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Universal Healthcare: Terrorist Recruitment Tool

jerry-bowyer-nro.jpg It’s one of those bang-your-head-against-the-keyboard moments when you have to type a headline that is so manifestly idiotic. But that was seriously the framing of a recent news item on Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto”.

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Not content with your basic fear mongering of Muslims with respect to the latest rather lame “terrorist” attempt in England, Neil and his guest, NRO’s Jerry Bowyer (whose expertise in matters medical, be it in the UK or here or in terrorism is never actually established), come to the same conclusion that a national healthcare program creates a bureaucracy and need for foreign doctors that Al Qaeda is only too happy to take advantage of.

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212 Responses for “Universal Healthcare: Terrorist Recruitment Tool”
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Liberal AND Proud Says:

Cavuto is just pissed, cause his medical plan doesn’t cover liposuction.

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Liberal AND Proud Says:

Oh and FRIIIIIIIIST again!

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rend Says:
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Samson- Says:

note: kaiser permanente, please send your “donation” directly to the office of roger ailes. thank ya. and remember, your cash buys faux noise propaganda.

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Samson- Says:

this is just further proof that the reichwing is on its last leg. not to say that they won’t have followers and supporters, but their followers will continue to dwindle and be more and more representative of your butt-ass crazy, drunk uncle mick (you know the one i’m talking about, the one that has driven the wrong way on the interstate on more than one occasssion and likes to drink ketchup straight from the bottle)

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EconAtheist Says:

*face buried in palms; rubbing eyes*

My country. I want my country back.

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DFH Says:

NRO’s Jerry Bowyer (whose expertise in matters medical, be it in the UK or here or in terrorism is never actually established)

not only are they not established, he works for Scaife:

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DFH Says:
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PW Says:

Michael Moore’s next movie — hurry, please — must be a shakedown of broadcast media. Can you imagine what, say, the C&L team could do with a sufficient budget + M. Moore in producing a film so funny, so devastating, so revealing that people like Cavuto and O’Reilly would never appear in public again? This is my fantasy. I cling to it.

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Joementum Says:

Ya know, I never did trust those Doctors Without Borders people. Now I know why. Thanks, Neil.

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Samson- Says:

this meme needs to be crushed immediately.

it is on par, on the watkin’s stoopid-scale, with the meme that the climate crisis is a communist plot

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Intrepid Says:

You could just hear the republican spin doctors thinking:

OK how do we take something like health care for all and somehow link it with terrorism?

The reason that people like this sleep at night is because they NEVER HAD any conscience to begin with.

Oh… and by the way… welcome to Orwell’s 1984:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07.....ref=slogin

Big Brother is reading your comments

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Jesse Says:

Neil Cavuto is such a little shit. He’s always so goddamned smug and passive-aggressive, when the facts are clearly not on his side.

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Darth_Romney Says:

The fact that idiots like Cavuto even have a presence on TV confirms what my friend from Germany has said for years…”America has became a nation of dimwits, ruled effortlessly by rich theives!”

Is there one damned thing they can’t take and warp out of shape just to have a pissing match with? I think these people just enjoying bull shitting their way through life. There must be a group somewhere who do nothing but make up stuff and then support it with bogus facts. Why? Is it because they aren’t bright enough to deal with reality, so they have to invent thier own?

With that many errors in one comment, maybe I should join their side.

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Dhalgren Says:

More proof that the Right Wing is in its last throes. Almost 50% of Americans favor impeaching Bush. I don’t recall seeing a poll in which that same number favored impeaching Clinton.

Are you listening, Nancy? I sent her an e-mail. I hope I wasn’t alone in pointing this out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20.....XNkJes0NUE

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Pixie Says:

Wow! So all I have to do is go to school for 93809 years and get my medical degree! Now I can finally fulfill all of my terrorists fantasies!! /rubs hands together /twirls her handlebar mustache! Watch out America! I’m coming to get you….in like….a couple of decades!!!!

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Pixie Says:

Samson- @ 4:

note: kaiser permanente, please send your “donation” directly to the office of roger ailes. thank ya. and remember, your cash buys faux noise propaganda.

LOL

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Barrett D Says:

i dont’ know what world Cavuto lives in, its certainly not mine.

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necadawg Says:

Let me see.
Terrorist plots stopped before they did any damage.
They all were in Britain.
They were commited by Islamic Medical doctors.
None were suicide bombers.
They got to England because of universal health care.
Universal Health care promotes Terrorism.
Sounds bizzare to me.

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fiver Says:

One nice thing… this does show just how worried the health insurance industry is about this film.

(I had some problems with Moore’s previous 2 movies, but loved this one. Must see.)

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darkhawk Says:

Universal health care plan does not cover stupidity.

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Daisy Zimmerly Says:

If we don’t fight the OB/GYNs there, we’ll have to fight them here. Gives W,MD’s a whole new meaning.

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Chris Says:

When it’s time to do something about these people other than belly-ache on internet blogs and forums….let me know.

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JR Says:

What’s next? Kids’ breakfast cereals?

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Blue Buddha Says:

No wonder Al Queda is able to find new recruits… they’ve got a great health care package!

It all makes sense now.

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CD Says:

What goofy ass trains of thought Cavuto has.

ya know what else could be called a Terrorist Recruitment Tool?

the right to bear arms.

Does Cavuto hate that too?

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fiver Says:

pissed off patricia @ 16:

With that many errors in one comment, maybe I should join their side.

You’d need to use your AllCaps button more :)

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Dave Says:

Liberal AND Proud @ 1:

Cavuto is just pissed, cause his medical plan doesn’t cover liposuction.

