The suck and head of the you know what award. Im talking to you. My buddy. Sean hannity is a known liar. Yeah, just kind of a setup. Sean hannity creating his own village. Sean hannity cherrypicked a few words from a sentence to fit his message. This knucklehead, this idiot. Sean, wherever you want to debate, you name the place, the time. [ bleep ] i go a capella. Come on, give me a chance, sean. Lets see if im the knucklehead that you think i am. Lets have a debate, sean hannity. Oh, its friday. Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. Who do you trust . You know, trust is a heck of a thing. Trust is huge in your personal life. Who do you trust in business . Who do you trust, people at work, people in your neighborhood . Who do you trust on obama care . All the coverage out there and everything thats taken place, especially this week. This week has really been a very interesting week. But who do you trust, and what influences you . You know, when i was growing up, there was a lot of news in the 60s. My mom was a High School English teacher, my dad was an aeronautical engineer, he worked for the government at the Norfolk Naval air base, and when they would come home, we would have dinner. It was pretty traditional back in those days, you know. We sat around the table and watched the evening news. It was walter cronkite. Ill tell you what. My mom and dad, they trusted walter cronkite. I mean, if he said it, that was it. Thats the way it was. Do you feel that way about peach you watch today . I would like to think that you trust me. Certainly, theres no comparison between his accomplishments and mine. Thats not where im going. What im going to is, you know, i want you to trust me. And i want you to know that i have my opinions. But i dont make stuff up. And if im wrong, i have the character to step out and correct what i may have misstated or reported. This has been a very interesting week for obama care. Its been a week of a pack of lies coming from fox news and one particular broadcaster, and that would be sean hannity, apparently the king of cheap shots. And i think there is a reflection in gop polling. Rough week at the office. Theyre down to 22 , an alltime low. So the republicans have to be behind closed doors saying, man, what are we gonna do now . Well, all theyve got left is to go after obama care. Thats all theyve got. That and, of course, ripping people off oh of food stamps. You know, Network Reporters, as i said earlier this week on this broadcast, i think are in somewhat of a dilemma. I think that obama care is going to be so positive and there are so many things in obama care that are great for families and great for individuals and great for consumers and the industry, that they will take any morsel of negativity, no matter what it is, to just kind of make sure that everybody thinks theyre still journalistically balanced. Let me tell you something, folks. Junk insurance policies is real. Its very real. And its been addressed in this country. And this is what hannity and fox news and some other reporters have come to. They dont know what to do so last night on Sean Hannitys program he brings in brent zoezle from some conservative match dog outfit and they have fun with me. I love it. Here it is. Your buddy, ed deschultz over there, dafy, obama care is so wonderful, the media is afraid. I dont know who gets the award for the suckup and head up the you know what award. Either him or his colleague, chris matthews. One of them gets it. Lets roll tape. You know what . I think that Network Reporters, throughout the entire industry, may be caught in a dilemma. That obama care is so positive and going to have such a tremendous impact on American Life and american society, in setting the foundation for better changes in the future, i think that Network Reporters and people on tv are having a hard time saying something nice about it, or positive about it, because they might be viewed as journalistically compromised. Theyre not really showing a great deal of integrity if they Say Something positive. About obama care. Yeah, that doesnt extend to everybody. You know, im reading this sentence again. That obama care is so positive, dot, dot, dot, Network Reporters and people on tv are having a hard time saying something nice about it or positive about it. Someone needs to get some medication over to msnbc really fast. Because that is the opposite of the truth. Look, this is the problem that theyre having. Theyre having a hard time telling the truth about obama care. How many times was did the president tell us that it was going to cut costs . When it didnt. How many times did he tell us it wasnt a tax when it was. How many times did he tell us you could keep your insurance when you cant. This is an epidemic of dishonesty. And yet reporters wont report it, and poor ed schultz is saying that its just so positive that nobody dares talk about it. Bozell is wrong on all accounts. Across the board hes wrong. Hannity has now been reduced to defending junk insurance policies. And i wonder if he knows that most junk insurance policies only last about a year, when people actually figure out they have been hoodwinked into a policy that doesnt cover snot. Thats why obama care is good. Sean, i know, its probably a little over your head. But ill give it a shot again. A few weeks ago, i asked sean hannity to go facetoface with me in a debate. Instead of accepting what he has decided to do, this is his comes back with a challenge, hes playing clips of my show in his media clip or whatever, in his segment. Look, im about the truth. And it would seem to me that if im wrong on these things, that handy would want to go facetoface with me. I mean, you