What station is carrying the Healthcare Debate?

In quick googling it looks like PBS is covering it fairly extensively, as well as ABC is set to take on more coverage.

http://video.pbs.org/feature/87/

You'll have to search a bit as all the current news is pretty much Haiti related.

I think the problem is the majority of networks realized the ratings would be ridiculously low on full coverage, due to the lengthy procedures. No ratings = no money... so it's not in the spotlight.

It's certainly not being hidden from what I can see, you just have to keep an eye out for it, and perhaps go online to view some portions.

Now see, seriously. I went out of my way to make a nice respectful comment for you, and you go off acting like a child.

The coverage you're ranting about is all over the place... it's just easier for you to deny that as to keep your conspiracy theories alive.

You might have noticed cnn talking about a cadillac tax, that's health care reform coverage. PBS has a whole section dedicated to health care, you just didn't look as I told you would have to be done.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_cove...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/14/h...

http://www.healthreform.gov/

The last page there is the government page, so someone the likes of you might think of that as too set-up, and part of the conspiracy.

This last part might sound mean, or negative as you like to say I am, but hear me out.

When the editor's wife is the prime commenting body on the paper's site, do you think it shines a good light on the paper to act like this? As if the community doesn't already feel this is as right wing as your beloved faux news... this is what the main man is tied to.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/for...

Here are the promises, live and in color!

The truth, just the truth. Adam, there is no continuing, live coverage like he promised. I am sick of hearing it and I wish the President would move on to his other promises and stop trying to institute a government run health program. The government should govern not provide health care. I will no longer discuss the paper with you as I don't work for the paper and I don't make its decisions. Why don't you start a blog and provide your side of things? They would welcome you.

I would guess that when he promised that the debates would have live coverage that he didn't foresee that there would be a natural disaster resulting in 100k or so people dead in a small area. Just sayin'...

I have made this point time and again and I will make it once more. My brother, Staff Sgt. Brent M. Juelfs was with the 1st Calvary out of Ft. Hood, TX for his first two tours in Iraq. He is now there on his 3rd tour. His division found several cache's of weapons that were designed to ONLY carry Weapons of Mass Destruction. There was no other purpose for them. Those weapons were destroyed by our military. Iraq's former, genocidal leader had WMD but our President before Bush was too busy receiving favors in the Oval Office and too busy pandering to the United Nations to do anything about it. Yes, this war has cost lives and money but so did Kosovo, Vietnam, Korea and both WW's.

Maybe if this country rallied behind our troops and put our employable workforce to work making tanks, trucks, armor, guns, food supplies etc. to outfit our troops like they did for the WW's our country could pay for the stimulus package and the healthcare debacle.

With that said, I am so glad to hear that you are admitting that you too are disappointed in the leader that you have chosen. It is good to see that someone on your side sees a chink in his perfection. That is the only point I wanted to make. I admit that Bush made mistakes as has every President before him. It just seems that none of those that voted for Mr. Obama want to own that they too wish he would live up to his promise especially one that can affect generations of Americans.

As for the healthcare debate, I wish it would go away and they would concentrate instead on our failing economy. Placing healthcare on the backs of already struggling Americans is not the way to restore America's financial structure.

Instead, American companies need to be given tax incentives to hire American workers and open factories here. They need to be penalized for moving any production to foreign soil. Anything that can be made, harvested or grown in America should first be sold here in America. America needs to once again become a country standing on its own rather than at the mercy of China, Taiwan or Mexico. Any foreigner who wishes to come here to work, study or otherwise should have to become legal first and must learn our language and even then they should not get the same benefits as our natural born citizens. They should then have to take back to their native country what they have learned here and make their own country a better place. Only until America becomes that can we begin to recover.

If being racist means that today's immigrants be held to the same standard as my German ancestors than call me a racist. My great-grandparents on both sides came here from Germany and learned the language. No one wrote things in German for them. No one gave them land or money to start a business just because they were from another country. They did not have free healthcare. They worked from dawn to dusk to provide for their families. My husband's ancestors were driven from their lands and made to live on reservations - but I'm a racist.

