Now They Don't Even Pretend. Fox Fabricates 'Death Book' for Vets
By Susie Madrak Monday Aug 24, 2009 11:00am
[H/t Heather.]
Via Media Matters. This is even more shocking than the usual misleading Fox News coverage. This is an outright lie, manufactured by someone treated as credible by the rest of the media. But don't worry, I'm positive it will be covered in depth on all the other networks! (Not.)
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace repeatedly cropped quotes from a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) document to falsely suggest that the Obama administration is pressuring veterans to end their lives prematurely and to accuse Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth of lying about it. In fact, contrary to Wallace's false assertions, the document he referred to does not require doctors to direct veterans to what conservatives have labeled the "Death Book for Veterans."
WALLACE: If I may, Ms. Duckworth, because we have limited time here --
DUCKWORTH: Sure.
WALLACE: Why would a question -- I can understand questions about if you're in an irreversible coma, do you want us to pull the plug. But why -- as I asked Mr. Towey -- why would you even have a question in an end-of-life plan-- counseling book about, "If you're in a wheelchair, if you're living in a nursing home, does that make life worth living?"
DUCKWORTH: Well, I know that before I was injured, I certainly let my husband know that, you know, being in a wheelchair was something that I feared and I was afraid for, but that I also wanted my life prolonged. This is a tool. This is a simple tool that was put into place, as I said, under Secretary [Jim] Nicholson. It was something that was used throughout -- and let me make a correction. We've not used it since 2007, when under the Bush administration, we decided to go ahead and revise it.
This checklist is still under revision on a timetable according to a program that was actually decided on under the previous administration. Because I know that President Bush and Secretary Nicholson and Secretary [James] Peake all valued life. And that's what we're doing, is we're revising it. It will be out in 2010. It's not yet out. So Mr. Towey was not correct by saying --
WALLACE: Secretary Duckworth, that's just not true. The VHA put out a directive on July 2, 2009, and I want to put up two pages from that directive. The first one, Page 8. "Primary care practitioners are responsible for giving patients pertinent educational materials, e.g., refer patients to the 'Your Life, Your Choices' module." And on Page 9, it says if they request more information, "patients may be directed to the exercises in 'Your Life, Your Choices.' "
So, as of July 2, 2009 -- last month, more than a month ago -- VA health practitioners were told to refer all veterans -- not just end-of-life veterans, but all 24 million veterans -- to this document, "Your Life, Your Choices."
DUCKWORTH: Let me make a correction there, Chris. What our practitioners were told is to refer patients to any type of a tool. They can use Mr. Towey's if they want to spend the $5 apiece. VA simply was not willing to buy his booklet at $5 per veteran at the time.
WALLACE: But how do you explain --
DUCKWORTH: This is a decision that was made by the previous administration.
WALLACE: It doesn't say, "Give them access to anything." I mean, in the specific VA booklet -- it's only about 15 pages long -- it specifically refers to this booklet twice.
DUCKWORTH: The only directive that is out there is actually left over from -- I believe it was beginning of 2007, our advanced planning directive put into place, and it is actually very clear in saying that we need to provide veterans with information that they can make on how they want their care.
You know, this ultimately is about the care and health care for veterans, and we're actually expanding benefits for veterans. We're actually trying to get more priority aid veterans to sign up for VA benefits. We estimate it will be another 500,000 veterans coming in for benefits. We are expanding VA benefits to veterans. It is in our best interest to make sure that every veteran out there receives the care and access to the treatments and everything that he needs. Because after all, these are the men and women who fought for us and fought -- and they deserve nothing less than the best care.
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DUCKWORTH: Chris, it has not been reinstated. Let me make it clear: The only advanced directive that we have is dated February of 2007. And it actually encourages veterans to use any type of tool or checklist they would like to. There are many, many good ones out there. This "Your Life, Your Choice" [sic] is widely used out there, not just within VA. There are many others that are out there. And veterans are free to use whatever they would like to use. We just urge them to use them.
WALLACE: Let me -- I mean, I just -- I have a problem here. And often -- too often on these shows, we just say, "One person said, and another person said." Secretary Duckworth, I don't know if we're able in the control room to put up the full screen of the VHA directive, but I'd like you to put up the first full screen if you can.
