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 Craig Newmark, MuckRack, Robert Scoble, Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen, Drudge Report, New York Times (Most Emailed), Publish2 (Politics)
Call me crazy but I think the unsupported assertions made in the following quote are irresponsible political opportunism--dare I say...crazy. "Still, one proponent of the euthanasia theory, Mr. Neumayr, said he saw no reason to stop making the claim. “I think a government-run plan that is administered by politicians and bureaucrats who support euthanasia is inevitably going to reflect that view,” he said, “and I don’t think that’s a crazy leap.”"