Hypocrisy (Warning--Health Care Thread)--updated

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I meant  what was the question from the reporter (btw, those are not questions)....
As for your first quote, the transcript reads:

"BAIER: You have said at least four times in the past two weeks: "the 
United States Congress owes the American people a final up or down vote 
on health care." So do you support the use of this Slaughter rule? The 
deem and pass rule, so that Democrats avoid a straight up or down vote 
on the Senate bill?

OBAMA: Here's what I think is going to happen and what should happen. 
You now have a proposal from me that will be in legislation, that has 
the toughest insurance reforms in history, makes sure that people are 
able to get insurance even if they've got preexisting conditions, makes 
sure that we are reducing costs for families and small businesses, by 
allowing them to buy into a pool, the same kind of pool that members of 
Congress have."

My Interpretation: Baier asked the President about a procedure that may or may not happen to pass health care. Obama answers that the point is not how it passes that matters but what passes that matters.

Proof of my point:

"OBAMA: What I can tell you is that the vote that's taken in the House 
will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever 
form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I
 don't think we should pretend otherwise."

Next quote of your addresses this interaction:

Baier: "Let me insert this. We asked our viewers 
to e-mail in suggested questions. More than 18,000 people took time to 
e-mail us questions. These are regular people from all over the country.
 Lee Johnson, from Spring Valley, California: "If the bill is so good 
for all of us, why all the intimidation, arm twisting, seedy deals, and 
parliamentary trickery necessary to pass a bill, when you have an 
overwhelming majority in both houses and the presidency?"

Obama's reply: OBAMA: Bret, I get 40,000 letters or 
e-mails a day.

			    Baier interrupts with BAIER: I know.

			    OBAMA: I could read the exact same e-mail —

			    Again Baier interrupts: BAIER: These are people. It's not just Washington 
punditry.

			    OBAMA: I've got the exact same e-mails, that I could 
show you, that talk about why haven't we done something to make sure 
that I, a small business person, am getting as good a deal as members of
 Congress are getting, and don't have my insurance rates jacked up 40 
percent? Why is it that I, a mother with a child with a preexisting 
condition, still can't get insurance?

			    So the issue that I'm concerned about is whether not we're 
fixing a broken system.

My interpretation of that exchange: Baier tries to intimidate with large numbers of people upset with pending health care legislation. Obama counters with two-times the number in support of his side. Baier tries to defend his now smaller number of emails with a sympathy cry: "But these are real people with fears!" Obama counters with his even bigger sympathy retort with: "These are real people with real problems." 

The fox reporter was looking for the President to contradict himself (and later have his fellow talking heads to scream about how weak he is and a flip-flopper) and the President deflected those attempts by not directly answering the questions while still making the points that he wanted to make.
Reporter and new channel's thinking: Lets ask the President questions about legislative procedures that have existed forever and have been used by both parties. After he/she answers, lets attack same procedures in attempt to discredit legislation. If president doesnt follow our script lets attack president.

When I scroll quickly pass your sig line, my mind always interprets it to read: Too close for submissives, I'm switching to nuns!

Edited by God - 18 March 2010 at 7:51pm