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The right's favorite talking point on Thursday, with Ted Kennedy's funeral dominating the news, was to compare the event to Sen. Paul Wellstone's funeral and kvetch that Democrats were being crudely opportunistic in using Kennedy's death to help push harder for liberal health-care reform.

Laura Ingraham, filling in for O'Reilly on The Factor, was right in step, saying Dems were "playing the death card" and promising that such opportunism would cost them at the polls. Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch.

I think Amanda Marcotte has precisely the right response.

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liberalNmoderation's picture

Everyone on faux...with the possible exception of Shep...is a total fuckin douchebag.

Pete2069's picture

Dead rotten fish have a sweeter smell then the foul words from these Reputes????
Death Has become the word of their vocabulary,, which they like the sound of...
Where were these Death words when it was the correct word to use for the 4,500 Plus soldiers which died in the Iraq war.. for revenge of Bush's Dad and Corporate thief of the middle east OIL>>>
How about the Deaths of millions of innocent Iraq citizens ,,, women , children and Men..
The smell from republicans which is spewing from their mouth or a.. is something regurgitated from corruption and smell from the Bush / Cheney administration.


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Blue Lensman's picture

Put Kennedy's name on a single payer bill like HR 676 or 1200 and watch their heads explode!!

22dividedby7's picture

I'm from the Insurance Company and I'm here to help!

We think that's a super idea so we've hired lobbists to help make sure that won't happen.
Thank You for your input and have a nice day.

Pete2069's picture

You mean their a... Something they use to talk with..


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curtilingus's picture

Were the Repubs doing the same thing with Schaivo?

pinkobait's picture

what rhymes with "weevil runt"?


"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "

-Jack Handy

liberalNmoderation's picture

I dunno...I got nuthin, lol

*wink*


"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "

-Jack Handy

lost_nacf_gop's picture

"Ann Coulter"

ricky's picture

(Insert your favorite line here)


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

bonsai pajamas's picture

getting your post scrubbed at C&L.

C&L will scrub my post?

Wow...I love those progressive bloggers!!!


"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."

bonsai pajamas's picture

But spruced up a bit with asterisks.

bonsai pajamas's picture

Good choice of words for this obnoxious cow.

Uncle Joe Mccarthy's picture

poll after poll shows americans are against the plan....false

wellstones funeral turned into a raucus political rally...false

kennedy was much beloved....not by you, you bleached blonde bitch

savannah43's picture

An unnatural blonde.

ricky's picture

Real Americans want lady commentators who look like they care what menfolk like and little girls crave. TV Barbie.


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

FreeDUMB's picture

We don't expect to convince republicans or town hall meeting hooligans. Poll after poll shows 75% want the public option and it is up to these cowardly blue dogs to live up to the example of Kennedy and perform the will of the people.

liberalNmoderation's picture

funeral services...
Kinda figured he'd show a bit more class...oh wait...nevermind.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/elder-bush-r...

luis stoole's picture

not being able to set foot upon hallowed ground

liberalNmoderation's picture

he'd for sure burst into flames...

ricky's picture

and possible rendition?


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

to the Hague? I'm up for it.

bonsai pajamas's picture

I have a van.

katy's picture

announce that pappy would not be there,
but he was sending dubya to "represent the family"...

think about that...

Michelle's picture

Poppy and Babs didn't want to go with Dubya:

The elder Bush's spokesman told the AP Friday that the 43rd president decided not to attend when he learned that his son would be going.

A spokesman for Bush said Friday that he and his wife, Barbara, decided not to attend Kennedy's funeral after learning their son, former President George W. Bush, would attend.


I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all

ricky's picture

Even Mom and Dad don't want to be seen with him any more?


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

proudlyprogressive's picture

When you know the perps of the assination of Pres. Kennedy, and you are a member of that Crimefamily probably it was the better choice for the meglomaniacle sociopathic Bushbrat.

liberalNmoderation's picture

Bachmann gets jeered at her town hall meeting...HA!
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/28/gop-re...

I’ll be danged if I am going to give up my Social Security because of socialism,” Schaffer said, before being booed by the crowd.

This is such a stupid statement on so many levels that it boggles the mind.


"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."

