Ingraham: Obama's "approach to healthcare reform" is "making sure people don't live as long"
July 16, 2009 4:55 pm ET
From the July 16th edition of Talk Radio Network's The Laura Ingraham Show:
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Remember, Laura’s breast cancer was picked up during a simple breast examination by her OB/GYN. She was a dope (her word, not ours) for not going for a check-up for 4 years! The tumor was not even visible on a mammogram! You MUST make sure that you, and every woman in your life does a monthly breast self-examination. Learn to do it correctly, slowly, carefully. If you feel ANYTHING that seems strange or unusual, go immediately to your OB/GYN.
Someone should remind Ms. Ingraham that millions of people don't have her luxury to go have breast exams or even get treatment when they have cancer. Someone should point out to her how morally despicable it is to spend her time scaring people into opposing something that could help them have the same chance she did. Shame on you.
Must be why Sweden has the 7th highest life expectancy (80.63) among UN member states according to the CIA Factbook, Canada the 10th (80.34), France the FIFTH highest life expectancy (80.87). Where does the United States with it's current perfeclty-good-best-health-care-system-in-the-world rank? 30th (78.06). Heck, even SOUTH KOREA has a higher life expectancy than the US.
And this is the CIA's fact book, mind you. The UN statistics are even less flattering to the US.
She then played a clip of Obama praising nurses for providing hospice care. She interrupted the first time she played the clip, then played it again. Then she bleated "SEE? I mean, that's incredible. He wants you to DIE! 'Embrace Death,' he says." (Obama said nothing of the kind, regardless of how many times she played the clip.)
Then she added "Obama wants us to embrace DEATH, whatever happened to appealing to America's fighting spirit?" I have NO idea what she meant by this last "Point," unless it was another chapter in the "Americans are SuperAwesomeAmazing" straw man book of talking points.
Ingraham is just a witless idiot, who knows that her audience is so stupid that she can play a clip of Obama saying one thing, and then claim he said another with perfect confidence that no one will call and contradict her.
These people are really pi$$ing me off.
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From chapter eleven of David Brock's 2002 book "Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative":
In many ways, Laura took the place of a mate. We were out on the town virtually every night together, cohosted several parties and dinners at my home, and vacationed in southern California with the Huffingtons. We shared lots of laughs. Despite her public persona as the voice of Gingrichism, I also saw in Laura glimmers of humanity, softness, and vulnerability, buried beneath all of the role-playing. In candid moments, she confided she didn't believe much of what she was saying on the airwaves. Channeling into our politics our emotional problems (in Laura's case, the pain of a difficult childhood, and her difficult relations with men, whether married or not) we were both trapped in devices of our own making. [emphasis added]