Heads UP: 8:24am CSPAN - Attack against John Edwards (trial lawyers Inc.)

[LittleApple81]

Political Influence of Trial Lawyers
Copeland, Jim, Director, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Center for Legal Policy

WOW. This is really targeted against Edwards

[LittleApple81]

1. Anchor: Bush received a lot of money from Corporation so what is the

difference.
Guy: A diverse group of corporations.
Edwards is supported by a single entity that is aimed at redistributing wealth!!!!! WOW this is bad, isn't it!

[colonel odis]

2. how does john edwards' profession

enable him as vice-president to change the constitution?

[LittleApple81]

3. Tort claim: redistribution of wealth. Hurts the American competitive

advantage. Reduces incentive to innovative. Increases the cost of excessive medical test. WOW.
Cannot type fast enough.

[Neecy]

30. uh-huh

When you hear that something 'hurts the American competitive advantage' you know it's something that's gonna screw the little guys.

Corporations want to operate without any liability risk whatsoever. That's why they hate trial lawyers, that's why they want tort reform, it's all greed and profits. Amazing how they try to trick people into thinking this is something that's good for them.

Oh, and if America has such a competitive advantage, why all the outsourcing? Oh, that's right - it's American CORPORATE advantage.

[LittleApple81]

4. Wow: anti-American, impossible to defend yourself, threat to democracy,

threat to America!!!!

[LittleApple81]

5. I bet this is a guy that was not very successful as a lawyer. Or

wants to be a Corporate Lawyer.

[LittleApple81]

6. MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK. Surprise!

[Mel]

7. and he's not at liberty to tell

who his donors are 'people with big names' could this guy be anymore obvious that he's corportista plant working Against the people?

[Cheswick2.0]

8. I need the phone number

[LittleApple81]

10. for C-Span Wash Jnl? Those are:

Call-In Numbers
Support President Bush:
[phone]
Support Democrats:
[phone]
Support Others:
[phone]
Email:
[e-mail]

[Cheswick2.0]

13. thanks

[LittleApple81]

9. THIS GUY IS SHIT. Sorry, what about Ken Lay and his cronies?

What about doctors that do kill people?
What about the chemical industry?
What about dumping?
What about ....

[vetwife]

12. Edwards is protecting us from the Halliburtons

Britian? They have healtcare.....We don't !

[lefty_mcduff]

11. Funny...

The Repukes Boy King and Darth Cheney have 'lawyered up' for the Plame investigation.
Dubya's Kenny Boy has lawyered up for the Enron investigation.
Limbaugh - their offical mouthpiece - has lawyered up for his drug investigation.
Their propaganda network uses lawyers in order to suppress opposing opinions like Franken.

So, lawyers are peachy when defending RWr's and attacking Libs, but evil when they're Democrats.

Gotcha.

[vetwife]

Yeah who ran to the Supreme court back in 2000..It wasn't Gore.

[Cheswick2.0]

16. Some one needs to wake NSMA or one of our other laywers

and get them to call this guy.

[SEpatriot]

14. Here comes the nonsense

These people crawl out from under their rocks with Frank Luntz and Karl Rove and try to stir up the folks about "evil" trial lawyers and "frivolous suits." Has he got to the McDonald's case yet? Blah, blah, blah.

The truth is out there:

http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/myths/articles.cfm?ID=5671

http://www.atla.org/homepage/flalaw.aspx

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/study_debunks_lawsuit_explosion.html

[vetwife]

17. Someone should ask what hapened to docs and their hypocratic oath?

If they worried more about patients instead of their money then we wouldn't need trail lawyers to make sure their heads aren't up their butts while they are treating us !

[LittleApple81]

15. HE INSISTS THAT THIS IS ABOUT REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH!

Scare words for repug use. What about calling the estate tax the death tax to allow perpetuation of wealth concentration?

[olddem43]

23. We need a little redistribution -

when 1% of the population have 90% of the wealth.

[LittleApple81]

18. Blaming car accidents related to manufacturing defects to DRUNK DRIVERS

going 80 miles an hour....

