So DUmmy Pitt has posted another manifesto at the DUmp, way too bloated to paste here in full. If you are masochistic, follow the link. He uses the DUmmies' obsession with socialized medicine to remind them of his "bestseller" book, and to regurgitate an old bouncy he's spun many times about refusing to appear on MSDNC to discuss Iraq:
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 09:55 AM
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Skewing the Health Care Debate
By William Rivers Pitt
Thursday 30 July 2009
So everyone is talking about health care nowadays, and that's a good thing. Costs are too expensive, the system is too convoluted, the wrong people are getting richer, the right people are getting poorer, and almost 50 million Americans don't get any health care at all outside of emergency rooms and cut-rate mortuary parlors.
And blah, blah, healthcare Obama please hire me blah, blah...
Broadcasters on MSNBC, in particular, seem bound and determined to kill the whole concept. It's too expensive, it's socialism, it won't work, it'll bankrupt the country - like a verbal drumbeat, these accusations have been coming and coming from MSNBC on an hourly basis, but without any real substance, and certainly with little counterpoint. They just don't like it, and have made no bones whatsoever about saying so ad nauseam.
After watching this on MSNBC for days now, a memory resurfaced of a personal experience I had with that particular network. It was the winter of 2003, and the Bush administration's hard push for war in Iraq was well underway. My book, "War on Iraq," had been out since the previous Fall, making the argument (correctly, as it turns out) that there were no WMD in Iraq, no connections to al Qaeda or 9/11, and so there was no reason to invade.
One crisp winter day, my telephone rang. A producer for MSNBC was on the other line; she told me she had read my book and really enjoyed it, and was inviting me to come on the network to talk about Iraq. Specifically, she wanted me to come on and talk about Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors, who at that point had been in Iraq for less than 100 hours. They hadn't found anything yet, but were still looking.
Very specifically, she wanted me to come on MSNBC and say that Blix and his inspectors were doing a terrible job, that Iraq definitely had WMD and 9/11 connections, and that Bush should blow off Blix and do whatever the hell he wants.
Needless to say, I was flabbergasted. You didn't really read my book, I said to the MSNBC producer, because if you had, you'd know that the very last thing in the world I would ever say on television or anywhere else was the inspectors were not doing their jobs and that war in Iraq was a necessity. Let's allow Blix and the inspectors to do their jobs, I said, so maybe we can avoid a costly and unnecessary war that would certainly kill thousands and thousands of people.
The MSNBC chortled - literally, a deep, throaty too-many-cigarettes chortle - and hung up on me.
Blah, blah, MSDNC blah, GE blah....
"Our proposals," said Obama, "would change incentives so that doctors and nurses are free to give patients the best care, just not the most expensive care. We've got to change how health care is delivered to -- the health-care delivery system works, so that doctors are being paid for the quality of care and not the quantity of care. Right now, doctors, a lot of times, are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. So if they're looking and -- and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat, or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, 'You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.' So part of what we want to do is to free doctors, patients, hospitals to make decisions based on what's best for patient care."
Blah, blah, we need to use the Cuban model blah, blah....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6184510I apologize for afflicting you with the carcass of a Pitt essay. The main reason I brought it over follows. It should be a source of great embarrassment to the drunkard that the DUmp discovers he's been rejected by Truthout, but of course his arrogance doesn't leave room for embarrassment:
DemReadingDU (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 10:42 AM
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7. Do you have a link?
Excellent article, thanks
P.S. The finance arm, GE Capital, is also losing lots of money
kentuck (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 10:44 AM
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8. Will Pitt is the link.
You want a higher authority?
I'm not sure about DUmmy kentuck. He's either abysmally stupid, awed by the presence
of the might Pitt, or else he's throwing a business-hours jab.
DUmmy DemReadingDU is on to something:
DemReadingDU (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 10:45 AM
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10. He usually posts on Truthout
and I didn't see it posted there.
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 10:48 AM
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14. Not this one
The first-person perspective is something they like me to avoid, so they passed on this one. That's how it goes sometimes.
The drunkard has to admit his rejection by Truthout, the spamsheet that still carries Jason Leopold's fictitious news accounts. DUmmy Pitt, once a managing editor, now ranks below a habitual plagiarist, liar, and drug addict.
DUmmy KittyWampus still beleeeeeves in DUmmy Pitt. DUmmy KittyWampus still has that Fitzmas champagne on ice.
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 10:46 AM
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11. Dear Mr. Pitt, in retrospect, you should have lied to the liars as MSNBC and said "Yes, sure".
"Yes, I'll go on your show and say Blix was doing a terrible job".
And then, when you were on camera, said the exact opposite. Or, the Truth.
Blah, blah, more healthcare bullshit blah....
