Answer the question, Tim..
MSNBC's Chris Matthews from Hardball interviewed Tim Phillips from Americans for Prosperity about conservative health care opposition, or 'astroturf', occurring in congressional town hall meetings during the August recess.
Unlike most cable news hosts who let the conservative activists just say no to health care, playing 'Hardball' Chris Matthews wanted to know what exactly in amongst the four 1,000 + bill versions that Phillips' organization objected to. Even more important, what parts of health care reform did they and their anti-health care allies approve of.
Chris Matthews' patience vs. Tim Phillips rhetoric: you hear the talking points (amidst the crickets)? Feel the tension?
Say what? Phillips should have developed better answers to Matthews' questions. If you know health care reform on some level will be passed, wouldn't be more productive to advocate policy adjustments on the margins, rather than extreme tactics such as the verbal (and increasingly physical) showdows occurring at the health care meetings.
In this convo, I'd score it: Matthews 1, Phillips 0.
"Did He Answer The Question?"
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