Biggest Liar of the Year
Cliff
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/24/palin-im-not-the-biggest-liar-of-the-year/
"Palin: I'm Not the Biggest Liar of the Year"
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On Aug. 10, PolitiFact rated Palin's statement Pants on Fire [its highest--or
lowest--rating]. In the weeks that followed, health care policy experts on both
the right and the left said the euthanasia comparisons were inaccurate. Gail
Wilensky, a health adviser to President George H.W. Bush, said the charge was
untrue and upsetting.
"I think it is really unfortunate that this has been raised and received so much
attention because there are serious issues to debate in health care reform," she
said at a forum on Sept. 3.
Responding to the initial Pants-on-Fire rating, Palin tried to have it both
ways, claiming the phrase was metaphoric and accurate. In a November 17
interview with National Review, she noted that she didn't regret the remark:
"To me, while reading that section of the bill, it became so evident that there
would be a panel of bureaucrats who would decide on levels of health care,
decide on those who are worthy or not worthy of receiving some
government-controlled coverage," she said. "Since health care would have to be
rationed if it were promised to everyone, it would therefore lead to harm for
many individuals not able to receive the government care. That leads, of course,
to death."
"The term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be
taken literally," said Palin. The phrase is "a lot like when President Reagan
used to refer to the Soviet Union as the 'evil empire.' He got his point across.
He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about. It was quite
effective. Same thing with the 'death panels.' I would characterize them like
that again, in a heartbeat."
Not literal, but accurate--as in, well, you know what I mean.
Now Palin is again taking issue with being called a liar. In a new Faecebook
posting, she scoffs at "Nancy Pelosi and friends who have tried to call 'death
panels' the 'lie of the year.'" She doesn't mention it was the neutral
PolitiFact.com that branded her statement the whopper of 2009. And she claims
she has proof she was correct in the first place. The pending Senate health care
bill, she says, calls for an Independent Medicare Advisory Board to find ways to
cut costs. This, she writes, "is also known as rationing." If that's the case,
then every insurance company and health care firm in America is a death panel,
for that's what they do each day: seek ways to trim costs to bolster profits.
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Note that there was no such bill when Palin first started up
with her lies so they cannot be in any based on it.
Hence a whole new level of lies from rethug Palin who
probably gets government or RNC health care gratis anyway.
And that your current health insurance (if any) probably ONLY pays for
things which *medicare* has approved (otherwise not) in the first place.
And that the repubs seem to see a chance to eliminate medicare in total
thru the court systems ..... they hope.
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Cliff
Lib Loo
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Morton Davis
The biggest liar of the year is Obama.