...and the predictable loony results.

Kenneth Thomas writes:

Hey Dangerous Minds - after frustrating discussions with family members about why health care reform is needed, I decided to make a 3-minute video describing how no reform equals a bad future for me and millions. Well, I posted the video to Sarah Palin’s FaceBook page, to try and show people the views of one, simple, hard-workin’ American and what I got was an anti-gay comment, skewed views on Christianity, and lots and lots of paranoid-driven misinformation. It’s a great example of how disinformation spreads like a virus that can’t be controlled after a while.

Nice work Kenneth!

Awesome video Kenneth and thanks Richard for posting!  It is not surprising that Ms. Palin’s responses (or her followers responses) were hateful “Christian” ones.  I am glad the truth about the loving Christians is now out there for the world to see.  Not that I think all Christians practice the hate they are taught - just glad to see it being outed!  Christianity is taught with fire, brimstone, threats and hate.  I am a recovering Southern Baptist and after years of deprogramming, now live a much more spiritual life.

Please make more of these Kenneth - make them while you are on the phone with a doctors office, trying to make an appointment while telling them you are uninsured - just for fun. 

Stef

Great post!

I was just at a local “town hall” giving it back to the lunatic fringe Right! I too have a pre-existing condition and I’m also on a transplant list…I know what you are going though…we need to change the system!

Nice video Kenneth.

I’ve never been to the Sarah Palin facebook page but looking at it now, you were very brave putting it there.  Reminds me of Fox News - I feel dirty just going there.

Keep up the good work.

From someone outside the USA just shaking my head at the total idiocy going on there. As the poster said above, Christains showing their true face with such a selfish attitude to healthcare.

You know what, far from me to criticize this video…

(yes, I’m going to criticize it)

...but had Kenneth began his video by talking about how much he contributes to the economy and how much he pays in taxes a year, he’d made a harder impact.

And if he had asked this question: how many of those ‘uninsured’ work? How many of these uninsured contribute to society?

And THEN, once he had done all of that, he can slap people around by asking: so the American Dream only applies to people who can “contribute”, and everyone else can go die on the streets?

It’s not nice to tease children.

Who the fuck cares how much Kenneth pays in taxes or contributes to the economy. Healthcare is a human RIGHT not a commodity that you get tit-for-tat for your tax dollars or ‘economic worthiness.’

You might as well just kill everyone who cannot afford what sickness they have. T-Boy I really hope you get an expensive treatable illness and have to rely on the tax dollars and ‘economic worth’ of others to survive…it might just make you human!

The question is not one of economic worthiness, but one of what is best for everyone.

If we only put out the fires of people who could afford to pay the fire department then eventually everyone?

Charles,
I don’t think T-Boy was saying that only those who contribute are worthy.

I could be reading him wrong, but I think he was saying that, in that particular forum, getting them to identify with him first would been more likely to have got them to listen to what he was saying, rather than responding with the usual “useless eaters” bile.

PS, the religious right are no more a true representation of Christianity than suicide bombers are of Islam. I am deeply offended by those who use a claim of Christianity as an excuse for their anti-christian hatred and bile, but think that the answer is to prove them wrong, not to attack a religion based on scum who claim to be members of it.

Phil.

That’s not how I read T-Boy…but maybe he should have a bit clearer?

Anyway, I am a Rationalist and therefore need empirical and scientifically repeatable results to convince there is a ‘god’ or anything of that sort. But, I do share your disdain for the hypocrisy that is the so-called Christian right. I just love how they “read the Bible literally” and then pick and choose what to believe from it!

Great job, Kenneth !! Though I was thinking to do something exceptional to draw the attention about health care reform, I was not able to do it. You have done the right thing.

Not sure Z, but have a friend that’s a MD in Indiana right outside Indy and she healing by laying of the hands, no joke have talked to many that were gone and she has healed.
Not sure how she does this, but one fellow was about 62 and was 6’3” and about 210 lbs and had pictures of himself when he was down to 145 and a almost goner. Met some of the ladies also. So I asssume even Obama’s plan will include that. Snakes no.