Blogs and Cable are Destroying Obamacare?

There is no doubt many people are very passionate about the direction President Obama is trying to take America. That passion is very evident in the health care debate. Obama said,

"what's different today is that the 24 hour news cycle and cable television and blogs and all this, they focus on the most extreme elements on both sides,"

Blog readers and cable news show watchers are the "most extreme elements" in America? I thought that was ACORN and the SEIU.


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From the video:

"I think that what's driving passions right now is that Health Care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much Government should be involved in our economy, even though we're having a passionate disagreement here, we can be civil to each other and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives..

One last point I got to make Bob and that is I do think part of what's different today is that the 24 hour news cycle and cable television and blogs and all this, they focus on the most extreme elements on both sides, they can't get enough of conflict, it's cat nip to the media right now and the easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame, is to be rude to somebody."