know, im just a funloving barrelchested guy from the middle of the country who loves to get to the bottom of stuff, you know what i mean . So lets get it on, sean. Come on. You pick the venue, you sell the tickets, you keep the profit. Youre all about that. I just want to prove that youre wrong. And i dont want the public to think that someone is misleading someone on obama care. Certainly, you would have the character to go facetoface with me, wouldnt you . Look, i believe that sean hannity and fox news has done a terrible disservice to this country by misleading people on a lifesaving policy such as obama care. Lets face it. Lets go facetoface. Come on, sean. Lets do it for the country. Come on. Make a big fool out of big eddy. Be the best promo you ever had. But you wont do t because you know i have the facts and, oh, by the way, i have the law on my side. Fox news continues to spread lies and deceit about obama care, and about just how much its going to accomplish. The latest conservative talking point is that people are getting, quote, kicked off their current Insurance Plans. Insurance companies are being intimidated to keep their mouths shut about the disaster theyre happening, theyre witnessing, about all those kicked off. They told them just keep quiet. And we didnt know what they had in terms of leverage, steve, over these Insurance Companies but its beginning to become very clear. The truth lies with the Insurance Company sees. Sure. Absolutely. Because theyre the ones who have got to provide. And its there are all sorts of stories about how remember if you like your doctor, if you like your plan, keep your plan, not true. If you like your hospital, thats not going to be true, as well. Because so few are going to be involved. In the meantime, the democrats and the president clearly own this now. The Affordable Care act is theirs, and that, brian, is why theyre trying to blame everybody else. Those insurers, theyre cutrate, bad apples. One of the guys that was bad they said that yesterday. When the president used that term to describe Insurance Companies in boston, it was essentially game on with a lot of these companies. Absolutely. Its just like with wall street when he referred to them as fat cats. This is just too good. There are such things as standards in the law. So in other words, Companies Just cant throw out junk stuff anymore. Theyre defending on fox news the Insurance Industry and the corporations that are delivering junk policies to consumers, and theyre okay with it. Meanwhile, sean hannity has been trying to desperately has been trying desperately to protect those bad apple, lowquality junk plans. 3 million americans cant keep the plan if they like their plan. Yes they can. No, they cant. They get cancellation letters. No, no. 2 million are getting cancellation. No, look, im going to tip of the iceberg. Im going to send you page 34,552, and the government is predicting itself that 66 of Small Business plans will be gone. 45 of Large Employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013. 9 million americans. That means you cant keep your plan. Thats because theyre going to be getting a better deal standards and lower price because of the pool in the competition. Gosh, sean, i thought you were a big free market guy. I thought you liked competition. Sean hannity seems to really want americans to have Crappy Health care plans. Consumer reports analyzed a number of lowquality plans. This is what a sean hannity junk Insurance Plan would look like. Lets take 450 a month. This is a good junk plan that Consumer Reports found. You get 100 a piece for five doctor visits a year. 50 a year for screenings and tests. 1,000 a day for up to 30 days in the hospital. None of that none of this right here is acceptable under the Affordable Care act. Because it sucks and it rips off consumers. Its not good enough for america. All of the care that you receive is going to be more affordable and more comprehensive under obama care. And heres the kicker. Heres the kicker. If youre a lowwage income earner, currently on a junk plan that sean hannity is promoting and defending, that does not have standards. You will get a cancellation notice. But your next move is this. You go jump into the exchange. And you will qualify for subsidies if youre a lowincome earner to help purchase a quality plan with standards that will be better for you. Thats obama care. Ill let you decide what you think is best. So but lets go back to sean hannity calling me a brownnoser for a moment, for being positive about the impacts of obama care. You know, he ought to be careful about who he is calling a suckup. This is the same broadcaster who did a fair share of sucking up in a pickup truck when he rode around with former president george w. Bush for a softball interview in crawford, texas. When i saw you, you were my perception was, you were totally, completely at peace. Yeah. Your job was done. And you seem even more at peace now. I am at peace. And i was honored to serve the country. I gave it my all. I have written a book that chronicles the decisions i made. And i feel im not desperate to try to shape a legacy, because i fully understand that there needs to be time for history to be able to analyze for historians to be able to analyze the decisions ive made. And, you know, i have im content. Im a content guy. How about that . A oneonone with the president of the United States. Sean hannity, in the truck with w. Never asked him about the rollout of Medicare Part d. I bet edward r. Merle would really be excited about that one, wouldnt he . Sean hannity would sell his absolute soul to defeat obama and obama care. And he puts no value on his journalistic integrity, if