In the VHA directive of July 2, 2009, it says the following on Page 8: "Primary care practitioners are responsible for giving patients pertinent educational materials, e.g., refer patients to the 'Your Life, Your Choices' module." I mean, it's just there in black and white on the VHA directive of July 2.
DUCKWORTH: Chris, I'm sorry. I can't see that on a monitor in here. I will tell you that I know for a fact that the only directive signed by Secretary [Eric] Shinseki -- I mean, signed by a VA secretary -- was actually signed by Secretary Nicholson, and it's dated February of 2007. What you're looking at may not actually be a directive. So I -- since I can't see it -- I'd be happy to come back and discuss it with you.
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Faux Noise ratings suck because only stupid, uneducated sheep, watch their daily habitual lies. Intelligent people just laugh and have turned them off permanently a long time ago.
Fox is leading all other news programs!
I think most Americans are figuring out that President Hussein's communist helath care and overspending isnt going to work in America!!
since you see yourself as representing Amerika, how 'bout you explain this to me
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed by the Bush administration.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed and took away many of our Constitutionally mandated rights.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war and didn't include that cost in the Bush budgets.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn't get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn't get mad when we let a major US city drown.
You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when.. when... wait for it... when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
Seems like illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all ok with you but helping other Americans... well fuck that.
That about right? You know it is. So how 'bout you go sit in the corner, shut your pie hole and figure out what happened to screw up your mind so completely.
A big standing O for Chicken Little!
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I agree completely with Michelle.... A huge standing O for Chicken Little! Well spoken, and I hope you don't mind if I use your words to throw back in the faces of the mindless idiots who surround me on a daily basis.
Some of those are mine, some I've cut and pasted from other sources.
We've got to start fighting hellfire with holy water. Repeating sensible, factual items over and over again may be the only defense against the lies and distortions told over and over again by FAUX News and the other corporate and ideological thugs.
One thing's for sure, appealing to these characters' common sense and self-interest doesn't seem to be effective.
Good job, Chicken Little - Not. I'm memorizing that speech and looking forward to drilling some bonehead with it!
Do I get second? Holy snap!
Amazing smack down! That is one for the ages.
If you don't mind, I'm borrowing that for future use.
Fox is leading all other propaganda programs.
Troll has to go through all that registration process so it can spout its nonsense...poor whiny troll.
gdcser bush couldn't figure out the overspending stuff. But you were ok with the money going to kill US and Coalition troops, and ruining a few million lives (in Iraq, Afghanistan and the US and coalition countries) were ya, einstein?
your stupidity is legion. I have a special video for you. I hope you can understand it.
A special video for a special kind of stupid
Thanks for sharing, miss kitty.
At my house we say, "Ouch, you just cost me a few IQ points with that remark"
do a piece every now and again I really like. I doubt I could sit through this movie, but I dunno, I could find it pretty funny.
Logan Murphy used it in a post I bookmarked it, and have used it many times since.
If you want to get anywhere intellectually you're going to have to learn to think outside the Fox. It isn't difficult. Just press either the up or down arrow on your remote.
FOX highest ranked program is The Factor, which is a commentary/opinion/editorial show. So technically it is not news.
Furthermore, the ratings of the networks' news programs surpass FOX's cable viewership.
Not that this will make any difference since troll tend to have their own personal vendetta against reality and facts....
can you. many of us here question authority or at least challenge it. FOX is very appealing for those who want the path to least resistance. much of FOX is short/interrupted talking points. it's a culture club following to me. they will get people to vote against their own best interests. i encourage you to LOOK at how much was spent under the BUSH administration. don't be a fool be real. BUSH handed Obama the automaker crisis,unemployment,financial crisis,iraq war, GITMO,aghanistan war,bank bailout(s),foreclosures and HUGE deficit. the health care cost reform is a economic necessity that the right doesn't want because it will interfere with their CHINA portfolio. your too foolish to understand that fact.
Is it communism now? I thought it was socialism.
In the standard political lexicon, communism is the totalitarian extreme of the left and fascism is the totalitarian extreme of the right. The latest meme on the right, anchored by Doughy Pantload's laughably stupid book, is to shift the fascism label to the left, i.e. fascists are really just extreme liberals.
The beauty of this is that the left is then tarred with both of the extremist, totalitarian philosophies of the past century, leaving the right pure and untainted.
Obama is a master multi-tasker because he is also a Muslim socialist, who attended a radical Christian church while community organizing!