Why not put defunct factories and workers to tasks that support our troops. American's did it during the first two WW's. Why not now? Even if you don't agree with that part I love how you didn't address my other suggestion of dealing with American companies who try to move their operations to foreign soil.

Spend more money to make money - where did the money for the stimulus come from? What about American's spending money to pay for healthcare? You believe that the only valid points are yours. I beginning to believe that it wouldn't matter what point is made you would find something to complain about. It's what you do.

Leah, please tell me you are joking? I really try to stay out of the political posts, as they usually don't amount to anything but name-calling and a back and forth that is not likely to sway the person one way or the other.

However your completely illogical approach to "sending them (legal immigrants) back to their native country" and to not offer them the same legal rights - after they have legally entered the country is downright absurd! I don't know whether what you said is truly how you feel, but I honestly hope not.

Do you realize your ancestors came here looking for a new opportunity and a new life? What would you do with people, like my mother who married (legally I might add) into citizenship to my father - a Major in the US Air Force and who served his country for 30 years protecting the U.S.? She was along side him for many years, through the moves from country to country, and finally back to the US? She learned English in the states, raised her children here and set up roots here. Are you saying that she should also go back to her native country? She has paid taxes here, just as you have -- and likely with her income level, has paid double what you have. She deserves every right you do. Just because she wasn't born here does not mean she cannot be part of the United States. If we are defending this country, we need to look at what we are defending - the right for anyone to come here (legally of course) and begin a new life, the same as immigrants of all of our ancestors! If you are not Native American you have no right to say who should be allowed the legal rights of an American citizen and who does not. If we had sent back all immigrants during the infancy of our country - this country would be run by Native Americans - not Germans, Dutch, Scotts or any other ethnicity.

My mother went through a citizenship test that most American born citizens cannot answer fully. And to this day can remember facts about our country that I myself cannot! My mother has the opportunity to hold duel citizenship here and in Europe and does so because she loves the US as she loves her native country. She travels between both countries for work and can easily make a better living in her "native" country, with better perks - more family/vacation time, better pay, higher quality foods (not processed with antibiotics and drugs). She could have sent her children to better schools abroad. But you know what? She chooses to make her main residence in the States, to pay her taxes here, because she considers this her home. I have seen her LITERALLY take 7 year old kids off the street in the middle of the night and give them a warm meal, a place to sleep, buy them new clothes(and gave some of mine away too!) and hunt down their parents and befriend them, and take them to church with her -- for hope they can make a better life. We have people in this country born and raised, who do not hold a steady job, cannot provide for their family, are drug addicts, child molesters and are a drain on society and all because they CHOOSE to live that way. There are those types of people in every single country in the world; it is not limited to ethnicity, to a particular country or race. It has nothing to do with where a person is born. So please when you spout your opinions, think about the people who come here legally, who help progress our society, who bring with them a world of wonderful culture, and a fresh perspective. There are many other people like my mother who come to this country to bring their gifts and talents to share with the less fortunate in this country and to help us as a society progress.

If you don't agree with the way we allow LEGAL citizens the same rights as every other natural born American - then stop eating out at Italian, Mexican, Chinese and other ethic restaurants. Stop buying their colorful cloths, pottery & crafts. Don't eat tomatoes -- the Spanish brought it to you. You mustn't pratice Christianity either -- for it was not here before immigrants. All of these things were brought over and shared with us from different cultures. It is a closed-minded person who cannot see beyond their own personal views and realize that in the US every world culture has shaped and created this one we all so very much want to protect here in the US.

Do you think since I was born of an American father and European mother on her native ground, that I too should be shipped back to be part of my native culture? Do you want me to take my tax paying middle class family out of Spencer, to take my child out of your school district, to stop buying goods here in town from our local businesses? What about all the other legal immigrants in this town, should they too move back to their native countries? What then would be left of "your" city? Of "your" country? Please take a moment to honestly think about your statement and how very hurtful it was to those who come here legally, to become part of the American culture.