He’s also pissed that none of those Hooters waitresses would sleep with him.

Only a doctor would make a car bomb out of a Mercedes.

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PNAAC Minister Says:

Does Cavuto’s health plan cover the removal of putrid rotting gray matter? No? That explains it.

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Barbara in BC Says:

I was afraid that there would be anofficial backlash against the movie Sicko, but had no idea it would take advantage of this (possibly faked) terrorist plot in Britain.

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Daisy Zimmerly Says:

That time will come when enough of your fellow citizens realize how badly they are being screwed. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened yet. The domwits are still in abundance. How many people have you persuaded today? If it wasn’t for the efforts of bloggers many of these issues would still be invisible.

David Schuster (sp?) takes over hardball tonight for chris. It’s excellent. They should can Chris and give David that show. He is by far a much better guy for the spot and he dosn’t allow anyone to get away with any shit. Tonight’s show is a perfect example. Also Neal could take some lessons from David. David isn’t into just making facts up and spouting them out there.

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gene214 Says:

Back in the day when Truman was trying to get National Healthcare for this country, the AMA went into full red-baiting mode with their “Lenin said the road to socialism starts with National Healthcare” meme. It was total bs, but Americans, being not to bright back then either, bought it hook, line, and sinker. This is just the same bs, only substitute “Al Quieda” for “Communists”. Everything old is new again.

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Patmaniac Says:

I used to work with Jerry Bowyer in the Duquesne University Cafeteria way back in 83-84.
He was a lazy disingenous whiner back then and I see he hasn’t changed much.
He worked there for 4 years without distinction or promotion, I joined the crew, worked my tail off and was promoted to student manager in 3 months.
Crybaby Jerry was incensed and ran to management to whine about having senority in time and age over me. For added sympathy to get a pay raise he may or may not have whined about having a hideously ugly wife and kid.
He was a fundie religious fanatic back then, always with Bible or some other religious tract in hand. I used to get a kick out of pulling his chain on religious matters. I thought he was studying to be a minister. Turns out it was the perfect training for what he’s up to now, if you can convince people of supernatural fantasies it’s an easy segue to convince them of any GOP talking point.

I hope those guys were better at medicine than they were at blowing shit up.

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ysbaddaden Says:

So the terrarists would first plug us then drug us?

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Janet Says:

Cavuto is an ass. That being said, David Shuster is on for Chris today and is kicking ass. HE refused to let his guest blame Iraq for 9/11. MSNBC needs to keep Shuster and get rid of Chris or Tucker. Real journalism is a must especially with the current administration.

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Pete Says:

“come to the same conclusion that a national healthcare program creates a bureaucracy and need for foreign doctors that Al Qaeda is only too happy to take advantage of.”

In other words, we know exactly what illogical fantasies keep the pants-wetter brigade up at night in cold, desperate terror.
coWards.

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PNAAC Minister Says:

Patmaniac,

Thanks for that contribution. That kind of extra background & insight are what makes C&L so enjoyable!

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Gort Says:

Next come the terrorist veterinarians and their exploding cows.

Jinx, Janet, you owe me a coke. See my comment #35 and your comment #40. We almost said the exact same thing. :)

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Ryan Says:

I can see the next Osama bin Laden video coming out.

“we will crush our enemies by bringing single payer health care to the United States”

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Janet Says:

pissed off patricia @ 44:

Jinx, Janet, you owe me a coke. See my comment #35 and your comment #40. We almost said the exact same thing. :)

I must have missed your comment so I will just say….
Two great minds think alike

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nonny mouse Says:

Y’know, after I stopped laughing, I realized something: These particular terrorist plots were about the most bungled, inept, half-assed, amateur-night fiasco in possibly the entire modern history of Islamic terrorism against the west. I can’t help but be grateful that the NHS is incapable of producing a decent suicide bomber! Thank god for universal health care! Not only does the NHS provide decent health care for everyone, they also make crap terrorists! An argument FOR universal health care rather than AGAINST, I’d say…

I agree Janet, great minds do think alike and we have just proven that not so great minds do too. ;)

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Samson- Says:

this is just so gaspingly *gasp* stupid.

how, i mean HOW(!), could anyone–no matter how ignorant and rightwing they are–believe this crap? is it just b/c it is on TV? (like homer simpson “TV said that?”)

i just wish the neofascists would take a second to put the logic together. OBL, the man who has put the death curse on all americans, is going to do so through establishing healthcare for everyone? this doesn’t even pass the basic logic test.

do the the wingnuts need a sign in front of the stall to tell them to “unzip zipper” before the pee? me thinks so.

Nonny, these guys were so bad they couldn’t even blow themselves up or their cars. They could just barely be called arsonist. Their best talent seems to have been filling jugs with gasoline and propane.

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ticktock Says:

lookie here….you guys don’t know what you’re talking about….

i just saw one of them there terrorists crawling right from under a rock looking fer trouble…

he had one of those stethoscopes on and asked me if i had my yearly pap smear…

boy, was i scaered….

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bill w Says:

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fiver Says:

ticktock @ 51,

Is that where they’re hiding the bombs now? I guess the airport screening lines just got longer.

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bill w Says:

Janet @ 40:

Cavuto is an ass. That being said, David Shuster is on for Chris today and is kicking ass. HE refused to let his guest blame Iraq for 9/11. MSNBC needs to keep Shuster and get rid of Chris or Tucker. Real journalism is a must especially with the current administration.

get rid of Chris AND Tucker

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Big Jerk Says:

I guess that’s the right wing reply to Sicko, I’d say it’s sad that’s all they can come up with, but given th