Just Act: A Response to Will Ferrell
by Jon DavidRecently I had a conversation with Big Government contributor Maura Flynn in which we discussed the gravity of the health care crisis in this country. We didn’t necessarily agree on every issue. But what became clear, was that we became soberly aware of what we didn’t know. What resulted from this conversation is the 60 second video below.. Please remove your partisan hat, and take a moment to view this. It’s important….for all of us.
Written & Directed by Jon David, Produced by Maura Flynn, Edited by Andrew Marcus
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omg, see now obama has 150 "doctors for public option" assembled on the white house lawn…
talk about propaganda… i dont actually know one doctor who is for this crappy plan of obamas. do you think obama could have been more obvious, all those white coats on the lawn, for crying out loud, doctors dont wear the white coats outside of the hospitals and dr' s offices, what a set up……….
come on where are the real doctors to counter this crap…………….
Unbelievable! Finally a worthy response to the lunacy of celebrites weighing in on things they know nothing about. I spit my coffee out but don't want to spoil the reason as to why? This is classic.
"MA! The Meatloaf!"
I cant answer as a physician, but I am an R. N… You are correct. Physicians do NOT wear their labcoats outside of the hospital or office. This is a GOTCHA. I also do NOT know of any of my physician associates who support Obamas health plan.
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Someone needs to find out who these whitecoats are and prove that they aren't doctors at all, calling Michelle Malkin.
Lets say that all of these people are really doctors. SO WHAT! We the people don't want this healthcare plan. We don't want socialized medicine. I wish he would just give up and go away.
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well i m not saying they are not actually doctors, but i will venture to say they have some political or monetary reason for parking their "whitecoated clad butts" on a chair outside for a "set up" media-op for the public option health care issue for obama. no question about it.
it looked like a set up because it was a set up, how dumb does he think we are.. beyond that , how dumb must some people be that actually buy that stuff?
Thanks Jon for keeping things light-hearted. If you can't laugh a little you must be a commie.
When docs gather en masse to protest or rally around a cause, they tend to wear lab coats, like this gathering of anti-Obamacare doctors did last week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH0eR–b6cY
Physicians do NOT wear their labcoats outside of the hospital or office
+a million
I was married to a doctor and spent countless hours around them, and when I saw that picture I just thought "HOLY SH!T I'm living in the new soviet union."
i am an RN, and i oppose obamacare.
i have see, first hand, the massive corruption in medicaid and medicare -
Jon – you're kind of a genius. Thank you for making this video – it's so powerful and true. I think most of us thought the same thing when we saw Will Ferral's ridiculous PSA. Sadly, many of these Hollywood puppets are not kidding… I'm sharing this with everyone I know.
Just Act would be a great start for Hollyweird . Where are the John Wayne types ? We are Americans and by god we should be proud of that .
Good video. Is that Nancy Pelosi on a hospital bed (16-18 seconds in)? Will face-stretching be government funded?
Turn a doctor into a blue collor worker and the unions will be over.joyed, you on the other hand will not..Many doctors are leaving the medical field by retirement and others will relocate off shore and you will be flying to their new office to save you from the Grim Reaper.
A government that could not run a house of prostution ,which sell alcohol, cannot be trusted with American health care.
Please show me where the line forms behind the members of Congress and the members of the presidents family.
Vote in 2010 like your life depends on your vote.
I decline to submit and I refuse to allow my civil servents to run my life.
Brilliant video. When we want an actor's opinion, we'll let him know. Otherwise, they should just say what they're paid to say.
Either that, or preface every psa, commercial, sound bite, video clip, etc with the disclaimer that appears before the Interpol warning on dvds: "The commentaries expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone, anywhere, at anytime. We're just actors. We don't know what we're saying half the time."
point taken, however those doctors assembled of their own free will without the push of the federal govt behind them.
when the govt puts a press conference together to "answer questions" (read: sway the public) about a national agenda and has "in the bag" professionals neatly costumed in the audience it sets a very bad precedence. the very fact that ALL the members of the audience were "in favor of" the obama plan in the first place is disturbing let alone the fact they were all costumed. the truth is the public option is polled very low, and doctors dont like it either, at least as much as the general public. I suspect they like it less, but that is my opinion. i have yet to see president obama answer any substantive questions about the tough counterarguments of his "plan". having a sea of whitecoats and friendly audiences is far from being intellectually honest with the country about the issue and the debate.
and really, he is the president of the united states, why does he stoop to such displays of obvious marketing ploys. it is beneath the office. his cronies could dispatch a crew of white coat docs to "march for him" on their own some where, not the whitehouse lawn during a presser with the POTUS bullying the citizens… shouldn't his "plan" stand on its merits, not some dufus marketing schemes?
