This Year's Greatest Television Moment: a most unexpected denunciation of ObamaCare
Rev. Harry Jackson stunned MSNBC's Ed Schultz.
Credit must be given where it’s due. Earlier this week MSNBC’s Ed Schultz treated his viewers to two of the finest minutes of television that anyone, anywhere, has seen in years. Not, mind you, because of anything Schultz said, but because of what one of his guests said to him. It was one of those deeply satisfying moments when we got to see a knee-jerk Obama lapdog like Schultz spend several minutes spewing his trademark leftist claptrap, only to be dramatically ambushed by a guest who Schultz thought was going to do nothing more than dutifully rubber-stamp everything he had just said.
The segment began with Schultz deriding ”Christian political operatives” for having failed, thus far, to speak out in favor of the Democrat/Obama plan for government-run healthcare. He looked earnestly at the camera and demanded that “the four most influential Christian leaders in this country” — he named, specifically, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Franklin Graham, and James Dobson — “step up and speak up.”  ”These Christian leaders,” said Schultz, “need to get engaged and support a Christian president on the public option of providing healthcare for all Americans. Isn’t it the Christian thing to do? Their silence [so far] is deafening.”
Schultz then proceeded to explain that these ministers’ failure to publicly endorse socialized medicine constituted a betrayal of Christ’s message:
“When Jesus walked the face of the earth, he was feeding the hungry, he was clothing the poor, and healing the sick. He didn’t ask anybody for their health insurance card and he didn’t heal anybody for profit. Yet we hear nothing from the Christian leadership in this country on healthcare reform and the moral obligation we face as a nation to address this issue. Let’s just say that I think your silence is shameful. What [we are] doing to American families is shameful. And there should be an outcry from the Cristian community to support this president. Don’t stick your Bible underneath your bed on this one, folks. How these Christian leaders can stand idle and dreadfully silent while the insurance industry makes billions at the expense of the American people, to me, is sickening.”
Then, it happened. Schultz – satisfied that he had skillfully set the stage for his guest to grab the host’s rhetorical “alley-oop” pass and metaphorically slam the ball through the conversational hoop – turned to Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christan Church. And a funny thing happened on the way to a slam dunk.
With unapologetic yet gentlemanly eloquence, Jackson, a registered Democrat, proceeded to declare that he strongly opposes ObamaCare, and he identified precisely the elements and ambiguities of the plan that trouble him deeply. If he were a white conservative, he would have been tarred by Schultz as one of the “evil mongers” and “swastika-carriers” who supposedly populate the “angry mobs” of protesters that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and a host of their fellow Democrat hacks have been whining about for weeks.
There are no descriptive phrases that could do justice to the force of Jackson’s retort to Schultz. It’s best that you see it for yourself. It will be two minutes of your time very well spent. Go to this page. If the film clip does not load automatically, click on the thumbnail photo with the caption that reads, “What would Jesus do about health care?” If you wish to skip past Schultz’s predictable, hackneyed inanities, you can forward the video to the 3:20 mark, which is where Rev. Jackson is introduced to the audience. Then sit back and enjoy; you’ll probably want to enjoy it twice.
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It is amazing that everytime the democrat mouthpieces are up against the wall they pull the same old trick out of their playbooks. They invoke the Christians. This amazes me as they are the first to vilify all Christians. This is another Saul Alinsky tactic of holding the other side to their standards. But on this one the left has it wrong. God asks us to freely help our fellow man. No where does he mandate it. For many years people took care of each other and communities came together to help one and another. In most communities in this country that still occurs. But, then the left saw that people would actually help each other and they decided that didn’t give them enough control over people’s lives and hence the so called compassionate left. What a bunch of garbage, the left’s attempt to appear to be the compassionate ones is all lip service. We have been fighting the war on poverty since the early ’60’s and with all the gov’t programs we still have an astounding number of people living at or below the poverty level. Why? Because the left has made people believe that the gov’t knows what’s better for them. The left has convinced a growing number of people that they are unable to survive without gov’t intervention. This has all come at a great cost to all Americans. The left has perfected to low art of politcal speak to insure that they have a vast block of voters forever. If all of their rhetoric about their compassion was so true then why do all the poverty striken people continue to believe the left yet their condition never improves until they learn self reliance and reject the left’s lies. Wake up America! Oh, BTW, Ed Schultz is no more than a DNC mouthpiece who receives his daily marching orders. Who even watches him. My prayers are that the so called Christian leaders do stand up against the very people who would enslave this country forever. It is a proven fact that Conservatives donate more to charity than any other segment of society, even with the onerous taxes heaped upon them.
