Thursday - September 15, 2011

Oh Shut Up Already

“Audience at Tea Party Debate Cheers Leaving Uninsured To Die”By Rachel Rose Hartman, Political Reporter | The Ticket – Tue, Sep 13, 2011

If you’re uninsured and on the brink of death, that’s apparently a laughing matter to some audience members at last night’s tea party Republican presidential debate.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul--a fierce limited-government advocate-- said it shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility. “That’s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks,” Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, “this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody …”

“Are you saying that society should just let him die?” Blitzer pressed Paul. And that’s when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of “yeah!” followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer’s question.

Paul disagreed with the audience on that front. “No,” he responded, noting he practiced medicine before Medicaid when churches took care of medical costs--a comment that drew wide audience applause. “We never turned anybody away from the hospital.”

Conservative Andrew Sullivan writing for The Daily Beast’s The Dish Tuesday noted that the United States obligates society to save someone in an emergency room. “America, moreover, has a law on the books that makes it a crime not to treat and try to save a human being who walks into an emergency room. So we have already made that collective decision and if the GOP wants to revisit it, they can,” Sullivan wrote.

Sullivan also decried the audience reaction, writing: “Maybe a tragedy like the death of a feckless twentysomething is inevitable if we are to restrain healthcare costs. But it is still a tragedy. It is not something a decent person cheers.”

Wow, what a weak-ass Appeal To Authority. And since when is leftist swisher Andrew Sullivan a Conservative? He’s about as conservative as Charles Johnson at LGF is these days: NOT.

Talk about media bias. This is just as twisted in it’s own projectionist way as Obama’s jack booted AttackWatch site, his latest creepy, authoritarian nutjob Fight the Smears, rat out your neighbors, CCCP inspired horseshit campaign, which is of course directly linked to a sub page that spreads smears against the Right. Hey, isn’t that ironic???

What a turd. Who, Obama or Hartman? Yes.

I can’t be bothered to fisk the pants off of this bit of garbage and it’s author, so I’ll hand the task over to the pros(e). Here’s Ann:

Liberals are on their high horses about a single audience member at CNN’s Republican debate whom they believe wanted a hypothetical man without health insurance in a hypothetical coma to die—hypothetically.

(Democrats want people in comas to die only when they are not hypothetical but real, like Terri Schiavo.)

I concur with the audience member who shouted “Yes!” This has nothing to do with any actual people in comas—the people Democrats want to kill—it’s just a big “screw you” to the moderator.

Following up on Brian Williams’ showboating questions at last week’s Republican debate about the execution of the innocent and starving children with distended stomachs, this week, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer launched his question about an imaginary comatose man without health insurance.

As Rep. Ron Paul began to discuss the pitfalls of collectivism, Blitzer kept interrupting him, concluding with, “But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?”

That’s when an audience member yelled out “Yes!”—allowing liberals to luxuriate in self-righteousness, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jersey Girls demanded a Homeland Security Department be created because their husbands died.

Normal people are sick of liberals’ emotional stories that play to soccer moms, but always seem to pave the way for disastrous social policies that benefit only left-wing special-interest groups.

Someone ought to calculate the carnage liberals foisted on this country beginning in the late-’60s with their “compassionate” approach to rapists and serial killers like McDuff—consequences that liberals were fully immunized from in their safe, ivory tower neighborhoods. Let’s ask Michael Dukakis to run the numbers.

Regarding Williams’ baby seal question about starving children in Texas with distended stomachs: No one is starving in this country. The only bloated stomach problem affecting America’s poor is a medical condition known as “obesity.”

According to the General Accounting Office, in 2008, the federal government had 18 separate food programs that spent $62.5 billion each year to feed the poor. And that was before the Food Stamp President assumed office.

I would venture to guess that the only children in America who have ever suffered from kwashiorkor, the condition that causes distended bellies, were victims of child abuse—at the hands of the sort of monsters Williams is so opposed to executing.

People aren’t buying the left’s emotional appeals about imaginary victims anymore. The audience member’s “Yes!” was a way of laughing in the moderators’ faces for trying to pull that crap.

PS - What is wrong with the GOP and their bringing in uber-leftists to moderate their debates? Wolf Blitzer? Oh puh-lease. Wassamatter, they couldn’t get Dan Rather? Was there no translator available for Fidel Castro? Michael Moore out of town? Crivens.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/15/2011 at 11:26 AM   
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