Hilarious!!!!! Well done Maura, Andrew and Jon David!!!!!
Now that was even funnier than Farrell's acting.
IBD Natl Poll: 45% of US doctors to consider quitting or early retirement for several reasons if Obamacare passes. We will be WAITING for our care when fewer doctors are too busy. http://bit.ly/QhIOG
My Dad is a real doctor. He has been one of almost thirty years now. We were in DC on the Thursday before the 9/12 march. There were at least two or three hundred doctors at this anti-healthcare rally. It was on the capital lawn. However, they didn't get nearly the coverage that these will get. There were three former doctors turned congressmen from Georgia that were there. Greeley, Price, and Black… I think.
“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson
"Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism." — Vladimir Lenin
The marxist doesn't have to give up ever. He has "right" on his side.
Jon David. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. AGAIN. Who are you dude?
Can't wait to see what you come up with next. Hurry up, before Obama shuts
this site down!
But what Katie didn't mention is Pawlenty's position on health care. Right now, I suspect that it will define the 2012 Republican primary battle, at least in part. And chances are it will give the Minnesotan a significant boost—whether or not it should.
Here's my thinking. In all likelihood, Congress will pass health-care reform legislation sometime before the end of 2009. The plan will inevitably become the GOP's bête noire—the "overreaching," "unpatriotic," "Stalinesque" monstrosity trotted out by every Republican presidential hopeful as Exhibit A in their case against Barack Obama's "new socialist world order." The question is, which GOPers will be making this case–and how credible will they be when making it? As Politico notes, "many establishment Republicans [believe] that Pawlenty is becoming the sole viable alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney"; in this theory, Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin are simply too divisive to be electable.
Health Care: Pawlenty's Secret Weapon in 2012?
Andrew Romano
Today in "Breaking News That's Been, Like, Totally Obvious for Months Already": Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the former veep hopeful and recovering mullet victim, wants to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Now, maybe it was the steady stream of television appearances that tipped us off. Or the increased presence at out-of-state GOP fundraisers. Or even the sleek new haircut. But for some reason, when we read over at Politico that T-Paw "has been quietly assembling the blueprint of a presidential campaign and will announce Thursday the support of a group of high-level political strategists and donors, complemented by a handful of top new media consultants," we weren't exactly surprised.
Normally, we here at Gaggle HQ would be the first to argue that blabbering about 2012 in October 2010 is a bit premature. But Pawlenty's recent maneuvers may actually have a lot to do with the issue at the heart of this season's political slapfest: health-care reform. Earlier today, my colleague Katie Connolly ably summarized the governor's pluses and minuses as a potential GOP standard-bearer. On the upside, he's a bright, well-liked team player with blue-collar roots who has proven he can win Democratic turf; on the downside, he's an unfamiliar (and somewhat bland) face with little national experience—and even less money. But what Katie didn't mention is Pawlenty's position on health care. Right now, I suspect that it will define the 2012 Republican primary battle, at least in part. And chances are it will give the Minnesotan a significant boost—whether or not it should.
Geez, If only the Prez had taken his "labcoat brigade" to Copenhagen, Chicago might have finished better than fourth (out of four) in the voting. The "Wall Street Journal" posted an editorial today written by three past presidents of the AMA. Guess they weren't invited to the rose garden.
Want to fix healthcare?
Cut Medicaid/Medicare fraud, waste and abuse.
Tort Reform. File a frivilous lawsuit and you might have to pay for losing.
Insurance Portability. Yep, just like buying auto insurance online, from any state.
Pawlenty's position on the present health care reform…
Yep, got that one here:
http://bit.ly/MTbcB
That would be the one where he compares the bill with a manure spreader in a wind storm. One sided bill.
Our health care needs work, but it doesn't need the one-sided or even two-sided-with-lobbyists-input type choices. We need reform that actually reduces costs, leaves the care choices between the doctors and the patients, and greatly reduces waste, fraud, malpractice, tort claims, and abuse. We don't need the Federal Government becoming the controlling factor in it when they cannot even do the logistics for or timely pay off the dealers in the Cash for Clunkers program of a few thousand vehicles. Imagine them attempting to timely manage hundreds of millions of health claims or requests for care. We also don't need the Federal Government yet again finding an excuse to manage something that Constitutionally should be left to the States. What both parties fail to realize is that the game is up. The citizens have woke up to being duped – they aren't being represented any longer and the debates are more about which companies get financially stroked and thus which politicians get re-election funds versus actual reform that benefits We the People. If the health care plans were so wonderful, then Congress wouldn't step all over themselves OPTING OUT of THEM using their own wonderful new programs.
