Fox's Napolitano on Palin's death panel claims: "legitimate concern from a fair reading of this bill"
August 10, 2009 2:03 pm ET
From the August 10 edition of Fox News Radio's Brian & The Judge:
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Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
The Friday Rush: A series of conflicts
Contrary to media hype, Sarah Palin is very unpopular
~~~~~~~~~ ~Palin ran her own "death panel" in Alaska~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
July 15/2009
Lisa Demer of the Anchorage Daily News has broken a story that adds another scandal to the growing list of scandals that have plagued this administration, and shines the light on Alaska’s very own health care crisis.
Demer’s story centers on the horrendous condition of the Alaska’s state programs that are designed to help its most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and disabled.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements. [snip]
The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs.
Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/15/palins-health-care-priorities-and-alaskas-daughters/
BTW, didn't she say that her family was off-limits?? What happened to that? Ohhhhhhh ... only off-limits when used for political reasons or humor by SOMEONE ELSE! Got it ...
Words of advice in the media stop trying to make Sarah Palin look smart and stop making stuff up!
If you're not eating right now, check out the type of "information" the wingnuts are getting regarding Obama's plan to exterminate babies & grandmas.
Someone woke up on the wrong side of life in that blog. Never you mind that plenty of people already make end of life decisions, for example, my wife and I have not put anything down in writing, or legally, and even though we're both less than 40, we've had the discussion about end of life decisions should one of us get messed up in a car accident, or something like that, so that we both know each others wishes.
Never mind, that end of life decisions, and living wills could also say, "Keep me alive as long as possible NO MATTER WHAT!". These folks seem to think making these decisions means you sign a DNR, and that's it. Truth is, many older folks, my grandparents included who have all passed away now, did sign DNR orders. Why? Because they felt they had had a good life, and if something like that were to happen, they were ready to go.
I loved the section about how Obama was going to make all hospitals take down Christian symbols and things like that. Bearing in mind that no, that would not happen.
People are nuts. And the gall, I mean the absolute GALL of the health care to be able to perform a legally acceptable procedure on a woman (abortion).
These folks have lost their marbles.
Where do these nutjobs get this stuff? Because honestly, it's not based in reality.
Yeah, this would be funny if it was a room full of 10 crazy people, but these are mass emails that are aimed at what must be a substatial part of the right-wing base.
I have a sister who works for an airline, her hubby's military. They're in their 50s, but because they both fly and travel a lot, and are smart people, and don't have children, they have all of these things in order. Wills, real estate, donations, medical matters.
These are simply common-sense, practical legal matters, things that sane people do outside of their superstitious emotional boxes.
I guess I just nailed why these things are so horrifying to the far right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHBvKGmevI
We see such words as presaging many of the fears that are being expressed concerning the plan. We don't perceive these as lies.
Listen for yourselves.
She wants to scare you. It seems to be working. Why don't you try to find some actual information, rather than getting it through the very unreliable filter of Bachmann's mouth?
At the beginning of the clip, Bachmann introduces what she pretends is her subject, the "actual words of Obama's advisors", followed by a quote from Betsy McCaughey. I'm not sure if she was deliberately trying to mislead on this one, but McCaughey is not an Obama advisor, but a shill for the insurance companies.
Here's another MMFA item with some background on McCaughey, as well as some detail on how she and Bachmann are distorting the remarks of Emmanuel.
Bachmann also plays pretty fast & loose with the use of "quote" and "unquote" (a regular Sean Hannity trick). Listen to her, more than once, start with "and I quote..", editorializing that same quote without indicating that she's no longer quoting somebody else.
Your fears may be misdirected.