DUmmies and Death Panels.

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LuckyTheDog   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 09:16 AM
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Fox News Tries To Rehabilitate Palin’s Discredited “Death Panels” Smear   
   
As The New York Times reported yesterday, the Obama administration has enacted Medicare regulations to include an end-of-life planning provision similar to one struck out of the health care reform bill after Sarah Palin “touched off a political storm over ‘death panels.’” Palin’s “death panels” accusation wasn’t just a lie, it was PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for 2009. But good ol’ Fox News resuscitated the lie and gave it new life by just “asking” if the new regulations mark the return of death panels. Fortunately, Democratic Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers and liberal pundit Caroline Heldman forcefully rebutted the suggestion.

The possible return of “death panels” was all over Fox News today with segments with such FoxNews.com titles as, ‘Death Panel’ Comeback? Return of Death Panels? and ‘Death Panel’ Deception? The ‘Death Panel’ Comeback? segment, on The O’Reilly Factor, featured Media Matters 2009 Health Care Misinformer of the Year: Betsy McCaughey.

http://www.newshounds.us/2010/12/27/fox_news_tries_to_r...



Great. Like jury duty isn't annoying enough. Now we're going to be called for death panel duty? Sheesh! Darned Gub'mint!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x86946

Reading comprehension is not the forte of DUmmies. Sure Fox News was covering the story.  It was a story from the New York Times.  Death Panels, health care rationing or whatever you call it will be a necessity under Obamacare.

Sal Minella   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 09:24 AM
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1. I don't know about anyone else, but I really dread being called on
   

to decide whether my neighbors are going to live or die.

gratuitous   (1000+ posts)           Wed Dec-29-10 12:32 PM
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5. I'd be okay with it
   
As soon as I move in next door to Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck.

Like that would ever happen. 

[true_blood]

Sal Minella   (1000+ posts)             Wed Dec-29-10 09:24 AM
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1. I don't know about anyone else, but I really dread being called on to decide whether my neighbors are going to live or die.

You can thank the incompetent community organizer for that.

[Ballygrl]

So basically the NY Times is reporting that panels will be convened for people on Medicare to make end of life decisions, something which we've said all along YET they're blaming Fox News somehow for this? why not discuss what the NY Times article is saying?