The horrible Ceci strikes again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062702232.html?hpid=topnews

This is quite an irritating and snarky article in the wapo about those silly, silly people and organizations that support the public option for health care. It was written by the poisonous Ceci Connolly, who was absolutely insufferable during the 2000 campaign, and promulgated several lies about Al Gore that became the dreaded conventional wisdom that he was a serial exaggerator. She reported that when Gore was talking about the Love Canal, he claimed that he "...was the one that started it all..." She never apologized, but weakly said something along the lines of, Well, may not have accurately quoted him, but it was sort of true, and that the in context was correct. She takes no responsibility in helping usher in eight years of hell, from which we are yet to recover. In this article, she implies, with several anonymous quotes, that pressure from the left is going to doom any chance of health care reform. She says, among other things, that support for the public option goes down if it would mean that health insurance companies would fail, although it doesn't say by how much. As Obama pointed out, if health insurance companies are so great why would a public option cause them to fail? Anyone who has had a serious illness can attest that even if you have health insurance, it can be your life's work to get the benefits one is entitled to. None of the DC conventional wisdom crowd commented on Jay Rockefeller's report on the price fixing of the insurance companies do on the reimbursement rate for people who go out of network. This piece of news is no surprise to anyone who has gone out of network. There is this notion that if you go out of network, you get what you deserve, that it is some sort of effete luxury. Well, few go out of network unless they have to, because it is such a royal pain. The health insurance companies exist to make money and make money they do. So a little competition from other means of providing health care is not a bad thing, maybe they will start behaving better. Hmmm, insurance companies behaving better? I must be loosing it. That is like the thought that Ceci might write a fair article.

The Meme of the Day

http://washingtonindependent.com/35565/another-gaffe-that-wasnt

I don't pay attention to the MSM for a little while and I totally miss a new press meme. Apparently the MSM is all worked up that Obama "relies on a teleprompter." First, what is wrong with using a teleprompter. Don't tell me they think their anchors don't use one. They must after all realize that news people are basically incapable these days of any independent thought. Second, they should be thrilled that we now have a president who can actually read. Third, don't they notice that during his press conference he doesn't use one. However, the meme has become prevalent enough that they now see gaffes where none exist, like on St Patrick's Day the Irish PM by accident started reading Obama's speech, so Obama made joke by pretending to give the Irish PM's speech. Of course, the noise machine took this as proof that Obama is a robotic reader of teleprompters. Does the invention of the internet or the Love Canal have any resonance. Just ask Al Gore if the MSM is able to admit error, and correct misinformation.