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Hannity: CNN "using school-grade kids to do their bidding" in push for health bill, asks if it's "indoctrination"

October 08, 2009 10:53 pm ET

From the October 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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Dobbs attacks CNN colleagues for airing kids singing "pro-health care reform song" which Dobbs calls "propaganda"

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    • Author by DAWUSS (October 08, 2009 11:04 pm ET)
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 08, 2009 11:22 pm ET)
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      But I thought even Republicans agree that we need health care reform? And who instigated the push for health care reform? That would be Barack Obama. So what's wrong with the song? I guess Sean is sticking to the position that there's nothing wrong with the health care system as it presently exists and that we don't need health care reform...which puts him out of step with most Americans. Is it cold, all alone in the wilderness, Sean...?
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (October 09, 2009 8:09 am ET)
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        It does not, however, put him out of step with most right-wing radio and tv jabberers, who see all this talk of "reform" as a mindless, expensive, unpatriotic attack on the Best Darn Health Care System In The World, Which 97% of Americans Are Happy With and At Least Doesn't Provide Coverage For Illegals.
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    • Author by Jen7 (October 08, 2009 11:26 pm ET)
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      These kids are so cute. They just don't sing about Obama. They sang about both last year. This isn't political. My Lord, the right is insane!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxlwYP0HNdc&feature=video_response
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    • Author by WhatImlost (October 08, 2009 11:30 pm ET)
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      you know I havnt seen the full CNN clip, but based on the clip shown here I'd hardly call this an endorsement of Obama's policies.

      The last line says "The government doesnt know how" [to insure all the uninsured people]

      Seems to like that might actually mean they think Obama doesnt know what to do, his idea wont work, but they agree think we need some kind of reform.

      just saying they dont excatly refer to the brillance of Obama at all in the clip hanity showed, just stated what Obama says he wants, healthcare for all, and that the gov't cant do it
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    • Author by michaelr (October 08, 2009 11:44 pm ET)
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      Man, is Hannity even trying anymore? Really he's beginning to bore me.

      How would Beck have handled this?

      ::Show Clip::
      BECK: America.. what have we become? Is this what the founding fathers thought of when they wrote the constitution? THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! America, you know something is wrong. When you see something like this, you must feel it in your bones, MY GOD you must sense the danger. Hhmm, the danger. <<Thoughtful look down, smirk of irony>>. I tell you America, this sort of indoctrination does not end here. it doesn't end with our children. It doesn't end with ACORN or SEIU. It ends with you! STAND UP AMERICA! WAKE UP! Your country is being STOLEN from you. A new framework is being built up AROUND you and they are starting with your CHILDREN! America, it's seriously about time you started to think about home schooling because I... I tell you. A change is coming and unless you do something about it these Marxists will not stop until they have your homes, your guns, your children and your freedom. <<stares into camera>>. Your freedom.

      Actually, Glenn is beginning to bore me now too.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (October 08, 2009 11:48 pm ET)
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        Jeez...it's creepy how much that sounds like Beck. Made me want to throw my shoe at the screen.
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      • Author by soze169880 (October 08, 2009 11:49 pm ET)
           
        The only interesting thing about Beck is the promise of him either losing control and crapping himself live on the air or just allowing his synth-skin to slip revealing the mechanical skeleton beneath. One is going to happen very soon.
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    • Author by HotWings (October 09, 2009 12:07 am ET)
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      Sean is right on this one. CNN shouldn't be using children to promote the President's policies.
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      • Author by princeofwheels (October 09, 2009 12:20 am ET)
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        Finally, Seannie is right about something..first time in two years. Nah, Seannie is a liar.

        And Fox shouldn't be using an entire channel to spread lies and misinformation about your President and this country and anything good for America.

        I guess we agree.
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      • Author by michaelr (October 09, 2009 12:37 am ET)
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        I don't understand, how are these kids promoting the president's policies? Because they mentioned his name in a song? Because they are black?

        The song mentions 47 million uninsured. We would all agree (especially conservatives) that 47 million American citizens are entitled to freedom and liberty. But how free are you if you have to choose between medicine or food or between healthcare or a home? If you have to live with an illness because you can't afford to see a doctor and if you have to spend half a day in an emergency room just to be seen, what freedom do you have really?

        A recent study found that 62 percent of all bankruptcies filed in 2007 were linked to medical expenses. Of those who filed for bankruptcy, nearly 80 percent had health insurance (http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml).

        Hannity will spend the next 4 years defending your right to own guns, to protect you from fake indoctrination, from fake socialism, from fake threats to society from gays and minorities. He will tell you that he is defending your ability to choose health insurance and freedom to choose your own doctors. He will defend your right to buy and eat food and soda drowned in corn-syrup without the burden of higher taxes. He'll tell you you are an individual and that you assert your individuality by participating in our capitalist system even if it's bad for you. That is God's plan.

        But when you get sick, or a loved one gets sick and you have to sell your house or get an extra job, he wont feel sorry for you. If that day comes, when your time is no longer your time but your boss's time and you have to become a slave to him just to put food on the table, Hannity wont be there. With today's outrageous cost of healthcare, the chance for any of us to lose our freedom can happen in an instant.

        Why doesn't Hannity, if he cares so much about freedom, demand cheap healthcare for everyone? Hannity spent the past 4 nights repeating attacks against one of the president's advisors for a non-event that took place over 20 years ago. Meanwhile thousands of people lost jobs and their health insurance and thus a little bit of their freedom.

        So when you say "Sean is right." You are wrong. Sean wants Guns, Soda and Private Health Insurance. He wants people to profit for sickness and injury.
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    • Author by bewildered (October 09, 2009 8:45 am ET)
         
      And another point:

      Those children on CNN didn't look very young. At some point is it not OK for children to sing and perform whatever they choose? This means the group of kids were not forced into anything. They are old enough to make their own choices and were FREE to choose. Isn't that liberty?

      Sean, I thought you fight for individual freedoms and others shouldn't interfere.
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    • Author by mjboldt (October 10, 2009 1:57 pm ET)
         
      The song, or at least the part shown in the clip, wasn't at all praising President Obama. It sounded more like a PSA promoting health care reform, something this country desperately needs and soon. If that is "indoctrination", and CNN is "using school-grade kids to do their bidding", then Insanity has been indoctrinated by big insurance and is being used to do their bidding.I know that Sean is an "adult", but he has the mentality of a child. And his behavior is identical to that of a spoiled brat who doesn't get his way. This country needs the right to get over the fact that they lost, start acting like adults, and stop fighting against what most Americans are calling for, health care reform with a public option included. By the way, these kids seemed old enough to know what is right and there is nothing wrong with being in favor of health care reform when the system is as broken as ours is. No one should profit from anyone's illness and every American should have the right to decent and affordable health care. That's not indoctrination, that's common sense.
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