Kind of like all things to all people.
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Go back under your bridge, TROLL! You've served master Beck well.
...which fits well with the party of Reagan.
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Dear duprace24,
Why don't Americans deserve affordable health care?
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Even with all the lies, Fox News still couldn't convince enough people in the '06 and '08 electiions.
People watch Fox News for the same reason they slow down their vehicles to view an accident scene.
And once again, people watch Fox News for the same reason they watch primates at a zoo throwing sh## at each other.
Frankly, she should have sent a Medical Director, a physician, who would know the ins and outs of this.
She was refuting an argument that is really beside the point about the dates of the document etc.
If the Medical director had been available, he could have shot down all of Towey's BS based on the merits of his arguments, which were prescious few.
As an intensive care physician and EOL and advance directive expert, I just skimmed through the "Your Life Your Choices" document in question. It's about 50 pages and, the only line that I thought was just a bit iffy was a question about how you would feel if you couldn't "shake the blues."
If this document is shared with a physician early, this is a very good question, as our antennae will go up and make us focus on looking for and treating depression in this person. I can see how a non-physician, like Towey, might not get that and think it is some pseudo-hypnotic way of telling a person that depression makes life not worth living. But that is an ignorant viewpoint.
The other 50 pages are exemplary however. They go into great detail about possible EOL scenarios and flesh out the person's wishes and preferences, which is what we physicians and families desperately want to know when the time comes. It is very similar to what every hospital in the country gives to patients when they enter the hospital, only more detailed.
It is a fine document and should be treated as such and be made more widely available, not less.
The right to die on your own terms is exactly the opposite of having someone else choose for you. The reason people want to have advance directives is so their wishes will be honored.
Lately, in my ICU, I've seen some patients prescient enough to indicate on their ADs that these are their wishes and that their family is not allowed to over ride, them. They have probably seen a friend suffer in an ICU for days or weeks because the FAMILY couldn't accept the end of life. You'd be amazed how brave people are when they know the end is near. Kubler-Ross's stages are for real. Acceptance is so important so that we can be at peace with our loved ones, make our arrangements.
One final word, to those who complain they don't want to think about their deaths and how they will die: If you are over 18, grow the heck up!
precisely why they need to destroy it. quickly.
I work in an ICU and with each new admission we ask if they do or don't have a Living Will or Advance Directive. If they don't we then ask them if they would like information on how to create one. I've seen some fine documents that outline exactly what they want, down to the pajamas they would like to be placed in. Everyone should have the opportunity to outline how they would like the end of his/her life to proceed. It's not morbid or maudlin and makes it quite clear as to what you want and takes the decisions out of the hands of loved ones that will be dealing with many other issues and emotions.
I tell families all the time that knowing what their loved one wants is a gift to them.
Not knowing is so hard on families.
And, if you so choose, your advance directive can say to continue treatment until they're nailing your coffin shut.
and you have to document whether or not you asked and gave them the relevant information. this is not new stuff--unless youre incredibly ignorant--as FoxWatchers would have to be.
Candidate for "Most Disappointing Offspring Ever."
it's the only thing that the lying liars have anymore.
Why does Wallace keep saying the VHA?
Veterans Health Administration
wearing a fresh coat of tar and feathers. Here he is hyping and addressing a lie, when he could have brought up real issues plaguing the VA system, like 12 hour round trips made by creaky oldsters, that start at 3 am to a VA facility (which would clear up with Universal Health Care), for a blood draw, EKG and chest xray, test and services that could be oerformed in their own towns or closer.
What a resource wasting lying prick. How do you sleep, Wallace?
but mostly he's about trying to best his father, as if that's going to happen. He's a poor excuse for a journalist and the faces he makes really make me want to punch him in his mug.
watta scumbag.
having been chirping about this for days, that is, when they aren't too busy drooling on their own shoes.
...are masters at cropping quotes. They will say absolutely anything. This was just one more blatant example.
The unplugging granny meme is fading out so now we have the kill the veteran meme. This too shall pass as the bullshit that it is.
I noticed the "coming to get your guns" and "turn America into a Muslim state" have all but faded away.
they are already killing them, cause they're all about the soldiers, that is until they come home and need physical and mental healtcare and want their G.I. Bill, and are having trouble finding a job.....
coming from the same twits who needlessly, aggressively put and / or cheerlead our troops in harms way for a lie.
