Olbermann: Keith Slams Shadegg for Exploiting Kid on House Floor

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 9 Nov. 2009:

Keith Olbermann comments on Rep. John Shadegg's using a seven-month-old kid as a "political prop" on the House floor.

SHADEGG: "This is Maddie... Maddie believes in patient-choice health care... as a matter of fact, the bill says, if the bill passes, then no more health care for her mom..."

OLBERMANN: "Maddy's trying to turn off the microphone so the Congressman shuts the hell up!"

Rep. Shadegg fails to mention...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029102419.htm

Lack Of Insurance May Have Figured In Nearly 17,000 Childhood Deaths In US, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2009) — Lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to nearly 17,000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States in the span of less than two decades, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

According to the Hopkins researchers, the study, to be published Oct. 30 in the Journal of Public Health, is one of the largest ever to look at the impact of insurance on the number of preventable deaths and the potential for saved lives among sick children in the United States.

Using more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005, the Hopkins investigators compared the risk of death in children with insurance and in those without. Other factors being equal, researchers found that uninsured children in the study were 60 percent more likely to die in the hospital than those with insurance. When comparing death rates by underlying disease, the uninsured appeared to have increased risk of dying independent regardless of their medical condition, the study found. The findings only capture deaths during hospitalization and do not reflect deaths after discharge from the hospital, nor do they count children who died without ever being hospitalized, the researchers say, which means the real death toll of non-insurance could be even higher.

"If you are a child without insurance, if you're seriously ill and end up in the hospital, you are 60 percent more likely to die than the sick child in the next room who has insurance," says lead investigator Fizan Abdullah, M.D., Ph.D., pediatric surgeon at Hopkins Children's.

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[Cha]

1. Thanks, Keith! That was a slimeball stunt using the kid as a

prop to lie.

[sasquatch]

2. Poor maddy

[Bitwit1234]

3. It is a shame that I don't have resources to

make a video for UTube. Just think you could use a baby doll and give it back to that nutcase word for word. My name is Waddy but you can call me Maddie...and I want to tell you about real Health Care etc etc. while making fun of that stupid recital during the debate.

[amerstates]

4. Cute little lovable tyke. God how can people not want or love them.

I just don't get it. Children are a blessing. How can so many not want them or decide that life is better without them.

[Merlot]

8. I don't get how someone can let their child be used as a prop

And apparently repubs are ok with many children going without insurance and DYING.

As long as they don't die before they're born, it's fine if they die afterwards.

[amerstates]

9. whatever....NT

[Hissyspit]

12. No, not whatever. That is a CORE issue.

Children suffering and dying because they don't have health care.

[Hissyspit]

11. Oh, give me a break.

Not everyone has to have children.

[niyad]

19. this person has a very clear anti-choice agenda, as indicated by the posts "she" has written so far.

methinks she is on the wrong site.

[Baltimore]

23. suspicious

Niyad, I absolutely agree with you.

[niyad]

17. what do you say to the people who have them and then batter them, sexually abuse them,

and kill them? what do you think is better in those cases--the births you insist on, or not having to live that kind of life?

[aquart]

20. You mean like the abortion-free Brazilians who shoot them like vermin on the church steps?

[Dollface]

24. Probably because they met my nephew.

[go west young man]

26. She is cute and adorable.

but something in your post reeks of religious right anti choice fervor. Children are human beings. A blessing is a religious term implying divinity. Your "belief" is no greater than the belief of a woman who wants to make her own choices.

[trueblue2007]

5. Rep. John Shadegg is a lying scuzzball

He oughta have a REALLY bad illness, go to a hospital and then find out his insurance has lapsed. There are special places in INSURANCE HELL for creeps like him.

[bjobotts]

13. If bullets started flying he'd hold the baby up as a shield too.

[bjobotts]

15. What kind of scum would use a 7month/old as a political prop to lie about HC reform.

[bjobotts]

16. one day the baby will grow up and see this video as an embarrassment.

[napi21]

6. Was that his granddaughter or some relative? I can't imagine letting my kids

be used like that! Of course mine would have been screaming and that might have been a good thing!

[seafan]

7. This is the creep who **defied his party** to vote "PRESENT" on Stupak, but NAY on main bill.

There are no depths that these men will not plunge to play politics with Americans' health care.


I hope the baby urinated on him.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. Patronizing BS

that has become the primary language of most Republicans. Precious it isn't. Profoundly offensive it is.
WHO ARE THESE MEN????? really.
Some of these cretins are my peers. And I have a feeling that a lot of them are the ones on campus that walked around with a totally misplaced sense of importance and you always just wanted to punch them in the face, just because they had one.

and I am a PACIFIST!!

abhorant man...disgusting techniques...blowhard fool

[NYC_SKP]

14. "Patient Choice Health Care"? CHOICE? Fuckers, appropraiting a LW term and it's a lie.

Health Care Reform, even the weakened House bill, offers more choices than the status quo.

Unless your as wealthy as a congressman, I guess.

Fuckers...

:nuke:

[niyad]

18. as usual, KO nailed it about that sanctimonious little cretin. the whole time shackup was talking

I just kept thinking, wow, there are people who are actually falling for this crap.

[The Wizard]

21. Using a baby as a puppet

on the House floor is what is expected from the radical right. What's next from these swine, using a fetus? Oh, never mind they already do that.
Republican = mental illness.

[Demeter]

22. I Like the Way Maddie Kept Pushing the Mike Away From Grandpa

[Wizard777]

32. Do you know what they call someone that doesn't want a Republican talking for them?

A Democrat! Go Maddy! :kick:

[Dollface]

25. Excellent demonstration of how Republicons talk down to their base.

I knew they were targeting the 12-13 year old mentality but this is ridiculoius. (No offense to 12-13 year-olds intended.)

[Ticonderoga]

27. Hey Congressman

Leave those kids alone !!

[Jeneral2885]

28. Well...

So long as this kind of politics rests withnin America and isn't infecting the rest of the world.

[BennyD]

29. Olbermann said, "Maddie believes in under funding 'No Child Left Behind.'"

We'll, I think I'm okay with under-funding NCLB as it has proven to be a failure. I'm good friends with an Assistant Principal in my district and she has told me on several occasions that NCLB is a disaster. So, IMHO, why keep throwing good money after bad?

[ejpoeta]

30. is maddie the kid who was denied insurance because they were too fat or

the one denied because they were to thin??

[Wizard777]

31. apparently Matty wants that asshole to shut up and quit talking for her.

:rofl: