Sarah Palin, Health Policy Expert
10/19/2009 by Peter HartA bit of NBC Nightly News last night, from reporter Mike Viqueria:
But now Mr. Obama faces more friendly fire. After a key committee passed a plan to pay for reform with a tax on high-cost policies, major unions, normally Obama allies, took out full-page newspaper ads complaining that the tax will hit labor hardest and vowing that, without changes, they say, "We will oppose it." And late last night opposition from a more familiar foe, Sarah Palin posting on her Facebook page and echoing insurance industry claims that the latest plan will mean higher premiums, writing, "Unintended consequences always result from top-down big government plans." After being blindsided by insurance industry attacks, the president hit back.
If you were a reporter trying to determine whose views on healthcare to include in the few seconds of time allotted for your story, would you really include a Facebook posting from the former governor of Alaska? Single-payer activists have to get arrested to try and make the news, but Sarah Palin just needs to type.
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October 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Sarah Palin types? And composes her own sentences? Give me a break!
(Let's have a linguistic analysis before drawing such conclusions.)
October 19th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
[...] I have Facebook. Can I be on TV? [...]
October 19th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
"Single-payer activists have to get arrested to try and make the news"
Oh my gosh! ! ! Call Glenn Beck! Single-payer advocates are a bunch of criminals! Quick, get that guy who dresses like a pimp with a hidden camera!
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
The most charitable thing I can say about Palin's comment is:
The most charitable thing that can be said about the health insurers is that 44,000 dead every year from lack of health insurance, and 47 million people without health insurance, might be unintended consequences of private health insurance oligopoly.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Lesser Bonehead: Sarah Palin.
Palin talking about Health Care is like Palin shooting wolves from helicopters. Stupid!
As Forrest Gump said: "Stupid is as stupid does." Such insight!
October 24th, 2009 at 1:49 am
The ship of state sails blindly while the drunken crew parties on,
fighting about who will give the orders…
…and the iceberg creeps closer in the fog…
…while the band plays on…
Maybe it is good we cannot see into the future?
October 24th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Tina Fey strikes again!Palin is a comedian's delight.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Wonder who typed it for her?
October 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
"Single-payer activists have to get arrested to try and make the news, but Sarah Palin just needs to type.
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Maybe if the single-payer advocates were more MILFy.
Great blog.