Is it true that Max Baucus cited technical difficulties as the reason why the proposed health reform bill could not be posted online prior to a vote? And these are the folks who want to run health care? Our representatives often don't even get 72 hours to preview a bill, much less the American public. Is it true that numerous bills such as cap and trade and the stimulus were posted only hours before representatives were required to vote? Why aren't more elected officials, right or left, making noise about this?
Excellent video. Hollywood needs to stop insulting America, and go back to making movies. They're not getting any of my families money and haven't been since before the election. They might not miss my money, and I don't miss their tripe.
Slow down and get it right. Take a year or so and have the doctors, patients (aka: We the People) put together the bill. Then let the chips fall where they may. Leave out the politicians except to enact the bill made by US…WE THE PEOPLE. So what if it takes a year or two…GET IT RIGHT!
Jon, that was funny!
I don't know. How dumb did they have to be to vote for him?
Nice and concise.
Why is everybody not discussing that this is one of the best responses to the Hollywood left ever? What I wouldn't give to see the look on Will Ferrell's face if I saw this. Sending it to everyone I know. Great work! Never saw it coming
I don't give a damn if he brought out a thousand doctors, I don't want to be put on to a public option. If I did I would have gone a knockin' on medicades door when I got disabled. This thing is a death nail to all private insurance, not to mention another whole in the ocean to pour money into.
150 doctors in lab coats on the White House lawn. Did no one in the administration say, "Monty Python"? Can they really be this clueless?
The real doctors showed up at the Million Med March. The doctors you see today were already Obam=uh supporters, listed at doctorsforobama.org.
So let's get this straight. Obama shows up with 150 doctors today (dressed in their little white coats, unless you might miss the point) and says, "nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do." But he ignores the Million Med March.
The only thing more pathetic is that some weak brainers will buy what he's shilling.
Another famous Will on actors:
"Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath." –William Shakespeare
Somebody please lead Will Ferrell and his merry band of village idiots to the vegetable garden.
Jon David…you've nailed it.
Yeah but Farrell can't even act really…everything he does is the same character with few variations. But I agree Jon David…just act…if someone is dumb enough to pay for it.
You know I thought I saw purple t-shirts under those coats! Maybe they were "bussed" in if you know what I mean. wink, wink!!!
"Doctors For Obama" Join President On White House Lawn to Push Obamacare
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/doctors...
Obama met with a group of doctors on the White House lawn today. What the media won't tell you is that the doctors were former members of the "Doctors for Obama" organization.
FINALLY! and perfectly spelled out…..I've seen the other responses attempting to make Ferrell look like an ass. This one succeeds with flying colors.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/doctors...
"Doctors For Obama" Join President On White House Lawn to Push Obamacare
Obama met with a group of doctors on the White House lawn today. What the media won't tell you is that the doctors were former [http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/05/11/gvbf0... members of the "Doctors for Obama" organization.
150 doctors including supporters from Doctors for America, the former Doctors for Obama organization, assembled on the White House lawn today for a dog and pony show with the president.
FOX News reported:
The doctor made a White House call Monday — 150 of them, in fact, all costumed in white hospital coats — to try to help President Obama administer a booster shot to his ailing health care reform drive.
White House spokesman Reid Cherlin described the assembled physicians, from all 50 states, as the best voices for reform because they witness the current health care system on a day-to-day basis.
"These folks know better than anybody about what works and what doesn't," Cherlin told FOXNews.com, adding that the physicians come from "a variety of groups that we work with."
But the doctors in the Rose Garden were all supporters of health care reform — and the invitation-only guest list drew heavily from Doctors for America, a grassroots organization that backs a government-run insurance option.
Roughly 98 percent of the group's 15,000 members support a public insurance option, Doctors for America spokeswoman Megan Smith told FOXNews.com. She said roughly 40 of the 150 doctors who attended the meeting were from the organization.
Cherlin insisted that the doctors "were not invited based on their support for a public option."
Yeah right.
You guys should be doing political adds for the party. Amazingly serious, funny, poignant, and right on mark.
