Patterico's Pontifications

12/20/2009

Holding Out for Health Care

Filed under: Health Care — DRJ @ 10:10 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Not exactly the next Greatest Generation.

H/T Eric Blair, with my thanks.

— DRJ

64 Responses to “Holding Out for Health Care”

  1. It makes my heart swell with pride to know that our young people are willing to sacrifice so much for our country. This puts my military service to shame.

    Pat (366dd8) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:15 pm

  2. That’s the comment of the day. Well done, Pat.

    DRJ (84a0c3) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:18 pm

  3. Isn’t that blonde the actress that played the stripper on this season’s Californication?

    AD - RtR/OS! (1217bb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:28 pm

  4. You are right, AD. She is Eva Amurri. She is also Susan Saradon’s daughter, which explains her unique combination of cluelessness, preening self-importance, and good looks.

    I am thinking that all these actor types ought to be given pop-quizzes to see what they actually know. Maybe they are all nuclear physicists, but I doubt it.

    Heck, I would be afraid to ask Ms. Amurri to spell the word “libertine.” She probably thinks it is a brand of patriotically themed tooth-cleaning chewing gum.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:36 pm

  5. Well, she certainly displayed the better points of her acting craft on that show.

    AD - RtR/OS! (1217bb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:40 pm

  6. And her knowledge of health care.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:40 pm

  7. She actually spoke lines?????

    AD - RtR/OS! (1217bb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:46 pm

  8. C’mon, AD. She graduated from Brown University in 2007. She is smart. Sort of like the doofus guy in the video.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:49 pm

  9. Well, an Ivy edumacation ain’t what it used to be.
    Our fearless leader is a double Ivy!

    AD - RtR/OS! (1217bb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:50 pm

  10. As Joe Bob Briggs would say, there certainly are two good reasons to pay attention to Eva Amurri. Neither of them has anything to do with her intellect.

    JVW (0fe413) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:53 pm

  11. Sort of like the doofus guy in the video

    Just like the soldier that George C. Scott kicked in the opening of Patton, at least “doofus” knows what he’s trying to do: In this case to Get Laid!
    Got to give him credit for that.

    AD - RtR/OS! (1217bb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:53 pm

  12. Comment by JVW — 12/20/2009 @ 10:53 pm

    Hey, she’s got nice legs too.

    AD - RtR/OS! (1217bb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:54 pm

  13. Personally, I have never been impressed by the Ivy League schools. Didn’t Brooke Shields go to Princeton?

    Yeah, yeah, Jodie Foster went to Yale, and is clearly quite bright. But Ms. Ammuri? Um. Let’s see if she can name her two Senators, her Representative, and the Secretary of State. I would also like to hear her explain what a vaccine is, since she is all into health care. Finally, it would be great if she could explain what is in a birth control pill, and why it is bad for women who smoke to take it.

    Oh well.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:56 pm

  14. Ah, JVW—nice call to bring up the immortal John Bloom! Those were the days, huh?

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:57 pm

  15. Weren’t these guys still pretending to be non-partisan?

    roy (d6fc79) — 12/20/2009 @ 10:57 pm

  16. Their definition of “non-partisan” is quite unique.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 11:01 pm

  17. I dunno, EB, ACORN is “non-partisan” too.

    John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 12/20/2009 @ 11:05 pm

  18. Good point, JH. Sadly.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/20/2009 @ 11:07 pm

  19. Weren’t these guys still pretending to be non-partisan?

    The gig was up for them back in 2004 or ’05 during the Social Security reform debate. Rock the Vote is supposed to be targeting young voters, the very same ones who are less and less likely have have Social Security solvent by the time they retire, yet Rock the Vote nevertheless came out against any attempts at modifying the program by adding private accounts. It was at that point that anyone paying attention realized that they are yet another entertainment arm of the Democrat Party, this one subsidized by the vacuous perverts at MTV.

    JVW (0fe413) — 12/20/2009 @ 11:08 pm

  20. Folks have to remember that it’s not IQ per se that makes a person necessarily smart or not. It’s actually their political biases, their, yes, liberal or conservative sentiments. In that regard, liberalism destroys the common sense of a person’s brain, and so Eva Amurri may be borderline retarded. And not only that, but worse of all — and, yes — she very likely is no more humane or compassionate than anyone else.