Turn the Bluegrass Blue's picture

Opportunistic politicizing of one senator's death - crass.
Opportunistic politicizing of 3,000+ Americans' deaths - political gold mine.

battlestar_prophylactica's picture

Just thinking the same thing.

Adood's picture

Attacking Kennedy in his grave would be too low. So they stoop to this. HOW DARE YOU USE KENNEDY'S DEATH TO PUSH HEALTH CARE REFORM! Even though Kennedy spent his life pushing for health care reform. Don't feel guilty. It's what Kennedy fought for. It's why he remained in the Senate facing certain death. To hell with the FOX gasbags.

pinkobait's picture

Simply by acknowledging the death of Edward Kennedy,Liberals are playing politics.Conservatives are attempting to nip in the bud any "untoward" public displays of pride or inspiration or feelings of community and empowerment that this Liberal's many accomplishments might instill in them.Though predictable in it's ruthless and insensitive nature,it is no less disgusting in the extreme.


"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "

-Jack Handy

Let's get even!!!!!!

luis stoole's picture

in which you have to hear her shrill rants every day for hours.

Evet's picture

the old saying goes.

Evet's picture

comes along.

LOL

Samson-'s picture

from death panels, to death lists, and now... death cards...

today's GOP: the death party

someone find these charlatans a thesaurus.

Evet's picture

fear fear fear fear
terror terror terror terror

This, is living?

ricky's picture

death taxes. They're a no there too.


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

Samson-'s picture

you must mean estate taxes....

ricky's picture

Looky what they did for California.


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

Liberalicious's picture

these people DON'T whine about?

Samson-'s picture
yes

they don't whine about upward wealth redistribution.

kpacker53's picture

What I love is the way she slips in the "unpopular bill" language. Who is it unpopular with? The right wing political whores and the corporate greed heads who pay them? Ingraham is an idiot.

Don't they have a video of her online regurgitating something?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Joe's picture

this shill's ugly voice makes my ears bleed. And, dammit, it's not covered in my private healthcare plan. The small print says that if I have ever viewed Fox News at anytime before the bleeding began, then technically it's a pre-existing condition. Jeez, these Big Insurance shills in the right-wing media are so sneaky! Who woulda thunk it?!?

would have compromised on health care.

What's your poison? Batshit Crazy at Fox?
Bullshit Stupid at Mouse?


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

katy's picture

john mcLIAR had this to say about a fellow senator:

KING: We're back with Senator John McCain.

He will speak tomorrow at the memorial service for his friend, Senator Ted Kennedy.

Senator, it's going to be a difficult vote.

What if we put it this way, a way that Senator Kennedy once put it for me -- to me.

How can a nation this rich and this strong have anybody not insured?

MCCAIN: Yes, he's got an excellent point. But the question is, in all due respect, that whether health care can be made affordable and available to all Americans or, as is the present proposal through the Senate Health Committee, is a government takeover, including funding for -- federal funding for abortion, among other objectionable items that are in the bill, including 111 new mandates on the part of the federal government.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/2...

mcLIAR is a lying sack of steaming liquid crap.

22dividedby7's picture

You can see the right wing spew Laura's holding on her tongue. Rush's maybe???

ricky's picture

revert to her missing toddler roots and began asking if Dems pulled
the plug on Kennedy in order to revive the floundering health care bill. Then Congressman Burton will have something to investigate when Obama gets the Republican Congress Morning Joe Noon'N Night say Obama wants.


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

techsong's picture

Paul Wellstones tragic death before an election is really no comparison to Kennedy's. Anyone with a brain knows that. This clip is only the typical republican ploy to frame event's on how they want to see them and not how they actually are. They are depending on the misinformed and their base who are told what to think as apposed to formulating thought on actual events or facts. What a bitter, heartless bunch they are. I'm glad I am not one of them and never watch Fox News.

Liberal AND Proud's picture

Laura can spew all she wants cause her caviar healthcare plan saved her bony ass from a cancerous death.

Of course, she believes that only the privileged like her deserve healthcare...everyone else can go fuck themselves.


