Alan Colmes asks: 'What freedoms are being taken away?' Fox's Megyn Kelly doesn't answer.
Megyn Kelly wanted to talk about Fox News' latest Opinion Dynamics poll, which asked people about their attitudes on government spending and the reach and power of the federal government, with a set of questions clearly geared toward Tea Party movement sentiments, as well as a recent CNN poll -- similarly trying to gauge the Tea Partiers' reach -- that found 54 percent believe the federal government poses a threat to their rights.
So she brought on Fox's token liberal, Alan Colmes, to discuss these results, and he pointed out that at least some of those who see the federal government as a threat to their rights are people who object to the Republican-backed Patriot Act. Then he asked an interesting question of the Tea Party folks:
Colmes: I'd like to know exactly what freedom -- what freedoms are being taken away from people?
Kelly: People are worried they're going to lose their health-insurance coverage! They're worried the federal government is going to step in, take over, and they're not going to be able to see their coverage.
Colmes: I didn't see any particulars about exactly what freedoms people think are going to be taken away. I would like to know what they are.
Kelly: There is just as much in this survey about health care as there is the Patriot Act!
Colmes: Yeah, but nothing in this survey says particular health care, particular Patriot Act, it's just a general question, "freedoms". I mean, what particular freedoms. People call my radio show all the time, 'My freedoms are being compromised.'
All right, I ask them. What freedom is being compromised? What freedom have you lost under Barack Obama?
Kelly: You tell me, Alan -- do you think the Democrats on Capitol Hill are going into 2010 election thinking, 'The problem with numbers like this is the Patriot Act! It is the Bush administration policies.'
Colmes: They're also not going, 'The problem is health care. If we get health care, my freedoms are being taken away.' How do your freedoms get compromised?
Kelly tried to argue that the people who fear for their freedoms are monolithically anti-Obama Tea Partiers, and reflected somehow in the high numbers of those opposing the Senate health-care reform bill. But Colmes pointed out, accurately, that a large portion of those opposed to the Senate bill are people who want a public option.
Kelly: If you have a majority of Americans saying that the federal government poses a threat to the right[s] of Americans, those are not people who want the public option!
Colmes: Well, what rights are being -- wait a minute, you're suggesting that the public option is more government. No, it gives you greater options. It gives you greater opportunity.
I'd like to know what freedoms people think are being taken away. What particular freedom -- where in the Bill of Rights are you losing something, based on what? What have Obama or Democrats done to take any right away from you? I'd like to know what that is.
Kelly: OK, and on that note, e-mail me at Kelly@FoxNews.com and you can answer that question.
In other words: No answer from Megyn. Because she didn't have any after Colmes shot down her health-care trial balloon.
Right-wing fearmongering pundits like Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, and the rest of the long list have made it conventional wisdom among the right-wing Kool-Aid drinkers that Obama somehow mysteriously are "taking away our freeeeeedoms!"
But they never can tell you exactly what freedoms are being taken away without calling out the Oath Keepers and their black helicopters, can they? Which is why the Megyn Kellys out there just say nothing.
The conservatives know the drill...Dems don't.
Keep the questions (and answers) general.
Don't "John Kerry" it up with a half-hour policy lecture.
Even explaining how the Right is lying by omission is tough for main street to follow.
K.I.S.S.
"I can't keep doing this on my own with these...people."
But they never can tell you exactly what freedoms are being taken away
they're never asked, so they never tell (because there aren't any freedoms being taken away, except maybe the bush policies obama is continuing like indefinite detention without charge or trial) and the big bad boogieman taking away our freedoms lives on.
They need to appeal to as wide as possible freak base so they never define their terms like "freedoms".
...he uses big words like 'particularly' and 'delicatessen.' -- Jack
"losing our country" or "destroying America."
How can even a former regular Fox co-host like Alan Colmes stand to go on this idiot's show and be interrupted constantly by this stupid harridan? She doesn't even wait for his answers, then can't answer his question, which is pretty simple. What a feather brain. The next time you feature a video clip of this show, I'm afraid I'm going to have to look at the transcript. My ears hurt.
..being taken away was 2001 to 2009. You know, freedoms like habeus corpus, a democratic government, freedom to travel, you know, all the stuff w took away.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Where were these freedom-lovers when Bush was setting up warrantless wiretaps for THE WHOLE FREAKIN' COUNTRY?
they were freely giving them up for the wisp of a sense of safety
"... to purchase a temporary safety deserve neither freedom nor safety." -- Anonymous, as published by Benjamin Franklin and quoted by Thomas Jefferson. And yes, Joementum, I have often wondered where these "freedom" lovers were during 2001-08.
w protected us from the evildoers who hated us for our freedoms!
what more could a preznut do to protect our freedumbs?
