Slime Dog Millionaire: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 4
Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Hustler, Keith Olbermann, announced with a flourish that he would not follow the example of pornographer Larry Flynt and ask his tiny audience to go to work digging up dirt on Glenn Beck. Gee thanks.
Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s not still NBC’s slime dog millionaire. Olbermann was MSNBC’s anchor for the broadcast of President Obama’s healthcare speech last night. (Imagine the screaming we would have heard from the whole mainstream media had Fox News used Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity in the anchor chair on for an Obama speech). Olbermann began the coverage immediately after the Republican response by Louisiana Congressman and heart surgeon, Charles Boustany:
OLBERMANN: Congressman Boustany, we should note, has been sued for malpractice three times. He is a “Birther” who believes there are questions about the President’s citizenship, and, as Rachel [Maddow] reported last night, he is a man recorded in court papers to have fallen for a scam in which he tried to buy the British royalty title of “Lord.” He gave the Republican answer tonight. Governor Jindal’s epic failure after the State of the Union should have reminded all: Never write the rebuttal before you read the speech.
What, no mention of Huey Long? He was from Louisiana too… oh, yeah, he was a Democrat.
Slime number 1: “[Boustany,] we should note, has been sued for malpractice three times….” Hmmm, I bet the next time Charley Rangel is on Countdown, “we” won’t “note” that he’s being investigated for major tax fraud…
But I digress. Dr. Boustany has been a heart surgeon for 20 years. He has been sued “3 times!” Let’s look at those cases on which information is easily available with a simple Google search. In one, Boustany was part of a team that saved an obese diabetic woman’s life by performing angioplasty on her. She ended up having to have three toes amputated — Not her leg, three toes. For that, she was compensated better than an Olympic track star.
One of the other times Boustany was sued was a “blue baby” case. Generally about 2/3 of those patients die. Boustany’s patient lived, but he was sued because “complications” meant it took 2 surgeries to get the job done.
But of course, we don’t need malpractice reform in the health bill, that’s a useless distraction!
Slime Number 2: “He is a “Birther” who believes there are questions about the President’s citizenship…”
The “evidence” for this is the Huffington Post video below. Of course, we know it is edited fairly and completely…
HuffPo “guerrilla videographer” Mike Stark ambushed congressmen and was pretty obnoxious with his “investigation.” Mostly what he proved is that Republican congressmen are easily annoyed.
Here is the so-called “evidence” that Boustany “is a birther”
BOUSTANY: Well, it’s certainly being looked at.
STARK: What do you personally believe, I mean — do you think there’s a question here?
BOUSTANY: I think there are questions, we’ll have to see.
While it was pretty dumb for the caucus not to tell its members to just affirm Obama’s citizenship and move on, this is a brush off, not an answer. Boustany later formally affirmed that he believed President Obama was born in the United States, so Keith seems to have problem with his verb tenses…
But then he’s not the first Democrat to have a problem with the meaning of the word “is.”
Attempted Slime Number 3: Here’s a hoot: “as Rachel [Maddow] reported last night, he is a man recorded in court papers to have fallen for a scam in which he tried to buy the British royalty title of “Lord.”
This is the “who cares” of the night. What’s really funny is the phrase “Rachel reported.” Reported? Here is how Rachel summed up her “reporting” methods the night before:
MADDOW: A, I don‘t make deals with anybody about what I cover. And, B, my position on Van Jones is irrelevant because I have never covered him at all, because I never thought that he was of interest until he resigned under pressure from what I see as the unhinged right.
And by “reported” Keith means “repeated Democrat talking points.” That’s right, it’s far more impotant that “reporting” is done on how a member of Congress was defrauded before he was elected, than on the anti-American, racist, anti-Semetic and pro-Communist rantings of a current high-ranking Adminstration appointee.
