Sarah Palin's wackadoodle "death panel" fantasy got me (and everyone else in the world) Tweeting the other day. And then the Tweeting got me back on CNN.com.
I've got no format or plan for presenting them to you. They came to mind, got Tweeted, and lived and died as Tweets should. But what the hell, right? It's nearly time for Netroots Nation, and at this point, we're just happy to have something to laugh at.
So here it is, in as naked a form as I can think of: 20 Tweets & a Video on Death Panels:
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In the feverish dream where "death panels" terminate the unproductive in society, Sarah Palin's baby isn't even the first Palin in line.
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OUTRAGE! Palin "Death Panels" will exterminate the merely languid!
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I demand the names of the officials in Palin's "Department of Death Panels"
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I can see "Death Panels" from my house!
5:
Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a "death panel?" Dipstick!
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The good news is that most of the members of Palin's imaginary "death panels" will probably quit, anyway.
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How about in honor the American "death panels," ya quit makin' stuff up?
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I don't believe in the "death panels" until I see a death certificate.
9:
Bush "death panel" kills 4,200 healthy American adults in Iraq. No complaints.
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Never go in against a Wassillan when death panels are on the line!
11:
Maybe she meant "meth panels."
12:
Palin/What's-the-frequency-Kenneth?-guy in 2012.
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OUTRAGE! Health care plan won't cover alien probing!
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OUTRAGE! Health care plan to cover mandatory Muslimification operations!
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3PO! Shut down all the death panels on the detention level! #obamawars
16:
I'm thinking of death paneling the kids' basement playroom. Maybe oak.
17:
As a bipartisan compromise, rather than death panels, I propose some kind of malicious wounding commission.
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More disturbing, still: Obama's wedgie panels.
19:
Death panels really is a horrible messaging mistake in terms of marketing them, isn't it? Should be USA PATRIOT Panels.
20:
I'm changing the name of "preexisting conditions" to "butterscotch." Problem solved.
And it was with those Tweets in mind that I went in to do CNN.com's "Live" show again.
Twenty minutes is a long time to sit there and smile about something as ridiculous as whether or not Sarah Palin was out of her mind in cooking up these "death panels." She was. End of segment!
But to smile through it, too? Thankfully, our good friend Gina Cooper was there too, to deliver the message of what health care reform actually is about... at least on this planet. Though I must admit, it gets easier to smile through it all when you have someone trying to play coy the way Matt did. Oh, it's unfortunate! Oh, she might have gone overboard. And I'm not saying it's as she says. But... gee whiz, it's such a legitimate concern and all.
All very amusing, if not particularly good for, you know, America and stuff.