With some whores, at least you get sex

By Capt. Fogg

From others you get beat up and robbed blind by the pimp and you thank them for it all the way to the emergency room.

You remember Betsy McCaughey, the blond gun-for-hire who went on The Daily Show with a huge bound volume purporting to be HR3200, the proposed health-care reform bill. She's the one who thought she was smart enough to shut Jon Stewart up by referring to a mysterious clause on page 418 and was stupid enough not to realize that Stewart had read it and had a copy right there.

She all but slunk out of the studio to a chorus of jeers and allegations that she had received a good deal of money from Cantel Medical Corporation for lying about older people needing to face a "death panel" soon surfaced. She resigned her board of directors position within hours of her humiliation on The Daily Show. ABC News credited McCaughey with launching this lie about death panels on the Fred Thompson radio last July, but Stewart is not Thompson. He can and bothers to read, and has more than enough wit to skewer a media whore like McCaughey.

I still hear a lot of echoes from the brainless who pick their opinions up from the pavement with a shovel like the guys who used to follow horses, of her earlier article "Deadly Doctors" in the New York Post. It lies about Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm Emmanuels's brother the doctor, claiming he wants physicians to forget the Hippocratic oath and focus on "social justice" rather than healing patients. That's code for Communism, of course, and of course it's another lie and another dollar for Betsy.

She has a long history of lying about health care. Back in 1994, she wrote an article for The New Republic that did a lot to kill the Clinton health-care reform effort and which was later retracted by the magazine as being full of lies. The Atlantic magazine ran a story further debunking her statements. Crooks and Liars yesterday reported that Rolling Stone will soon report her torpedoing of the Clinton plan was bought and paid for by Philip Morris, the tobacco corporation, along with Republican think tanks and the right-wing medial.

Of course, the people who need to hear this don't hear anything but Beck and the Fat Man, and, like most victories over ignorance and falsehood, it's Pyrrhic, but it still makes good reading while you wait for the charity doctors to fly in to treat your pancreatic cancer.

(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)