Associated Press declares death panels debunked

Your Hometown Newspaper, Associated Press ^ | 15 August 2009 | Associated Press

[mbarker12474]

Your local newspaper, as has mine, has likely carried Associated Press stories asserting that the notion of "death panels" has been debunked.

Here is a fair-use quote from the lead paragraph of a front-page, above-the-fold, AP story, dated 15 Auguest, by AP writer Liz Sidoti:

"he challenged the debunked notion"

Google on this phrase or "debunked AND death panels".

You will find a large number of media assertions, including some from the AP, simply asserting that the death panel notion has been debunked.

[mbarker12474]

This shows what we are up against.

[mikelets456]

really, I guess they pulled it out of the bill because it was never really in there?

[dirtboy]

Liz Sidoti:

The worst of the worst at AP. And that's saying something.

[A CA Guy]

The press’s views are Obama’s and now there is some government financing of the press.

Shady in every way IMO.

[cranked]

End of debate, huh AP?

But wait, this is the same AP that supports ObamaCare, correct?

Can we get a liberal biased ping here?

[ml/nj]

Well, they're not really panels. They're committees.

ML/NJ

[Enterprise]

"Associated Press declares death panels debunked"

The AP is full of de bunk.

[NativeNewYorker]

AP now carries Soros-financed agitprop on its wires. Sad end for a once-respected outfit.

[pburgh01]

This is all too late for the Obama lovers in the MSM, people learned the facts and they make the connection that lower reimbursement means less Docs doing procedures. The MSM still wants to lecture, we get it you guys don't. Hyperbole is a b*tch isn’t it, when you used it so much during Bush's terms. People are immune to your bleating. Obama looks like a one termer and it's killing them. Stop carrying his water MSM, you guys looking sniveling and pathetic.

[SlowBoat407]

And it’s not really death, it’s denial of life prolonging treatment. Such as food, air, and a lack of suicide pills.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Smoker? Die. Fat? Die. Out-of-Shape? Die. Gramma? Die. Conservative? Heh Heh Heh

You don’t need a panel to do this stuff. It’s easy.

[1000 silverlings]

On Drudge today,it’s reported that British Columbia will cut up to 6000 surgeries, and these are for serious conditions. Some, if not most of these people will likely die. So who makes the decision who does and who does not get surgery? Somebody is, and probably not the doctors. There has to be death panels, that’s just the way the system is set up

[Tarpon]

LOL ... The whole state run media is running in circles.

It’s not about unplugging granny, it’s about getting granny plugged in in the first place.

[mikelets456]

Oh they’ll plug in granny, alright! Into the electric chair....

[driftless2]

Because the panels that would consider treating grandma’s condition do not specifically call themselves “death panels”, this to the AP “debunks” the idea. Go read Mark Steyn and Andy McCarthy at NatReview today to get the lowdown. The government panels that would be set up to consider whether grandma should get treatment or not could indeed be considered death panels if they tell grandma she won’t get the treatment that could save her life. What else should we call them...”might continue your life if we feel like it” panels?

[onedoug]

DEATH PANELS (...by an other name....)

[mbarker12474]

Right. There have always been end of life decisions. These are properly decided by the patient, the doctor, the family, and the patient’s ability to pay, with, if the patient has chosen wisely, money from an insurance policy.

Add government policies, statistics, decision makers, and your neighbors’ funding to the mix, and all health-care decisions, including end-of-life decisions, will become largely driven by these things, and driven less by the patient’s own desires, the doctor’s own abilities, and the patient’s own ability to pay.

Government involvement in health decisions includes government involvement in death decisions.

Middle America will not understand this as long as the MSM has unfettered access to middle America’s world view.

[hemogoblin]

Here's another recent example of Liz Sidoti's relentless, fearless, trenchant Journalism. How long can Obama hold up under this kind of Journalistic pounding?:

In Belgrade, Mont., he opened with this comment: "Here in Montana you've got bears and moose and elk. In Washington, you have mostly bull. So this is a nice change of pace!"

Obama chuckled at the line. But he clearly was at his happiest when he shed his typical dark business-suit for casual wear — a light jacket for Yellowstone, a golf shirt for the Grand Canyon and hiking sneakers for both — and some quality time with his family.

The president was in jovial spirits from the moment he bounded up the Air Force One stairs at the start of his trip, mock-racing his youngest daughter to the top. He appeared to relish his role as a father as he treated the girls to ice cream at a Yellowstone general store and talked with them about different kinds of rocks above the Grand Canyon.

[massgopguy]

According to Ezekial Emmanuel’s “Priority” Curve; little kids at Dana-Farber aren’t.

[mbarker12474]

We must write our local papers and get on their case for blindly carrying AP feeds.

Pick an AP story. Any AP story. Pick a point and let the newspaper editor have it for letting this pass his desk without sanity checking.

Challenge his journalistic credibility.

Do this once a week. Different AP story. Different point of fact or analysis.