False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots

The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks. Full Story »

Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - via Jay Rosen, Robert Scoble, Dan Gillmor, MuckRack, Craig Newmark, New York Times (Most Emailed), Drudge Report, Publish2 (Politics)

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Kelly Garrett
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by Kelly Garrett - Aug. 17, 2009

An interesting twist on the fact checking stories that have been published recently, focusing on the origin of the "death panel" rumor. It would have been nice to include responses from more prominent advocates (Beck, Palin, etc.)

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