Daily Gut: The Death of Awareness

It used to be that the most important job in the world was to “raise awareness.” Everyday we were told how important it was to do it for issues like AIDS, global warming, and indoor plumbing. But just as raising awareness had become fulltime jobs for millions of people bearing clipboards and acne, in some very important arenas the crusade is now being undermined. Destroyed, even.

Look at the issues that will potentially devastate your bank account. There, “raising awareness” no longer matters. It happened first with the stimulus bill.  It was far more important to push that mess through than it was to actually read it. Nationalized health care? Beyond knowing that we need it right now – what else is there? And what of this cap and trade muck? It’s way too dry – too bad there aren’t any Cliffs Notes. (more…)

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Tags: AIDS, bumper stickers, Cap and Trade, Cliffs Notes, Global warming
Posted Jul 20th 2009 at 11:17 am in Daily Gut, News, Politics | 187838107 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/20/daily-gut-raising-awareness-about-awareness/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Death+of+Awareness2009-07-20+18%3A17%3A06Greg+Gutfeld

Obama-Care Can Kill You

I went to the post office today.  I know, there was no way to avoid it, I’d rather have a root canal, but I had to mail this very large package.  So I’m standing in this long line…watching as the three pleasant but weary postal workers attended, very slowly, to the customers.  Each new customer was greeted with a forced-pleasant, “Hi, how are you?” and then attended to the customer’s request.  This one had three odd-sized packages.  That one wanted to buy some of those new stamps.  Another wanted to send a registered letter.  The line slowly moved along.

On the up side, it gave me a chance to study all the people in line.  An occupational habit, I study people wherever I go, particularly when I’m a captive to some long, slow-moving queue.  The line moved so slowly, in fact, that I had the opportunity to memorize what all 32 line-standers were wearing, the color of their hair, the shape of their faces, my best guess at their ethnicity, their height….and as I was starting to indulge myself with guessing each person’s weight and how I would do working at a carnival, my thoughts began to wander.  (Did I mention the line in the post office moved very slowly?) (more…)

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Tags: AARP, Britain, California Medical Assoc., Canada, health care
Posted Jul 3rd 2009 at 9:21 am in Featured Story, Politics | 175770195 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/07/03/obama-care-can-kill-you/Obama-Care+Can+Kill+You2009-07-03+16%3A21%3A16Gary+Graham

Daily Gut: Why Obama Hates Obamacare

So Obama is holding a townhall meeting right now (cue hearty applause from a sea of clapping seals) to tout his monstrous health care overhaul – more evidence that we’re entering the hard sell phase of something so unnecessary it’s actually turning our President into a sweaty huckster. But thankfully for him, he doesn’t have to do it all himself–the networks are doing Obama’s pitching (and catching) for free.

Look, with this sort of thing, you gotta go with your gut: when someone is trying to sell you something way too hard, the thing he’s selling ain’t good.

And the only thing you have to remember about health care is this: if Obama had to choose between the current system and the system he’s envisioning for all of us, he’d run screaming to the former. You saw him in that ABC infomercial – when asked by a neurologist (which is a real doctor, I think) what he would do if his wife or child got seriously ill. Wouldn’t Obama want the best damn care possible, nationalized health care bureaucracy be damned? At that point, Obama started thinking like a human again, not a teleprompter, and could no longer defend his plan. Instead, he said, “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.” (more…)

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Tags: ABC infomercial, healthcare reform, nationalized health care, Obama, Obama family
Posted Jul 1st 2009 at 12:56 pm in Daily Gut, News, Politics | 17511426 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/01/daily-gut-why-obama-hates-obamacare/Daily+Gut%3A+Why+Obama+Hates+Obamacare2009-07-01+19%3A56%3A10Greg+Gutfeld