This was how NBC Anchor Keith Olbermann summarized Obama’s rather prosaic, way-too-long speech:
“It was, to say the least, a broad and forward-thinking speech. On the rhetoric and the phrasing and the pacing and the design of the speech itself, there seems to have been a touch of greatness.”
Tim Russert, call your office.
Part 5: Presumed Innocent: Not for Southern White Males
Slimedog Millionaire? Great monicker for Keith Awfulmann! Of course, evenif he is a millionaire, he’s still intellectually and morally bankrupt.
We should send him a Cheney Bear!
Your description of lawsuits brought against Dr. B is one of the reasons we need tort reform…aka part of the Republican Plan for Health Care Reform.
I wonder if the author of this post would be so forgiving if it had been his own three toes that were lost due to malpractice by a doctor. How much are three toes worth? Apparently the writer thinks he can arbitrate the value of the loss. THis sounds like a death panel advocate. The simple truth is tort reform is another give away to the insurance companies that won’t lower prices as a result but mrely pocket the new income and tell their clients to screw off. 10% of the doctors are responsible for 90% of malpractice cases. Doctors in the AMA never gt rid of their incompetent members, they jsut bury their mistakes. Why should a non-profit health insurance executive get $180,000,000 a year in salary while telling his doctors they can have only 20 minutes, then 15 minutes, then 10 minutes with patients in order to increase their bottom line? We are the only industrialized western nation without single payer health care and despite being the richest nation in the world our child mortality rate is high. Intelligent conservatism should not allow for apologists to defend insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies that in reality do not let you pick your doctor due to overcrowding and do in fact ration health care. Pre-existing conditions is another rip off of the American public. $5 a pill for medications is obscene, and when they tried to stop purchases of the same meds from Canada for less than half the price they tried to make that illegal. Obermann is an ass. But so is O’Reilly. We need health care reform that gets rid of incompetent doctors. Lawsuits are not all frivolous and doing away with them will not lower prices, it will in fact give the insurance companies carte blanche to keep incompetents on the payroll.
I saw somewhere else this obese woman got $1.2 million. I’d give up a few for 400 grand per toe! How about some accounting for the fact that she had something to do with the health situation she found herself in? My goodness.
Harrison wrote: “I wonder if the author of this post would be so forgiving if it had been his own three toes that were lost due to malpractice by a doctor”
Loss of toes or a limb for that matter is not malpractice, it is a known and documented complication of any procedure involving access of the femoral artery. The risk of an unwanted complication is increased if the patient is obese, as this woman was.
So how does a known complication result in a million dollar malpractice reward? Trial attorneys, hence the need for the Republican Health Care Reform Plan detail # 1 TORT REFORM.
Since your opening statement was so uninformed, it speaks volumes to the remainder of your post.
JBT
Of course our genius President will likely accuse the doctors of amputating the toes to get the fees.
“We should note” that Barack Obama, who says he can save $500 billion from Medicare by cutting waste and fraud- but won’t do that without a health care bill?– thinks that it costs “40, or maybe $50,000″ to amputate a leg, instead of the reality of about a thousand bucks. How about re-running THAT clip whenever the guy talks numbers?
Yes, Keith Overbite has been an overbite of a shark these days. I wonder how far that mouth will stretch before it breaks. That stretch won’t cover for Obama.
