Scott Ott, ScrappleFace editor and Lehigh County Executive candidate, joins the CNN.com LIVE blogger bunch to discuss what’s happened to the president’s ‘public option’ health care reform plan.
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17 responses so far ↓
1 gafisher // Aug 17, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Regarding the video itself, Scott, three comments:
1 - Great sound and composition: you looked and sounded authoritative and undistracted.
2 - Providential positioning: you appear "above the fray" and out of the left-right fringes.
3 - Your comments are given anchor positions, making you the expert.
As for those comments: very well reasoned and clearly articulated, as usual.
2 ScrappleFace // Aug 17, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Thank you for the thoughtful analysis.
3 RAM1 // Aug 18, 2009 at 12:05 am
I agree completely with gafisher Scott. You handle the media light as well, (maybe better), as MOST pundits I see on ANY TV show. I wish I could handle ignorant comments from the other side as well as you do. (Not so many "ignorant comments" here, but that is unusual for CNN!)
If you were on TV more though, perhaps the left would label you also as one of those "right wing extremists" since you make so much sense?
4 Darthmeister // Aug 18, 2009 at 2:02 am
Scott, did you notice how you were identified as being from "the right" and the blogger chick Carrie Brown is identified as a "journalist" from Politico who "is right down the middle" (oh, really?). Jill Zimon is referred to as from being "from the left" so I guess that justifies you being labeled as "from the right", right? Nice touch in cutting through all the rah-rah rhetoric and cutting right to the heart of the issue, government bureaucracies are just as power hungry and money grubbing as the private sector.
No bias there, eh? At least you don't run away from being a conservative, unlike most liberals who now want to be known as a "progressive".
BTW, Scott, you need to put some flashing monitor screens or a huge scrappleface logo in the background to show "how in touch with the world" you really are.
Biggest laugher: Ms. Zimon: "This president is a pragmatist".
Buwahahahahaha! Just like a liberal to say that.
5 Darthmeister // Aug 18, 2009 at 2:07 am
RAM, in the world of liberalism the more logic, the more facts and the more common sense your use the more "right-wing" and "insensitive" you are.
6 SGT_USMC_1ea // Aug 18, 2009 at 3:49 am
Emergency rooms full due to "Health care debate Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". You tongue-tied the poor news girl. Both the middle and the left bloggers sounded like they were middle….on this issue. The left seemed to be covering for foreseen failure by propping up how pragmatic and politically saavy the President is for bowing to poll numbers. You are impressive as always Mr. Ott.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
7 RAM1 // Aug 18, 2009 at 6:22 am
I also just thought that this venue might be good practice for Scott, (the lone man AND Conservative among 3 left women), just in case he is ever invited to be on The View.
Then again, I don't know if there can EVER be enough practice to have to deal with Bayhar or Goldberg, but if anyone can do it, (and make them BOTH look foolish), my money is on Scott!
Plus, at least you would have Elisabeth on your side Scott, if you go soon. They are trying to "can her" as we speak.
8 RAM1 // Aug 18, 2009 at 6:24 am
I also just thought that this venue might be good practice for Scott, (the lone man AND Conservative among 3 left/left leaning women), just in case he is ever invited to be on The View.
Then again, I don't know if there can EVER be enough practice to have to deal with Bayhar or Goldberg, but if anyone can do it, (and make them BOTH look foolish), my money is on Scott!
Plus, at least you would have Elisabeth on your side Scott, if you go soon. They are trying to "can her" as we speak.
9 RAM1 // Aug 18, 2009 at 6:32 am
Darth: I also noticed that the other two bloggers are using the "fashionable" three part names. What happened to the "Rodham" from Hillary's name? Did she only want that there when she was a Senator, or if she became President?
Now with Carrie Budoff Brown, I would think she would be GLAD to change it FROM Budoff.
Don't they say the bloom is off the flower when beauty fades. Does that mean if the "bud is off" there was never a bloom before the bud came off?
Hey just askin'!
Maybe we men should use our maternal grandfather's name as a middle name?
No sense in these lib women being the only "fashonable" ones.
I think it is funny when people, (no matter who they are), think an extra name makes them more than what they actually are. Some examples are Barbara (call me Senator) Boxer, or Hillary (you're asking me about the President?) Clinton. Whoa, I ALMOST forgot about Rep. Sheila (I'm calling the healthcare hotline, NOT making a personal call) Jack$on-Lee.
But, then there are the ones that do NOT want the extra name. Well, at least NOT until after the election like Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
10 Darthmeister // Aug 18, 2009 at 11:32 am
America needs more thinkers and not more liberal "intellectuals".
The author's take on ObamaCare and the closed-mindedness of liberals with respect to their sacrosanct agenda hit the nail on the head.
11 boberinyetagain // Aug 18, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Do our Vets get decent/good healthcare…or not? Should the Army have Blue Cross/Blue Shield instead? Would they then be better off?
The protesters on Medicare/Medicaid are the funniest….they seem to HATE the idea of government healthcare whilst all the while….oh never mind.
Insurance companies love us dearly and have only our best interests at heart. Benevolent to a fault they are…
12 gafisher // Aug 18, 2009 at 1:27 pm
It's a Mason-Dixon thing, RAM1: above, you get two last names. Below, you get two first names.
13 gafisher // Aug 18, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Let's see … to suggest is somewhere between hint and exclaim, right?
(Bravo to those 60,000 former AARP members!)
14 boberinyetagain // Aug 18, 2009 at 1:44 pm
gafisher….yeah, those folks "hating" the ideas of gummint healthcare…pricelsss
15 onlineanalyst // Aug 18, 2009 at 2:02 pm
On PJTV Bill Whittle discusses the power and danger of iconography: http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_with_Bill_W...
16 gafisher // Aug 18, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I think you're misreading them, Bober (unless you're misreading me — the word was 'hint', not 'hate'). Whether we like the system or not, we as a nation have an obligation to keep the promises we made regarding Medicare, Social Security and so on. The dissenting members of the AARP almost certainly don't "hate" what they've paid for and been promised. Their dissent isn't with health care per se; it's with an AARP leadership which ignores (sometimes literally, pointedly and arrogantly) both the opinions and the best interests of the membership.
17 camojack // Aug 19, 2009 at 5:25 am
boberinyetagain
Do our Vets get decent/good healthcare…or not? Should the Army have Blue Cross/Blue Shield instead? Would they then be better off?
If you're asking about VA health care, it's lousy…as a veteran myself, I'm glad I have better medical insurance through my employer. I have no doubt that something like Blue Cross/Blue Shield would be (much!) better than VA health care…
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