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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsOMG! It's the Death Book!
By Ed Brayton
Fresh off the heels of their last successful piece of demagoguery -- death panels in the healthcare reform bill -- the right wing brings you their latest and greatest lie: The Death Book. Not only does the Obama administration want to kill grandma and Sarah Palin's baby, they also want to convince veterans to kill themselves. That was the meme being pushed by Fox News last weekend.
The demagogue in chief on this one was Jim Towey, who started all of this last week with a highly dishonest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he claimed that the VA has a book called Your Life, Your Choices (full text here) that tells veterans that they've become a burden on society and should kill themselves. The lies came fast and furious:
Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).
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