08-20-2009

Who needs Death Panels: The Wall Street Journal reports that this program amounts to a high-pressure sales pitch for refusal of treatment for veterans

Glenn Reynolds: PROTECTING THE RACIAL NARRATIVE: MSNBC Edits Clip of Man With Gun At Obama Rally To Hide That He’s Black. “Never will you see a starker example of MSNBC getting away with the sort of deception for which Fox News would be pilloried, especially in the context of race.”

Jonah Goldberg: The president and his supporters are blaming the wrong people for his healthcare woes — they should look in the mirror…Lashing out at the town hall protesters, playing the race card, whining about angry white men and whispering ominously about right-wing militias is almost always a sign of liberalism’s weakness — a failure of the imagination.

Tom Maguire: So let me get these messages from TimesWorld straight – even though in April Obama said he expected the final health care legislation to include panels to review end-of-life treatment with an eye towards cost control, rumors that Obama would support such a thing are utterly false. However, its a great idea…Can I sue for whiplash?

Richard Fernandez: Howard Dean remarked that the debate over health care reform “is over” and that the Town Halls are all about anger from people whose time is past. Maybe it is. But which side won and whose time is past? Maybe that’s yet to be determined also.

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