Glad To See President Obama Challenged

I watched this video after it essentially went viral (through the online news media, blogs and video) today.

In the video, President Obama is challenged by a woman about things that he has done and things that he has not done during his nearly two years as president.

While I have challenged people who have absurd expectations of President Obama after such a brief time in office, I do thing it is good to keep the president on his toes and to challenge him.

He took a little while to get warmed up, with his answer, but then he ultimately spoke about some of the progress he feels has been made during the nearly two years that he has been president.

More people should challenge President Obama, but more people should also realize that going back to what we experienced during George W. Bush's presidency is not the answer.

But, if the country does vote Barack Obama out of office, then that will be what it will be for our nation.

Our democracy has survived so much already. Heck, we survived eight years of G.W. Bush.

More Fox News Bias Used To Attack Rep. Barney Frank

The latest on Fox News to attack Rep. Barney Frank without putting the full exchange into context is Andrew Napolitano. If you just heard Napolitano, you would think Frank held this town hall meeting just to yell and scream at people in the audience. As usual, however, Fox News takes what happened out of context to smear Rep. Frank and, in general, Democrats.

Notice a few things:

1. See where the edited video starts and notice what it conveniently omits (the question from the woman with a disgraceful Nazi reference to it)

2. He frames the rest of the biased segment by ridiculously bringing on ”a psychiatrist to talk about Barney Frank losing it.”

3. He makes a weak, token effort to mention the nature of some of the questions, but never showed the context with video footage (at least in this clip).

Here is a more comprehensive video:

Nuts Find A Comforting Platform As Interview Subjects On Fox News

Crooks and Liars has a blog entry about an interview Megyn Kelly conducted on Fox News with regard to these nuts acting like idiots and disrupting town hall meetings. Spare many any weak arguments about freedom of speech. People can exercise their freedom to speak without acting like far-right idiots with no home training.

Here is an excerpt from a Crooks and Liars blog:

You had to figure that the moment you saw that “concerned father” harassing John Dingell at the town-hall meeting on health care in Michigan, he’d be showing up eventually on Fox News. After all, it’s what they do.

Sure enough, he was on Fox’s America’s Newsroom this morning with Megyn Kelly. He was a bit nervous, but he managed to still say some extraordinarily incendiary things — not to mention reveal that he’s a “deather”:

Sola: The harm that is being done is being done by this administration and the Congress. They want to foist on us a health-care plan that they themselves will not take. I challenge Barack Obama, members of Congress — of both parties — if you believe so much in this plan, then you use it on your family before you put it on our families. What you are doing is sentencing our families to death.

We lose the right to life. Old people are discarded. Those who cannot fend for themselves are discarded. There is no liberty under your plan. And that’s the problem — the people have seen it, the people know it, you can’t hide it from the American people anymore.

If I’m a thug, fine. Don’t call my son a thug, and don’t call those old ladies and old men that are senior citizens like I am, thugs, and a mob. We are not. We are American citizens who want one thing: To be heard before you put us down.

It’s too bad these morons can’t carry themselves with a degree of civility and not act like a bunch of crazed thugs (yeah, I said it) busting up meetings while using fear, intimidation and ridiculous scare tactics.