Posted on 08/15/2009 8:03:08 PM PDT by Rufus2007
If you haven't noticed, a lot of media outlets have gotten worked up into a tizzy over the mere mention of death panels. The New York Times got so worked up, it went after a few conservatives outlets by name in its Aug. 13 issue.
"But the rumor [that Obama's health care proposal would create death panels] - which has come up at Congressional town-hall-style meetings this week in spite of an avalanche of reports laying out why it was false - was not born of anonymous e-mailers, partisan bloggers or stealthy cyberconspiracy theorists," Jim Rutenberg and Jackie Calmes wrote for the Times. "Rather, it has a far more mainstream provenance, openly emanating months ago from many of the same pundits and conservative media outlets that were central in defeating President Bill Clinton's health care proposals 16 years ago, including the editorial board of The Washington Times, the American Spectator magazine and Betsy McCaughey, whose 1994 health care critique made her a star of the conservative movement (and ultimately, New York's lieutenant governor)."
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....I expect the NYTimes apologised because they may need friends in the business when they try to get public money to stay afloat.
“...a lot of media outlets have gotten worked up into a tizzy over the mere mention of death panels.”
Yeah, truth is a real bitch. Lotsa people don’t like it.
I found it very interesting that the Senate committee charged with writing the Senate’s version of Obamacare decided yesterday to delete the death panel provision . . . . that Obama has assured us wasn’t in there.
Don’t worry it’ll probably be put back in in committee.
And they will fight to the death to keep abortion in there.
We’ll still be finding stuff in there five years from now that we never knew existed. Liberal federal judges will “find” stuff in there that we never DREAMED existed.
The Big Lie carries no penalties as all corrections come much later and in quite smaller print; like seeds, once planted they begin soon to be as much a part of the garden as the lettuce and beans.
The senate panel deleted the end of life counseling sessions. The so called “death panel” has already been established tucked into HR1 known as the stimulus bill.
It is purportedly to provide comparative effectiveness research to aid the patient and the doctor in understanding what treatments are most effective.
Course, Doctors who are not “meaningful users”(definition is left to HHS Secretary) of the system could be subject to penalties. Given that this is kinda Tom Daschle’s brain child, Zeke Emanuel is on the committee,and Czar Sunstein’s oversight for Obama-I can see why people feel it may become a “death panel”.
Liberal activist judges will put anything in there they please. Whatever the political correctness of the day suggests.
By the way, I wonder if anybody sifted through the death panel sections of the health care bills to figure out how the rats protected their AIDS-infected constituency?
Which in the case of the New York Times is a distinction without a difference.
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