Ethics

Maddow on Right Wing Lies on Healthcare

By Ed Brayton

Rachel Maddow had an excellent segment last night pointing out that the same people who are lying - yes, lying; not exaggerating, not interpreting differently, just plain lying - about the provision in the healthcare reform bill to provide for counseling on end-of-life decisions have in the past taken the exact opposite position on the importance of such counseling. She catches Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin and nails them dead to rights on the issue. Video below the fold.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).