Christian charity is not Government charity. Christian charity is the voluntary act of the individual. Government charity is coercion – using the force of Caesar to compel compliance of the individual. Forcing others to comply with the government health plan is not a Christian act.
Schultz is a fat, pathetic Obama-slurper who will say anything to support his Savior (and I don’t mean Jesus). His blatant one-sidedness and poorly controlled anger course disqualify him from being considered anything but a mouthpiece for anything that Obama says or does, no matter how much he has to yux around the truth.
Not sure how this unappealing loser ever got his own show. Wouldn’t waste a lot of time watching him, and I note from his ratings, not many viewers do.
Got the video. Thanks for the treat.
Where’s the video of Harry Jackson’s response????? You tell us to look at it and it’s not htere.
Tricia,
Top of this page to the article, last paragraph, red type “this page”.
That was pure torture. The next time you send me off to see “two minutes” I hope that I don’t get blindsided again into having to watch seven additional minutes of painfully inappropriate leftist drivel. After having to hear seven minutes of statist trash I now understand how in-the-tank America hating devotees of totalitarian government control would feel if they were to be forced to listen to seven minutes of Glenn Beck tear into their messiah. Big difference though – Beck will give facts, while all “Ed” has on offer is propaganda.
That was painful. I’ll consider it a rookie mistake. Don’t do it again.
I am my brother’s keeper. I am not your brother’s keeper.
After MSNBC set the stage for the Rev. Jackson to speak, he spoke the truth from his heart and mind. The “FORS” and the “AGAINST” in Health Care, opps, excuse me “Insurance Reform” are being side tracked. There is much more involved in the American takeover than this one bill.
Tarp – Obama McCain both voted for it.
Stimulus – This is Obama’s baby.
CAP and Trade – Obama GE CEO Jeff
Bail-out banks
Bail-out cars
Give company to Union
ACORN
CASH FOR CLUNKERS
SEIU
Freedom of Choice – phony name for Freedom to keep your ballot personal.
CZARS – unaccountable to citizens
Amnesty
Checking Freedom of Speech
Checking 2nd Amendment
GITMO – bring an attack to your town.
CENSUS – Acorn – Chicago style
and did you listen during the campaign?
Congratulations, Mr. Schultz!
You have won the coveted “Useful Idiot of the Week Award!”
The Socialists of America Party Society would like to thank you for advocating for their cause: continued and increasing oppression of the American people with a sweeping goal of complete and total tyranny.
Thank you for your excellent work,
SAPS
Looney libtards who invoke Jesus make me laugh at their attempt to use his works against us as evidence that we are somehow not being Christ-like in opposing Obama’s DeathCare. Their stunning lack of knowledge about everything else that Jesus said, which was considered revolutionary and rebellious in his time, is comical. My 8 and 13 year-old children could shame them into retracting their ignorant arguments.
Here is just one small but powerful example that shows the absurdity of the claims that Christian leaders’ silence about DeathCare are unchristian and contrary to Christ’s teachings.
(Jesus’ own words)
Matthew 6:1-4. “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from you Father in Heaven.
So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Amen
“It was one of those deeply satisfying moments when we got to see a knee-jerk Obama lapdog like Schultz…”
I can tell you haven’t listened to his radio show or watched his tv program that long. He’s criticized Obama and his failure to lead on healthcare, allowing unions to organize, etc. a lot on radio.
Granted, Schultz is a lot nicer to Obama than people on the widely recognized Left (Chomsky, Zinn, Nader, etc.) are, but he has to maintain a mass audience or his show won’t suceed. I used to listen to quite a bit of progressive radio in Seattle, and for the record, I think Schultz is among the fairest, most level-headed progressive commentators out there.
Mike Malloy is entertaining, but over-the-top. Thom Hartman: informative, but sometimes his pace is plodding and he can bore you after a while. Randi Rhodes comes off like a leftwing Town Hall screamer sometimes.
