Fox Nation Overrules The Supreme Court On Health Care Ruling

Although Fox Nation likes to boast about how much it loves America "and its ideals," the site is nonetheless trumpeting that the United States' Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Obama's health care reform is "a fraud."

The Fox Nation didn't come right out and say that the ruling is a fraud. But no reader who's been conscious this week could miss the message from the headline and photo of a smiling Justice Roberts, who cast the crucial vote in upholding the law, currently the top story on the home page:

Notice how Fox Nation cagily put quotation marks around the headline, thereby outsourcing and feigning distance from the person who actually said a fraud has perpretated on Americans?

So who actually said that? Not an independent legal scholar but the lawyer who argued the other side to the Supreme Court:

Critics of the majority's decision will say for the foreseeable future that Chief Justice Roberts rewrote Obamacare to save it. Michael Carvin, who argued against Obamacare before the Supreme Court, noted dryly, "I'm glad he rewrote the statute instead of the Constitution."

Carvin's summary of the Supreme Court's ruling was on target: "What the Obama Administration… thought they were doing was completely unconstitutional; what they lied to the American people about was constitutional.… Unfortunately they got away with that bait-and-switch. A fraud has been perpetrated on the American citizenry."…

The Fox Nation post is a reprint from the conservative publication, The American Spectator whose own title of the piece is the far less inflammatory Roberts Too Clever By Half.

It's Fox News spin 101. Find someone else to say something incendiary to demonize whatever issue or person they're against, promote it as big news and then pretend to just be reporting.

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Joe Waustinski commented 2012-07-03 09:54:47 -0400 · Flag

Roberts did the right thing. I`m sure he could give a big damn with a lifetime appointment if right wing clowns like him. he not only saved Obamacare and HC for all American`s, he saved the court from becoming a certifiable right arm of the extremist Obama haters. With any ruling other than what we just seen the court would have become irrelevant, and so partisan they would never be respected again. They would be no better than the 9%-11% approval the GOP currently holds in congress. The difference we can and will vote the right wing clowns oUT.

Bill Wright commented 2012-07-02 11:49:42 -0400 · Flag

Roberts lacks integrity and character. He gave into political pressure rather than to stand by his convictions. I have lost a lot of respect for him. Hopefully he will find his guts again and quit living by what other people think (i.e.; they may not like me if I vote conservative).

Paul Gould commented 2012-07-01 02:18:15 -0400 · Flag

Civics 101 – The SCOTUS, as one of the three branches of government is tasked with determining if a law passed by Congress is constitutional… nothing says they have to necessarily like a law. Their constitutionally-mandated duty is to review laws.

One would think, from the reaction on the right, that President Obama had just resurrected Eugene Debs, or possibly that WWIII had just broken out.

Here’s a clue, folks… once you actually turn off Fox News and read word-for-word just what the ACA will do for you.

You’ll like it… Honest!

I would deeply wish our resident troll is actually a parody troll, but again, as stated earlier, I have FB friends and even Masonic Lodge brothers who lap up every lie, misinterpretation or gossip… anything to smear the black guy in the big chair… and it’s chilling, to say the least.

mj - the same one commented 2012-06-30 16:45:15 -0400 · Flag

Fox Nation Overrules The Supreme Court On Health Care Ruling

Really? That’s funny — Justice Rush Limpballs declared it unconstitutional two days ago:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201206280011#comments

I’d suppose I should be concerned — but, since the denizens of FoKKKsNation have about as much legal expertise/authority as Limpy . . .

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Aria Prescott commented 2012-06-30 16:06:01 -0400 · Flag

The right falls into two camps on this:

A) Roberts handed Romney the election, while ensuring his (almost identical) plan can be enstated unchallenged.

B) He’s a traitor! Impeach him or we’ll kill him!

You knew Fox News and it’s viewers were gonna pick the one that allows them to advocate violence. Not that Camp A thought their idea out much either, but still…

patrick tolle commented 2012-06-30 15:57:47 -0400 · Flag

In line with the Savage Weiner’s assertion Drudge( that thin layer of shit which settles on the bottom of sludge) theorizes it wasn’t the seizures but the medication he takes to mitigate and prevent them. I’m surprised Fux Noise hasn’t put that forth yet by way of "reporting"on what the drudge has said. That’s the way it usually works on the right one of them lies then ,the other reports and affirms the lie etc.,etc.

truman commented 2012-06-30 15:16:09 -0400 · Flag

The real frauds in this case are Scalia, Thomas and Alito. Despite their oath to follow the Constitution, they routinely legislate their right-wing agenda from the bench. Thomas is the worst of the three as he has the legal IQ of a kumquat.

Joe Waustinski commented 2012-06-30 14:55:08 -0400 · Flag

IMO the right wingers thought they owned the court. Well fools you don`t.

Frank Howard commented 2012-06-30 14:23:38 -0400 · Flag

I am just amazed by the way that the right has turned on John Roberts! It’s a personal example of the Bush doctrine – “If you are not our friend, you are our enemy”

Mark Levine suggested “Roberts owed us.” Michael Savage suggests that Roberts was paid off or his decision is in some way linked to the seizures that he suffered a while back.

What they fail to acknowledge is that Roberts apparently did not like his decision, but it did not let him blur following his oath. The Roberts court shows some integrity (despite Citizens United) in a way that would have never happened were Alito, Scalia, or Thomas chosen Chief Justice.