As far as interview performances go, that was nothing short of amazing. He kept the entire crew of Fox & Friends at bay, dodged their talking points entirely by asking his own questions and gave a very convincing and thorough argument while constantly relating to Beck, thus finding a way to relate to the conservative audience. I'm glad he mentioned cost cutting as well, that seemingly taboo topic of even contemplating the idea that trims will have to be made, particularly in Medicare. As important as coverage really is, cost is far more important in the long term and should have been the focus of the debate from the start.

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Anthony Weiner winning a debate on "Fox and Friends" is like Usain Bolt winning the 100 yard dash at the Special Olympics.

^ I'm not quite sure that's right. It's a bit more like Usain Bolt running a record breaking time while the entire Special Olympics tries to get in his way, tangle his feet, and rip up the track in front of him.

It's not like interviews on Fox and Friends is really a straight up debate to see which idea is best.

They even did the whole "here are our two strongest arguments, respond in 30 seconds" thing to him at the end, and he managed to pull it off quite well.

I want to smack the smug look off of each of their faces, that "Aha but what about THIS!!?" face they make after they parrot a talking point.

I'm really glad the Congressman was able to think on his feet well enough to call him out on that circular logic as well and he made an extremely valid point; they don't have any incentive to save the sick people in this country money but the taxpayers do. Brilliant!

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I like this guy! You Americans better watch out I think your next president might be Mr. Weiner.

Wow. That was an amazing performance to give on one of The Shouting Networks.

>> ^TickTock:
I like this guy! You Americans better watch out I think your next president might be Mr. Weiner.


We could do a whole lot worse.

I'll probably get derided for saying this but, I'm so sick of hearing "The doctors don't get paid enough as it is." and similar comments about hospitals not getting paid enough also. As someone who works in the service field, and has had direct access to multi-million dollar estates owned by doctors, I can tell you that they would be making plenty of money if they were getting half the compensation that they currently do.

It's time Americans get over their obsession with wealth. When people become doctors to get rich, rather than to help people, there's something wrong with our society.

I think the most frustrating part is that we have a large number of foreign doctors, that get their education in their home nation, usually at little to no cost to themselves and then come to America where they can reap the rewards of our extravagant healthcare system. It's not fair to their home nations that incurred the costs of their education, or to the doctors here that made a large monetary investment to get their education in our also exhorbinantly costly university system.

>> ^TickTock:
I like this guy! You Americans better watch out I think your next president might be Mr. Weiner.


unfortunately he's too "radical" for too many americans.
if he'll get any further on the national stage he'll be labeled as a socialist
right winders will do anything to smear dirt on him.

Wow. As I watched that I heard a dirge of a wailing electric guitar, the studio set morphed into a post-apocalyptic battle ground, wiener morphed into a muscle-bound cyber viking and the fox people turned into an army of mindless automatons.

Awesome.

Put the salvia down, Raaagh. I think you've had enough.

Hmm.........apparently the only way to beat the shouting brigade is to just talk too fast for them to ever get in a waargarbl edgewise.

I like this guy.

>> ^HollywoodBob:I think the most frustrating part is that we have a large number of foreign doctors, that get their education in their home nation, usually at little to no cost to themselves and then come to America where they can reap the rewards of our extravagant healthcare system. It's not fair to their home nations that incurred the costs of their education, or to the doctors here that made a large monetary investment to get their education in our also exhorbinantly costly university system.


As a student studying foreign medicine I'd like to set myself as an example of someone who's getting USA Financial Aid in order to study abroad. It's not my fault that an education costs 5-6 TIMES as much (that's right, 5x-6x) in America than it does for me in Poland.

The reason that doctor's leave their "home nations" is because doctors there have a salary which is SIGNIFICANTLY lower, even if you adjust living expenses. This leads to lower quality health-care because the doctor's don't get paid enough to care about that lab result, or doesn't have the time to run that test because he has to try to make money else-where. It also leads to rampant bribery from families to doctors who want to take care of their sick family member.

Unfortunately with a name like Weiner he'll never be president...

Although I suppose you could say the same for someone named Obama?

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
Unfortunately with a name like Weiner he'll never be president...

Why not? We elected "President Bush" 3 times.

This guy should be a Senator. He's way too smart and articulate to be in Congress.

He is much smarter than them. It is like watching a grown man beat up a child. His only problem is he speaks too quickly.

I think that exchange did more to convince Americans of the merits of the Public Option that anything the entire Obama administration has done to date.

Sorry. Senor Weiner. Government isn't there to "offer choices". For a long time Americans had a choice whether or not to buckle up in their cars. The ones that didn't much more often excused themselves from the land of the living--by choice.

Now it's simply against the law to not wear a safety belt.

Freedom of choice is long gone, for The Man with the Gun is there, threatening citizens into making the "right" choice for their own good, of course.

If this "public option", which will doubtless join the legendary ranks of the Post Office with wanton waste and inefficiency fails immediately, it won't just go away. Oh no, The Man with the Gun will be there, to make sure everyone does the right thing.

The Emperor wears no clothes, the weiner wears no bun.

>> ^KnivesOut:
This guy should be a Senator. He's way too smart and articulate to be in Congress.


Um...he is in Congress. He's in the House of Representatives. The U.S. Congress is bicameral all up in this biatch.