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I can answer that...they were preaching and lecturing "if you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about under der chimpenfuhrer and Darth." Now, not so much.
is a pretty (?) face and an empty vessel. She's a damn robot.
NOBODY 2012
Another GOP anti-Viagra.
well what do you expect from someone who tries to look like Barbie, and puts on a 50's shade red lipstick on TV.
Do you think she was hired to be taken seriously as an anchor, or to be eye candy for sexually deprived, abstinence only, republicans?
Reminds me of the "news I wana f&%k" segment on the daily show.
are just that....Bimbo Barbie with an empty head in which Retuglican talking points just rattle, rattle, rattle. And I believe that would be BBNILF.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
how many gratuitous almost-upskirt leg teases were in that short segment?
and the glass desk top that lets the bright light in ..
lookin more and more like a voyeur house ..
(not that I'd know what that was myself)
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-3ALaBcHZc&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Too bad that's not a quality found in the Faux Noise Bimbo Barbies..........They all think they're REAL news(cough, cough)people. What a bunch of maroons!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I can't figure out what it is, but there's something about Lauren Jones eyes that turn me off.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
are not all Bimbo Barbies. As an example, I give you Virginia Foxx. She may be a bimbo, but she's no Barbie.
What about:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k206/swings...
?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
hr flared nostrils are very telling about her arrogance and underlying hostility. I pity her poor husband, must be the most pussy whipped man in the land. Interesting how these cold, heartless extremists always find their way to the Fox Propaganda Channel
Woody McBreairty
Nice to see Colmes trying to hold his own for once. To bad its with such a braindead tart as Megyn Kelly whose knowledge is clearly limited by whatever the teleprompter tells her to say.
As for "Freedoms" being lost, of course none have been under Obama. But then where would Republicans be if they let something like "facts" or "reality" get in the way. So much fear, so much cowardice in all those little GOPers. No wonder they have so much hate.
67% of republicans voted yes on the "Act for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo" (putting the gov't between you and your doctor)
90% of republicans voted yes on the "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States" (restrict your first amendment speech protections) * (didn't pass)
92% of republicans voted yes on the "USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act" (restrict your fourth amendment privacy protections)
94% of republicans voted yes on the "Military Commissions Act" (remove your habeas corpus protections)
92% of republicans voted yes on the "Protect America Act" (restrict your fourth amendment privacy protections even more)
94% of republicans voted yes on the "FISA Amendments Act of 2008" (restrict your fourth amendment privacy protections even more)
oh, and my dem (hah) rep voted yes on all these too, also
Now that's bipartisanship.
The wingers called US paranoid for being against the Patriot Act. I'll bet if one looked long enough, one could find video of Megyn Kelly calling people who were opposed to the Patriot Act "weak" or "unAmerican"
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
I see so many of these empty headed skanks who truly have zero credentials THEY ARE BORING.
Loved the way this fool evaded Colmes direct question, stared into the camera as if she just farted and changed the subject.
she was showing potential, besides her legs, then all of the sudden she was going to be Bill oreilly umbudsperson, or something. I figured he was trying to get into her pants so i gave up hope for her
Yeah, but who's Joe Foxpack gonna believe...the goofy geek, or the blonde babe?
time after time to people who make these same claims in letters to the editor of my local (daily)paper.to date,no one has been able to answer with any specifics! neither can they tell me where are the people of color at their tea-bagger rallies.
When we said GWB was wiretapping phones, whisking people off to secret prisons and holding people without charges, we "accused" him because he stood at a podium with cameras running and SAID "Yup; I'm wiretapping phones, whisking people off to secret prisons and holding people without charges."
Obama's plan to "take away our freedoms" is based on no document, no public utterance, no private utterance in public life. It's based on a super-secret agenda that the wingnuts and the Fox crowd "just know" is there.
And that, my friends, is what straight-up racism looks like.
And they defend their racism. By claiming it's not racism.
When you look at the overall picture. This technique is working quite well for them. But then again, they're the only ones buying this bullshit.
I have to think that some of them have had an epiphany of sorts.
Maybe epiphany isn't the right word. Maybe more like a moment of self realization. But then again, maybe not. I still like to think that some on the right are repulsed by this behavior. Even by the subliminal behavior. I hope so. I hope it costs them in the next election.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Ask these fountains of bullshit for any specifics , any facts and they can't come up with any , they just know the talking points and repeat them like mindless parrots , same with the tea baggers , brains the size of a pea .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
I believe their brains are not in their heads....a little lower.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
not"tea-baggers",but "pea-brainers"!
Although it seems hard to believe this lump in the pavement is actually a lawyer..scary - I know.. Well, there has GOT to be a measure hung by the ABA (albeit the recent ruling on John Yoo and his gomer-pals seems to besmirch this belief) that says a lawyer has GOT to have an IQ at least equal to a pear...at minimum...
