In Which Fred Hiatt Fisks Himself (Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned-and-Smoking Watch)
Courtesy of Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America.
Washington Post columnist Bill Kristol, August 31, 2009:
Conservative policy wonks helped to explode the false budgetary and health-improvement claims made on behalf of Obamacare. Conservative polemicists pointed out how Obamacare--conceived in the spirit of budget chief Peter we-spend-too-much-as-a-nation-on-health-care Orszag and adviser Ezekiel we-need-to-stop-wasting-money-on-extending-low-quality-lives Emanuel--means, in effect, death panels.
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial, August 22, 2009:
Scare Tactics Evade Debate on Real Health Care Issues: EZEKIEL EMANUEL, one of President Obama's top health advisers, is a respected bioethicist who opposes euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. When the Supreme Court was considering the constitutionality of state laws that prohibit physician-assisted suicide, Dr. Emanuel was an outspoken opponent of the practice. He warned it could be abused "to justify using euthanasia for children, the incompetent, the mentally ill, and others who are suffering or who we imagine are suffering in some fashion." So it is grotesque that Dr. Emanuel has become the latest bogeyman -- the "Dr. Death" behind the "death panels" -- for opponents of the Obama administration's push for health-care reform...
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Dr. Emanuel's writings reveal him to be a thoughtful person grappling with difficult ethical issues. The same cannot be said of his critics, who seem less intent on discussing what is in the health reform proposal than in deploying scare tactics to defeat it...
Fred Hiatt is the guy who hired Bill Kristol to write for the Post.
i look forward to Fred Hiatt's forthcoming calls for Fred Hiatt's resignation...
