It's all you read and hear--Obama's health care plan is in trouble. His speech to Congress is his last ditch effort to save it. The town halls on health care showed widespread opposition to health care reform.
I don't buy it. My reason is that I have some first hand experience of how the media isn's exactly reporting what's going on.
I wanted to get some of my own Last month, I attended a health care town hall in Dublin Virginia hosted by VA Rep. Rick Boucher. He voted against a health care reform bill in committe, making him a Blue Dog Democrats who supposedly isobstructing Obama. However, he said he clearly wanted health care reform but wanted a more modest proposal with health care coops that have worked in other states.
About 1200 people attened Boucher's town hall. Judging by the signs, I estimated about 200 loudly (and rudely) against reform, about 200 for reform, with the rest there for information or to share their heart-breaking stories of problems.
So, here we are in one of the most conservative parts of the south. Sure, we had the protestors but most of the people were not there to oppose reform.
Boucher speaking at Health Care Town Hall August 18 in Dublin Virginia Yet, when I submitted a story to Huffington Post, it was not published, nor did they publish this photo above. Guess it was not as interesting as the protestor signs.
In fact, all of the photos published by Huffington Post of the Health Care Town Halls were of the protestors, not of anyone supporting health care reform.
Pro Health Care Reform Vigil Sept. 3, 2009 Blacksburg, Virginia
Last week, over 60,000 people attended "We Can't Afford to Wait" vigils sponsored by MoveOn.org. That's probably more people than are attending health care protests yet I haven't seen any media coverage.
"We Can't Afford to Wait"--Blacksburg, VA
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Hate breeds hate.
We seem to be a nation of haters right now.
Our country has paid the price.
Huffpo needs to get a life. I am very incensed they did not publish your stuff.
Just like their doing in school districts with Obama's message to students. Just like FAUXnews is doing by refusing to air his address to Congress on Wednesday......and on and on and on......
What really gets me is all the news commentary about how Obama hasn't given the public enough information in support of reform. Isn't informing the public one of the responsibilities of the news media? When you have seniors at town hall meetings who don't realize Medicare is government-run, you'd think this would be a perfect opportunity for hometown newspapers, which the elderly subscribe to if for no other reason than to read the obits.
I've seen one really good Washington Post article that confronted several common myths about the inferiority of other countries' health care. Fortunately, some of the local papers carried it.
I didn't realize Fox wasn't covering the Obama speech. That really shows bias.
i hope they are just dim, but saying 'please sir, may i have more' has never worked before, so i am inclined to think someone is making a living out of 'protesting', like greenwald and sirota.
a nation that has citizen initiative will soon have health care for all. they also will be able to fix running sores like the mic and recurrent looting of the economy.