Your broad statement lacked compassion and forethought. America is the melting pot of the world, and it should remain so. Maybe you should take a dose of your medicine and go back to your native country as well, for I am most positive that your ancestors consists, at least in part, of those of another country as well, and you, like the rest of us, are also a result of immigration.

James Madison says it best, "America is indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."

...and please drop your stereotypes and painting immigrants with such broad brush strokes. There are many who work hard, legally, and contribute so much to our society everyday.

I believe I need to clarify. I did not mean to infer that naturalized citizens should be deported. I believe our naturalization process is a good one and should remain as is including not affording naturalized citizens the right to become President or VP.

To clarify another point...when I speak of rights I guess what I mean to say is priveleges. My brother is on his 3rd tour in Iraq- by his choice in career of course. He works with an Iraqi interpreter. When my brother asked him where his family was he mentioned a brother. That brother is living here in America being educated at one of our universities for FREE while my brother is dodging bombs made by his countrymen. My children were born here and they don't get a free college education. Is that right?

My father-in-law was a telecommunications engineer for years, top in his field. He paid into social security for many, many years. He also had the foresight to buy disability insurance. He served our country in the Air Force. His family were migrant farm workers following the work during the Great Depression from Oklahoma to California. He never graduated from High School. He attained his GED and put himself thru college on his dime. His grandfather was 100% Native American. He became ill and could no longer work. My mother-in-law is not allowed by our government to collect both his social security and his disability. She had to choose. Yet if she were of another nationality she would have more benefits. Is that right? Where is the equality in that? I have no problem with immigrants as long as natural born citizens are afforded the same priveleges. I don't believe that anyone should recieve preferential treatment from our government or any other institution based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. Those questions are in each and every document a person fills out, from a medical history report, school documents, to loan applications and college applications. I don't believe in them.

And by the way, this blog was really about whether or not the healthcare debate was being televised. It's not.

Leah, where did you get the idea that liberals believe Obama is perfect? The only people I have heard talk about him being "perfect" is right-wingers. I believe they are thinking (if any actual thinking is really going on) that if they set him up as supposedly perfect and then find any flaw within him, then they have diminished him somehow. That is very twisted logic. We do not expect perfection from anyone, that would be unreasonable so we leave that to the republicans. So no, I do not (and most people) do not think he is perfect. However, he may seem perfect when compared to the guy that we had for the past 8 years.

Regarding the phantom WMD that we found in Iraq; could you post a link to the Spencer Reporter when they reported that this cache of weapons was found (or a link to any other news source that reported such a discovery). I cannot believe that a cache of WMD were discovered and the news did not report it at all.

I would imagine that any weapons left the Iran - Iraq war bore the stamp of US approval (if we did not in fact supply them ourselves). I agree she must have retreated - it is easy to make a claim, but much harder to actually back it up.

Perhaps you should comprehend the language a bit better yourself. By definition I am certainly not a Marxist. I follow my own lead.

As for seeing what I want to see, how so?

"Any foreigner who wishes to come here to work, study or otherwise should have to become legal first and must learn our language and even then they should not get the same benefits as our natural born citizens."

"I don't believe that anyone should recieve preferential treatment from our government or any other institution based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation."

Is that all the problem really is? Y'all just hate Obama because he's got a little color? It's funny how racism and tea party seem to always end up together... I guess I'm not at all surprised to see you enter at this point.

By the way Patriot, throw my name around all you want, I'm proud of it enough to display it here. Who are you?

So now that I upset the tea party folks (again) they're gonna come in and gang up?

Seriously, if you want to see racism scroll up.

Your tea party vendetta holds no ground with me, I could care less either way what you waste your time doing.