[LittleApple81]

19. Right winger: Thanks for the Manhattan Inst. and a FAIR AND BALANCED

way to look at this... you know where he is coming from: FAUX NEWS.

[AG78]

20. Fascsoligarplutocorpismcracy

That's all they want America to be.

[LittleApple81]

22. good one! n/t

[LittleApple81]

21. Democrats want to redistribute wealth and NOT CREATE IT???

No, we want to create it, but not hoard it at the top.. and people who live in a democracy should contribute to keeping it alive.

[LittleApple81]

24. The Republican from Georgia with the wife's vocal cord operation was great

I did not know that in Georgia you need FIVE doctors to testify it is malpractice with an affidavit? YOU WILL NEVER GET IT because doctors won't testify against another.

[SEpatriot]

29. You don't need five doctors, but...

You have to file an affidavit with the complaint at the time of the filing for each medical professional whom you claim negligence against. That's a one to one ratio, though you may have multiple defendants, and often do. It is hard to get the affidavits, but there are some decent physicians who will sign off and who will testify - but it will cost you around $2500.00 for the affidavit and somewhere around $10,000.00 to $30,000.00 for depositions and trial testimony. Also, you are barred in most states from even mentioning the "conspiracy of silence" which is the code of most doctors not to testify against another.

[Cheswick2.0]

25. what is the secret to getting through on the phone lines?

I must have redialed 50 times.

[vetwife]

27. Just keep redialing

[LittleApple81]

28. I have no idea. But people always say they cannot get through for days...

n/t

[LittleApple81]

26. I am actually surprised that the Anchor was very fair today. Asked

good questions like: who funds you?

[Buns_of_Fire]

32. In that same vein,

WJ received an e-mail from someone who asked how much money Richard Mellon Scaife chipped into the foundation. Copeland said he didn't know.

I believe he probably didn't -- plausable deniability, and all that (ah, but will that work in Kenny-Boy's defense?). Voluntarily divulging such information takes away from their message: Redistribution of Wealth! Icky! Redistribution of Wealth! They want to take your money! Redistribution of Wealth! They want your first-born, too! Redistribution of Wealth! Communism! Socialism! Dogs and Cats living together! Redistribution of Wealth! Lawyers make more money than Microsoft! Redistribution of Wealth! Terra! Terra! Terra! (Oops. Got another set of talking points mixed in there...) Redistribution of Wealth! Redistribution of Wealth! Dubya/FU good! Kerry/Edwards bad! Redistribution of Wealth! Run! Run! Redistribution of Wealth!

[KharmaTrain]

31. Those Who Do...Lawyer...Those Who Don't Favor Tort Reform

I wonder what this moron would do if he got himself in a spot? Represent himself? ROFLMAO! I wouldn't trust him with handling a deed transfer for a pet cemetary plot.

Yep, this is bringing out the next strawman to scare and fear. Damn that Edwards...he's a LAWYER. It's as though all Americans hate lawyers? Sure, the ones who have something to hide do. I do lots of work with lawyers...almost all trial lawyers...and appreciate their work and dedication. These are the people who do the defending...for most of us without large pockets...the only and last resort to justice and self-dignity. Of course this hack can't see it, since that would mean he'd have to get a real job.

My father practiced medicine for 60 years, and for the last 10, I assisted in running his practice. I saw a bunch of malpractice suits come through (including several he was "cattle-called" on)...and in most cases, those suits were warranted. Yes, we were upset at the high costs of malpractice insurance, but my father always said that if the doctor was operating under "sound medical principals", they will not lose a suit...and he never had to pay a dime and was usually dropped (as were most doctors) from the suits.

Yes, there are ambulence chasers and shysters...all professions have them (and most work for Repugnicans...corporate laywers)...but this tactic of trying to tar Edwards shows the desperation this regime is starting to use in scaring whatever shrinking electorate they have left.

Rove must be seeing some real nasty polling data these days...he's been trying to get the worst wingnut hacks on C-SPAN lately.