‘I’m Responding, That’s What I’m Doing’: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Testy Fox Interview…Again
Fox News
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had another at-times testy interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Thursday over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
(Related: ‘Come on Gretchen!’: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Another Contentious Interview on ‘Fox & Friends’)
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act getting signed into law, MacCallum asked Wasserman Schultz about a recent Congressional Budget Office report showing the health care law will cost twice what it was originally estimated to be, from $986 billion to nearly $2 trillion over 10 years.
The CBO also estimated that “20 million Americans will lose coverage because small businesses will decide that they no longer want to cover their employees,” MacCallum said. “How do you square that with the pluses [of the health care law]?”
“We’re not going to have people lose insurance,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Millions more small businesses will decide to cover their employees because right now small businesses can get a 35 percent tax credit by covering their employees when they don’t now. By 2014 they will get up to a 50 percent tax credit on those premiums and so we anticipate that many more people will get coverage.”
” — they maybe covered but they’re not being covered under the plan that they have,” MacCallum cut in. “The president said they could keep their plan….I’m asking you, can you respond to respond to the CBO report that 20 million people will lose coverage?”
“And I’m responding, that’s what I’m doing,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Twenty million people won’t lose coverage.”
“You disagree with the report?” MacCallum asked.
“Well, you’re not quoting the report accurately,” Wasserman Schultz shot back.
“I believe I am, go ahead,” MacCallum said.
“Well, OK,” Wasserman Schultz said dismissively. “Let me answer the question, please. If a business decides not to cover their employees anymore, those employees under the Affordable Care Act will be able to enter the insurance exchanges — which is private health care insurance that they will be able to get that is the same coverage, and in many cases better coverage, than they have now.”
She continued, “Don’t suggest the CBO is saying they’ll lose coverage. They have more opportunities for coverage and employees — small businesses in particular will have an opportunity to get a 50 percent premium tax credit which they don’t have available to them now. So this is actually a boon to small businesses.”
“Because they won’t be covering a lot of those employees again, because they will be moving into this larger co-op format that you’re talking about,” MacCallum said.
“It’s not a co-op,” Wasserman Schultz protested. “No, no, no, no, no, Martha, it’s not a co-op, the insurance exchanges are private insurance.”
“An insurance exchange, an insurance exchange,” MacCallum amended before moving on.
Watch Wasserman Schultz’s appearance in two parts below:
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Comments (172)
Grillmark55
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:58pmSomehow I get the feeling that in a couple of years Debbie Blabbermouth Shultz is going to look a LOT like Francis Fox Piven.
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lbyrd26
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:20pmSgt. Shultz tells another bald face lie(What did you expect. Typical Democrat) Here in Anderson Indiana, we have achain of 3 grocery stores, called Pay Less. They just dumped several full time employees down to part time. Their excuse was that they couldn’t afford the healthcare, so they dumped them onto the taxpayer. Oh, by the way, these stores arte part of the nations largest retailer of groceries, Kroger. Highly profitable and greedy. Could easily afford healthcare for their emplojyees, but why should they when they can dump the debt onto the Rebublicans who still have a job and refuse to go on welfare Read this story for yourself. It’s on Facebook under Herald Bulletin… Our local newspaper.
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Mil Mom
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:24pmre : look like Francis Fox Piven in a few years.
Do you suppose by then they’ll quit making her wear the fake eyelashes which she OBVIOUSLY is NOT comfortable in?
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lukerw
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 5:04pmThere is no Satanic Religion! Debbie has just… Exchanged… one Idol for another… and cites the Government is not involved, because the Government Law calls it a Private Exchange! So, it is Private… you dummies!
There should be an IQ Test for Public Office!
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brian88
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 6:53pmcouple of years?
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cuinsong
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:16pmThis woman can’t open her mouth without regurgitating lies and deceptions!
I often wonder if her transmission is a quart low & slipping?
This song might not be able to help her but I’m trying!
“The Game of Life” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12524752
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IMPEACH GEORGE SOROS!!
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:52pmVelma needs to quit getting her info from the SEIU janitors while they smoke their Salems. She has absolutely no grip on reality and is still so stupid she thinks people believe her. Board, panel, what effing difference does it make what you call them. I’ll go with Death Board if she likes…
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RabidPatriot
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:55pmIt seems like the Republican Party tries real hard to hide all of their idiots and keep them as far away from microphones as they possibly can (sometimes they still find a microphone). The Democrats put all of their loud mouth idiots in leadership positions within their party. These dummies never seem to shut up. Shultz, Weiner, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Reed, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barney Frank and the list goes on and on. Weiner would still be around if the Dems had their way.
