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March 18th, 2010
I just saw this story on Yahoo! News: ”State of health care debate: Pundits attack 11-year- old”
Marcelas Owens is an 11 year-old boy whose mother lost her job when she became ill with pulmonary hypertension. She then lost her health insurance and died not long afterwards. He testified about this before Congress, and now the right-wing pundits are out in full force.
Rush Limbaugh had this to say: “Now this is unseemly, exploitative, an 11-year-old boy being forced to tell his story all over just to benefit the Democrat Party and Barack Obama. And, I would say this to Marcelas Owens : ‘Well, your mom would still have died, because Obamacare doesn’t kick in until 2014.’”
Michelle Malkin said: “It’s not clear that additional doctors’ visits in the subsequent months would have prevented her death.”
Why are they doing this? Don’t they have any decency at all? Sarah Palin can complain about reporters “going after her family,” but it’s okay to smear an 11 year old who just lost his mother?
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