(H/T Media Matters)
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You know the opponents of health-care reform -- which obviously includes nearly every talking head who appears on Fox News -- are getting desperate when they start trying to scare elderly people by suggesting that President Obama's health-care plans will mean euthanization for old folks when they get hurt. That's what the crew at Fox & Friends on Monday morning did, led by "Fox News legal analyst" Peter Johnson Jr., and aided and abetted by Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson.
You know the opponents of health-care reform -- which obviously includes nearly every talking head who appears on Fox News -- are getting desperate when they start trying to scare elderly people by suggesting that President Obama's health-care plans will mean euthanization for old folks when they get hurt.
That's what the crew at Fox & Friends on Monday morning did, led by "Fox News legal analyst" Peter Johnson Jr., and aided and abetted by Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson.
... lunacy breeds opportunity. The President may need to take a reasonable approach, calmly swatting down rumors at town halls. But the rest of us should be loudly calling attention to just how crazy the health care opposition is, to prevent them from hijacking the debate and distorting what's actually in the bill.
... lunacy breeds opportunity.
The President may need to take a reasonable approach, calmly swatting down rumors at town halls. But the rest of us should be loudly calling attention to just how crazy the health care opposition is, to prevent them from hijacking the debate and distorting what's actually in the bill.