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.
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