“I WOULD RATHER DIE OF A CURABLE DISEASE WHILE HOMELESS THAN BE FORCED TO LIVE HEALTHILY IN THE POST-FREEDOM HELLSCAPE ENVISIONED IN THIS BILL FASHIONED BY BARACK O’STALIN.”
With the health care debate heading toward its final vote, Jon Stewart recapped the closing arguments made by both sides, particularly the ridiculous claims made by conservatives.
Watch Daily Show Correspondent John Oliver rail against the tyranny of Barack O’Stalin as he alleges that the number of people who will be newly covered by MedIcaid, 15 million, is exactly the number of people Stalin killed in the Soviet Gulags.
Watch Oliver gleefully champion the rhetoric of Rep. Steve King, who recently urged the Tea Party to engage in a Velvet Revolution-esque uprising like the one in Czechoslavikia in 1989 when they threw off Soviet domination.
Oliver explained that ideals are the same, mocking the Tea Party's comparison of universal health care to communism.
But as Stewart pointed out, the argument doesn't hold much water, considering that one of the Czechs' post-revolution freedoms included universal health care. Needless to say, Oliver was crushed. As was his flower named "Reagan."
As John Oliver says, “I would rather die of a curable disease while homeless than be forced to live healthily in the post-freedom hellscape envisioned by this bill.”
Now he has the opportunity.
Posted By: Richard Kigel
Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 10:44AM
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