Same Tactics New Faces

If you have been listening to the news lately no doubt you have heard this or some variation thereof:

THE TRUTH: THERE IS NO “DEATH PANEL” MENTIONED IN ANY OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM BILLS UNDER CONSIDERATION, AND THERE NEVER WAS.
Former Governor Sarah Palin recently posted a note on her official Facebook page that falsely claimed that, under health insurance reform, a “death panel” of bureaucrats would “decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care.” The truth is that no such panel exists, or has ever been proposed in any version of the health care bills in Congress, that would judge a person’s “level of productivity in society” or determine whether they are “worthy” of health care.
The author of a similar provision, Republican Johnny Isakson, said it was “nuts” to claim the bill encourages euthanasia. Even Palin's home-state Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, after hearing Palin's comments, said, “It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels... Quite honestly, I'm so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn't (in the bill). There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill.”
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Pay attention here the first thing we hear about the health care plan and debate is that it does not contain death panels. That is right death panels as if anyone had considered this notion short of science fiction and thought they could ever get elected again. What the proponents of this bill are trying to do is skew the debate so that it becomes entirely about whether or not the bill will set up a review board to arbitrarily kill the elderly.
They do not want to argue about the benefits and costs of a health care overhaul. they simply want to marginalize the opposition against them. Then that opposition looks frothing mad, shouting voraciously about a an obviously nonfactual statement. Many of the key speakers in opposition to this bill have swallowed the bait and are doing precisely what the people pushing this bill intended. This Argument is a red Hearing, the only purpose is to distract from the real argument about the slow process of socialization of one Sixth of economy.
The same tactic has been used to discredit the way libertarians feel about taxes ( that all taxes are wrong and no public spending should be done). The way that the right feels about abortion( whether or not i is morally wrong in the event of rape). The way that the left feels about National security( That all attacks are our fault and if we were all nicer it would not happen). I know these marginalization techniques work and i believe they are the most harmful type of disinformation out there. The only purpose is to destroy the real honest debate about what is right for the people in the whole.

I find it infuriating and so should you.

Next week more on the actually debate on health care and less on the red hearings.

Oh, thanks freedom for giving me this
outlet we may have our disagreements but
in the end we are on the same side.