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Quackwatch Founder Launches Site to Debunk Health Care Reform Myths

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Dwayne9/10/2009 6:45:06 am PDT

I guess iceweasel and Charles missed the scare quotes around the phrase “death panel”. Scare quotes used in this nature, as in when it’s not a direct reference to someone else’s material, it’s either a method an author uses to distances themselves from the quoted concept, or that the quoted concept is not meant to be taken literally.

You two guys need to do yourselves a favor and look up the phrase “scare quotes” before you all go off on me, because ultimately it makes you seem like Muslims rioting over cartoons.

And with that, very often satire is seen as very offensive by those who are the target of that satire. Take for example one of your favorite circumlocutions: moonbat. It’s a piece of satire that in no way suggest the targets of such a phrase are from our Moon or of the chiroptera order of mammalia. It’s just a phrase used to denote the bad craziness some on the left exhibit.

But all that said, Charles, you have not refuted the notion that any government backed and financed health insurance option would have to have some sort of committee, a panel if you will, that must make decisions on the length, breadth and depth of death preventing coverage this publicly financed insurance would offer.