What happens when a journalist asks the right questions and gets a politician a few minutes past their talking points? Well, sometimes, as Michael Kinsley has pointed out, we get to the truth. That’s what happened this morning on WLS 890 AM in Chicago. Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft were filling on the Don Wade and Roma morning show and had Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. on to discuss the Health Care Reform bill.
This is the bill that President Obama has declared will lower premiums, increase benefits and cut the deficit, right?
After wading through Jesse Jr.’s talking points, the interview finally gets to the truth:
That was Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. saying something that none of us has heard from a Democrat over the past 12 months of debate over the Health Care Reform act:
Let me be clear: There’s probably going to have to be a significant reform of other social programs as the Federal Government assumes more responsibility for health care for the nation’s people, there are other social programs that are probably going to undermine some elements of social cohesion, there’s no doubt about that.
Where has the main stream media been with this simple line of questioning? Kudos to Wolf and Prost, no wonder this show is #1 in Chicago.
Listen to the entire interview here.
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