MSNBC: The Place for Made-Up Numbers of Uninsured Women

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Update below the fold.

This is just a small entry, a blog-lette, if you will.  Because I happened to have seen this bit of broadcast flapdoodle live, which you now have before you at right (with the audio available here).

On this morning's MSNBC News Live, co-host Angela Burt-Murray - the Editor-in-Chief of Essence magazine -uncorks this absolutely wild pitch to Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md):

Recently you released a report on women and health care, and taking a look at the very real issue that families are facing we have more than 64 million women who have lost health care due to loss of job or a spouse that has lost a job.  How do you see the Administration's plan being more able to effectively address this issue for women and children in this country?

64 million?  Just women?

We have repeatedly documented that the oft-cited 46 million people - men and women - without insurance is completely bogus.  But as you will find at the link's destination, the media's number on this vacillates wildly.

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As exhibited by Ms. Burt-Murray here.  Though hers may be the biggest stretch of all.  As the media get more desperate, as they see the national popularity for the government takeover of medicine they favor continue to tank, they get more desperate - and so do their claims.

Ms. Burt-Murray's whopper is the "very real issue" of 64 million women who have allegedly lost their insurance due to their losing their jobs.  Statistically, that would mean that there are also roughly 64 million men without health insurance (unless Ms. Burt-Murray is claiming the scourge of uninsurance to be exclusively a women's issue, which would be a whole other area of bizarreness). 

So the new media high-water mark for fabrications of the uninsured in America is now 128 million.  Just of people who lost their insurance along with their gig, which means Ms. Burt-Murray's "very real" fake number is even higher than that. 

Ms. Burt-Murray's most serious "very real issue," it would appear, is with numbers and counting.  That and her "very real issue" can not possibly be addressed by the Administration's plan, because the Administration does not have one.

Update: The Congressional study to which she referes begins thusly:

The status-quo health insurance system is serving women poorly. An estimated 64 million women lack adequate health insurance. Over half of all medical bankruptcies are filed by female-headed households. For too many women and their families today, quality, affordable health care is out of reach.

Which means the most daunting "very real issue" facing Ms. Burt-Murray is in fact reading comprehension.  Or uncontrollable hallucinations.

Additionally, as pointed out by our intrepid intern Mike Sargent: Were 64 million women recently shed from the job rolls as Ms. Burt-Murray alleges, that alone would represent 11% of the entire population of the United States losing their gigs, including the children and elderly who aren't considered for unemployment calculation purposes. 

The current unemployment percentage - of eligible citizens, not babies and nonagenarians - is less than 10%.

Thank goodness Ms. Burt-Murray is co-hosting a national news program, to bring us just this kind of incisive reporting.  

—Seton Motley is Director of Communications for the Media Research Center and Contributing Editor for NewsBusters.org.


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MSNBC: The Place for Propaganda

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I'm surprised she didn't

I'm surprised she didn't add "and most of those are black!"

And Mr. Cummings just says "Yes." 

Do any of our congressmen have even an inkling of a clue about anything??

Well, I guess her rant serves Mr. Cummings' purpose, so he's not about to quibble over 20 million.....

 

Dear Democrats You're Pushin Too Hard

There is a natural law of cause and effect coming into play. when an they meet up with an unmovable object.

 

Dear Democrats you're pushin too hard.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/08/was-captain-of-titanic-democrat-too.html

 

Hey just give the leftist

Hey just give the leftist lying number crunchers with their obvious agenda time and they'll have the 128 million doubled.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

If I Wasn't So Lazy

I would find the link to the original MSNBC report and send it to the "Flag" police as purveyors of misinformation.

64 million women without insurance?

Angela must be including Ahmadinejad's invisible gay people.

Seton, you're missing the

Seton, you're missing the best stat of all.

 128 million unemployed means that we have...eh, just doing the math in my head, I think that comes out to 23-24% unemployment RIGHT NOW.

What does Congressman Cummings plan to do about the 23-24% unemployment rate?!  I ask tongue-in-cheek, of course...but it just goes to show how wacky the numbers are.

Well that's not really

Well that's not really true....she does say that they've either lost their own insurance or coverage through a spouse.

To avoid piling on, she never said that the women and their spouses are unemployed.

However she does say that the women have lost their health care, not their health insurance.

Her inflated numbers fit right in with the so-called statistics on women who are beaten on Super Bowl Sunday and women who die of anorexia every year.

ACORN numbers

Obama decried the death of 10,000 people in a tornadoe in Greensburg kansas.  The population was 1500 and the actual deaths were 10 or 12. 

Regarding the update

Maybe I am the one reading-comprehension-challenged, but I still don't see where she says 64 million women have lost their jobs.  At least not from the transcript or the video here:

more than 64 million women who have lost health care due to loss of job or a spouse that has lost a job.

The number she states is certainly more than the 46 million without insurance that we are used to hearing.  There's enough to criticize without accusing her of something she never said.

The Left will pick a number

The Left will pick a number that sounds sufficiently alarming and run with it for as long as it works.

 I once saw a Leftie magazine that had a 2-page spread of little snippets. One one of the pages it lamented that 500,000 women die worldwide every year from botched abortions. On the facing page was another snippet lamenting that 500,000 women die in Brazil every year from botched abortions.

 Evidently, all over the world, women who realize that they're about to expire from botched abortions migrate, lemminglike, to Brazil so that they can die there.

To this day, you STILL see those numbers, still sometimes applied to the entire world, sometimes applied just to Brazil. 

Wonderful numbers, the gift that keeps on giving - ACA

Well, Seton, I'll refine your analysis a bit.  With no malice intended.

She does account for both spousal job loss and single women job loss in her statement.  So, let's just figure that it is 50/50.  Who cares?  I dunno, but I just love Liberal Wonderful Numbers.

That would make 32/32 million which would only mean 32 million men have also lost insurance.  That would total 96 millions of American adults (assuming she isn't counting child women (little people ya know) as women who lost insurance.  That would mean possibly (taking a rough 32 millions and adding a single child to each (that is just a gift to them).  Now we are talking about ummmm......

96 million adults + 32 million children.  That ciphers out to be, lets see, carry the 1, mark a naught, jot down the 2 ummmm.....

Gosh and gee whillikers....

128 million Americans without insurance.

That would mean of course at the minimum 1/3 of all Americans ain't got nothin'.

 Cue the music.

"Nothin' ain't worth nothin' if its free."   (Chris Kristofferson)

ACA

"On this morning's MSNBC News Live, co-host Angela Burt-Murray - the Editor-in-Chief of Essence magazine -uncorks this absolutely wild pitch to Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md):

"Recently you released a report on women and health care, and taking a look at the very real issue that families are facing we have more than 64 million women who have lost health care due to loss of job or a spouse that has lost a job.  How do you see the Administration's plan being more able to effectively address this issue for women and children in this country?"

 

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

But Socialism is an International Movment

. . . so next thy will tell us two brazilian women lost their health care

→ Just Al

Two brazilian?  Is that less than a trillion?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Was Larry right?

I believe it was Larry Summers who suggested women lacked a certain something in the math and science disciplines. Maybe she was his test subject.

Wonder if any of these

Wonder if any of these Liberal Fascists/eugenicist types have contemplated mandatory mastectomies for women over thirty?  There's got to be at least one up there in the Libtard power structure.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.