Way to Go, Greta!

By Robert Ringer

After all these years, I’m throwing in the towel and complimenting Greta. When it comes to actions that I believe to be unconscionable, I’m not one who easily forgets. I didn’t mind Greta being a philosophical liberal — that’s her right. But her nightly defenses of the 21st century’s most infamous murderer, O.J., were hard to swallow.

Now that I’ve finally put aside the O.J. stuff (well, almost), I’m able to view Greta more objectively. When she finally broke free from CNN and made the transition to Fox News back in 2002, it took her a few years, but she began moving ever so slowly toward the middle. And the last year or so — I suspect as a result of her buddy-buddy relationship with Sean Hannity — Greta may have actually started leaning a tad … just a tad … to the right.

In truth, though, my sense is that she’s just a very smart woman who tenaciously tries to get at the facts, regardless of whom it hurts or helps. She’s a straight arrow who has a deeply ingrained sense of justice about her that causes her to ask pointed questions … again … and again … and again. I doubt that she thinks of herself in strong ideological terms.

I say deeply ingrained sense of justice, because she becomes very impatient when guests talk nonsensically, lie, or try to spin the facts. And in her recent interview with Russell Mokhiber, founder of “Single Payer Action” — a group right out of Atlas Shrugged — there was a lot of all three going on.

In a recent article, I noted how Barack Obama’s former doctor, David L. Scheiner, didn’t just talk like Saul Alinsky, he looked like him! But everything is relative. Scheiner’s scowl makes him look like Ronald McDonald compared to the hateful frown on Mokhiber’s face.

I couldn’t make up my mind who Mokhiber most resembled — Joseph Goebbels or Adolf Eichmann. I guess I’d have to give the nod to Eichmann, because his twisted scowl reminded me more of an executioner than a mere propagandist.

And yet, a propagandist he proved to be during the interview. In fact, his endless repetition of his assertion that “sixty people die every day due to a lack of health insurance” made it clear that he understood Goebbels’ famous words: “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

In nonstop fashion, Mokhiber vilified Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey, who is famous for his pro-employee philosophy of business. Whole Foods, which employs some 50,000 people, has repeatedly been named one of the best companies in America to work for, and it provides insurance benefits to 80 percent of its employees.

As a result, Mackey has been something of a populist hero to the average working man and woman. Then, just like that, he went and ruined it all by daring to suggest that the Duplicitous Despot’s government-monopoly healthcare plan may not be in the best interests of patients, doctors, or America in general. Zap! Mackey went from hero to scumbag quicker than you could say change you can believe in.

Worse, he had the audacity to offer his own idea of what he believes to be a better healthcare plan for America. Audacious! Who does he think he is, a free citizen? A successful employer who has a proven healthcare plan in place for his employees? A productive individual who has created thousands of jobs? A business owner who has succeeded by giving consumers what they want?

What in the world would make him believe he has a right to voice a dissenting opinion? He’s probably just another one of those dreaded teabaggers in disguise.

Mr. Mokhiber was having none of such hype. He wanted Mackey tarred and feathered, and sent his progressive troops to picket Whole Foods stores in Austin, New York, and Washington, D.C. Outrageous, yes, but a real yawner … a supreme dud.

What really ticked off Greta was Mokhiber’s repeatedly saying that because John Mackey is against single-payer healthcare, he’s a “bad guy.” Gee, and here I’ve been led to believe that most Americans are against single-payer healthcare. The only thing I’ll give Mokhiber credit for is that, unlike his Oval Office hero, he didn’t lie about what he wants: government-only healthcare.

As everyone in America now knows, BHO continues to claim that government healthcare would be “just another option,” even though he was captured on video, in 2003, saying, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health-care program.” The man does have a charming way about him, doesn’t he?

But this isn’t about BHO, who is already way too overexposed. It’s about how Greta handled Mokhiber’s nasty assertions that John Mackey is a bad guy who should be silenced. True-blue progressives simply don’t like to hear dissenting views. Greta skewered him and never backed off, no matter how many times he followed his Goebbels repetition strategy. She simply was dumbfounded that Mokhiber would call a model citizen a “bad guy” for not agreeing with the president’s viewpoint.

You can see the whole interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bokc3ArB4M0

Let me know what you think — Goebbels or Eichmann? It’s a tough call. Either way, just remember that Mokhiber is typical of the kind of person that too many Republicans believe they can reason with — you know, “reach across the aisle.” You have a better chance of trying to get Ayman al-Zawahiri to consider your point of view.

In any event, a thumbs up to Greta. And could this mean that there’s hope for Geraldo? Easy … let’s not get too carried away here.

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