Chris, from those of us who actually went to school and got an education, I'll let you in on a little clue: "e.g." stands for "exempli gratia," which is Latin for "for example."
As in: "Some newscasters are total douchebags, e.g., Chris Wallace." Now that isn't saying Wallace is the only douchebag out there, but he's certainly one from which one could choose if they were trying to make an example.
this is not that, this is making a mountain out of a mole hill to get your debate opponent stammering and confused.that didn't seem to work here. this clip shows the simple fact that you can never win a debate with such a childish person and wallace is acting like the stubborn child. repubes have repeatedly attacked minor details (and ignored factual evidence) to drive home their point. or should i say misguided points. i imagine there were high fives all around the wallace set after this gem.
so be prepared for the coming storm of "they want our vets to kill themselves" talking point and let's see how the MSM echochamber handles this one.
the Kinks had a song about all of this..."Predictable"
Dr. MARTENSEN: I think in talking with patients, it's important to say we have artificial means that can extend your mother's bodily functions - to somehow get into the conversation that this is artificial and it's about extending bodily functions the way kidney dialysis can extend kidney function, pacemakers can preserve heart function for a time, versus saying what is usually said, what has been said to me with my mom now - if you talk to a family and say, well, do you want us to continue with life support, do you want us to stop life support? - I think the way people hear that, and I think it's perfectly normal, is you are saying, do you want to let mom or dad die? Or - more darkly - okay, so you think its okay to kill them. Because that's how patients hear it.
So this euphemistic language is, first of all, not appropriate to the machines, and secondly it's not appropriate to that span of existence that it's seeking to describe. These technologies extend organ function. That's what they do. And you know, what's happened now - and this where there's a definite monetary factor into it - in California there are 30-35, and growing, kind of chronic intensive care units, not built on hospital property, built separately. Medicare will pay for people on chronic ventilators. So these places which are kind of (unintelligible) concrete buildings by freeways house patients on these ventilators. And I think for some families this is fine, this is a kind of medical sanctuary, for others it's a living tomb. The point that troubles me the most is that there very seldom is a candid discussion with the family or the patient - if the patient is alert, usually is not - about this extended kind of space, twilight zone of existence.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
i recommend this interview read transcript or listen to interview. MEDicare pays for chronic ventilation.
it's big business.
Yes, these Long Term Acute Care facilities (LTACs) are big business, but they do provide a valuable service.
They allow us to move patients who were in prior years stuck in an ICU to move out to a less expensive care setting.
Also in fairness, they have a decent success rate in getting people off the ventialtors by applying lots of rehab, nutritional support, etc. And sometimes, it gives families a bit more time for decision making.
And no, I do not have any financial interest in any LTAC.
to the interview. your leaning toward one commonsense side. go alittle deeper. not everyone wants that type of care.........you know personal choice. from Dr.Martenson
" And I think for some families this is fine, this is a kind of medical sanctuary, for others it's a living tomb. The point that troubles me the most is that there very seldom is a candid discussion with the family or the patient - if the patient is alert, usually is not - about this extended kind of space, twilight zone of existence".
Chris Wallace is still rebelling against the fact that he will never be 1/1000th the journalist/interviewer/man his father is.
It's about time to use the muscle of the pocketbook and tell advertisers that we will not buy the products of those who financially support the LIES and FRAUD perpetrated by every facet of FAUX News.
Boycott all who advertise on Fox.
...when I look at a patient's medical records at the medical facility consistently rated first or second in the country, the place where ex-presidents' like, say, Ronald Reagan are and were treated; one of the first things that I look at in the patient's medical record is whether or not he or she is "full code". EVERY patient MUST commit to an end of life protocol, so that the facility knows what to do in the event something goes wrong. Full code means that the physician should do everything possible to keep the patient alive, a DNR would direct the physician not to bother attempting to resuscitate. This notion that the doctor or the facility or some nefarious panel would make these end of life decisions is completely false. FOX, as usual, should be ashamed---but I doubt their Australian owner, Rupert Murdoch or the GOP operatives running the network are capable of shame.