"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."

booyasu's picture

we honor him not by naming a bill after him, a bill regarding an issue Ted Kennedy has fought for his whole life, but by reminding everyone he's a "LIBERAL FAILURE." Yeah seriously, good job not politicizing his death at all you dumb c_rag.

Trittydi's picture

This harpy knows nothing of honor.
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Trittydi's picture

What a great screen catch!!

I can't listen to this harpy - it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
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dondiago's picture

“Kennedy was on the losing side of most bills”

If the bills that Ted supported had passed we would not be in the worst shape the country has ever been. YOU DU— BAG!

Trittydi's picture

Yeah she is - unlike any other too.
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Trittydi's picture

The words Ingraham and regurgitate work well together.
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sassafra's picture

the silly old cow is rhuminating. merrily rechewing yesterday's cud for today's fox news viewer's consumption. yummers! republicans today simply can't seem to come up with new ideas instead they undermine whatever ideas are presented, then promise great plans that are never revealed. they don't legislate, they block legislation they haven't even read. the smoke and mirror party.

ThunderMonkey's picture

When you point at someone, you have three more fingers pointing right back at you.

The conservatives or republicans never missed a beat to take advantage or the opportunity to exploit the deaths of 1,100 Americans that died on Sept. 11.

They only cry about it now, because they don't have anyone that's even near the stature as a statesman like Teddy.


"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas

Limp-Dick Blimpaugh's picture

Laura, you ignorant slut!! It's all the Right Wing-Nut lies that will eventually prove you to be losers again and the liars your party stands for.

bonsai pajamas's picture

...I would like to see wrapped in the sentimental gauze of Kennedy's memory. Let's see, healthcare reform, healthcare reform, healthcare reform, Laura's head, healthcare reform...

miss_kitty's picture

it's about time they did SOMETHING to take advantage of a natural event.

But the only reason she thought it up is because that's what SHE'D do with an advantage like this.

facial reconstruction. I'll bet Ingraham complains while having an orgasm.

Yeah...she complains that she dropped her nail file.


"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."

ricky's picture

A) She has never had one

B) If the file was dropped it was not hers and she will have the clumsy bitch turned over to ICE.


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

Embittered Angry Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1's picture
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Dear Laura,

My insurance premiums just went up another $100 per month. I can't afford it.

But their "DEATH PANEL" said I should pay or pay the grim-reaper.

Lovely choices we have here in America. YES?

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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.

Paul's picture

malignant little git she is.

no longer a proud american's picture

the formula is to have a pretty face, no morals, be willing to say unbelievable lies and tell them somewhat convincingly and then Fox will offfer you a talk show. not a brain in her head nor a moral fiber. don't they know what they are doing. truth is they do, they just don't care. hell they are at the top of the fox ladder. But at what cost. ask yourself, what cost. would you be willing to sell your soul. they're young and no need yet to think of the great beyond. they will pay the piper in the end.

gump's picture

Any catch Huckabee's comments? It was worse than Laura. Minutes after attacking liberals for using Teddy's death he goes on to pretty much say if we were on Obamacare he would have been sent home with a pill to die. I guess he said it on his radio show. You can read the article on Huffo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/28/huck...

No shame.


is intended to be a factual statement

See comments at 12:04. Huck needs a little more imagination.
Perhaps he needs to let the squirrel ferment before frying.


"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator

Powkat's picture

is a particularly nasty piece of work. She always manages to say something so offensive that it's hard to find a rational response.

dems WERE playing the death card. as if passing any bill just for the remembrance of someone is a good reason for it. and this site and others were loudly proclaiming to call your reps and tell them to pass the bill for teddy. there was no shame, no hiding it, that liberals want to pull the sympathy strings to get health care passed. its a deplorable tactic, and y'all are guilty guilty guilty.

Michelle's picture

Is to refer you to the pandagon link, just as suggested at the end of David's piece.

That is all.


I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all

ha! i would fruitfully deny anyone their wish to be politicized in death. oh please, please make me a martyr LOL.

Does hair bleach kill brain cells?

and isn't a political ideologue as he claims, then why doesn't he alternate his fill-in seat with a liberal? Why are his substitutes conservatives? O'Reilly's choice of subs reveals his right-wing bias though he would never admit to it.

Reslugs love the ignorant whore's round mouth.

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