he has any. Heres one more example of deceit by sean hannity. Earlier this month, sean hannity had a panel on the show, panel of guests with socalled real stories about obama care, causing them all kin of harm. Our new policy that we can have will have the same benefits to it. Anything similar, though, is going to rise between, like, 50 to 72 . We dont even have insurance for our daughter, who has a preexisting condition. So were looking at probably 20,000 in premiums next year. As business, we are jumping through more hoops, more regulation, more paperwork. And weve also cut back on hiring fulltime employees, because of the Health Care Cost involved. Well, it turns out those real stories were simply not accurate. Reporting for salon. Com, eric stern conducted actual interviews of Sean Hannitys guests. The results revealed thousands of dollars in savings if the couples enroll in obama care. The guests with an uninsured child due to preexisting condition would receive coverage at a lower cost. The Small Business owners had a small enough number of employees that obama care had no effect on their company. Sean hannity is spreading lies and deceit. Roger a ails who is often praised about being a smart guy in cable how can you get a guy go on the air and get away with that crap . Come on. By the way, is there a fox news standards and practices manual . No its not reporting, its lying. And i think handy is doing a serious disservice to the country by saying what he is saying about obama care, because it is lie after lie after lie. Come on, sean. Lets go facetoface. Ill make sure that you dont swim with the fishes. Youll be wellprotected. Get your cell phones out. I want to know what you think. Is sean hannity telling the truth about obama care . Text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. You can always go to our blog at ed. Msnbc. Com. Leave a comment. Well bring the results later on in the show. Now, i want to go to the reporter who did the followup. And this gentleman is eric stern, salon. Com. Eric, good to have you with us tonight. Hi, ed. Had you are you doing . Good, sir. Did you actually tell us your intrigue with the story that you motivated you to follow up on this, and what did you find . Well, i called these i called these three couples, and what they were having was problems with the current insurance system. It wasnt obama care. It was essentially the crept insurance system. They were basically being treated like Insurance Companies tend have always tended to treat a customer, and basically getting their rates raised and they were getting the runaround. And in some cases, they didnt really have any problem. They could have a problem in the future down the road when it actually the law actually takes effect for them. But as it currently stood when i spoke to them, nothing that sean hannity said was really true. Nothing that sean hannity said was really true from your journalistic standpoint on this. When obama care goes into eff t effect, will any of these families be helped . They will have the option to get insurance. It looks like they will have the option to get insurance for much cheaper than what they are paying. So in that respect, yes. They will actually save substantial money by buying on the exchange. So basically let me ask you, do you think they had junk insurance . You know, it is possible that one of the people i spoke to did have junk insurance. I mean, you could argue that all insurance offered to private individuals now on the private market is kind of a bit of a scam. I would say they probably all had problems with their plans, and yes, the new requirements of obama care will probably make them stronger plans. Make them stronger plans. And you said something about cost, didnt you, at a better cost . Because brent bozell was on with sean hannity saying that wasnt the case. That it was going to cost more. Well, lets be clear. The plans they had, they got these letters that many persons are getting from the Insurance Company saying their plans are being cancelled and it was going to be replaced by a new plan that may or may not be more expensive. Now thats just you know, thats what the Insurance Companies do all of the time. And have done for the last decade. Raising premiums 15 a year or whatever it is. What theyre doing there is, theyre using the advent of obama care as an excuse to do what they do anyway, and theyre making it look like theyre being forced to do it and its somebody elses fall. Your journal excuse me. Your journalistic final analysis is that sean hannity was not telling the truth or reporting the truth. He was telling it was about 8 of what he was saying was true. Youve got to tell the truth in this business. Eric stern, good to have you look go ahead. Final comment. Well, what sean hannity and bozell do, thats a real problem in this world. Sean hannity only wants people on his show to agree with him. And hes not going to have you on, because thats what he does. He wants to talk to people he agrees with. He doesnt want to have a discussion about facts and i think its a disservice to this country. It is a disservice. It is a disservice to have that platform and be dishonest about something that is going to save lives in this country. Goes back to the graphic i put up. Who do you trust . Consumers should not trust what sean hannity says. Eric stern, good to have you with us tonight. I appreciate your time. Coming up, from beer bongs to solo cups. Republicans and the house seem to know a lot about frat parties. Plus, god bless bill oreilly. The spin master tops our friday trenders. Stay with us. Road closed . Theres a guy. Excuse me . 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