    Mark (411533) — 12/20/2009 @ 11:13 pm

  21. “She is also Susan Saradon’s daughter, which explains her unique combination of cluelessness, preening self-importance, and good looks.”

    i thought that explained why she was playing a stripper…. breeding is everything.

    somewhere there is a trailer park, calling out for their queen. may she quickly return there, to spend the rest of her days, surrounded by her flock of pink flamingos, and an entourage of sycophants, to give the flamingos someone to pity.

    redc1c4 (fb8750) — 12/21/2009 @ 12:10 am

  22. she very likely is no more humane or compassionate than anyone else.

    Comment by Mark — 12/20/2009 @ 11:13 pm

    — Oh, but she had so much conviction when she (along with all the other libtards in that partisan hack job) declared: “government for the people”. That is, after all, what the Great Emancipator, the ‘Illinois Rail Splitter’ (the real one, NOT his photo negative: the ‘Illinois Full of Shit-ter’) meant when he made his famous speech . . . wasn’t it?

    Lincoln would have supported Social Security & Medicare & Income Tax & Welfare & Food Stamps; right?

    Icy Texan (84cbb5) — 12/21/2009 @ 2:52 am

  23. Aren’t most 18-23 yr olds still covered under mommy and daddy’s policies?

    Well at least those that can still afford health insurance?

    But hey, it was almost a sorta cool flick about getting fucked, er not… right?

    But what was with the cougar chasing the little boy? Oh probably just some infatuated teacher student fantasy thing eh?

    TC (0b9ca4) — 12/21/2009 @ 3:22 am

  24. Nice to see RTV celebrating diversity, isn’t it? Regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, age or orientation — they won’t fuck you unless you think exactly as they do.

    And the Left wonders why we shudder when they use words like “collective” so freely and without care. The world really would be great, if everyone would just stop disagreeing all the time.

    Icy Texan (84cbb5) — 12/21/2009 @ 3:35 am

  25. Right? Imagine no possessions, religion, countries, etc . . .

    Icy Texan (84cbb5) — 12/21/2009 @ 3:37 am

  26. The Bill Before Christmas

    In the season of Christmas outside public sight
    The democrats plotted like thieves in the night

    The citizens abided their holiest season
    while Congress and Senate abandoned all reason

    Their unhealthy health bill they bounced back and forth
    as their dastardly dealings were loaded with pork

    The dems led by Reid with Pelosi behind ’em
    Sneaking in tax clauses while no one can find ’em

    A billion, a trillion — they’re adding on zeros and maybe a comma
    they must pass their bill for comrade Obama

    In the dark of the night from the top of the hill
    they ‘ll vote in that bill
    and wont give a thought to the Americans’ will

    They must do it now, before the end of the year
    while the citizens are consumed with their season of cheer
    unknowingly about to lose all they hold dear

    They must pass it now to avoid what democrats most fear–
    the loss of their power come the next election year.

    drone (917ab9) — 12/21/2009 @ 7:39 am

  27. How is this bill supposed to solve anything?

    Would not price controls on health care and the enforcement mechanisms behind it cost less?

    Michael Ejercito (6a1582) — 12/21/2009 @ 8:00 am

  28. Dime Store Psychoanalysis:

    So, if little Ms Smug-Twit is Susan Saradon’s unaborted daughter, then opposition to government healthcare could get her disowned. Consequently withholding sex is a rebellion against maternal promiscuity and an attempt to attract and hold the attention of a platonic daddy.