RE WHAT WE AS CONSERVATIVES MUST AND I AM STRESSING THE WORD MUST STOP BUYING ANYTHING FROM THE GENERAL ELECTRIC FIRM AS OF NOW .PLEASE KEEP I MIND THAT G..E HAS ABOUT TWELVE DIVISIONS AND O SUSIDIARIES INCLUDING NBC UNIVERSAL MEDIA DIVISION WITH THE WEATHER CHANNEL RECENTLT ADDED .THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHOM ARE NOT AWARE OF THIS AND WE MUST INFORMED THEM URGENTL . GENERAL ELECTRIC IS NO LONGER AN AMERICAN FIRM LIKE WHEN MR JACK WELCH WAS THE CHAIRMA AND CEO IT IS NOT ONLY ON MSNBC WITH THE LUNATICS THERE SUCH AS KEITH OLBERMANN AND OTHERS THE BUSINESS CHANNEL CNBC IS EVEN WORST WITH THE LIKES OF MARK HAYNES MARIA BARTOLOMO AND JOHN HARWOOD JUST TO MENTION THESE THREE ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 08.2009 JOHN HARWOOD STATED ON CNBC THAT THE PARENTS AND OR PEOPLE WHOM ARE OPPOSED AND OR AGAINST THE MESSIAH MESSIANIC EMPEROR BARACK OBAMA SPEAKIG THEIR CHILDREN AT SCHOOL CANNOT TAKE CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN . I SAW AND HEARD JOHN HARWOOD STATED THIS ON CNBC LIVE AT AROUND 2,15 P. M ON TUESDAY SEPT 08.2009 I WROTE TO CNBC WITH A COMPLAIT THE HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO SAME EARLIER TODAY FRIDAY SEPT 11 2009 MARK HAYNES ON SQUAK BOX HAD A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN HARDWOOD AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE DISCUSSION OR CALLED IT WHAT YOU MAY MARK HAYNES SAID TO JOHN HARDWOOD THAT THE REUBLCANS ARE OBSTRUCTIONITS THAT IS HOW THE BEHAVE IN THE HOUSE ON WEDESDAY SEPT 09.2009 REFERING TO CON .MAN JOE WILSON .ONE MORE EXAMPLES OF CBNC BIAS THEY NEVER REFERED TO THE HECKLING OF PRESIDENT BUSH THE 43RD AND HOW THEY IVESTIGATED HIS FATHER FOR SPEAKING TO SCHOOL CHILDREN MORE TO COME WHEREIN I WILL EXPAND AND BROADEN MY ARGUEMETS KEITH OLBERMANN IS A LIVING DEVIL OF THE MOST EVIL . I AM INCAPABLE TO CREATE WORDS TO SET FORTH MY ARGUEMENTS AGAINST SUCH A PEST . THANK YOU TREVOR MERCHANT BRONX NEW YORK CITY FRIDAY SEPT 11.2009
Not to get too graphic this time of the night, but my daughter (a thoughtful independent) showed me the of Keith O’s show where he was expounding on Lord Obama’s generosity and greatness. The O man was actually squirming in his chair. I am a retired 58 year old nurse that has literally seen everything, and this was just too much for me. Where has commonsense and integrity gone? I guess that tingle grew into a wiggle. On the toe issue. Open chest surgery of any type is inherently risky and has a high complication rate even when the surgery itself is successful. These patients already possess many areas of disease and disability that has caused them to have a surgery in the first place. Clots and bleeding are the main conplication followed by infection. I won’t go into death since that is self explanatory. Patients are told before this and other surgeries of complications. But, like all things American, there are lawyers that will pounce on any and all complications. Loosing toes is a complication since removal of the replacement vein comes from the leg if it is healthy enough to harvest. These patients already have decreased circulation and well you guessed it, they clot off and limit circulation to the area. Toes are not accessories on the ends of the feet, but serve to balance you as you walk. Well, enough of my praddle. Should O’s show be upped to “R” rated or zoom right to MSNBC porno?
My, my, so much drivel over K.O. He is nothing but an overblown air bag…
ACTUALLY, there is a calculated schedule for specific body part amputations. It differs from state to state though. If you check any ADD insurance policy, it will state it specifically. Where the biggest issue lies is in punitive damages. We lack common sense when making judgements in that area. As for your single-arguments. They have been found wanting in the past. Child mortality? Please, paste the WHO ranking here so we can explain to you how statistics work.
No need for all caps.
“Punitive Damages” – If a MD has committed a crime he/she should be punished by prison, loss of license, loss of practice privileges, or fines…not multi-million dollar payouts to “the justice lottery”