama health care law passed last year that provides free healthcare for those in need, including almost 3000 U.S. veterans who die every year because they cannot afford health insurance. It's a strange way to behave that of Mr. Huckabee, it's also a very strange way to celebrate U.S Veterans.
So if Occupy Wall Street represent the 99% of Americans including the Veterans, who are those people Fox News stand for?
On November 11 Fox News opened its news show with the headline "California Mayor Snubs Veterans to Attend Occupy Rally". Indeed Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin sent an email to the San Jose Mercury News in which she stated the city of Richmond did not sponsor a Veteran day salute sponsored by Chevron featuring the launch of a World War II-era ship at the Richmond shipyards. McLaughlin noted that the city is not sponsoring the event, and said that the Occupy rally will honor Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran injured while protesting with Occupy Oakland.
"I choose to honor our veterans, not only on Veteran's Day, but daily, by supporting an end to military warfare to prevent further fighting and dying in needless wars," McLaughlin wrote in an email. "I am a strong supporter of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Vets Against the War."
In fact this patriotic outbreak suffered by Fox News comes not only out of the blue but at least out of place, if not strange….
Indeed Fox News is the national flagship of private healthcare supporters, they were and are at today the biggest opponents of the Obama Healthcare plan that aims at providing free healthcare for the uninsured American Citizens who cannot afford private healthcare insurance like most part of US military veterans.
Indeed some of the country´s 24 million veterans face unaffordable health insurance premiums and lack of access to government-run hospitals and clinics far from the hero´s welcome they expected. A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School estimated that 2,266 uninsured military veterans under 65 died in 2008 because of limited access to health care. They´re among the 45,000 Americans who Harvard researchers say die each year because they lack health insurance.
So our question is: "how can Fox News support Veterans day by one side and private healthcare at the same time?"
This is really a great mystery that can only be solved by Fox News Executives.
Organizations such as VoteVets.org and the AFL-CIO have given veterans struggling with medical care the opportunity to post their stories online.
Many of these veterans are unemployed, and no longer can afford private insurance and have found difficulty in getting Veterans Affair healthcare.
Ashwin Madia a former US marines asks in a post on votevets.org "we need more veterans in elected office".
It would be very interesting to ask those veterans what do they think of Fox News position about free healthcare. Some friends of Fox News already made it clear, as on Veteran´s Day GOPs candidate Mitt Romney stated: "we should privatize veterans' health care" (we are talking about Mitt Romney, the most liberal among GOPs candidates).
Friday, the GOP presidential contender sympathized with the service members' difficulties obtaining treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which one vet described as "adversarial."
Romney, who has already proposed privatizing Medicare, suggested that maybe giving wounded warriors an outside option would force VA health bureaucrats to be a little more responsive. "When you work in the private sector and you have a competitor, you know if I don't treat this customer right, they're going to leave me and go somewhere else, so I'd better treat them right," Romney said. "Whereas if you're the government, they know there's nowhere else you guys can go. You're stuck."
This entire speech would sound absolutely funny if it did not describe a tragic reality. These people still pretend to impose a capitalistic vision of welfare. Shame on you. That's the only comment they deserve. Nowhere in the world neither in the history of humankind, private healthcare has ever worked, as private healthcare is a self-denying statement, a logic contradiction.
How can a Presidential candidate could survive a primary election by founding its entire policy upon a false statement? Another American mystery. Although for what I can see happening these days, I would rely upon a new statement: "in people we trust". The American people are really in an awakening process that is turning out not only in social initiatives like the Occupy Wall Street movement but also in more people registering to vote.
To use an euphemism Mr. Romney and Fox News look and sound like blind leading the blind. Not the best metaphor for a Presidential candidate and a major American news network. These people really believe what they say?
On the other side if the majority of the people is against Fox News position they wouldn´t make enough audience to appeal advertising investors. Although there´s another explanation for Fox News successful ratings: what they say is so ridiculous that the audience perceive it as entertainment. Indeed you can notice on the funny old fashioned faces of its anchors and the female anchors dressing like streetworkers.
What those geniuses at Fox News struggle to understand is that America is really changed and that their Plutocrat position about welfare is pushing them backwards to that dark abyss where only less of the 1% are. Fox News support for Veteran´s day sounds like Al Qaeda supporting The White House
Fox News seems to ignore that Occupy Wall Street is attended by many veterans all over the country and that they really represent the 99% of the American people.
Yesterday I watched Mike Huckabee celebrating Veterans Day in Branson, Missouri with about 5000 veterans. I would be very curious to know if those veterans knew that Mr. Huckabee back in January 2011 called for Congress to repeal the Obama health care law passed last year that provides free healthcare for those in need, including almost 3000 U.S. veterans who die every year because they cannot afford health insurance. It's a strange way to behave that of Mr. Huckabee, it's also a very strange way to celebrate U.S Veterans.
So if Occupy Wall Street represent the 99% of Americans including the Veterans, who are those people Fox News stand for?
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