Schultz can take on the rightwingers anyday, but he’s not afraid to deliver an asskicking on the Democrats when they fail to represent their consituents either.
We are sheep among the wolves.
Americans need to understand the “type†of health care they will receive from the government might end their life. Americans attending town meetings and having the right to speak is the only way that “The People†can take their country back.
It is said that nurses work for the hospital not for the patient.
The PLAN: This video will show give you an understanding of what has been going on in our world. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3399796904891753774
The government has been working on a giant data base for 10 years that will hold as much information on American citizens as they can gather from all information sources including school and police records.
This Information Technology (IT) data base will contain from the cradle to the grave information on each US citizen.
In 2004, President Bush signed into law “Project Bioshield Act of 2004,” which authorizes the secretaries of the DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to take virtual control of the bodies of all American citizens during a national emergency. Health officials are empowered to compel everyone to receive state-mandated medications, vaccinations or devices (implants).
http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Legislation/FederalFoodDrugandCosmeticActFDCAct/FDCActChaptersIandIIShortTitleandDefinitions/ucm086297.htm
Former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson (who also ran for US president in 2008) became the largest share holder in Verichip (manufactures implant devices that will track humans and work with the government health data base. Tommy Thompson wanted every US citizen implanted with the device by the end of 2005. That did not happen but it is happening gradually and also in other countries.
If a law for governmental health insurance goes through, what will stop the government from implanting those data storage devices? Whether or not the government tries to force citizens to be injected with drugs, immunizations or devices, they will know what is going on with you and you might not.
HIPPA can prevent people from information while handing it out at any time to entities like organ transplantation industry.
Doctors are now admitting that it is the organ harvesting that kills the patient who had been falsely pronounced dead.
Still now the perverted transplantation industry is looking for more and easier ways to pronounce a living person DEAD so that they can use that living body for harvesting of organs, or living dissection (research/education) –SEE: CONTROVERIES IN THE DETERMINATION OF DEATH “A White Paper by the President’s Council on Bioethics†DECEMBER 2008 http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/death/index.html
SEE: May 13, 2009 Brain death, states of impaired consciousness, and physician-assisted death for end-of-life organ donation and transplantation http://www.springerlink.com/content/xu6n305k7q7475t3/
Which states: “(5) The scientific uncertainty of defining and determining states of impaired consciousness including brain death have been neither disclosed to the general public nor broadly debated by the medical community or by legal and religious scholars. Heart-beating or non-heart-beating organ procurement from patients with impaired consciousness is de facto a concealed practice of physician-assisted death, and therefore, violates both criminal law and the central tenet of medicine not to do harm to patients”. How organs are harvested and the state of the patient during harvesting is also not being told to society.
If you think you have power over yourself by advance directive – might not! The organ transplantation industry steps in and keeps you ventilated so they can harvest your parts (if they want to).
SEE: “The default choice trumps the expressed intent in an individual’s advance health care directive to withhold and/or withdraw life support systems at the end-of-life. The Revised UAGA (2006) overrides advance directives on utilitarian grounds, which is a serious ethical challenge to societyâ€.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2001294
http://www.chestjournal.org/content/133/1/320.1.full?ck=nck
Placing trust in Representatives and Senators have gotten us to this point, and “We the “People” have been deceived for a very long time by these end-of-life actions.
The TRUTH is not hard to understand so why have elected officials not been protecting “The People” in the past when passing bills into laws? Unfortunately most Representatives and Senators have walked along with “Big Business” instead of doing what is truly best for “The People” and those choices have taken us on the road we now stand.
The most important part of a good health bill would be declaration to protect the life of each and every American citizen by giving good thorough medical care that is only geared to help heal that patient in view of them being a whole and unique human being.
Do you know that in the past two years almost all states of the USA have passed into law what is called the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act 2006 that makes the care of your “parts†(organs) more important than the care of yourself (as a patient).
“Measures necessary for the suitability of the part†can mean anything the organ industry wants it to mean but it’s all about making your “parts†optimal for someone else to use and this is done while the patient is very much alive. Those measures, procedures and treatments can certainly harm the patient. Commonly used on injured, vulnerable patients are large quantities of intravenous fluids, induced hypothermia, paralyzing drugs, induced coma, etc. Unknown to families, donors can be drugged and kept unconscious until death.