ALSO, what is truly dangerous about this asinine Republican/FOX attack on Health Care Reform (HRC) is that if the patient doesn't make these decisions ahead of time, someone else (maybe a family member, maybe a physician) will be forced to make the call. My father, despite his clear wishes and living will, actually had to argue with his Catholic right-to-life doctor to force the physician to allow him to die with dignity. And, ultimately, that is what end of life issues are all about---a person's right to die with dignity. I don't know about the Republicans and the people at FOX News, but I want to be in charge of my life and end of life decisions and choices. By falsely making this issue into "death panel" nonsense, these Republicans/FOX are actually forcing grandma to abdicate HER WILL to that of some loon like my father's former oncologist---people, who are so blinded by their false understanding of Christianity that they feel qualified to impose THEIR WILL on the sick and dying. That, to me, is vulgar and vile and disgusting!
One more thought for the Repubs/FOX News: I am eternally grateful that my father made the decisions about when his life should end. The reason is that no one in my family, today, has to live with the decision and forever wondering if they made the right call and at the right time, which is something I had to go through with my dog of 15 years. Let me tell you, that kind of second guessing is emotional hell. People, Republicans and FOX, had better grow-up and soon! They are REALLY being extremely devious and their action will lead to a great deal of pain for those dying and the people, who are forced to make end of life decisions for them.
so there's no big war between my secular sister and my Christianist brother. They already hate each other enough, and I think even fixing up as much stuff as I can think of, they'll find a reason to start WWIII. In public.
Nothing more embarrassing than being brain dead or just needing to die, and having a couple
a-holesloved ones get in a knock-down drag-out over wishes they know nothing about, or want to override.Slipping into insanity must be like entering a black hole - you don't feel yourself passing through the event horizon but once you do, you don't come back, without professional help that is...
For the rest of us, we get to watch these Regipizan operatives slip out of the rational universe and for all time into their fantasy bubble worlds, never to be trusted again.
Wow! If Keith Olbermann deliberately made something like that up on his show, like when he labeled Billo again for the WPW, he would've been fired in 15 minutes.
Clearly his child has no business caring for him.
Attn TylerDurden @12:59:
I sure hate to kick sand in your face but Spongebob Squarepants beats both O;Reilly and Hannity in audience sizes since it came on the tube in the mid 90's! Spongebob Squarepants has had a audience rating of 8.6 since it's inception! O'Reilly is at 8.3 and Hannity is at 6.8 since then!
Check out the ratings at tv.com
I have pointed that out a few times when the subject of viewership comes up about Faux. Nick has them beat by a LARGE margin, so that must mean that Nick is the very top of cable programming. But I guess Faux just helps prove that mindless cartoon characters do get good ratings and higher viewership.
No I'm sorry Mike Wallace, it's too late for your wife to have an abortion.
"We prevaricate, you swallow it whole!"
whether, granny, vet (or white wing hate groups)
-disparage a document (get mired, mired, mired) create fear and distrust-- and distract from real issues that would appeal to the vast citizenry (across most income and social strata, except, of course, corporates and their toadies and/or hirelings and various ideologues and fanatics).
--require positive policy ventures to be defended rather than advanced. create impasse where democratic majority for policy exists (existed?)
------erode support by picking off subgroups, allowing "b" , "c" or "d" level political players leverage and/or lose momentum for the initiative/policy
---who is doing the dem's advance planning and strategy implementation?? are the dems really in this to forward the agenda they ran on?? or is this corporate shill kabuki?? -----or????
is there any lower form of life than lying about what occurs at end stage illness? inserting panic, distrust of carefully thought-out last wishes and legal rights? for which most family members, friends and medical caregivers are respectful of (legally, professionally and compassionately)??
so depraved! unbelievable that so many can do this!
Fox treats their viewers like idiots. And the viewers...sit there and accept it.
I don't understand why anyone thinks he's credible. He's right-wing slime artist just like the rest.
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
Adolf Hitler
"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise."
Adolf Hitler
"Hate is more lasting than dislike."
Adolf Hitler
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."
Adolf Hitler
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
Adolf Hitler
The right-wing leaders of this nation work through a modus operadi that is very similar to Nazi Germany. They create big lies and just keep repeating them over and over and eventually they are believed, (usually by the those people that don't think.) The reason why history just keeps repeating itself is because we don't learn from it.
The shocking truth about the VA administration under the tender mercies of the Bushco regime and its appointment of GOP sycophants to lucrative key jobs in gov agencies.
Have we seen ANY teabaggers on Faux protesting about how Bushco tried to murdered veterans due to shoddy health care in the VA.