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silverdutchman
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 9:02pmIn two years, she is going to resemble Linda Blair in the Exorcist spewing her hateful vile. Classic demoPUKE leadership. Be afraid, very afraid
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BlenGeck
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 10:47pmShe-devil. Cunning stunt
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netman349
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 12:04amIs it my imagination or do all liberal women seem to be either ugly or nasty-looking.
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Ray2447
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 12:30amWhat else would anyone expect from the party of death?
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http://tinyurl.com/mmb3dm
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Gabbie
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 8:52amYou mean that they are not related.
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oneshiner
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:24amAd-nauseam was when this overpowering gal kept hanging on to Gabby from Ariz. for the press to make us think they were buddies. My guess is she just made do with this gal trying to make hay on the back of a decent person like Gabby. Some just aren’t happy unless they can be seen, like a mother-in-law trying to be in the wedding photo.
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:36pmDebbie Schlutz gets to much exposure on FOX and thats probably
a good thing, she usually ends up steping in it anyway….
Where are ALL the Good People of FLORIDA ????
Someone Needs to show this woman the DOOR !!!!!
http://www.KarenforCongress.com
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tankyjo
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:53pmPelosi spawn.
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Bluebonnet
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:22pmYep! Two of a kind. Can’t figure out which one is more disgusting though. Pieces of work in progress.
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:44pmIf thats the best Paloosis Demdos can come up with
for a Chairperson, There in Deep DoDo……
Is this MSNBCs EdSchlutz wife ???????? HMMMM..
That guy is a candidate for a major heart attack….
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cranberry
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:47pmIf she spent more than $5 on shampoo and conditioner, she could get a real hairdresser who can work with naturally curly **** like that. I am sure she can afford a makeover.
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chips1
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:58pmIt didn’t look good on Tiny Tim and it doesn’t look good on her.
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:11pmForget the shampoo…in the same CBO report McCullum is citing they state that the cost of Obamacare is now $1.76 trillion. This means the cost has nearly doubled in less than two years. So when Obama puffs his skinny chest and does his chin-jutting Mussolini routine about Obamacare costing “under $1 trillion” he’s lying. Granted, every sane mind knew that the budget tricks and payoffs that went into putting Obamacare together weren’t going to make it cost anything at all under $1 trillion dollars and that it’s costs would only grow. What we have now is a ticking time bomb that unless it’s repealed, it will sink us into a larger morasse of debt. It must be repealed. Thankfully MOST Americans know it’s an abysmal piece of legislation I hope they think about that on election day.
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Mil Mom
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:54pm@chips1
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:58pm
It didn‘t look good on Tiny Tim and it doesn’t look good on her.
****
Too much emphasis on lgbt in this administration, the first thing which comes to mind is: “Are you sure this ISN’T Tiny Tim, post surgery & botox?”
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billmaherscombover
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:05pmI think she uses mayonnaise for shampoo.
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MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 5:01pmBeauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
Frank Zappa
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Whats up with that
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 6:06pmWhen your mind has to think of ways to spin the horrible results of her party’s administration, your **** grows very curly…
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1casawizard
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 11:35pmThat’s one mighty handsome woman.
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dontbotherme
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:46pmWhy does FOX have to give this woman any credence? If I wanted to hear liberal lies I would turn to MSNBC.
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:03pmit’s called “ammunition”.
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mtcountrygrl
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:09pmWhat she is saying is most definately not true. Our family owns a small business and we recently had to cancel health coverage, and not just for the employees for ourselves as well. After this bill passed cost started going up and everytime they “mandate” another thing that must be covered they go up again. The increase in the amount that is tax deductable is no longer sufficient to cover the increase in cost. It is a MAJOR tax increase on small business. It was either cancel health coverage or lay off employees. Now we have a savings account and pay cash for services. We only have a major incident coverage. And guess what we have found…We pay less than 10% of what we used to pay with the cost of insurance and co-pays and deductables. I am now a HUGE fan of getting us away from third party payer health care. Costs go through the roof and care declines, because the person receiving the care does not care about the cost and the person paying the bill does not care about the care.
