{"id":6591,"date":"2009-08-21T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/betsy-mccaughey-on-the-daily-s.html"},"modified":"2009-08-21T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T10:36:09","slug":"betsy-mccaughey-on-the-daily-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/betsy-mccaughey-on-the-daily-s.html","title":{"rendered":"Betsy McCaughey on The Daily Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These clips from The Daily Show demonstrate what&#8217;s wrong with this bill. Here you have two people who&#8217;ve read it and they can&#8217;t agree on what it says, the language is so unclear. You may say that their politics drives what they read in the bill and I would agree. They may both be reading into it what they want but if the language of the bill were clearer, they wouldn&#8217;t be able to do that. 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