Freeriders or Freeloaders

[rcfieldz]

still hunting

I've tried to find links and possible videos but could not. To my recollection Pelosi and Becerra both used the term on Sunday news shows they appeared on. So if I can find them I will post links. The web is so cluttered with stuff it's very difficult and time consuming to do so.

 

[daredelvis]

I've tried to find links and possible videos but could not. To my recollection Pelosi and Becerra both used the term on Sunday news shows they appeared on. So if I can find them I will post links. The web is so cluttered with stuff it's very difficult and time consuming to do so.

Here, I will unclutter it a little for you.

5. Is Rush Limbaugh playing his audience for suckers by trying to sell them on the notion the use of these terms is some kind of smear campaign?

Yes.

Thank you Nova Land.

Daerdelvis

 

[Nova Land]

I've tried to find links and possible videos but could not. To my recollection Pelosi and Becerra both used the term on Sunday news shows they appeared on.

In the OP you said you heard them make these comments. If so, then it might be possible to simplify the search a little.

1. Do you remember which Sunday it was you heard the comment? Write the date down. (I'm guessing it was July 1.)

2. What Sunday news shows did you listen to on that Sunday? (Make a list of these.)

3. Go to the web sites for these programs and check the guest lists for these shows on that date. Which one(s) did Pelosi and Becarra appear on?

4. When you've located the shows you watched which had Pelosi and Becarra as guests, check the site for these shows to see if a transcript is available.​

That's if you actually heard the comment yourself, as opposed to hearing someone else such as Rush Limbaugh describing the comment or playing back an excerpt of the comment. If you didn't actually hear the comment being made, but heard instead an edited version from someone like Limbaugh, you should still be able to find the original:

1. Do you recall the opinion program on which you heard the edited excerpt?

2. If so, and if it's a national program such as Limbaugh's, go to the program's site and do a search for "Nancy Pelosi", "Xavier Becarra", or "free riders". (Of these, Xavier Becarra is probably the best item to search for. She's not that common a topic of discussion, so if you get a hit for her it's likely to be about this.)

3. Look up the transcript. Does it tell where the program host found the item? If so, you now know where to go to look for item so that you can hear it for yourself, in full and in context.​

[It's quite likely the source for the Pelosi comment is Meet The Press, July 1 2012.]

 

[Nova Land]

[It's quite likely the source for the Pelosi comment is Meet The Press, July 1 2012.]

And it's quite likely the source for the Becerra comment is Fox News Sunday for July 8, 2012.

Both Tom Price (chair of the Republican Policy Committee) and Xavier Becerra (chair of the House Democratic Caucus) were guests during one segment; John Roberts hosted. Price said: "[T]he American people, whether it's a penalty or a tax, what they know is that they're going to pay it..." To which Becerra replied:

One percent of Americans... It's only those Americans who decide to be irresponsible and be freeloaders. You don't pay the tax. Tom, you won't pay it. John, you won't pay it...

I'm saying it's not a tax. You don't pay this unless you're a freeloader. And you're being penalized if you decide to be a freeloader and ask someone else to cover your insurance.

I note the Becerra comment is from a week later than the Pelosi comment. From the OP I got the impression you had heard both comments about the same time. So it sounds as if you did not actually hear these news programs yourself when they aired, but later heard someone such as Limbaugh talking about these comments. If so, that would help explain why you had difficulty identifying the programs and locating transcripts.

 

[fuelair]

"Freeriders" as I heard used by Nancy Pelosi Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives (D-CA) and "Freeloaders" said by Xavier Becerra Democratic Vice-Chairman of the United States House of Representatives (D-CA) seem to be a thinly veiled slur on a segment of our population. An obvious smear campaign against some fringe element of the Republican party no doubt. Tho unspecific, which I find the Democratic Party to abide or adhere to...Hopefully they can make their reference a bit clearer so that the public can define their intentions.

Sorry, but if they had meant republickers the phrase would have looked much more like "eaters of babies" or "they who take in nourishment through their rectums" or even "those whom truth has never known".

 

[fuelair]

If you or anyone else doesn't know what someone said and where, when, etc. then I can't help you because no matter what I say to be on this thread will be ridiculed with a disdain for my opinions. And I fail to see answers that prove anything but are nothing more than chest pumping.

Cool. But just to be helpful people tend to be much more likely to listen/read/respond better if you:

1) provide sources for any quotes - or, better post the full quote and the source..

2)explain, not just state as fact, why you think the quote meant or led to what you think it meant or led to.