Megyn Kelly PROVED in this conversation with Alan that she does NOT. Time for the Bar association to start formal proceedings to get her out of their ranks for being a mental midget !!
I thought to be a female lawyer they had to pass a bat mitvah.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
may not be a dumb as she acts. The money may be too good at Fox for her not to play the role Fox wants her to play.
Also, it may be that its hard to make cogent arguments on the spot for nonsense that you know you don't believe yourself.
Who knows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMlRpN8ANrU
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You're exactly right -- I used to practice with her, and she's nobody's dummy.
The allure of fame and TV money is too much to resist for some. . . .
B.I.M.B.O.
B.I.M.B.O.
and bimbo was her name.
But, having seen Kelly in person, I can say the only truthful thing about her and Fox is that she is one. She's very attractive.
But tell me, why... WHY can't a dem pundit stop the accuser and tell them not to answer a question with a question? Replace the scrambling to win the argument by the airhead and it goes like this...
Alan Colmes: "What freedoms are we losing?!?"
*crickets*
Too bad Colmes is still not smart enough to force them to get a straight answer.
Taking our right away to ask this particular president to show us his birth certificate and when he does we can say its a fraud and then. Isn't that number 11 in the Bill of Rights?
They would take away the right to be as stupid as Kelly!
duckdodgeweave And no answer. Just more ducking dodging and weaving.
Oh come on, folks...
She's at least as smart as that Super Smart Lady, Sarah Palin, right?
(Breathes through mouth and is subsequently distracted by something shiny...)
The onlt part that she doesn't have is a brain!
The question was "is the federal government an immediate threat to liberty?" not "what freedoms are being taken away?". Colmes was spinning.
Ok, I'm laying it out for ya:
The federal reserve is an extremely powerful, PRIVATE institution that has been around for nearly a century. But it does not weild its power like a mad barbarian! Because of the position it has been granted in the political structure of the country, the banks of the federal reserve have been able to accrue power over the decades. The banks main tools are the supposed business "cycle", which they can easily manipulate (they have the power to raise and lower interest rates) and the military-industrial complex that they have raised with the aid of think-tank paranoiacs and given platform through the media (itself an extension of this complex).
So in answer to Colmes' question: our potential for freedom was relinquished long ago when we allowed private interests to control the structure of the economy. Our needs and our wants are being manipulated!
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The sad part is NOT how FOXPRAVDA sells this sh!t with blond bombshell, Megyn Kelly...
... But that this is the only gig Megyn Kelly can get.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Yeah, sure I trust the government.
Let me drop my kids off with child protective services while I go out to the bar and get drunk with my friend the IRS agent.
when your neighbor's rights were being trashed in the name of the Holy Drug War?
Fourth Amendment? We used to have one...until it was first nibbled, then frayed, then torn and then finally eviscerated by the drug laws. You piss and moan about the PATRIOT Act? The anti-Fourth Amendment provisions in it were being implemented against 'druggies' (and anyone else unlucky enough to fall under police scrutiny) long before it arrived on your radar screen. Where's all the 'progressive' breast-beating and garment-rending about that? Nothing but shame-faced silence.
And civil forfeiture? The ability of the government to take anything it wants from you without you being charged with a crime? Where was all the righteous indignation over that from the 'progressive' quarter? The crickets chirping sounded like freight trains, the silence from 'progressives' was so loud.
Worst of all, drug agents can kill you with impunity because they can whack you in the course of keeping your kiddies safe from druuuuugs...and suffer little or no consequences for their 'diligence'.
Wake up and smell the burning Constitution; we've been losing rights in this country for decades, slowly, slowly, quietly, until nearly all of them can be nullified by government fiat. And it happened with either tacit or vocal legislative support from 'progressives'...who ought to have known better.
I'm pretty sure these people know their freedoms aren't taken being taken away. It's a complete canard. Just like the teabaggers protesting tax hikes after the biggest middle class tax cut in history was passed. They're projecting because they can't say what they really want to say about Obama being president.
Well, at least he got the question out there. Is she the one who Michelle Bachman used to babysit? Scary.
You're thinking of Gretchen Carlson. Funny enough, it was noted above that Megyn is playing dumb and probably doesn't believe this stuff either. On the Daily Show, they looked into Gretchen's background and concluded she's also dumbing herself down to appeal to the Fox News audience.
...and their true meaning!
government takeover (public option)
taxes (hard-earned money given to the government for nothin')
freedoms (guns)
taking our freedoms (taking our guns)
communism (nazis)
socialism (nazis)
founding fathers (the gods)
constitutional rights (right to bear arms)
killing babies (abortion)
illegal immigrants (mexicans)
"real" americans (rural, working class whites)
glenn beck and rush limbaugh (the prophets)
sarah palin (her majesty)
fair and balanced reporting (bullshit)
Who knew?
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