Sarah Palin has taken umbrage with Obama's recent debunking of the deathers' claims. She has a new facebook post about it
Sarah Palin: Concerning the "Death Panels | Facebook
It starts out:
Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these "unproductive" members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.
The President made light of these concerns.
The rest gets increasingly stupid as it goes, but it's a slicker stupidity than the usual Palin output, so I should also blame her ghostwriters for the stupidity.
Why is it stupid? Her argument necessarily depends on assuming your doctor is out to get you. She's saying there is something bad about having a voluntary, direct consultation with your doctor. So yeah, she means you should be afraid of situations where nobody is standing between you and your doctor. She wants us to believe that your personal doctor will be a government death panel operative who will tell you to kill yourself in order to cut health care costs.
While in another breath, she also says these same doctors who are going to kill you to cut costs are going to be initiating consultations with you solely to be able to make more money. The whole thing is Orly Taitzian in its convolutions.
As to what she says about Ezekiel Emanuel, even if Emanuel, someone who has nothing to do with any legislation at all, did in reality make a policy endorsement for actual government empowered panels dictating that your doctor can kill you, there is no such provision anywhere in any bill anywhere that can be construed in any sane way to mean that, and of course she cites no such provision. Yet her previous facebook post claimed exactly that, that there would be a "death panel" where "bureaucrats can decide" who is "worthy of health care."
On one side there's reality, and on the other there's what shows up on Palin's facebook page.
It's all idiotic but it has enough big words and footnotes to impress the low informationers. And for the committed deathers, for whom nothing can sway anyway, it will be seen as just more conclusive proof of their fantasies. And for the cynical voices, among the media and political officials, who know it's all a fraud and push it because they're afraid of honest debate, they can go kindly fuck themselves and leave democracy to those who don't hate it.