Ethics

Obama Wants to Kill Old People!

By Ed Brayton

As I've said many times, the right has a serious problem with Obama. The issues they can really go after him about are issues that they mostly agreed with him about, which leaves them having to invent absurd things to criticize. For instance, did you know that he wants to tell old people to just crawl into a hole and die? I didn't either. But the right wing media is relentlessly pushing this ridiculous meme.

The Worldnutdaily has an article entitled Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short'. It's quite a display of hysteria and dishonesty, as one might expect. It's all based on a provision in the House health care reform bill that provides for the elderly to get counseling on how to make sure their wishes are followed in the event of a terminal illness or accident that leaves them unable to communicate their wishes to the doctors.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).