Stupid Quote Pop Quiz
By Johnny Roosh
Hey boys and girls! Sometimes comedians can say the funniest things!
Please read the following quote; another example of an entertainer confusing his or her entertainment value with political relevance; Garrison Keilor:
“Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.”
Now, tell us what’s wrong with that quote (economics majors: shhhhh.)
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
This guy nailed it:
The 32 percent Mr. Keillor is wanting to cut off from health care are also more likely to be gainfully or self-employed, and to already carry health insurance. Cutting care to them won’t mean a thing to the federal deficit because they’re not the ones taking federal money for their health care – unless the plan is to cut them off from health care and then subject them to the proposed “uninsured tax.”
Crass hyperbole is ill suited this conversation.
dagwud (10/02/2009, 9:20 AM )
Calling Gary a moron is an insult to morons.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 am
What’s wrong is calling Keillor a comedian.
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Well, Gary never worked a day in his life, doesn’t know about creating wealth, running a business and hiring people, paying for their benefits and so forth. No, he just stands in front of a microphone and says the first thing that comes into his head, whether it’s mean or stupid, he doesn’t care as long as the people in the audience, the ones who think money comes from government printing presses and the pockets of the undeserving wealthy, laugh at what he says.
So if he comes off second best to the average moron, don’t hold it against him.
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Use the threat of removing a public benefit to punish your political enemies. Welcome to Obamacare.
October 4th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Wow, you’re stupid, golfdoc. Not a big Keillor fan (the wacky differences between various Minnesota protestant denominations isn’t exactly a laff riot). But the guy appears to work all the time, creates wealth and employment for the people on his staff, the radio stations that carry his show and people who work at the theaters where he appears.
Meanwhile if the “doc” in your name means you’re an M.D., you apparently take for granted that you have a right to make more than almost anybody else, subsidized by government dollars, all the while delivering a lower standard of care than in most of the civilized countries of the world.
Or maybe you just golf for a living?
October 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am
But the guy appears to work all the time, creates wealth and employment for the people on his staff, the radio stations that carry his show and people who work at the theaters where he appears.
…and yet doesn’t know the difference between the national deficit and the national debt.
October 4th, 2009 at 11:51 am
creates wealth and employment for the people on his staff, the radio stations that carry his show
He creates employment for the four weeks (on average) that someone last before Lord Garry flies into a Michael-Moore-like snit and fires them, usually after trashing their reputation around town. Seriously – I love PHC (when Keillor isn’t gabbling about politics or, yes, on his Missouri Synod vs. ELCA jag), but the guy is a stone cold diva.
And since public radio stations are non-profits, technically he doesn’t create wealth for them. Although he (and his boss, MPR president Bill Kling) are doing really, really well.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Creates wealth? Anyone bought a box of Powdermilk Biscuits? Ever? The man is a little piglet sucking of the public teat.
October 4th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
The “subsidized by government dollars” complaint is funny. Is the clown now in favor of “The Republican Plan”? *snicker*
October 5th, 2009 at 6:15 am
This was noteworthy as well:
“Thirty-six years of bitterness over Roe vs. Wade and what has it gotten us? If the decision were overturned tomorrow, not much would change. The question would revert to the states, and some would permit the termination of pregnancy, others wouldn’t.”
Things would certainly change for the unborn in states that would ban abortion. While the option for a pregnant women to travel to an abortion-friendly state for “termination of pregnancy” would remain on the table, many would not go that route. Some would even make better personal choices that would reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
I doubt that if Roe v. Wade actually was overturned that Garry would claim that “not much would change”.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
So we can cut our corporate welfare to MPR? And yes, most Republicans I know do not suck off the gov’t for freebies, including health care.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Actually, Keillor does have a payroll on his own staff, as well as that of his bookstore in St. Paul. (which is, by and large, a propaganda haven…and thus probably a great tax dodge for liberal Keillor) You would be correct to suggest that Keillor doesn’t know how to run a profitable business, though.
And agreed on MPR/NPR/PBS. Exactly why should we have a government run news outlet? Just to subsidize Keillor?