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mtcountrygrl
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:11pmWhat she is saying is most definately not true. Our family owns a small business and we recently had to cancel health coverage, and not just for the employees for ourselves as well. After this bill passed cost started going up and everytime they “mandate” another thing that must be covered they go up again. The increase in the amount that is tax deductable is no longer sufficient to cover the increase in cost. It is a MAJOR tax increase on small business. It was either cancel health coverage or lay off employees. Now we have a savings account and pay cash for services. We only have a major incident coverage. And guess what we have found…We pay less than 10% of what we used to pay with the cost of insurance and co-pays and deductables. I am now a HUGE fan of getting us away from third party payer health care. Costs go through the roof and care declines, because the person receiving the care does not care about the cost and the person paying the bill does not care about the care. Also, people don’t even start thinking about preventative health messures (weight loss, quitting smoking, etc) if they aren’t the ones paying for the consequenses of their bad lifestyle decisions.
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spirited
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:19pmKnow your enemy.
;^> They expose themselves !
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Ken
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 1:03pmExactly, Dontbotherme!
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RebelYell1862
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:32pmI don’t live in Florida so I don’t know, but is this skank up for re-election anytime soon?
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happ77
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:11pmYes next election
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thunder4570
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 6:09pmwill not do any good she is from a district that was drawn specifically for her,when I lived in south fl I heard everyone hates her outside of her district.
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USAFLgirl
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 6:17pmI’ll tell you, this woman gives Jews a bad name. She is the epitome of ***, a term used often by us girls growing up in PA, NJ and NY. My best friends were Jewish or Catholic, and those I am in contact with today cannot stand her! She represents the Miami, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines and Ft. Lauderdale areas. Fortunately, what with Obama’s treamment of Netanyahu and this beauty, NONE of my Jewish friends are voting Democrat this time around…and the older ones (my friends parents, now mid-60′s) are staying home.
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HKS
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:31pmI am disappointed that fox continues to give this rag air time. She is a waste of my time, has nothing constructive to say what so ever. Fox has so many liberals arguing their lies that I’m quite frankly tired of listening to it, its all the same.
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spirited
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:21pmIf you can see and hear their lies
;^> So can anyone else who watches & LISTENS.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:30pm.
If you got that drunk (like there’s that much Liquor in the World) who would you rather wake up next to?
Debbie or Nancy?
I personally don’t think I could get drunk enough to find out………
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RebelYell1862
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:36pm@ SPANKDAMONKEY I’ve heard the girls always get prettier at closing time. I think that’s a damned lie.
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neverending
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:28pmOh what would life be without Fessie Wassaman Schlutz? So attractive, so brilliant, such a mutt!
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MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 5:07pmThere is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
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TRUMPETCALL
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 9:27pm“I want a nasty little jewish princess
With long phony nails and a hairdo that rinses
A horny little jewish princess
With a garlic aroma that could level tacoma”
– Frank Zappa
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EqualJustice
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:23pmFingernails on a chockboard when she speaks! SHE ALWAYS talks OVER any host. She is so obnoxious! If that’s the BEST they have to represent them.. they really ARE in big troubel!
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Iswingright
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:42pmWell said. I couldn’t agree more.
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HorseCrazy
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:47pmliberal women tend to believe that if they use foul language, yell and in general be abrasive they will win an argument. it is interesting to watch the temper tantrums start. I guess we can thank women’s lib for turning them into the rabid dogs they are. out with acting like a lady in with acting like a wild dingo
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spirited
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:24pmAnthony -hotdog’s female clone
>with sour sauerkrout.
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poster
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:22pmThighs the size of Wisconsin, I tell you.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:19pm.
Larry Flint should get her to pose Naked for Hustler………………………
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Popp40
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:34pmYou just made me throw up!!!!!
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:36pmYECCH! On a deeper level though, I never spanked it to a bug-eyed termite before.
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JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:41pmMaybe people would by that issue to see if there are women parts down there but I assure you………… Medusa would be like a cake walk after you stared at that………….
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chips1
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:00pmField and Stream?
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:14pmI just brought up some vomit in the back of my throat. Thanks Spank…
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biohazard23
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:24pmTalk about things your mind’s eye can’t unsee…….
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greenherring
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 6:31pmooooohh, I just threw up something I didn’t even eat! I think it must be an internal organ of some type.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:15pm.