I asked teapartypatriot where I was wrong in the above discussion... do you not see something wrong with the ideas presented? Do you think

And how am I the one promoting racism here? By being disgusted when someone else displays it?

Reality check folks.

You can say I'm pulling stuff out of the air all you want, I'm not the only one sickened by Leah's ways.

"spine doctor trying to force his views on others."

Gee, maybe I should join a tea party and hold a sign up...

Sorry Adam but they are good people and I don't think they would want someone that always tries to change whats true into what they want to be true. Spin it anyway you want to it's apparent you are just a trouble maker. There is a big difference in informing people than trying to spin the truth into something it's not. Instead of judging them why not find out what they are about instead of assuming. Assuming means (ASS OUT OF ME)or in this case YOU. I really hate arguing with idiots.

Sir, the lower integrity person in a debate is generally the first to resort to name calling. We're not in grade school, there's no need to bring profanity or name calling into this, is there? Please, keep showing your true colors.

Below are the posts from http://www.spencerdailyreporter.com/stor.... I seen no apology to the Tea Party Patriots from him for what he had called them. SEE http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph... This tells me all I need to know about who were dealing with. Is he this being a hypocrite I THINK SO.

-- Posted by ADAMHARRIS on Fri, Jan 8, 2010, at 10:27 AM

Teabaggers, not party specific? Yeah right... if they weren't republican, they surely wouldn't get the coverage this news outlet provides.

Seriously if it was up to these proud folks, Palin would run this show. Now if that doesn't send a chill, what does?

-- Posted by bauerly on Tue, Jan 12, 2010, at 11:58 AM

It's not an opinion when you call these folks teabaggers it a outright insult. Again you don't get your facts before making statements. Define a teabagger ADAMHARRIS and tell me what it means. Rather than get more misinformation I'll do it for you. It has multiple meanings. SEE http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph.... If that isn't being personal, hateful and shameful I'll eat my socks. Yes my name is Bauerly so there again misinformation. So I guess your posts are full of misleading, hateful and shameful attacks. I research things before inserting my foot in my mouth. Shame on you for assuming and not researching . You owe these folks an apology at the least.

Not really, if you look one post above me in that story, you'll notice someone else referred to you as teabaggers.

I admit, I let my fingers fly on that one without thinking much thought into it... and though you are a shameful representation of the group you do not see me refer to you as that again.

Sorry for getting your skirt in a bunch... please continue being profane and calling names. It makes you a great figurehead for the patriots.

I ask questions and say things most people are thinking, and it doesn't really concern me if that upsets you to this point.

Again I ask, what's the name behind TeaPartyPatriot?

Adam you keep pulling things out of the air to complain about. ITS A NAME get over it. Read there mission statement and you will see what there about See http://www.patriotsteaparty.net/about.ht... Whats behind these names The Hen House, Godfathers Pizza, McDonald's, Goodwill Wal-mart, K-Mart etc. There all names that someone picked. Was Harris picked after the town of Harris, IA and does it relay matter? If you don't like there name join there group and request a change otherwise get off your attempt to trash them.

Health care coverage on TV? Where the hell has this Harris guy been? There has been Zero coverage, that's why people are upset, where's all that Obama's openness he promised? When you read lies off the teleprompter, you can't be expected to remember the lies, that's why Obama, and Harris are confused!

TPP, why are you and the rest of your ilk so upset that Obama reads his speeches off a teleprompter? You do know that he is not the first person (or the first president) to use one, don't you? I suppose next you are going to complain about the way he ties his necktie (or perhaps you will discover that he wears a clip-on and then you can bash him for that - by now you should be running out of inane things to complain about).

Leah,

I had a hard time getting over your stance on immigration, and rights... and I'll be honest it led me to a little digging to see if it went any further.

http://www.natall.com/adv/2009/03-28-09....

Does Randy know he was quoted by a racist web-cast? Did they just stumble across his work? The motive of the website seems all in the same with what you went on about.

Just found it interesting.