Oh how I hate when Hollywood weighs in on issues they nothing about…I agree with the comment above, this succeeds in making Ferrell look like a gigantic horse’s a** in the most clever of ways. The serious nature of the issues in the first half juxtaposed to the others was brilliant. Well played guys.
you gotta be kidding, me they wearing labcoats. oh god
Will Will Ferrel give up his millions to help the rest of us? I don't think so. The very first place to implement socialism should be Hollywood. Equal work and equal pay.
Or worse than Hitler.
Do you think President Hu will care about our right to health care when he comes to collect the money China will loan us to pay for it? A contract is only as strong as the entity backing it, and right now the US is in no position to make trillion-dollar guarantees.
Remember all…. "That's why they call it , ACTING!!"……just a show for all to view………no more, no less……
simply just staged PR at its best………………..they are Masters at manipulating the freeform propoganda press…..
don't watch what they say, but what they do……like Obama, when he says a lot; but does nothing………….SNL
odumbo must think people are stupid if he thinks most people havnt already asked their doctors what they thought about this ponsi scam like duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
__ The audacity of Jon David to question an actor. These are very special people imbued with knowledge of all subjects well beyond the ken of regular people.____This was truly brilliant and demonstrates less is often more.
"JUST ACT" IS THE ANSWER TO THE OMNISCIENT FOLKS OF HOLLYWOOD.
Dr Howard… Dr Fine…. Dr Howard… Dr Howard… Dr Fine…. Dr Howard… Dr Howard… Dr Fine…. Dr Howard… Is anyone there? If healthcare passes, there will be millions looking for a doctor… Dr Howard… Dr Fine…. Dr Howard… Dr Howard… Dr Fine…. Dr Howard… Dr Howard… Dr Fine…. Dr Howard… Is anyone there?
JON DAVID truly has thoughtful insight into America, it's meanings and it's politics. From "Dating a liberal" to
that great song, " American Heart" to this video which is not only a rebuttal to Farrell but much of Obamawood.
JUST ACT
Or a racist
Да уж, прочитал статью, автор, а Вы где взяли эти выводы и цитаты? Если это Ваше мнение, то Вы просто гений.
I don't think they were Doctors in white lab coats. I think they were Obamas Lab Rats…….
I saw a photo of the guy from NEA (Yosi?) with Obama and the NEA guy had on a shirt with "OBAMA IS MY HOMEBOY" emblazoned across the front. That's what the doctors should have been wearing. Or maybe Obama could have worn a tee with "THESE DOCTORS ARE MY HOMEBOYS" on the front and back.
This is really SO funny! A bunch of doctors in white lab coats. which they would NEVER wear except while working. What a set-up!
I have been in administration at my hospital for over 30 years. I know a s*#t- load of doctors. NOT ONE doctor I have talked to has supported Obama's idea of health care reform. NOT ONE. PERIOD.
He's not even the best at playing that character! John C. Reilly makes his presence in Hollywood redundant.
Perhaps Mr. Ferrell could help out with an exit strategy in Afghanistan after he fixes healthcare. Great video. Best of the responses I've seen.
Been reading his Weekly Date with a Liberal colums at Big Hollywood. Everyone should check them out and now another dimension of the very versatile Jon David! This is terrific. Showed it to a Doctor friend of mine with no description and burst out laughing.
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I'm getting really tired of a federal government acting beyond their authority as stated in the constitution. The Federal government should NOT be providing healthcare to it's citizens any more than they should be providing cars to them. There are 17 items in the constitution (Article I) that congress has the right to allocate funds for. The 10th amendment provides that any power not granted to the Fed Govt. to the states or to the individual. It's amazing how they can just spend our money willy-nilly in an attempt at redisribution of wealth saying it's their responsibility
But they keep infringing on our 2nd amendment right, which actually is their responsibility.
Hilarious!
"Just Act ?" , If he could he would !
About time we got something new from you Jon! I want to read more about your dates, but good video none the less.
I would suggest the 150 white coats are all from Chicago. Good Lord, since Al Capone ran Chicago it hasn't gotten any better. I think I'd rather see Capone in the White House then this schmuck, if I spelled that right.
Excellent work Jon David… as always!
IT WAS A SET UP< I KNEW IT !!!!!!! LOL
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tricky_doct...
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People like Ferrell have enormous egos and enormous hubris. He knows nothing about policy issues, just like most of us know nothing. The difference is, I"m not making a movie, and telling you what "the truth" is….
Ferrell = idiot = bad actor….
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