Unhinged from Reality

American Spectator ^ | September 16, 2009

[Steelfish]

Unhinged from Reality

Peter Ferrara

President Obama told the nation last Wednesday night:

Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It's a lie, plain and simple.

The prominent politician who first complained about the death panels in the Obama health plan was Sarah Palin. Later on CNN, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked, "You pull out the dictionary, and the person who tells a lie is a liar. Does the President think Sarah Palin is a liar?" Gibbs answered:

I think that for whatever reason despite many media outlets saying what Sarah Palin said was untrue, she continued to say it. I'll let Webster define what one calls her. I think in the absence of fact sometimes what happens is we fill the void with stuff that quite frankly isn't true….It's obvious and true there aren't death panels.

But people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Calling Sarah Palin a liar was most unfortunate given the speech on health care Barack Obama gave last Wednesday night. In that speech, President Obama accused his critics of spreading "misinformation" and "bogus claims," of "demagoguery and distortion," and of "scare tactics" instead of honest debate. But all of that was most prominently featured in his own speech.

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[Berlin_Freeper]

[ConservativeMind]

The author appears to be an @ss.

These “death committees” exist today in the rationing of organs. 0bama has admitted that a key part of his health approach would be rationing of care, which extends the organ rationing to all other levels, via bureaucrats.

The guy ought to shut the FU.

[rellimpank]

----you need to go back and re-read the entire article all the way to the end sentence--The question you should be left with after Obama's health care speech last Wednesday is how can he possibly get away with spouting such shameless falsehoods to the entire nation?

[San Jacinto]

An excellent article. Everyone should read the whole thing.

[Steelfish]

Yes- a very well written and argued article

[ConservativeMind]

Ah, I stand corrected. The set-aside quote from Gibbs in the original article wasn’t quoted or italicized by the thread poster. I took the remarks from Gibbs to be the author’s own words on the issue.

Apologies to the author!