How Obama and the Democrats failed to defend the universal right to healthcare

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13. Hot Coffee

Reagan was such a tool .. here's an excerpt from On the Media that previewed the HBO documentary 'Hot Coffee':

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And, as a matter of fact, you note in the film a kind of proto-McDonald's story in a story about a telephone booth that President Ronald Reagan recounts.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: In California a man was using a public telephone booth to place a call. An alleged drunk driver careened down the street, lost control of her car and crashed into the phone booth. It’s no surprise that the injured man sued, but you might be startled to hear whom he sued, the telephone company and associated firms. That's right.

SUSAN SALADOFF: The telephone booth was in a very dangerous place and it had been hit several times. And the telephone company had never properly fixed the door, so even though he was trying to get out he couldn't get out until he was hit in the booth. He lost his leg. And so, it wasn’t a real - a real joke the way President Reagan had portrayed it...

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/145272-hot-coffee/transcript/

http://audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm070811e.mp3

Judge Oliver Diaz from "Hot Coffee"