Fox News Tries To Rehabilitate Palin’s Discredited “Death Panels” Smear

[LuckyTheDog]

As The New York Times reported yesterday, the Obama administration has enacted Medicare regulations to include an end-of-life planning provision similar to one struck out of the health care reform bill after Sarah Palin “touched off a political storm over ‘death panels.’” Palin’s “death panels” accusation wasn’t just a lie, it was PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for 2009. But good ol’ Fox News resuscitated the lie and gave it new life by just “asking” if the new regulations mark the return of death panels. Fortunately, Democratic Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers and liberal pundit Caroline Heldman forcefully rebutted the suggestion.

The possible return of “death panels” was all over Fox News today with segments with such FoxNews.com titles as, ‘Death Panel’ Comeback? Return of Death Panels? and ‘Death Panel’ Deception? The ‘Death Panel’ Comeback? segment, on The O’Reilly Factor, featured Media Matters 2009 Health Care Misinformer of the Year: Betsy McCaughey.

http://www.newshounds.us/2010/12/27/fox_news_tries_to_rehabilitate_palins_discredited_death_panels_smear.php

Great. Like jury duty isn't annoying enough. Now we're going to be called for death panel duty? Sheesh! Darned Gub'mint!

[Sal Minella]

1. I don't know about anyone else, but I really dread being called on

to decide whether my neighbors are going to live or die.

:sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

5. I'd be okay with it

As soon as I move in next door to Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck.

[Sal Minella]

6. Hadn't thought of that.

But I doubt I'd be allowed inside their gated communities for anything but cleaning crew, and the Beck/Hannity Upper Crust would never live in my neighborhood of humble little homes.

But obviously, deciding who deserves to live and who doesn't would be much easier in some cases than others, yes . . .

[Supersedeas]

2. the best news that BigPharm, BigInsurance, and BigMed Profits can buy

[spanone]

3. faux is journalistic cancer

[JuniperLea]

4. Well said...

:thumbsup: