Puffed with Pride

Being a political junkie, I tend to surf the channels and stop at different cable news shows to see what they are talking about.  Contrary to much of what I write, I do often times stop by Fox News but not as often as I stop by MSNBC.  Yesterday, I stopped by “All in with Chris Hayes” just in time to see an interview that he was doing with Ms. Jennifer Stefano a reported employee of American for Prosperity.  In this interview, it was supposed to be a peep into what reasons this group is so dead-set against people finally getting insurance and Obamacare.  What it turned out to be was two people puffed with pride that no real answers were ever learned.

Taking a page from an article titled “Conservative guest yells at Chris Hayes over Obamacare” written by Elias Isquith for Salon.com in which he writes “In a chaotic, weird and ultimately exhausting segment of “All In” on Wednesday night — a segment that was presumably supposed to be devoted to discussing Obamacare’s oft-delayed deadlines — Hayes got into a lengthy argument (“debate” would be too kind) with Jennifer Stefano, a Pennsylvania-based employee of the Koch-funded and Tea Party-aligned American for Prosperity group”.  “Introducing Stefano as a person who “genuinely wakes up every day and thinks about how to destroy Obamacare,” Hayes led off the bit by asking the AFP regional director why anyone should particularly care if the White House pushes back an Obamacare deadline. Stefano didn’t seem to like Hayes’ introduction, saying that she doesn’t wake up thinking about Obamacare but rather her children”.  This is my first point of how puffed with pride both were.  This began with how Mr. Hayes identified her which was unnecessary because she would have weaken her stance and position by just speaking without any help from him and it didn’t get any better after that.  It went from an opportunity to learn to how quick one could find their remote to change the channel.

Bottom line, Ms. Stefano spewed nothing but half-truths and there would have been millions of opportunity to make news had Mr. Hayes maintained his décor and not began to speculate on what kind of person she was.  I thought that finally we would learn just where the American for Prosperity group and others like them get their information from.  I thought maybe finally I would learn just what makes them fear this president so much, instead all that I learned was when you have two people so puffed with pride come together nothing ever gets solved.

To say that I was very disappointed in the segment would be an understatement, MSNBC rarely get opposition to come on their air and when they do, they owe us better than a yelling contest but then that is my opinion and I could be wrong.