Just a little more Racoon Eye Make-Up, Red Lipstick, Crisco that **** down a little, and I think we found the girl that turns guy’s gay…………….
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bsnrn98
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:14pmAnother obama lie. DWS is a big mouthed liberal who can’t reinforce her argument truthfully and accurately so she resorts to raising her voice over whoever she is talking to. blah blah blah
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spirited
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:30pmSo, uhm….
The audio and visual of this honest (ahem, cough) woman
<< is really electronically engineered , an impersonating imposter or, just imagined ? ha !
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bpodlesnik
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:11pmWho let the wet poodle in front of the camera again?
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Mark0331
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:09pmHey Debbie, go wash the stupid and the lies out of that hay bale you call a head of ****.
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WhisperingVoice
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:40amdon’t insult the poodles, at least they can learn new tricks
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nobama2012yeswecan
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:05pmI can”t wait to see the new Government Hospitals that will be springing up all over the country…Hey Deb!! Why don’t we build a US Government Hospital in Mexico,then they wouldn’t have to cross the border to get our crappy health coverage here in the U.S..What a miserable way to live your life Deb..These people are going to remember those who lied to them Deb…Why do you hate people so much Deb?Why don’t you trust us? Why don’t you stop using the Government **** Salons,Private Sector Salons dare to do new and innovated **** styles !!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:08pmWondered when somebody would start using that pic. Touche`
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abbygirl1994
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:04pmDumb da dumb dumb dumb! Another open mouth and stupid rolls forth!! Lord help us get Mitt Romney in the White House so we can REPEAL obamacare!
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GoodCook
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:58pmThe truth means nothing to “Blabber Mouth” Shultz. keep lying until people believe the lie. Unfortunately for her not all americans were insoctrinated in public schools by union thugs who only have their own interest in mind and not the nations. I’m sick of this fair share jibberish she spews too which is really only code words for ” YOU pay for what I want, and if you don’t I’ll have the Government take it from you and give it to me “
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AvengerK
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:04pmDebbie Does DC Wasserman Schlitz and Joe Plugs Biden are two of the biggest insults to the American people.
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TheObamanation
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:52pmThe government runs medicare … and they want us to believe they’ll make obamacare a cost saving measure ? … Who in their right mind thinks obamacare is a good idea for this country ?
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jakartaman
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:50pmI pray this nightmare will be over in November!
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CatB
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:02pmAmen!
OMG 2012
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Docrow
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:53pmdouble Amen
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spirited
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 4:32pmAmen
—–> times 3.
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piper60
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:49pmThis woman wouldn’t know the truth if it reached right up and bit her on her lips.
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CatB
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:24pmLooks like it bit her whole face already … she is nothing but a liar … because the truth is the enemy.
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COFemale
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:46pmThis is why I muted this woman when she appears on the Fox channel. I hate liars, Debbie Watch her Shultz around the topic.
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TomFerrari
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:53pmI usually change the station. I don’t know why Fox News is giving her so much free air time.
Her hate and vitriol is vile. I cannot bear to listen to her. Fox seems to be running more and more left-wing crap lately, especially on the weekend. I can get that crap on every single other network. I come to Fox for the FACTS. I don’t need the same lies I get everywhere else from Fox also.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:07pmTOMFERRARI, I generally think of it as Fox giving her more rope….
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KickinBack
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:45pmDebbie Shultz.. Ed Shultz…I swear, the name is starting to become synonymous with liberal stupidity.
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TheObamanation
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:54pmLol … Shultz from Hogans heroes … I know nothing … nothing
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GoodCook
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:00pmYes, yes they know nothing and keep telling us they don’t every time they open their collective mouths.
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littlefish
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:44pm” I’m Responding, That‘s What I’m Doing’: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Testy Fox Interview…Again”
Wait . . . .Debbie has Testies?
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littlefish
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:47pmNow I know her attraction for Obama is Real !
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:51pmEvery time someone gets testy, Debbie gets lippy. Ugh.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:00pmLOL. I swear, this woman makes my skin crawl.
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4xeverything
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 2:26pmI’m thinking hormone replcement therapy.
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meggamx1
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:48pmIsn’t it obvious.
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GoodStuff
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:43pmWhile we’re on the subject of a failed Obama presidency; if you haven’t done so already, go over to Youtube and give the Obama/TomHanks propaganda video a big thumbs down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2POembdArVo
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