Friday, September 11, 2009
The Fascinating Mind of Phil Bronstein.
The good news is that the "experiment" is over: Phil's Monday column, when he feels like writing it, will be online. The bad news is that the on-line world will be even more polluted by yet another ill-informed and uneducated conservative pundit.
We admit being fascinated by Bronstein. Take this blog post, for instance, in which Bronstein French kisses John McCain.
But damn if John McCain didn't have a bunch of citizens at his Arizona health care reform town hall meeting yesterday behaving like the Mormon Tabernacle choir: polite, orderly and in key... Everyone in their seats; no signs, no riots.
A commenter ask, Phil are you speaking about this town hall: Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.
Ooops, but that would not be the first time that Phil irresponsibly panders for McCain. Back to Phil's post:
But here's John McCain: "It's not a public option, (it's) really the government option. Because it's the government-run health care system." Simple, right? Agree or disagree, that's as clear as the Arizona desert sky...His visual was a small and simple chart, not the high pyrotechnics or pig Latin knots of health care explication from President Obama on down where you need a slide rule and Stephen Hawking to figure out if you're still breathing.
So McCain makes a simplistic and disingenuous statement, that the government will run the health care system (it would only reform the insurance part of it), to scare people off. In my world, it's irresponsible. Phil, on the other hand, applauds. After years of urging Democrats to be bi-partisan with Bush, Phil claps when McCain attempts in bad faith to torpedo efforts to fix the system. Phil even says that McCain's provable lie is, wait for it, straight talk.
Obama says: "The earth revolves around the sun, but it's the rotation of the earth along its axis which, in the referential of the observer,..." STOP!, yells Bronstein, it's too complicated! McCain says "the sun turns around the earth." Bronstein goes: yeah, that's simple, that's good, that's mavericky for you to say, way to go, Senator.
And this guys was the editor of the paper!
We admit being fascinated by Bronstein. Take this blog post, for instance, in which Bronstein French kisses John McCain.
But damn if John McCain didn't have a bunch of citizens at his Arizona health care reform town hall meeting yesterday behaving like the Mormon Tabernacle choir: polite, orderly and in key... Everyone in their seats; no signs, no riots.
A commenter ask, Phil are you speaking about this town hall: Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.
Ooops, but that would not be the first time that Phil irresponsibly panders for McCain. Back to Phil's post:
But here's John McCain: "It's not a public option, (it's) really the government option. Because it's the government-run health care system." Simple, right? Agree or disagree, that's as clear as the Arizona desert sky...His visual was a small and simple chart, not the high pyrotechnics or pig Latin knots of health care explication from President Obama on down where you need a slide rule and Stephen Hawking to figure out if you're still breathing.
So McCain makes a simplistic and disingenuous statement, that the government will run the health care system (it would only reform the insurance part of it), to scare people off. In my world, it's irresponsible. Phil, on the other hand, applauds. After years of urging Democrats to be bi-partisan with Bush, Phil claps when McCain attempts in bad faith to torpedo efforts to fix the system. Phil even says that McCain's provable lie is, wait for it, straight talk.
Obama says: "The earth revolves around the sun, but it's the rotation of the earth along its axis which, in the referential of the observer,..." STOP!, yells Bronstein, it's too complicated! McCain says "the sun turns around the earth." Bronstein goes: yeah, that's simple, that's good, that's mavericky for you to say, way to go, Senator.
And this guys was the editor of the paper!
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