With a real single payer NHS system, the VA would have no reason to exist in the form it does, it could be abolished and or absorbed into a NHS system, clean out the lame political appointees and put health care professionals into their jobs.
Everything solved and fine and dandy, nothing to see now people, move along.
We are lucky that we have people like Mary in the VA to prevent possible horror stories like this ever happening, oh wait she didn't prevent anything, she just did a CYA after the fact to save her own job, benefits and pension !
Maybe Mary or her orifice minions should have ordered those flash steam sterilization units, rather than just buying and using S/H plastic buckets from local garage sales.
Damn, And I'm scheduled for one of those in the near future.
If I wasn't a high risk patient for that, I'd think about passing on it.
But from what I'm told, I will actually go to the same Dr I went to 5 years ago who was with our ins. (before I joined the VA health program).
I would like to say something about this booklet or whatever it is.
I go to the VA 2 or 3 times a year. Never seen it. No one has ever given it to me. And I have no idea wtf wallace is talking about.
I was there this morning . Didn't see, or hear any other Vets talking about it. It's not on the shelves.
Wallace is such an asshole.
How the hell can someone contract any of those from a colonoscopy?
and bruising during the colonoscopy. that procedure is highly invasive and certainly NOT gentle.
Bad sanitation? I understand what you're saying.
But still, that would mean they would have be reusing what ever it is they use.
I've had one, and they found a pre cancerous polyp.
They dug it out and cauterized the wound.
I was fine. Although, I had them knock me out.
When I came too, I was fine. A little discomfort but nothing major.
I guess I'm gonna find out in the near future.
But Like I said, They're going to send me to the same Dr who did the last one. They have a contract with him here. So , This is a civilian Dr.
were committed in the confederacy
I have no doubt.
I guess old Mike came in a flowerpot
and gave birth to a blooming eejit.
Chrissy really has that right-wing-permanent smirk thing going, too.
Using video to combat these idiots fabrications. Latest takes on the "death panels" and "end of life services":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zup9_aOIHP0
MTD
Don Hewitt must have asked Mike Wallace, 'What the hell happened to your son'?'
What a sleazebag! Deliberately cropping portions of a document that would put the lie to his lies!
This kind of sleazebag propaganda might stop if we deported Rupert Murdoch and seized all his slimy, deliberately misleading media assets.
Are FOX employees afraid that FOX corporation may dump their employees health care on the public option?
And, that the Democratic health care option has a "Death plan" in it that reserves gas chambers for FOX employees only?
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But if I'm in a nursing home, comatose in a wheelchair, all bets are off?
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loves 'scarry movies'....their 'hysterics' are going to be our ruin unless we start paying attention.
3 years ago the wingnuts thought they would be in the final stages of COMPLETELY picking our 'financial carcass clean!
...until somebody like the justice department busts them for RICO wire, television and radio fraud. They are willfully defrauding the public.
Don't buy any product advertised on any FOX program, even on their entertainment shows.
is that you have to ask on admission whether the patient has an advance directve. If they answer no, they are given information such as the "Your Life" book described above or something similar.
Other states may go further than this, but the only other really important program on this is from Oregon and spreading nationally, called POLST.
www.polst.org
More than 10 minutes into the "debate" is this exchange:
WALLACE: Finally, you have been involved with end-of-life issues for years. You worked in an AIDS home back in the '80s. You have written an end-of-life document yourself called "Five Wishes," which is widely used around the country.
In the course of this controversy in the last couple of days, V.A. officials are suggesting that you want the government to buy and use your book.
TOWEY: They can if they want. Millions of Americans do. But that's not what this is about. That's a not-for-profit, Aging With Dignity.
I want Americans to have access to a document that treats their life with respect, that's not pushing them to hurry up and die, that's not guilt-tripping them, that's not saying that if you can't shake the blues maybe your life's not worth living.
So over 10 minutes in, it is revealed that the person peddling the "death book" accusation is actually trying to sell a competing product!!!!! Wallace is a crap reporter to have Towey on to represent a side of this "debate" when he has a MAJOR conflict of interest.
No wonder Towey is critical of "Your Life, Your Choices" - he would rather the government use his book. And no wonder Duckworth refused to appear on the show with Towey. She didn't want to acknowledge him and give him any legitimacy. Good for her!
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