    That girl is acting like an orphan who is desperate to fit in somewhere, anywhere, even if it’s a place she knows isn’t even close to being right for her.

    ropelight (f88ed2) — 12/21/2009 @ 9:33 am

  29. Eva Amurri is not attractive unless she’s already gone through three hours of makeup and another two-hours of post-shoot computer editing. She looks like that ugly Topanga thing from Saved by the Bell.

    chaos (9c54c6) — 12/21/2009 @ 11:24 am

  30. I think you should post that this is a satirical skit from Will Farrell’s website Funny or Die http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c324774273/rock-the-vote

    Wouldn’t be surprising Amurri actually thinks this, however.

    lee (49f2e6) — 12/21/2009 @ 11:41 am

  31. That was the stupidest thing I have ever seen! These idiots have no clue about healthcare reform!

    John Fladeland (5d2ce9) — 12/21/2009 @ 12:33 pm

  32. How is this bill supposed to solve anything?

    “Anything” covers a lot of ground. I think the bill does a good job of funneling taxpayer money towards the wealthy friends of the Democratic Party. What more could you ask for?

    Subotai (2fac73) — 12/21/2009 @ 12:56 pm

  33. Wow, this shames everyone…but at least the gloves are off and we know just how little the progs and lefties think of women, and men. Women remain objects to be had, and our weapon of choice is withholding sex if we don’t get what we want. It doesn’t make us manipulative, conniving, dishonest bitches, though, because the *cause* is a noble one. And apparently men are weak willed spineless twits so enslaved to their lusts that they are willing to surrender what they believe is right, just to get some.

    Where is the outrage from the fems at this vagina extortion? Where is the outrage at the denigration of our sexes and the hypocrisy therein?

    You’ve come a long way, baby.

    Not so much, really.

    Dana (f64b7d) — 12/21/2009 @ 12:56 pm

  34. Do they think American youth is this stupid? That this will get people on the Obamacare bandwagon, who weren’t before?

    Rock the vote sure showed their non-partisan side in that video. How groups like this can get away with claiming to be non-partisan is beyond me.

    P.S. I watch Californication, and while the chick is kind of hot, she isn’t that great an actress.

    JHTRazor (a1f2bc) — 12/21/2009 @ 1:28 pm

  35. Hey, a lot of guys signed-on to the anti-war movement back in the day just because they knew there were a lot of chicks there and they might get lucky (not discounting the fact that they didn’t want to get drafted due to their poor academic habits).
    Just what exactly has changed?

    AD - RtR/OS! (ade0a9) — 12/21/2009 @ 1:46 pm

  36. Dana, it has always been about the alphabet, not principles. Notice how jokesters have claimed that Obama supported pretty much anything, and then people agree with it?

    Alphabetism. And if Clinton taught us nothing else, it was that self-proclaimed “progressive feminists” were always D-centric, first and foremost.

    Eric Blair (ddbceb) — 12/21/2009 @ 1:50 pm

  37. Yeah. Remember the episode when Richie Cunningham went for Stevenson, to the consternation of Mr. C and the Fonz (whose bike liked Ike), just to get the girl?

    A little more sleazy in today’s version, but the basic sellout to the hormones is timeless.

    Matador (176445) — 12/21/2009 @ 1:54 pm

  38. I could not stand to see the whole thing but I’ll take that older* lady if the young punk doesn’t want her.

    *She’s still fifteen years younger than me.

    nk (df76d4) — 12/21/2009 @ 2:01 pm

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  42. If you think these young humanoids are an example of the best of young America, that their numbers are large and therefore fear for the future of our country, fear not. They aren’t.

    But take heart that the more they limit their breeding to a specific sub-set of the gene pool, the more they guarantee their eventual decline through inbreeding, low testosterone levels and genetic mutation.

    Generalmalaise (a38f27) — 12/21/2009 @ 5:46 pm

  43. Eva Amurr was in Saved! and she was pretty funny. I think snarking over actors in PSAs is sort of pathetic, to be honest. Yes, she’s the child of Upper West Side liberals, but so what? She didn’t write this stupid thing.

    KateC (7f3e3d) — 12/21/2009 @ 6:59 pm

  44. KateC, my favorite thing in life is “snarking” over actors. They make a living by pretending to be other people. Why should I respect them?

    Pat (366dd8) — 12/21/2009 @ 7:01 pm

  45. so what? She didn’t write this stupid thing.

    — And, therefore, does not share in the sentiment of what she is saying? BULLSHIT!

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    They’re just haggling about the price.

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  54. Um. Shouldn’t have John Baez, of all people, been less, well, heteronormative?

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