After a couple weeks of silence, Sarah Palin is back. She put a posting on her Facebook page about health care reform, and it’s a doozy.
In a new posting on her Facebook account, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) made a dire statement about health care reform — that it could result in an Obama-created “death panel” killing her infant son with Down Syndrome:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
So, now, not only does Barack Obama want to kill your grandma, he also wants to kill Trig Palin. So, will the media cover this as a he said, she said story or will they finally start doing some real fact-checking and pushback. I can not believe the irresponsibility of Sarah Palin on this one.
It’s irresponsible statements by politicians like Sarah Palin that are going to lead to violence. In fact, some protestors are already planning violence.
Based on the news that health care events are edging into violence, an anti-health care reform protester in New Mexico named Scott Oskay is calling on his hundreds of online followers to bring firearms to town halls, and to ‘badly hurt’ SEIU and ACORN counter protesters.
Update: Watch this video of Rachel Maddow’s interview with Frank Schaeffer. Schaeffer is one of the original founders of the religious right who has now repudiated the movement. He says people like Beck and the astroturf groups are basically putting a loaded gun on the table and calling for assassination. He thinks that certain “white middle-aged men” (his words) have suffered a mental collapse.
