We verified the debate concerning Obamacare took place between March 26-28. The consensus of Fox correspondents featured in Colbert's clip agrees Donald Verrilli fumbled in his argument brought before the Supreme Court in favor of Obamacare.
And Fox News certainly wasn't the only entity that felt that way. In fact, individuals from all sides of the political spectrum voiced their contempt for Verrilli's argument.
Liberal news magazine Mother Jones called Verrilli's stumble "mind-boggling." Non-partisan news website The Daily Beast reported "it wasn't his finest hour" and conservative blog Hot Air said that Verrilli's course of ineffective action was to "babble a handful of legal precedents."
In June the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare unconstitutional, something both Fox News and CNN jumped were quick to report. However, the court permitted the health care act could survive as a tax, as cited by the Supreme Court’s website.
Colbert gave the impression that Obamacare was dead in the water through his satirical nature. He gave surprisingly little evidence; he mostly ranted and the guest he interviewed didn’t actually witness the debates in person. The story presented makes sense, although it conflicts with later videos concerning Obamacare’s survival as a tax.
The coverage focuses solely on the events that occurred during the third day of debate, specifically Verrilli’s flawed argument, and gives little mention of what happened on the other two days.
And Fox News certainly wasn't the only entity that felt that way. In fact, individuals from all sides of the political spectrum voiced their contempt for Verrilli's argument.
Liberal news magazine Mother Jones called Verrilli's stumble "mind-boggling." Non-partisan news website The Daily Beast reported "it wasn't his finest hour" and conservative blog Hot Air said that Verrilli's course of ineffective action was to "babble a handful of legal precedents."
In June the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare unconstitutional, something both Fox News and CNN jumped were quick to report. However, the court permitted the health care act could survive as a tax, as cited by the Supreme Court’s website.
Colbert gave the impression that Obamacare was dead in the water through his satirical nature. He gave surprisingly little evidence; he mostly ranted and the guest he interviewed didn’t actually witness the debates in person. The story presented makes sense, although it conflicts with later videos concerning Obamacare’s survival as a tax.
The coverage focuses solely on the events that occurred during the third day of debate, specifically Verrilli’s flawed argument, and gives little mention of what happened on the other two days.
This Colbert Report clip is supported by a CNN interview with a woman who was discouraged from receiving care from a hospital’s debt collector, as well as an article from the New York Times telling the same story.
The story left out how much debt hospitals incur, possibly encouraging desperate measures such as this to be taken to make sure the hospital gets paid what it is owed.
Colbert's satirical comments regarding a surgeon holding on to a patient's kidney as collateral until they "cough up some dough" to pay their bill is clearly extreme and obvious exaggeration to drive his point to his audience. But such things aren't unheard of internationally.
In 2000, UC Berkeley conducted a study and reported poor people in India, South Africa and other poor countries have used their own organs as collateral for money lenders during times of monetary crisis. The United States hasn't entered into such bleak circumstances but Cobert is a smart man. Perhaps he's hinting at something that could one day face this country.
In researching this Colbert clip we found overwhelming confirmation that Papa John's Pizza CEO and founder John Schnatter —especially in an article from USA Today— made anti-Obamacare statements.
In Fox's coverage of this report Schnatter’s complaints are brought into focus even as the stock ticker put his company up 22 percent from the previous year.
As a businessman, Schnatter might have concern over a price raise in general. But even if multiplied by the billions of pies sold the extra 14 cents would have little impact on the bottom line. If anything, that "extra few nickels" could help the business; considering sales tax, most customers probably wouldn't notice any imminent difference in cost.
Neither Colbert or Fox News mentioned how other national franchise eateries such as Denny’s and Applebee’s made similar complaints about Obamacare.
Also no one mentions the REAL reason these companies are complaining: the added cost of insuring the workers. The argument is framed in such a way— By Fox in their serious manner, by Colbert in his satirical way — as to show Schnatter as being primarily concerned with the cost to his customers rather than the cost out of his own pocket to insure his workers.
Colbert mentions that he believes Papa John's is one of the sponsors of his show. We were unable to confirm this to be factual but if it is, Colbert upholds the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics section which states that journalists should "deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence news coverage."
In his rants against big business owners, Stewart directly mentions that it's post-recession and big business is to be creating more jobs rather than cutting them, supported by financial institutions nationally. The corporations meant to create more jobs are firing workers in droves.
Stewart doesn't only speak out against those in opposition to Obamacare. He criticizes President Barack Obama for not fighting harder for single-payer health care, a movement that would have resulted in business owners never having to pay premiums again.
In this clip Jon Stewart grills a Fox journalist for making exaggerated claims about the percentage of Americans opposed to Obamacare. Megyn Kelley makes several statements about poll results but none of these claims is supported by an actual poll.
Kelly interviews a group of senior citizens whose responses are all aimed to the conservative right. This fits right into Fox News Channel's demographic. She either read heavily-right biased polls or made up the numbers completely.
What was left out: the actual poll numbers and a diverse and randomized selection of people to be questioned. Kelly only interviewed a select few in a specific age group, all of which held close to conservative ideals. This key faux pas is something Stewart didn't ignore in his satirical analysis.
By interviewing only her select group of subjects, Kelly fails to "tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience" as directed by the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.
Colbert presents a world where "free government birth control" unlatches a floodgate of promiscuity; he was joking, but his act parodies the response of Fox News and the general conservative right to the mandate.
The Fox Video we compared this clip to was taken from January 2013 while Colbert's coverage was from August 2012. We found it interesting how similar they are. As a side note, it makes us curious who's really parodying who.
Colbert's performance enacts a logic that implies all women will react universally to the mandate, going out and being sexual because it's "Whore o'clock" and someone else is paying for the contraceptives. This is both ignorant and sexist.
On a minor note, Colbert claims he was added to Maxim Magazine’s Hot 100 of 2012, a list comprised of the sexiest women of the year. We thought he was kidding; he was not.
Kelly interviews a group of senior citizens whose responses are all aimed to the conservative right. This fits right into Fox News Channel's demographic. She either read heavily-right biased polls or made up the numbers completely.
What was left out: the actual poll numbers and a diverse and randomized selection of people to be questioned. Kelly only interviewed a select few in a specific age group, all of which held close to conservative ideals. This key faux pas is something Stewart didn't ignore in his satirical analysis.
By interviewing only her select group of subjects, Kelly fails to "tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience" as directed by the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.
Colbert presents a world where "free government birth control" unlatches a floodgate of promiscuity; he was joking, but his act parodies the response of Fox News and the general conservative right to the mandate.
The Fox Video we compared this clip to was taken from January 2013 while Colbert's coverage was from August 2012. We found it interesting how similar they are. As a side note, it makes us curious who's really parodying who.
Colbert's performance enacts a logic that implies all women will react universally to the mandate, going out and being sexual because it's "Whore o'clock" and someone else is paying for the contraceptives. This is both ignorant and sexist.
On a minor note, Colbert claims he was added to Maxim Magazine’s Hot 100 of 2012, a list comprised of the sexiest women of the year. We thought he was kidding; he was not.
