RedState's Erickson claims purpose of Bachmann rally is "to tell Nancy Pelosi and the Congress to send Obama to a death panel"
November 05, 2009 7:00 am ET by Media Matters staff
From Erick Erickson's November 5 post on RedState.com:
Last Thursday, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) urged Americans to go to Washington today and protest Obamacare. Well, Mark Levin picked up the charge and others joined her.
Today, thousands will pour into Washington to tell Nancy Pelosi and the Congress to send Obama to a death panel (that's section 1233 of the original legislation). If you need details on where to go in D.C. or if you can't go, but want to show up at your Congresscritter's local office, go here.
And Americans owe a huge thank you to Michele Bachmann for sounding the call to action.
UPDATE: Erickson has since changed the text of his post. Below is a screenshot of the original.
People weren't willing to attend on their own, without paid transportation. Let's see how many attendees she actually gets.
But he just couldn't resist pushing the death panel myth again, could he? As I've said many times, they push that nonsense so that we won't discuss the real benefits patients can get from the end-of-life counselling that Medicare will provide and pay for! They have to derail that conversation, or more people would understand the benefits of reform and they would go for it.
Did anyone read the Nicholas Kristoff http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05kristof.html?ref=opinion about healthcare reform? If not, you should.
People like Erick Erickson have to deceive their readers, and FoxNews has to disrespect the truth for their viewers, and Rush Limbaugh has to mislead his listeners on the topic of healthcare reform, since the facts have a liberal bias.
Here's one example from Kristoff's column. The right can't afford to be honest with the American public about this issue, and so they lie about differing health outcomes or death panels.
There is one American health statistic that is strikingly above average: life expectancy for Americans who have already reached the age of 65. At that point, they can expect to live longer than the average in industrialized countries. That’s because Americans above age 65 actually have universal health care coverage: Medicare.
But when people do not even drive to DC and need corporate-funded buses to drive them there --- that is NOT "grassroots"
When Obama came to Portsmouth NH, they bused them in from other states, gave them shirts, signs and lunches, and paid the $15/hr.
Somehow, I didn't see that today... I have never been contacted by an insurance company or any group.
But you can dream.
Bachmann announced this on TV, so what? You have MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNBC and CNN a**wiping Obama and that's fine with you right?
And still no proof that any insurance companies were involved. They have never contacted my state group.
We are not paid by anyone but you can continue in your delusional thoughts. You are lemmings after all.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MT&p_theme=mt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=%20erickson&s_dispstring=%20erickson%20AND%20(%20erickson)%20AND%20date(last%20180%20days)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=last%20180%20days&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("%20erickson")&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no
Sorry for such a long link - it's really just a search results page from the Macon Telegraph site.
I had not heard that Eric has ruled out running for another term. He may be unscrupulous but maybe that shows he isn't completely stupid.
People were willing to fly there on their own and they did. No transportation was provided to them from anyone.
You can spew this nonsense all you want, but it's a pipe dream.
Please read my other posts about CERs. Even though you are stupid lemming, I truly hope you never have to face one from these totalitarian sheet wearing Nazis in the White House!
The question is how crazed do they need to get before the corporate media admits that there is no equivalence on the other side.
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The important part of this story is we have yet another example of a Rightie using violent language directed toward Obama, e.g., "send Obama to a death panel..."
This is now the norm for our country's political discourse. Sickening.
Please debate the FACTS? Can any of you? I'm finding it hard to find anyone who can.. do anything but call names and claim astroturf..
Not one bit of astroturf... I'm sure the insurance companies are not going to spend all this money to pay for people to come to DC.
They did not pay for me.. I've never heard from one or any group.
You people are drunk on socialist koolaid.
Just shut up won't you? You're ignorance and lack of ammunition is showing.
Obama is destroying American for the globalist corporations who own us now, thanks to his help, the world bankers, Soros, Rockefeller and using hoaxes created by the UN's Maurice Strong they've convinced you lemmings that the sky is falling because of the air you breathe so they can take your money and freedoms away.
Perhaps Erick and the teabagging parade of clowns should concentrate on their own house.
Yeah, maybe advocating assassination as a "call to action" was a tad off the mark.
Thank you, RedState.com, for confirming what many of us here at MMfA have long suspected: That Mark Levin is actually a twelve year old girl!
Seriously, the right wingnuts are not good liars, and it turns out, they are not very fluent in their native language either. Mr. Erickson, you could really use an editor just to give your writing the occasional once over. Thanks for not using one. This particular gaffe was priceless!
Republicans used to be disciplined propagandists. Now they've just decided to go 100% for the drooling paranoid demographic.
What is WRONG with these people?
Just imagine you hate black people.
There. Now are you starting to see what's wrong with these people?
A lie.. Not one person was transported there by anyone but themselves...you would love to think they are all employed by insurance companies too... not true
2)Check out CERs... death panels, or Councils, were established, funded and appointed thanks to the stimulus bill.
3)Funny how you sheet wearing progressives keep trying to pinpoint the leader or the party of this movement and you can't. You can't find someone to work your Alinsky Communism on... sad.
Read this and WEEP:
Remember this acronym: CER
The Stimulus Bill was written by the Apollo Group, and unread by our congressmen when they passed it.
According to David H. Janda, MD, orthopaedic Surgeon and author of “The Awakening of a Surgeon” the Stimulus Bill created, Federal Coordinating Council for Competitive Effectiveness Research, a lead rationing board to deny and ration care in direct opposition to the Hippocratic Oath! President Obama has already appointed 15 members and awarded that council an entire center.
According to this government website (the bios of council members are here also) http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html
“Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) can improve care for all Americans and is an important element of President Obama’s health reform plan,” said HHS Spokeswoman Jenny Backus. “President Obama is committed to openness and transparency and the Coordinating Council will host open meetings and a listening session as it begins its important work.”
Comparative Effectiveness Research provides information on the relative strengths and weakness of various medical interventions. Such research will give clinicians and patients valid information to make decisions that will improve the performance of the U.S. health care system.
CER Annual Report-draft
On page 15 in the Vision you find:
“Comparative Effectiveness Research has the potential to catalyze a patient-centered transformation of the U.S. health care system. By equipping patients and clinicians with the information needed to make joint medical decisions, and by optimizing the system in which the patient/clinician team makes these decisions, CER can improve the quality, safety, and value of care delivered while increasing patient satisfaction. [16] By passing ARRA, Congress recognized this vision and the need for CER, and also highlighted the need for an unbiased, cross-functional Council to “foster optimum coordination” of the Federal Government’s CER efforts.”
Nothing scares me more than these sheet-wearing Nazis in the White House who want Soros' utopian managed and totalitarian I might add, society and their friends the Mao-the-Murderer-worshippers.
When wackaloons like this have promised the stupid lemmings so many things and those lemmings fall for it, we have trouble...and we fear the government.
Keep yammering about corporate funded buses, but there were not any... and you have no proof there were.
Sadly you don't mind the OFA/SEIU/ACORN and John Podesta astroturfers who get their money from the Nazi-Enabler George Soros and his TIDES foundation? Or the Rockefeller foundation, one-worlder CREEPOS?
You can yammer all you want about buses and yet you haven't one shred of evidence there were any.
The stupidity and the hypocrisy of the posters here is BREATHTAKING.