BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too!

BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too!

BREAKING: Rush, Newt, and Sarah Supported Death Panels, Too!

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Attention, townhall protesters: Guess who else wants to pull the plug on granny and kill Sarah Palin’s baby? In some knock-out reporting, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow showed Thursday night that not long ago Rush Limbaugh promoted death panels on his own radio show, Newt Gingrich sung their praises in the pages of the Washington Post, and, as the half-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin actually proclaimed an official Death Panel Day for her state!

 

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Now, I wonder how long it will be before this must-see hypocrisy is featured on the nightly news and Sunday talk shows? Especially on your shows, Brian Williams and David Gregory, since you are, like Maddow, part of the "NBC family." Surely you’re not going to ignore this major story at the heart of the health care debate, are you?

And for more must-see health care hypocrisy, viddy this: Glenn Beck on the Best Health Care in the World, from The Daily Show, aired the same night.

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