The House bill states on page 425: “(A) An explanation by the practitioner of advance care planning, including key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to”. The push here is to get every citizen to have an advanced directive, living will and durable powers of attorney. A “living will” has nothing to do with living but has the ability to be a license to kill (by way of “comfort drugs†that can cause breathing to stop) handed to a doctor (and of course an organ procurement person will be hovering over that patient in hopes to use (it) for harvesting/research/education. A patient’s durable power of attorney may not know their loved one is being drugged into an unconscious state and never given a chance to recover because the plan is to shorten that patient’s life for one reason or another. Statements have been made such as “that ICU bed could be used for someone elseâ€! Organs can be exchanged through Health and Human Services Medicare for big money. A single person parts especially the young can make a million dollars for the industry.
The UAGA 2006 bill was wrote in 2006 and has currently passed in almost all states in the USA.
This is what the UAGA 2006 has changed: The unsound minded person can now become a donor but will have a more difficult time to state a refusal to be a donor (a refusal will require that statement and two signatures and with the unsound minded person their guardian must do it for them).
The UAGA 2006 lacks the requirement for full and explicit informed consent standards. In fact, they want to keep you in the dark because the truth is the harvested people were never dead when their organs are removed.
The UAGA 2006 allows technicians instead of surgeons to harvest body parts.
A donor’s revocation (changing their mind about being a donor) of an anatomical gift of the donor’s body or part is not a refusal and shall not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the donor’s body or part. Now more people are on a list that can make this donation decision for you including friends!
The UAGA 2006 allows children as young as 15 ½ years of age to consent to organ donation when they go for their drivers permits. Children’s parts may be taken without any extra consent although the law states “if a parent is reasonably available”. But do you think the search for a parent will be as diligent when a child has consented to be a donor as the search for a parent of a child who has refused to be a donor?
In the House bill, the “suggested people to talk to” will be professional end-of-life sales people who would be able to talk most people into anything. But they will not tell you that a person who enters a hospital with a DNR is referred to the organ donation center industry. Most people are unaware that the government passed laws requiring hospitals to contact the organ industry and now years later it has advanced to where organ harvesting personnel are actually stationed in hospitals waiting for the injured to arrive through ER.
Chuck Norris recently wrote this: ["Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development.
The bill says that the government agents, "well-trained and competent staff," would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.""]
Any one with knowledge in eugenics (ridding the world of undesirables) can understand where this part of the bill where these government agents can take our country. Don’t think it can’t happen, because it already is in the Netherlands. Young living babies are being screened and determined whether or not to be put to death.
Page 840 sums it up when it states: “(D) home visitation programs supported using such funds will, when appropriate, provide referrals to other programs serving children and families; and
“(E) the State will comply with subsection (i), and cooperate with any evaluation conducted under subsection (j).
Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3399796904891753774
And maybe most workers will not even know what is truly going on because the determinations will be made by the Health and Human “Secretary” by means of the giant data base. Ex-Governor of Alaska, Sara Palin has described the selectors as the “death panel”.
Sent to Ed,
Hey Ed, I have been listening to you on and off for years. I particularly enjoyed the off years. But to the point, I did not realize you even had a TV show until I saw the clip about religious “Christian†leaders coming to support healthcare reform. You and your messianic leader can keep your unpublished healthcare plan to yourselves, I’ll die from cancer before I give up myliberty, my children’s or my grandchildren’s liberty for a hollow promise and a pocket full of Obama “changeâ€.
They invoke the christians because they are antichristian. I also would prefer to have a natural death than give my health to a bunch of socialist antigod true swastika carriers. The swastika thing is absurd only because Pelosi started this label. And socialist power mongers like her- are trying to grab power from the people. These types of actions will end as a swastika type government. Plus, she got the idea from a guy who wore an anti-swastika t-shirt in the crowd. Already, she takes the truth and turns it around and she can’t even think of her own slogans- how stupid.
I made it quite clear that if you wanted to bypass Schultz’s drivel, you could fast-forward to the 3:20 mark, where Jackson came in. He was on for two minutes. I never recommended that you watch anything after that.