how the fuck did Suzanne Sommers get to be an expert on healcare and insurance?

[gopiscrap]

Chrissy of 3's Company had an article in the Wall Street Journal trashing the ACA....when did she become an expert on public health and insurance policy.

[madashelltoo]

1. Santa's next.

[DonViejo]

2. Here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251335199

[mn9driver]

3. Same way the gals on Fox get to be reporters.

That is all.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. My guess is either she's fronting for someone

Or she's using a ghostwriter but doesn't understand ACA.

[arely staircase]

5. thighmaster pitcperson? nt

[arthritisR_US]

6. She isn't. She's just a right wing self promoter and was probably in

need of some cash.

[Archae]

7. Basically the same way Jenny McCarthy became an expert on vaccines.

She said she's an expert.

[dem in texas]

26. She'll probably start selling e-cigarettes, too

Just like ex-Playboy Bunny, Jenny Mccarthy. Running Sommers op-ed diminished the reputation of the WSJ.

[Dr. Strange]

46. Beat me to it.

She went to the same medical school as Dr. Jenny McCarthy.

[Niceguy1]

8. probably rhe same way

Any other celebrities become experts and tells us what we should think.

[onehandle]

9. Has-been millionaires are all knowing. nt

[gopiscrap]

12. good one

[retread]

10. She stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.

[kestrel91316]

11. She's a bubble-headed bleached blonde, and she apparently thinks RW policies RAWK!!!!!

[Autumn]

13. Well she is sort of in health care. You have heard of the

thigh master haven't you? It's a little gadget that makes your thighs healthy. She probably has an exercise video somewhere. And she probably has stayed at a Holiday Express at some point in her life.


nah, she's just doing another paid commercial and writing a script someone wrote for her.

[gopiscrap]

14. I thought the thigh master was a front

for a poultry rendering plant

[Autumn]

16. LOL. It just look like a device for torturing poultry

and other living things.

[marble falls]

15. Same day she invented the thigh master.

[Rectangle]

17. For fucks sake, who's next? Victoria Jackson? Snooki? Gallagher?..........n/t

[gopiscrap]

21. Lindsay Lohan

she's gonna become a consultant on bi-partisanship

[Autumn]

22. The Kardashians will be up next.

[gopiscrap]

23. yup, then Duggers

to talk about the evils of birth control being included in insurance policies

[Autumn]

24. I'm so sick of these asses who have no clue what it's like

to do without health care putting their ignorant half cent in on the ACA. They don't have a fucking clue.

[gopiscrap]

25. thank you I agree

I lost everything I had because of bills due to cancer! I have no patience for those assclowns

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Once an air head, always an.........

That's the part she did best.

[larkrake]

19. maybe because she had breast cancer

[elehhhhna]

20. and sells woo cancer prevention and treatment

via books & appearences

She is the other Jenny McCarthy, for real.

[spanone]

27. two words: rupert murdoch

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

28. Remember, the same Murdoch media said Dixie Chicks, Garofalo, Mike Ferrell, etc

had no business speaking out against Bush's Iraq disaster, because "Why should we listen to a bunch of actors?"

Also: Expect the South Park rightwingers to make a puppet movie attacking Chrissy a week from never.

[gopiscrap]

29. Yeah imagine that? how quickly that shit changes IOKIYAR

[YoungDemCA]

30. Indeed, "Why should we listen to a bunch of actors?"

[Cleita]

31. She's been peddling this alternative medical crap

for over a decade now. She's made some pretty outrageous claims. Now that the WSJ has been taken over by Murdoch, I guess any money making schemes are game.

[MADem]

32. Wall Street Journal--Rupert Murdoch owned; has been dumbed down since he took the helm.

It was always corporatist and conservative, now it's got "Extra Stupid" on the side, to boot....

[gopiscrap]

33. No kidding!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. True that

[longship]

34. It's much worse. She pitches bioidentical hormones.

A couple of years ago she showed up at a hospital ER because she was having trouble breathing and had welts all over her body.

She had been taking her bioidentical hormones, which basically suppressed her immune system to the point that she almost died because of an opportunistic fungal infection. The ER doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong because she didn't tell them she was taking the equivalent of steroids. The doctors saved her life.

She still blames the doctors for misdiagnosing her when she didn't tell them the one crucial piece of information that would have helped them.

Suzanne Somers has a mind untroubled by thought.

[Mike Nelson]

35. Hmm... Suzanne probably has...

...financial interests in health care corporations, now. I'm guessing she's spread her wealth into health-care connected businesses and stands to lose money. BUT, not to worry, she's not headed for the poorhouse! Also, I do believe she wrote that, with some editing/secretarial help... but wrote that piece herself.

[marshall]

36. And who made Jenny McCarthy the czar of autism?

The dumb blonde shtick is hard to shake. Those women who adopt it as a character marketing gimmick find that many people take it seriously.

It's easier for men to shake that stigma, as Senator Franken can attest.

[YOHABLO]

37. I find this pretty disturbing .. I use to be a fan of Suzanne .. but now, forget about it.

She's been on television all week peddling her organic cosmetics, electrical current face lifter .. etc
She comes across as a type 'A' personality .. a little bit of a know-it-all .. her info-mercials are highly filtered by the camera to make her less wrinkled looking. Not that she doesn't do her homework .. she does .. but she's a "business woman'' and cow tows to the holy bottom line MONEY. I hope this hurts her badly. I am sure it won't!

[Va Lefty]

38. Suzanne Sommers in the Wall Street Journal?

Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse?

[gopiscrap]

39. that paper was always a repuke rag but now it's

a shitty repuke rag!

[Dwayne Hicks]

40. Well

She did do infomercials on the thigh master!

[Aerows]

41. She's an opportunistic asshole

that's why she grasping at this particular straw.

[arely staircase]

42. ok yeah I saw that

and made a thighmaster-healthcare expert comment. But that was it. Thanks.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

43. Celebrity status

Okay I know that doesn't make her an expert. The sad fact though is the tabloidization of the WSJ since Rupert Murdoch bought the paper. I used to subscribe to it one of the reasons being was to get an intelligent view of the opposition.

Sadly little intelligence anymore in the publication. One can't even get good business news from it these days.

[cynatnite]

45. She sold thigh masters. That's how. n/t