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Bah Humbug! Woman Takes Down Christmas Tree To Protest Health Care Bill

by Rachel Sklar | 3:38 pm, December 25th, 2009

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“Bunny from Kansas” called in to C-SPAN yesterday morning, angered by the passage of Health Care through the Senate — and she did something about it. “I am so disappointed. I have taken my Christmas tree down, I have taken my Christmas wreath off my house. I have taken all the lights down,” she told host Peter Slen. “This is supposed to be a Nation Under God, and it isn’t. They have absolutely have ruined Christmas for all of the Senators and Representatives that are supposed to be under God. This is God’s holiday for the birth of his son!” Not, apparently, for widespread health care coverage.

Slen asked, slightly disbelievingly: “So you took down your Christmas tree because of the Senate health care bill?” Bunny responded, “I certainly did. And I would like to see every light in the nation go out. Especially in the White House.” O-kay.

This actually is a really sad call, because the reason she cites — that Health Care is “divisive” for her and her son — is indicative of just how many people out there really do still think that Obama is trying to force death panels on the seniors of America. Bunny uses the phrase “Genocide on the seniors” – almost six months after people like Sarah Palin and Betsy McCaughey unleashed this destructive, undermining myth on the country. “What are we doing paying these people to kill other people? Because that’s what they do.” Wow. No points to C-SPAN host Slen, either, for shuffling her off with an indulgent, “All right.” Correct the record, dude.

Here’s the video:

Bunny From Kansas, C-Span, Death Panels, Health Care, Sarah Palin

http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

The woman here illustrates just how Fox Not News and liars like Sarah Palin, Betsey McCaughey and the astroturfing leaders of the Republoteabaggerist movement prey upon the not so bright and the fears of the uninformed. Those member of the ‘people who can be fooled all the time association’ will suck up the stupid spewed from the right wing like it is mother’s milk.
Fidoohki

One problem. The ‘death panels’ are not entirely a myth. I’m not saying Obama is going to be pulling
plug on grandma or anything like that but if they screw this up they WILL have to ration healthcare. That is a
hard fact. Now as the resources dwinde the decisions get tougher and one day someone in an federal office
will have to decide whether to spend money to keep a 93 year old alive for one last year or spend that
same amount on five 65 year olds that’ll keep them healthy for 20 years. This isn’t a ‘scare tactic’. It is
a real possibility.
Fidoohki

Bill Atkins says,

No. It’s the liars on all sides that are causing this.It’s went from a differance of opinion on
how to handle Healthcare to a Partisan contest at its worse. All the more reason to vote them all out.
m

>This is supposed to be a Nation Under God, and it isn’t

She’s so stupid. It’s not. It’s a nation created by man. The Constitution isn’t divine. It’s a secular document.
ImNotBlue

Oy vey.
Fidoohki

M says,

if that is what they are teaching in colleges, then no wonder people call them liberal
indoctrination centers. Try learning history before you refer to it. It makes you look less
like a loon.
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

I’m of the school that journalists should limit their efforts to “correct the record” and though they aren’t journalists in the truest sense, I feel it goes doubly for a CSPAN host. If it were something other than Larry King’s old “Open Phone America”, there might be a guest capable of expressing their opinion about the caller, but if CSPAN tried to “correct” every caller, they’d be able to process considerably fewer telephone calls and there would be a point, where “the record” would/could blur too much with opinion.

Personally, I like the “Open Phone America” concept because the caller gets to say what they’re thinking, everybody at home can judge the validity of their statements and if you somehow disagree, you’re free to call in and “correct the record”.

IOW: @Rachel – If you were so offended, why didn’t you call?
TfT

I’m certain that the CSPAN host hasn’t read the healthcare bill (along with all the Senator’s who voted for it), so how could he “correct the caller”?

There is no doubt that rationing is a reality in this bill; furthermore, if the bill was so terrific, why did Harry Reid have to buy off 13 democrat senators to get their “aye” vote?

Even the European papers are writing about the open corruption and bribery among democrat Senator’s to get this thing over the finish line. Too bad the US media can’t be as honest as the European media.
Jim R

I think the hosts are right to just let this type of comment stand on its own, which they receive on a fairly regular basis.

A recent caller bemoaned his belief that his prayer for Robert Byrd to die (in his mind a response to Senator Coburn’s request to do so), had ricocheted and struck Senator Inhofe – who in reality missed a vote when running his wife to the airport.

I consider C-Span an excellent source to display how ignorant the populace truly is on matters large and small, and the failure of our corporate profit-driven news media to fulfill its purported function in educating the citizenry.
Nachi

Good for you, Bunny. You’re a regular right-wing, patriotic, family-values Murcuhn. You speak for millions. Praise Geesussah!
ImNotBlue

Nachi says:
December 26, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Murcuhn

Christmas has come and gone… and Santa still didn’t bring a dictionary where this is a real word.