Howard Dean responds to the media’s response to Sarah Palin’s death-panels-for-grannies claim. This absurd story highlights the danger of trying to provide objective coverage of an issue when one side is clearly lying. Does the media, like the conservative Media Research Center keeps barking about, have to provide the conservative side in this debate? I don’t think so. Journalists are under no obligation to present an academically dishonest argument as anything but a lie. Journalists who do present the “death panel” story as a legitimate issue in the debate over health care reform are doing a disservice to their country.
The Media Research Center, a conservative organization, published this story on their propaganda apparatus called News Busters. It’s more right-wing spin on Obama’s “death panels.” Do conservatives really believe that Obama wants to kill off the sick and the elderly? Perhaps they’re projecting their own desire to get rid of Medicare and let the elderly fend for themselves in the private insurance market, which would result in lots of old people dying. The “death panel” tactic is an interesting one because it will probably succeed in scaring enough people to kill health care reform.
Interesting story over at Muckety about the connections between Erik Prince/Blackwater/Media Research Center/Swift Boaters of Truth and other right-wing groups. Read the Muckety report.
Newt Gingrich defends Sarah Palin’s false claim that Pres. Barack Obama is trying to murder the elderly and the sick with “death panels” on “The Week” with George Stephanopoulos.
The Daily Show poignantly exposes the absurdity of Palin and Gingrich’s claim that Obama would like nothing more than to murder your grandmother in her sleep.
Cyberattacks’ Aftershocks Hit the Web This about the Twitter/Facebook DoS/malware attacks. Twitter has been ripe for this type of attack, so it’s no surprise, and it won’t be the last one.
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