Betsy McCaughey’s Follies

1:55 pm EST August 21st, 2009 | Media | 11 Comments

When you see events like Betsy McCaughey getting pwned on the Daily Show, you understand why conservatives mostly stick to Fox News, talk radio or mainstream news shows where the anchor can’t do better than read the teleprompter.

When they go up against a well informed guy like Jon Stewart, who we need to remind America is A FREAKING COMEDIAN, they come off like the idiots they are.

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11 Responses to “Betsy McCaughey’s Follies”

  1. jr says:
    August 21, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Betsy is on the board of the Cantel Medical Corporation. They sell medical equipment and want the gravy train of overbilling to continue

  2. Buzz Killington says:
    August 21, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    This sort of hyperbolic nonsense occurs all the time, from both sides. The article answers itself explains why we have to deal with it, though:

    But time and time again, the people who get the most airtime and have the most to say about health care are not the people who are the best informed – instead the focus falls to people like Betsy McCaughey

    Just replace “health care” with whatever issue is at hand.

  3. gumby says:
    August 21, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Looking forward to the Stewart / Franken ticket in 2016.

  4. Indeed says:
    August 21, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    When they go up against a well informed guy like Jon Stewart, who we need to remind America is A FREAKING COMEDIAN, they come off like the idiots they are.

    Indeed. But that’s the only place and informed person offers any glimpse at the facts (even if facts, as Stephen Colbert likes to remind us, have a Liberal Bias). Ms. McCaughey will go on any Sunday Wankfest with her oh so important looking binder and anyone else there (sans Kruggo) will nod along solemnly. How the hell do you think the Iraq Invasion happened, anyway?

  5. Indeed says:
    August 21, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Just replace “health care” with whatever issue is at hand.

    Indeed. James Glassman never got shit-canned.

  6. Buzz Killington says:
    August 21, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Yeah, it is a sorry state of affairs, but I don’t know that much can be done about it. The public wants what the public wants…

  7. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 21, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    An aside that I found notable in the interview was the number of times she interrupted Stewart or otherwise cut him off. He’d ask that she read the actual words, and after she managed to find the right page she’d start telling him what it meant, but wouldn’t read the actual text.

    It’s not just the rudeness of interrupting. In my experience, when one person in a debate consistently cuts the other side off it’s because the first person doesn’t have a solid argument. it’s much of what we’ve seen playing out at town halls.

    You do have a solid argument, supported points to make? Fine. Then let me ask my questions and make my points and then respond to them. Don’t keep up with the “Just a minute, just a minute. Let me finish.” interruptions.

  8. jrfunkenstein says:
    August 22, 2009 at 12:24 am

    ‘An aside that I found notable in the interview was the number of times she interrupted Stewart or otherwise cut him off. He’d ask that she read the actual words, and after she managed to find the right page she’d start telling him what it meant, but wouldn’t read the actual text.’

    I noticed the same thing; no matter how often JS gave her the opportunity to recite the ridiculous claims she made, she never ONCE read the actual document to back up her supposed ‘knowledge’ of the bill. This kind of specious gasbag is all the insurance industry and the GOP have to trot out their lies and fake outrage, and their insidious hypocrisy shines through every time.

    Though you’d never know it from the continued support they rely on from the MSM. Stewart showed her up for the complete joke that she is.

  9. Jaim says:
    August 22, 2009 at 4:27 am

    She and Orly Taitz prepped together.

  10. Plantsmantx says:
    August 22, 2009 at 6:25 am

    “Betsy is on the board of the Cantel Medical Corporation.”

    She used to be on the board of Cantel Medical Corporation. Heh.

  11. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Finally caught the lat portion of the interview, the part that’s online.

    Note at the very end of it that Stewart recognizes there is just something basically different about how he and McCaughey interpret what is written in the bill. A fundamental difference of perception.

    It shows an open mindedness that I see far more frequently on the left than on the right. Not that there aren’t close-minded folks on the left and vice-versa on the right. But by and large it’s the right who seem (as McCaughey did) to have an “I’m right. You’re wrong. Period. I don’t have to explain why that is so because it just is.” attitude while the left can acknowledge “I’m right, you’re wrong and there seems to be something in your view that I just can’t fathom.”

    With the right’s attitude there is nowhere to go. With the left’s there might be room to try to understand each other’s point of view.