Stupid Is As Faux News Does

Fox News host Megyn Kelly teamed up with one of the network's "legal analysts" to bash John Edwards and others who are criticizing an insurance company for dragging its feet in approving a potentially life-saving liver transplant for a now-dead California teen.

The segment also featured a defense attorney, who defended Edwards and the family of 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, but the segment was heavily slanted towards defending insurance company Cigna and tying the Democratic presidential candidate to ambulance-chasing trial lawyers.

Defense attorney Rachel Kugel spoke for about 50 seconds of the five-and-a-half minute segment, according to a rough estimate. Fox News Legal Analyst Mercedes Colwin received more than twice as much talk-time to admonish Edwards and stick up for the poor, demonized insurance company.

"How irresponsible of Edwards to exploit this situation for his own political gain," scolded Colwin. "Cigna did their due diligence."

Kugel pointed out that the company eventually relented, amid heavy protests from nurses unions, and agreed to pay for a transplant for Sarkisian, whose liver had failed due to treatments for relapsed leukemia. The company's decision came too late, though, and Sarkisian died late last year.

Here is just another example of how unbalanced Fox News is in reality. I could care less that they are bashing John Edwards. That to me is irrelavent because would you expect higher standards from an ultra right wing opinion outlet. Folks...I call it Faux News for a reason. A true journalist does not inject their opinions in a story such as Megyn Kelly does here. Not to mention I can't believe that anyone would have the audacity to defend an insurance company as if they are really looking out for the patient. Right! How many times do people get screwed over by the insurance companies....multiple times every day! The whole fact that a 17 year old girl is dead because an insurance company drug their feet and refused treatment to a patient. That makes me feel good about the state of health care in this country when accountants are telling our doctors how to practice medicine. Lets not worry about whats in the patients best interest lets only worry about the bottom line. I am so in favor of universal health care. It seems to work elsewhere in the world. I don't hear people in Europe screaming that they need to have Cigna covering them.