Don’t Listen to Her, She’s Raving!
The editors of National Review are not at all impressed with Sarah Palin’s “death panel” talk. I’m not terribly surprised, since they seem like a fine group of genteel folks who don’t like bare-knuckles politics.
It would probably have saved them some time, though, if they had written, “Our thoughts on Mrs. Palin’s phrasing can be summed up best in this movie clip Just substitute Palin for the airplane passenger and us for the line of people trying to calm her down”.
Dan Riehl has a few words for them, and I don’t think they’ll like them much, unless “a bunch of 2nd and 3rd generation elitist brats who belong to the Inside the Beltway set” has suddenly become a complement. I think he’s correct, if not a little…well…hyperbolic. Will be get the monkey wrench next?
Andy McCarthy demolished the editorial all by himself, which is a testament to how poorly it was put together. If one man can take apart the work of the entire National Review editorial staff, it’s safe to say they didn’t do their best work.
And they really didn’t. What I got from the editorial is that they don’t like it when conservatives play rough and use hyperbolic language, even if its only a little bit hyperbolic, but they never quite summoned the courage to say that. Instead, they tried to explain that what Palin wrote wasn’t merely hyperbolic but incorrect. Their argument would have been a lot stronger had they not admitted right at the very beginning that she was correct, even if they didn’t do so explicitly.
I also think it’s telling that none of the editors have chosen to defend, or even comment, on McCarthy’s rebuttal in The Corner. If someone had taken a good strong shot at something I wrote, I would at least have acknowledged it. So far today, not a peep. It makes me wonder if their heart really wasn’t into bashing Palin. If that’s true, I have to ask why they bothered.
UPDATE: Stacy McCain is looking for the Rich Lowry Firing Pool.
Lowry’s stayed too long at the dance, and people are getting sick of NR being the official Mitt/Jeb 2012 campaign journal, repeatedly slagging Palin and the grassroots. We’re in the seventh inning, the home team’s down by three, the starting pitcher just walked the bases loaded, and I expect to see the manager make his way to the mound and signal to the bullpen any minute now.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Conservative of the Year, Sarah Palin
- So Long Sarah, but Not Goodbye
- The Left is Yelling About Palin Because They’re Afraid. Again.
Category: Conservatism, Health Care Craziness
This is just stupid, but if she can lie, so can I. The Republicans want to bankrupt you and your family by forcing unnecessary treatments on your grandmother. They want to keep your grandmother brain dead but with a pulse until the the day all of your family runs out of money. And then they want the government to support this brain-dead body for all of eternity. But that's not a lie, is it? You guys wanted Terry Shiavo's brain dead body kept alive forever. You really did. And you want everyone trapped in a coma to be forced into that situation because you enjoy torturing people. You are all just sadists. I've been in coma and I damn well don't want to do it again. But you'll deny me care until I get there, and then force me to be accept care against my will. And that is the truth. And that is why I'll put a gun to my head before I ever let you people get near me. I don't want to be trapped in the decades of hell you want me to be in, I'll just shoot myself. You people are crazy enough to think that a coma is really fun. I know otherwise. I've been there, and it's really not cool. I'd rather have twelve colonoscopies in a day. That's why I have an advanced directive (that you want to be illegal) that if I'm out for a week, I get potassium chloride. I'd ask for heroin, but that's asking too much. It's legal to kill someone, but heroin is an enjoyable drug, so it can't be used to kill someone. The weird thing is that you must make it look like an accident. Medical malpractice is perfectly legal under criminal codes, so 'accidently' killing someone is fine. But you have to use something that won't show up in a tox screen. So Potassium Chloride it is. Or maybe insulin. No doubt you guys will fight against my wishes and try to bankrupt what's left of my family. But I got news for you, on my death, my money goes to my adopted son in India. And I'll transfer it to him before I die. Try getting that money, you fucks. And when I'm close to dying, I won't be anywhere near this country. I damn well don't want you freaks keeping me alive against my will. And I know damn well you'll try if there's any money left. I know what you tried to do to Terry Shiavo, and you will not do that to me. You are sick people that believe that life only exists when the brain is not alive. You think that life starts at conception, ends at birth, and then starts again when you're in a coma. Those are all situations where death is preferable. And I won't ever let you people interfere with my process.
She's not lying, of course.
You really do need your own blog or you need to start paying me for providing you with so much darned bandwidth. You write longer comments than I do blog posts most of the time. Be courteous and stop leeching.
Here's a very good article on why she was not lying – except it isn't in the Health Care bill.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/death_pane…
I don't think I have ever seen a post title, apply so aptly to a comment.